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07/04/2025
By Allison Mackey
Concert ReviewSURG

Wild Fun at Manning

Indie folk band Wild Rivers impresses and entertains at USYD’s student bar It was difficult to discern everything that Devan Glover and Khalid Yassein of Canadian indie folk band Wild Rivers said in between songs at Manning Bar last Saturday over the techno rave happening in the venue’s courtyar

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18/02/2025
By Allison Mackey
Concert ReviewSURG

A victory lap for an artist who’s just getting started

Olivia Dean’s Roundhouse Show was a triumphant celebration of fierce femininity Photo: Jess Gleeson. “This next song is about how a lot of my ex-boyfriends have unfollowed me on Instagram, but I still follow all of them,” Olivia Dean quipped to the crowd of her sold out show at the UNSW Roundh

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03/01/2025
By Gryff W-B
Concert ReviewSURG

Poly-Amnesia: Finding a lost sense of Polynesian identity through diasporic art

Josef from the 2210 in South-West Sydney has been on a quest to find himself through a reflection on his family’s past and how it shapes the context in which he lives today. It Takes a Village is an ethos to live by that Josef has always felt, he just had to rekindle with the […]

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02/12/2024
By Finn Cameron
Concert ReviewSURG

MODE FESTIVAL 2024

What is this “cultural celebration” that they claim takes place at Mode Festival? Here Finn Cameron finds out the truth. Mode held its third edition on Wareamah (Cockatoo Island) on Saturday 12th October. Improving on each year, it seems they are well on their way to creating an annual q

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25/06/2024
By Rosina Carbone
Concert ReviewSURG

Cancer Bats storm Crowbar

My leather jacket just isn’t cutting it anymore. It’s a frigid sabbath like this that sees me only dare to brave the Crowbar floor with a down-padded winter jacket zipped to my chin and covertly thick socks tucked under bootcut jeans. “We’re here to see Cancer Bats and then we’re fucking r

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28/04/2024
By Imogen Church
Concert ReviewSURG

Fall to the Floor for Body Type

Immie convinces you to listen to Body Type.

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22/04/2024
By David Balodis Serra
Concert ReviewSURG

The Chemical Brothers Live Again

Davo Reviews The Chemical Brothers Live @ The Dome Sydney Showground – 29 February 2024

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09/04/2024
By Rosina Carbone
Concert ReviewSURG

SURG TAKES ON KNOTFEST 2024

Whether it be by eventual death or Rapture, I hope I cross the pearly gates into something as entirely idyllic as the Centennial Parklands on March the 23rd.

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02/12/2023
By Rosina Carbone
Concert ReviewSURG

Welcome to the Brian Jonestown Massacre

Photo by Rosina Carbone Rosina reviews the Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Enmore Theatre – 16 November 2023 Good things happen to those who wait around concert venues. So when singer Anton Newcombe and guitarist Ryan Van Kreidt spill out of the doors of the Duke to greet the throng of flat caps an

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30/10/2023
By Bailey Kang
Concert ReviewSURG

RECAP: Mode Festival 2023

Image: By Ravyna – Ravyna Jassani Bailey recaps the highs and lows of this year’s ‘mode’ at Cockatoo Island Mode Festival is in its sophomore year of turning Cockatoo Island warehouses into thumping stages for a worldwide selection of electronic music. This year, the lineup i

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