Well, this is a sad surprise. Sam Miller’s Silvereye in Chippendale has announced today that they will be closing, less than a year after opening on the second floor of the refreshed Old Clare Hotel in September of last year. As businessinsider reports, staff were told of the closing this morning and Miller’s plans to…
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Melbourne’s Oh Pep! have spent much of 2016 overseas with their debut album Stadium Cake, winning fans through the US and Europe/UK regions; bringing some brilliantly honed folk rock to audiences that have been lapping it up eagerly. Before they come home to tour the album in September, Olivia and Pepita have dropped the visuals for their latest single, “Bushwick”. Filmed…
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While in Sydney recently, UK rising star Jack Garratt sat down with Larry to chat about the success of his Phase record and the development of his live shows to steadily growing audiences around the world. Obviously an avid music fan himself, Garratt describes his favourite elements of live music and how his shows are consistently developing. “The…
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Perth MC Marksman Lloyd has delivered his new single “Seven Laps”, another cool offering from the rapper who has been fast orchestrating positive momentum after the release of “Olympus” last year. The bass hits deep while Lloyd’s rhymes bite hard as he delves into struggles with addiction and anxiety within the lyrics. Have a listen to the…
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Callum Wylie has spent many years honing his Country/Folk song writing style; his songs are beautifully simple and emotionally complicated all at once. After the release of the single “You Make My Tears Fall Like Rain”, Callum took some time out to fill us in on how he’s reached this point in his career. Give…
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There aren’t too many good things to come out of illness and disease. Two of them, however, are the first two releases from Sydney band Gang Of Youths. While 2015 was hit by the massive and anthemic concept LP The Positions, 2016 is inevitably going to become enthralled by its follow-up EP, Let Me Be…
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Amongst the tales of historical power couples – Cleopatra and Caesar, Kahlo and Rivera, Boleyn and King Henry – none have dragged society to their feet in sheer anticipation as the reunion of Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon. We know the name, and despite their absence in the fourth installment, Damon and Greengrass return to…
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As we continue our culinary tour around North America, we come to Chicago, Illinois in the USA for their annual Lollapalooza, an iconic festival that, this year, celebrates its 25th anniversary over a mammoth four day event. As they are about to kick off the event for 2016, we’ll take you back to the event…
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Imagine the excitement of sitting down in a theatre ready to see one of the great classic musicals- but having absolutely no idea which it will be! The starting notes begin and the crowd slowly cheers as the first recognitions start to trickle through like a wave. This excitement of discovery is all a part…
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On Monday the 25th of July, Sydney’s Lyric Theatre hosted The 16th Annual Helpmann Awards, Australia’s performing arts’ night of nights. The night boasts the successes of achievements in an array of artistic disciplines amongst the national arts scene. Hosted by a wealth of figureheads in the field including Chloe Dallimore, The Umbillical Brothers and…
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Sydney’s Munich Brauhaus and Bavarian Bier Cafe venues across Sydney, Melbourne, and Queensland will make celebrating National Chicken Wing Day (it’s an American thing, but when has that ever stopped us?) this Friday a hell of a lot cheaper than usual as they prepare to dish out chicken wings for 10 cents each. With a…
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With two restaurants now open across Melbourne – Kew hotspot Mister Bianco and fresh face Massi – Chef Joseph Vargetto and his teams have decided to embrace Australia’s truffle season by launching a new dinner series celebrating everyone’s favourite fungi this August. The exclusive truffle events will run over four nights, marrying the sought after…
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Known for its pasta, the rapidly expanding Fratelli Fresh family is where restaurant and providore meet. My meals at Fratelli Fresh have always been punctuated by simple, good flavours and fresh ingredients,and that same food philosophy applies to the new breakfast offering, which recently been made available at Fratelli Fresh in Potts Point and Walsh Bay….
