Jane Dire: “My thing is coming back to storytelling and sort of asking what it means to be Australian.”
The project elucidates mistakes, restlessness, and indecision as all just parts of what makes us human. As we sat in Newtown’s Flour Drum, early autumnal light, languid and liquid through the window, fractured the identity of Jane Dire into a triptych. The first of the three spoke the most: Alec M
Sydney has a Venue Problem.
Lazy Thinking’s imminent closure on the 29th of August represents a sad prognosis for Sydney nightlife: a terminal venue problem. Last year, the scene saw more closed doors than opened ones, from Mary’s Underground to the Midnight Special. In all my interviews with local artists over the years,
Indie-pop perfection: Stereolab at the Metro Theatre
Sam O’Reilly and Felicity Errington review We wandered into the Metro Theatre on the 21st of June, joining a flock of striped and gleeful 20-somethings. The venue itself was a tad self-serious, reflected in a $13.50 Newtowner and rather severe bar lighting. A trip to a gig is never a ticket of
The birth of Christ or the birth of Unknown Pleasures?
Felicity Errington reviews 24 Hour Party People … When I am alone, either on the bus to uni or just before bed, I think of a scene from 24 Hour Party People: Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) walks through a shadowed alleyway and is heckled by a homeless Mancunian (Christopher Eccleston) who monologu