Feat. Flux a BYO rooftop party – held in Fortitude Valley 10/12/2016With our aging politicians tightening the squeeze on liquor licensing and new lock-out laws across Brisbane, we are seeing a new wave of events (dare we say festivals?) taking advantage of the more complicated laws and regulations around private parties. A couple of fresh faces […]
Why You Should Go To Marion Bay Falls – Lisel Nichols Tasmania The great ocean road ain’t got nothing on the natural wonders of the holiday isle. Your roadtrip down to falls will be one of the highlights of your young life. In 2015, thousands of bronzed mainlanders caught the ferry across to visit the […]
Usually it takes about this long to recover from a session at this monstrosity of a club, but this time it was something completely different. Purity Ring live at Berghain was not to be missed, and the masses all had the same outlook, with the gig selling out in advance. Not catching the support act, […]
Two years ago I was sat in large tent somewhere in Dorset as Catfish and the Bottlemen came onto stage at the End of the Road Festival to entertain a small crowd. There was an air of mild interest as the four boys walked onto stage. Van McCann said his usual (and sometimes unusual) hellos […]
Saturday morning was rough. Having lost a battle between myself and a BYO Asian restaurant, the thought of The Blurst of Times that day was making me cringe from my sick bed. However, Coopers Red always comes in handy, and we were off to Fortitude Valley for the second year of the event. Whatever remnants […]
As I watched hundreds of rowdy teenagers, intoxicated 30-somethings, and even a legion of those long past their mid-life crises flailing around in euphoria, I couldn’t help but muse over the parallels of The Cat Empire’s name and the Internet. It occurred to me that they are not so different after all – millions around […]
Words by James Tait. Stepping into Brisbane’s The Brightside, it’s not surprising to see it packed out. DMA’s national tour has sold out most venues, the band never more popular after a 2014 that has been nothing short of supersonic. What is surprising is the numbers gathered to see support act, Brisbane’s own The Creases. […]
Listen Out was on in Sydney last week, and I was lucky enough to head along to the event for the second year running. I’ll admit that I had my reservations, considering some of the issues that I had with the inaugural 2013 event, but I was pleasantly surprised by a day with vast logistical […]
There is something about a Brisbane band playing a local show – it’s just one big fucking party. I need to be honest here and say I too engaged in the partying, so this gig is a little hazy. However, through all the beer and then all the espresso martinis (seriously, guys, we did not […]
I couldn’t believe it. Just a few months after salivating over Ball Park Music’s Splendour set, here I was in the grand Enmore Theatre, about to witness it all over again. I had high expectations, and boy, did they deliver. As I entered, I was given the fabled pair of 3D glasses. With a taste […]