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Unique boutique hotel Ovolo Woolloomooloo unveiled a series of new event spaces recently, finalising the $20 million renovation of one of the city’s most iconic, heritage-listed spaces which is located right on that iconic wharf that most people know the area for. The new event space takes full advantage of the previous hotel’s lobby and…
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After the sell-out success of their first Messina Eats pop up in the car park near their Rosebery HQ, Gelato Messina have decided to quickly bring the series back, welcoming in more of their friends to stage another two day food bender that this time includes baos and hand-crafted soda. While the first one was…
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Executive Chef Zachary Tan has been kicking all types of goals at Darlinghurst’s Lazy Suzie which opened earlier this year in March, dishing up unique twists on Malaysian street food with some of the best cocktails in the area (and that’s saying a lot). However, somewhere along the way the owners faced a potential trademark…
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One of the most highly anticipated hotel openings in Sydney this year has been the CBD located Primus Hotel Sydney a heritage listed art deco property, featuring an expansive lobby area with chic polished marble, as well as a rooftop pool bar. As such, The Wilmot is its appropriately adjoining “art deco dining temple” restaurant,…
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Acknowledging the crowd put in a pretty solid effort for a Sunday night before they left the stage, UK outfit Crystal Fighters had their Sydney audience singing and dancing along to every track of the hour-or-so set. The show marked the end of their brief run of performances in Australia, which included shows in Melbourne…
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Seattle formed quintet Band of Horses have long been favourites on Australian shores, and tonight the band made their long awaited Sydney Opera House debut, as part of their Splendour in the Grass visit and off the back off their brilliant LP Why Are You OK. It would go on to be a show that…
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The 1975 can’t seem to get away from our beloved country. After a string of January shows, the alt-pop band upped the ante for the second coming of arena sideshows after this year’s Splendour in The Grass for their sophomore album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of…
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For another year, Splendour in the Grass has succeeded in pulling off one memorable live music event out in Byron Bay. Providing a line up of artists representing some of the best touring musicians Australia has at the minute, not to mention some incredible international visitors, Splendour was more than just a playground for triple…
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I caught up with Beach Slang‘s James Alex, while he was in Australia last week for Splendour in the Grass. We spoke at length about his trip down under, and progress to discuss those bucket list moments which he continues to tick off in his career… In part two of our interview, we look ahead…
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Sunday night at Splendour wound up one of two ways; you either lost your mind blissing out to Sigur Ros in the Mix Up Tent or you threw down with a full amphitheatre of punters to Flume‘s jam-packed headline set at the other end of the site. Either way, wrapping up the weekend at the…
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Irish alt-pop duo Hvmmingbyrd come to us with a new music video for their excellent new single, “If Love Was Enough”. The Massive Attack-style atmospheric production quality and influence remains prominent through this band’s music (one of the first elements of their style that had us drawn in early), while between Deborah Byrne and Suzette Das, there exists a cool…
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Since we first heard the memorably titled “Pussy Makes The World Go Round” (aka “PMTWGR”), we’ve been hooked on Melbourne duo Slowly Slowly. Between Ben Stewart and Alex Quale there exists a painfully genuine and heartfelt sense of songwriting and lyricism, an honesty that fans will have easily gleaned from “PMTWGR” and “New York Paris” in particular. On their debut album Chamomile,…
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Dreamy South London strummer Jacob Read, better known as Jerkcurb, has a strange ability to make gloomy, sullen rock sound grand and somewhat hopeful; there’s no exception to that on latest single “Night on Earth”, a fragile song of love and death. It sounds like Read’s woozy, submerged vocals are drifting in some kind of…
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There’s been King Arthurs before and there will probably be King Arthurs to come, but how many of them will have Guy Ritchie in the director’s seat? If you were wondering how the man who made Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels would take on a tale from the 6th century, San Diego Comic Con…
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The latest trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them debuted at San Diego Comic Con over the weekend and it looks like the magic hasn’t been lost. Set for its November release, the latest opus from J. K. Rowling looks every bit as Hogwarts (and maybe a tad Peaky Blinders) as the series that…
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Surely locking in the “Best Cosplay” Award at San Diego Comic-Con this year, actor Michael Rooker showed up with the event totally dressed up as his Guardians of the Galaxy character Yondu for a surprise panel on the film, whose sequel recently wrapped production. Just about the entire cast was on hand for the panel,…
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Fans of Sherlock have been waiting a while for the fourth series – though were given brief joy with the show’s “Christmas Special” that premiered at the start of the year in Sherlock: The Abominable Bride. Well, 2017 will be when we finally get that fourth series, and earlier this morning at San Diego Comic-Con,…
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