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90ivy @ Factory Theatre, 16th Oct
“90ivy’s indie guitar pop shimmers and sways like a heat mirage off a roasting highway, hot concrete and refracted light. It’s jaunty enough to make your ankles twitchy, but it’s got a wingspan enough to make you forget about tedious things like gravity. It’s a delight of a set – hit the road, don’t look […]
“The Sunday Estate are rich and dense and wildly enjoyable, like cake or gravy. The whole set has layers and layers of song and effort and emotion, and it fills you up until a wafer thin mint would blow bits of you all over the room. Big, bold, booming and an absolute riot of taste.” […]
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Morgues @ Factory Theatre, 16th Oct
“Morgues – despite the doomy name – play with an innocent, shy type of joy. They jangle their way through a high-frequency, low-stress set of delightful Sunday afternoon numbers, whimsy floating in the air like dust motes in a sunbeam.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
Sometimes – just sometimes – the universe operates smoothly and correctly, and this week was one of those times, with Bad//Dreems absolutely brilliant new track ‘Jack’ running the table on the best Australian new music playlists. 🥇Bad//Dreems 🥈Babe Rainbow 🥉Kinder, Ocean Alley, Press Club, Royel Otis What’s of note here too is more precisely who […]
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Sammy Honeysett @ HiWay, 15th Oct
“Sammy Honeysett has prepped this show to a mad degree, with balloons and sheets and all sorts draped and dotted over the magical HiWay tonight. That’s actually a big promise that the set will deliver accordingly. Does it land? Does the set match the confidence? Boy howdy does it. This is a beautiful and ever-so-slightly […]
Every week, my robots scour the biggest nine New Music Friday playlists in the world to see whose getting backed hard by the big green machine. This week: 🏆 The Champ: Queen The kings of New Music Friday this week are, erm, Queen, whose rediscovered, Freddie-featuring track “Face It Alone” appeared on all nine of the […]
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Tayla @ HiWay, 15th Oct
Pop is a big tent, but Tayla is right there, running around like a mad’un under every inch of canvas. Tonight we get four-four bangers, soaring full-band singalongs, solo vocal exhibitions, massive screaming guitar explosions…. basically the full spectrum of pop wonder. There’s so much going on in this set, it’s hard to keep the […]