16 April 2015
Folk music is all about telling a story through song, and it’s storytelling that Jordie Lane does best. Talking to him, I was struck by an excitement in his voice that had me hanging – even hearing about his morning coffee turned into a tale of him entering the shop and leaving as the next YouTube sensation (don’t ask).
16 April 2015
Amber Lawrence may be establishing herself as one of Australia’s most successful country artists, but that doesn’t mean she’s forgotten what – or who – helped get her there. Hot on the heels of becoming the first female in history to win both the Golden Guitar and CMC ‘Female Artist of the year’ award in the same year, Amber is now an ambassador for Record Store Day Australia.
16 April 2015
Purchasing music digitally just doesn’t have the same experience or sense of satisfaction as you get when holding the real deal in your hands. Fighting for the last copy of something, rather than being amongst thousands of downloaders, is something that you have to experience to understand. As part of national Record Store Day celebrations the Sweet Little Hi-fi at the Mill Markets in Newcomb and in warrnambool will both have a few events.
16 April 2015
Every now and then on a family trip, it’s natural for someone to get left behind. And it’s reassuring to see that even as a band on tour, this same factor can – and did – come into play when singer Lilibeth Hall was left behind. “That was maybe a couple of years ago and we had a gig around Kings Cross and baby Lil got left behind, somehow the head count wasn’t quite accurate,” Lilibeth adds with a laugh.
16 April 2015
As a kid Meg Mac was one of those children who was lugged into a van with her four brothers and sisters to take on the annual 12-hour family road trip. “Every summer we would drive from Sydney to Queensland,” she says. “Back then there was only cassette players, so my dad used to put movies on cassettes – the entire audio of a movie onto cassette – and he’d just play those for us and we’d have to imagine the movie in our heads.”
15 April 2015
Tattoos aren’t just about fitting into a trend, rebelling your parents or looking tough, tattoos are about expressing yourself, remembering people and appreciating a unique art form that lasts forever – or at least as long as you’d like it to. Celebrating all that and more is the largest tattoo event in the Southern Hemisphere, Rites of Passage. We had a chat to managing director and events coordinator Kevin Mack about what to expect.
13 April 2015
Taking on the role of one of the world’s most famous musicians in history is no easy task, but that’s exactly what Daniel Thompson does when he steps on stage as a Johnny Cash tribute artist. After performing in Johnny Cash The Concert for the past five years, Thompson has decided to change things up a little and shine a light on a different side of the legend and his music with In Solitary.
12 April 2015
“I used to see Tony Abbott a lot around Parliament house and one time when I was working, there as a young journo and he’d be doing laps around the building. He ran past the coffee shop part of the building as I was coming out with a hot tray of coffees and he nearly collided into me and coffee nearly went everywhere…
11 April 2015
Chances are Liam Daly’s music is unlike anything you’ve heard in a long while. Spanning around 10 minutes for each track, they unfold on themselves and are filled with layer upon layer of sound. We had a chat to the musician about why he creates what he does.
10 April 2015
Miss Quincy is part rocker, part cook and part explorer, but she’s coming Down Under for a purely music related venture – though as she tells us there are plans to cuddle a koala or two. We had a chat to the dirty blues and rock n’ roll musician about her trip to Australia.
10 April 2015
Lt. Jr. Grade Daniel Kaffee, a rookie lawyer in the United States Navy, is marking time playing softball and plea-bargaining frivolous lawsuits until his three years of service are up. That is, until Division assigns him to be defense counsel for two marines serving at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are accused of murdering a young marine.
9 April 2015
Every now and then on a family trip, it’s natural for someone to get left behind. And it’s interesting to see that even as a band on tour, this same factor can – and did – come into play when singer Lilibeth Hall was left behind.
8 April 2015
Deep down there’s a child inside all of us, some are just more willing to embrace it than others. Ellyn Stern is one such person and her career as a voice actress and children’s book writer serve as the perfect way for her to keep her young heart intact.
7 April 2015
Jeff Martin is best known as the frontman for ’90s rock outfit, The Tea Party and he is about to head out on the road once again before focussing on his upcoming record label commitments. Chatting from WA, Martin is filled with excitement as we begin to talk about his upcoming Geelong performance at the Workers Club on April 11.
7 April 2015
Your beloved brother has betrayed you and you’ve spent the past five months sitting in jail, your body filled with bullets wasting away from lead poisoning. It’s a take on Ned Kelly that we often don’t see, but one that the Queensland Theatre Company team are delivering.
7 April 2015
Having arrived in the country just hours before, I caught up with muso and sufer Donavon Frankenreiter ahead of his big Byron Bay Bluesfest performances and 21 date Aussie Tour. “It’s been a while since I have been down here with the full band. I came over in October and I played here in Byron at the surf festival, then about eight months before that, me and my buddy opened up for Xavier Rudd – we just did some acoustic stuff,” Donavon says.
7 April 2015
Moments before boarding a plane to America for SXSW, Steve Smyth gracefully took time out from the stressful pre-flight process for an interview. Heading overseas is just another one of the incredible opportunities the musician has been blessed with over the past few years.
7 April 2015
Tell a band they’ve outdone themselves with a release and they then want to road test it and prove its success as much as possible. This seems to be the ethos behind British India’s new album, Nothing Touches Me, and with critics claiming it as the best British India release, they’re not sold on the statement until they’ve had the chance to take it to the fans in a live setting.
7 April 2015
Colin Hay has a tale or two to tell, whether it be his first impressions of Australia after emigrating from Scotland at the age of 14, or stories from the decades of success and excess that followed as the front man of one of the country’s biggest bands, Men At Work. His first-hand accounts of redemption and re-invention are inspired, while his sense of humour – though self-deprecating at times – will leave you feeling uplifted and thoroughly entertained.
6 April 2015
Marc Oswin is a man of many talents. He’s a graphic designer, co-owns his own record label Heart of the Rat Records, has many music projects and happens to be partial to one day creating cupcake stands with old vinyls. We had a chat to the musician about his projects and Mark with the Sea’s new release.
3 April 2015
“We’ve been together for a long time and to be honest we have much bigger goals than where we are now. So we just keep our heads down and keep working hard, we’re not sort of saying ‘Oh how good is this?’ we have a long way to go,” says singer Fergus Linacre on their current popularity.
2 April 2015
Tijuana Cartel are in town and ready to serve up the flavours of foreign lands with their unique blend of funky broken beats and multi-layered grooves that span the globe. The home-grown threesome – working with percussion, keyboards, electronics, trumpet, guitar and vocals – deliver a psychedelic concoction of Middle Eastern timbre, synth vocals, flamenco guitar and pulsing bass.
30 March 2015
Veteran punks Guttermouth are set to atone for sins of the past when they touch down in Australia this week. Controversial front man Mark Adkins made no bones about the fact that things got a little out of hand at a booze-soaked run of shows in 2013 (all backed up by grainy footage of the crowd turning on the band at a show in Colorado, after an audience member was allegedly attacked after jumping onstage). Thankfully though, Guttermouth lived to tell the tale and chose to share the story with us.
25 March 2015
The Graveltones have always been a band to keep it simple. With two members, two instruments, and a bloody killer live show, they have been turning heads since their humble beginnings in London in 2011. Fast forward on four years and the duo has toured all throughout Europe and are about to release the follow up to their debut album Don’t Wait Down.
