Another year, another Parklife festival – although this is the first year I’ve actually attended. While always one of the hottest tickets in town, there does generally seem to be a post-event “oh, yeah it was OK… but had a great time with my mates” kind of vibe. And I think I’m going to have…
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I must admit that I didn’t go to this concert knowing any of Conor’s solo stuff, with the exception of the recent single “Souled Out!” Likewise, I never quite got into Bright Eyes the way others did, so I certainly wasn’t attending with an expectation to hear the better known music. I still don’t own…
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This year has been an amazing one for live music in Sydney, especially for yours truly – finally being given the opportunity to see bands that I’ve been listening to since I was a young one! And having missed them last time they were in town (and then having their last tour coinciding with Bluesfest…
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Sydney’s newest live music night is Wednesdays at Ruby Rabbit on Oxford Street, in which a local up-and-coming band is given the rare opportunity to headline, with guest DJs and performance artists rounding the rest of the night off. And in the second week of their new event, Ruby Rabbit welcomed to the stage Sydney’s…
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“The Great Escape” time has arrived! Well, it would have had it not been cancelled much to my dismay. In its place is the barrage of remaining “sideshows.” The first of these happened last night with Ladytron from the UK hitting the all ages Metro stage, in what was surprisingly their first ever concert in…
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A surprisingly small crowd featured at this Thursday night gig, and I myself missed the opening act Made in Japan, but nonetheless both The Silents from Perth and Sydney’s own Peabody put on a stirring performance for those who turned up, including The Silent’s label mates The Vines. The Silents are easily one of the…
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Despite not being the most well known of the street festivals in Sydney (even though it’s really the only decent one I’ve been to), these guys certainly manage to get some of the hottest acts in town…. and even more surprising: they managed some of the first great weather of the spring! Arriving to the…
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It’s taken a bloody long time for The Kooks to finally make it to our shores – and this, their first of 3 Sydney shows (if the MySpace one counts), finally gave audiences what they’d been waiting so long for. And didn’t disappoint! It’s taken a bloody long time for The Kooks to finally make…
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After traveling around the world several times, seeing concerts all over the place along the way, last week’s Death Cab for Cutie concert in Sydney proved one thing to me: We have some of the rudest crowds in the world. Such is to be expected, some may argue, with all ages gigs – the idea…
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Hype. If there was one word to describe this band, it would be that. No other indie band has ever gotten so much press so quickly … not even The Arctic Monkeys had it so good. Well that was the case in New York, at any rate, with Vampire Weekend taking the prestigious cover spot…
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