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
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
Erika de Casier with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, live at the Sydney Opera House
Ynes Fernandez reviews … After coming here a handful of times before in seedier, smaller venues––the Oxford Art Factory for one––the Copenhagener Erika De Casier made her Sydney Opera House debut as part of the Vivid LIVE music program. She brought her drummer, Jonathan Jull Ludvigsen,
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
23 seconds to eternity and millenium mambo at vivid live: Eliot Tompkins reviews
23 Seconds to Eternity (Australian Theatrical Premiere) (Bill Butt, 2023) Upon entering a cinema full of fifty-something year-olds, I was confronted by the understanding that I was entering part of something great that stretched before my time. 23 Seconds to Eternity presents us with several s
La Haine (Asian Dub Foundation Version) at the Sydney Opera House, 30/05/2026
Lucy Horton reviews … Big night for teen bro-ey sensibilities. Coulda been bigger –– their arbiters were there in spirit, but were probably the sparsest demographic in the Playhouse Theatre on Saturday: a fairly older crowd with a solid slice of twenty-somethings. A young man, Abdel, is
mariners and woodsmen: salem, live at the sydney opera house 22/05/26
Feature Image: ‘snake eyes’ by John Holland. Ronan Linsley reviews … Emerging from the haunting pinelands comprising the state of Michigan is one of our generation’s most defining sounds. Equal parts melodic, harsh, and transcendent, SALEM have cemented themselves in the zeitgeis
When I’m in an awesome gig competition and my opponent is Loathe: cappy hall reviews
Cappy Hall reviews Loathe at the Metro Theatre, 14/05/26
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