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
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
Gracie in All Her Grandeur
Abrams made Qudos Bank Arena feel intimate on the second of three sold-out shows Gracie Abrams’ penultimate sold-out show at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena boasted the power of the Teenage Fangirl. Led by Gracie – one of our very own – and exceptional opening act Ashe, 21,000 screaming fans found