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
Indie-pop perfection: Stereolab at the Metro Theatre
Sam O’Reilly and Felicity Errington review We wandered into the Metro Theatre on the 21st of June, joining a flock of striped and gleeful 20-somethings. The venue itself was a tad self-serious, reflected in a $13.50 Newtowner and rather severe bar lighting. A trip to a gig is never a ticket of
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,
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
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