All Stirr’d UP
Angus piper reviews: stirr, live at the union hotel 21/03/226 Guitars unorthodoxly utter. The saxophone wails while the vocals clarify the chaos. This is Stirr, live at The Union Hotel for the single release of ‘Broken Arm’. At the Courty for pres, the tables were still drying. You could hear sh
Hellp! Dimes Square is Leaking
Jesse Carpenter reviews: the hellp, live at Astra Kulturhaus 12/03/26 As SURG’s Foreign Correspondent, a coveted position that I recently made up, I went to see The Hellp live at Astra Kulturhaus in Berlin for the strict purpose of ethnographic study of the greater Schaeffer library scene. My find
Winter in Rear View: CAMERON WINTER, LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE 16/02/26
Vance McDonald reviews Cameron Winter live at the Sydney Opera House 16/02/26
How To Take A Fall Review
How to Take a Fall is the four-way split EP by Juno Eclipse, Should Be Sweet (mixed by Georgia Harrison), Charles Carnabuci (mixed by Luke Payne), and Siphon (mixed by Andy Bailey-Hughes). It’s out November 7. If ‘Midwest emo’ is defined by the twinkly, meditative jangle of ‘90s colleg
Dissect HXC @ Monster Mouse Studios, Marrickville Saturday, October 11, 2025
It’s a balmy Saturday evening in Marrickville. Various band members (whom I mistake, on two occasions, for staff) direct people to bathrooms, re-fill the water dispenser, and perch on the couch propped up against a whitewashed wall in Monster Mouse Studios’ open-plan artist’s space. I realise
Old enough to know better, young enough to pretend: 25 Years of The Get Up Kids’ Something to Write Home About
There’s quite the line outside the Oxford Art Factory. Hoodies and canvas jackets are tied around waists, freeing hands to vape or authenticate, photographically, claims of ‘the last time they were here….’. The distribution of flannels is more than standard, but not in-your-face; offset by t
Mama Subpoena: Here We Plead Again – A Revue, Reviewed
Swapping the canvas page for the big stage, the Law Revue is back again! In a witty celebration of Sydney Uni’s law faculty, Mama Subpoena: Here We Plead Again was a glimmering example of the scrappy but sharp production of student theatre. Its self-reflexive humour tiptoped against the controvers
Radmurg in the studio for stujocon ’25
Radio monash joined surg fm for a roundtable on all things student radio As a part of the Student Journalism Conference 2025 your very own SURG FM from Sydney University was joined by Radio Monash (from Monash University in Naarm/Melbourne) for an exciting cross-broadcast. We discussed the ins-and-o
The day I went and saw Japanese Breakfast at the Opera House on a whim and a prayer
Japanese Breakfast is a musical project I had definitely heard of before May 2025, but my knowledge did not extend beyond this fantastically textural name. It was only when a friend mentioned that they were heading to the Opera House to see the act, who were performing as part of Vivid, that I sat d
Marlow’s Indefinite Search for Novelty: An interview with PULP’s new Senior Editor
Alex Dent and Kaela Goldsmith sat down with Marlow Hurst the incoming Senior Editor of the newly revamped PULP. If you haven’t heard already, campus journalist extraordinaire Marlow Hurst has been announced as the incoming Senior Editor of the USU’s publication, PULP. This new role will see Hurs