17 December 2015
For the past 19 years, the Queenscliff Music Festival has been an essential part of my childhood. Having only missed two out of the 19 due to overseas holidays, it is one of the best festivals around and has developed into one of the best on the Australian festival scene up there with Falls, Splendour and Woodford Folk Festival.
17 December 2015
Another year and another 26 issues of Forte have hit the streets. Here’s a little word from our team and a few others on how they spent their 2015.
17 December 2015
Another year and another 26 issues of Forte have hit the streets. Here’s a little word from our team and a few others on how they spent their 2015.
17 December 2015
Another year and another 26 issues of Forte have hit the streets. Here’s a little word from our team and a few others on how they spent their 2016.
17 December 2015
Germany’s Monkey Safari will earn their fivetime tour badge in 2016, which at the very least should warrant them priority at customs. Unlike their previous four visits, however, number five will be in our summer – and that is something that has the lads pretty chuffed as they get in tiptop shape for their appearance at Rainbow Serpent Festival.
17 December 2015
Jazz lovers of Australia go wild, because the 70th annual Australian Jazz Convention is here to get your toes tapping and your hips moving as it takes over Ballarat.
16 December 2015
For four days last month I encountered a celebration of music, art and culture that was unlike anything else I have experienced in my 19 years of life.
16 December 2015
Over the past few years, I have been lucky enough to attend some fantastic concerts all around the world. Radiohead and Coldplay are definitely two of the bands that were bucket list opportunities and memories that I will never forget as long as I live.
16 December 2015
Every six months or so, I go though this weird, unexplainable phase in which I become completely unsatisfied with everything about my physical appearance, and I am convinced that I can not be the only one that experiences this phenomenon.
14 December 2015
As we all know, Christmas is such a magical time of year, and taking the time to travel overseas and see how other cities celebrate is an amazing way to start feeling a little jolly.
14 December 2015
I recently penned an article about children’s movies powerful enough to make men cry, and it turned out to be one of the more successful, if depressing, things I’ve written.
13 December 2015
Here’s the predicimant: you’ve been at the bar for a while, you’ve found your beer and stuck to it for the past two hours. But now it’s dinnertime. Not wanting to ruin the perfect taste your chosen beer has given you, you look at the menu in confusion. That’s where our ultimate beer pairing comes in. We’ve picked the classic foods so you can stick to your classic beer. Cheers.
12 December 2015
For a while now the only real question around Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been, “How excited should we get about it – really excited, or super insane excited?”
12 December 2015
There’s something ultimately a little bit more special about heading to a regional music festival, especially when it’s one like Beechworth Music Festival which involves the whole town in its festivities (even though the festival itself is at a certain site).
11 December 2015
You’ve gotta wonder what on earth is going through the mind of a professional songwriter when they rip off a relatively unknown song and sell it to a mainstream recording artist.
11 December 2015
Ho, ho, ho … well that’s enough of that, but there’s no escaping it! Sleepy Hollow Blues Club’s present to itself this year is Hey Gringo!
11 December 2015
The first time around Microscopic Wars by Kingswood was incredible. And much like how a second serve of something good, like a delicious slice of mud cake, is always sought after, this deluxe edition of the album sits quite well with me.
11 December 2015
The Lord Nelson’s new beer garden opened in January 2014 and has been a resounding success.
11 December 2015
After nine years away from the Australian music scene Dallas Crane have released their fifth studio album, Scoundrels. Combining elements of all their previous releases
10 December 2015
Behold a quick playlist of the some of the bands set to embark on Meredith in the next three days. Though this list is short and sweet, your experience at the festival will be long and indulgent.
10 December 2015
Welcome to THTH, Forte’s premier source of all things heavy, hard, fast and metal.
10 December 2015
Well hello again! It’s that time of the week again where I carry on about comics. Hopefully by now those of you that are still at school/uni have finished by now and you’re on holidays – now the year is over, there’s plenty of time to read comics, right?
10 December 2015
Situated in the backstreets of Geelong, Black Hatt is a hub of entertainment and one of the cities best kept secrets. With friendly staff and extensive opening hours, Black Hatt is the kind of venue that after your first visit you’ll find yourself returning to at all hours of the day.
