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
Linda Linda linda (Asian Cinema Collective & the Sydney Opera House) at Vivid LIVE
Charlotte Macdonald reflects … A bottle of sweet and innocent syrup––being with your friends is the sweetest romance. The bottled-up explosion of nostalgia generated through the care for your craft. Linda Linda Linda was presented by Stuart Buchanan of the Sydney Opera House an
Wednesday, live at at the metro theatre 3/6/26
Alize Viner and Lucy Horton mow the leaves … Alize With Sydney hearing Bleeds, Wednesday’s 2025 album, live for the first time, it felt fitting for the band to kick off the concert with a passionate rendition of the first track ‘Reality TV Argument Bleeds’. Swells of buzzy guitar
Rave Culture: A New Era (Australian Premiere) at Vivid LIVE, 31/05/26
Cassidy Newman reviews … Accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack and featuring British rave legends such as RatPack, Fabio, Grooverider, SL2, and Leeroy Thornhill from The Prodigy, Eduardo Cubillo’s Rave Culture: A New Era invites us to travel back in time to when the DJs spun vinyl, the molly
The Kneecap Boys are Back in Town
calista burrowes reviews fenian What do you do when it seems like the whole world is against you? Do you retreat into obscurity? Do you just send it and live up to the villainy people assign to you? Kneecap does not have a fully grounded answer just yet, but FENIAN is their interim response to [&hel
WHAT’S NEXT FOR 2SER?
Elise Martin attends… Beloved community radio station 2SER is grappling with the big question––what comes next?––as the July deadline for an alternative funding source to save the station rapidly approaches. 2SER has served as a cultural pillar of the community for nearly 45 year
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
uh-oh. A twenty-something is yearning again.
I’m standing in the back of a ute screaming my lungs out over The Sydney Harbour Bridge and I’m convinced that I am, in fact, Emma Watson in ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’; except I don’t have the head shape for a pixie cut, and this year’s Triple J champion ‘Never Be Like Y