God bless the theatre-law kids …. SURG Reviews the 2026 Sydney Uni Law Revue
God bless the theatre kids: Even through the throes of a law degree, when there is a will, there’s demonstrably a way. The Sydney University Law Revue has long been a staple of the University of Sydney’s revue lineup and this year’s production, Now You Sue Me, Now You Don’t, was another stro
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
Don’t Call Them Twee Bro!
… But don’t call them Indie Sleaze or Hyperclash or Electroclash Revival or Indietronica or Bloghouse either … Jesse Carpenter has some words for the taxonomical sleazebags … At the concert you see a guy wearing a D&G shirt: standing for Deleuze and Guattari, or maybe Drain and G
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,
Mouseatouille Live Changed My Life
Calista Burrowes reviews their Phoenix Central Park set, 13/8/26 When I stumbled into a very exciting opportunity to see Mouseatouille at Phoenix Central Park, I couldn’t contain my excitement. I had never seen the band live. I’d attempted to, several times now, but each time, I just missed them
Life during wartime: on massive attack at afterpay arena, August 9 2026.
Orpheus carefully yet assuredly steps toward his reflection in the mirror. He thinks not of his recently murdered wife, Eurydice, but of the princess of death with whom he has fallen in love. He makes contact with the mirror’s surface, which breaks and ripples. His body and reflection converge
I was the “Rat” in the “Bin” that was Jim E Brown at Mary’s Underground
I expected Friday the 26th of June 2026 to be about a lot of things: The last gig at Mary’s Underground ever. My friends’ dual birthday party. Faux-Pom post-punk synth-pop. Millennial-style self-deprecation. 9-11. (All things hyphenated to death.) Instead, my night was about the pristine McChick
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