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Can U Dig It? Pop Will Eat Itself Get Set To Chew Up Sydney’s Manning Bar

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 17 February 2024

Pop Will Eat Itself, madcap and genre-fluid, first got together in 1986 in Stourbridge, England. With ten-ish proper albums (plus a bunch of other live and compilation records) now under their belt, their three-plus decades in the game has seen them inspire many, yet rarely be precisely emulated. While never achieving significant commercial success, their […]

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Legends Playing In Sydney In March

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 15 January 2024

Taylor Swift may have conquered February, but the pop hits keep coming in March, with punky fury, classic songwriting, and grebo sampling mayhem also soundtracking the month. Starting with the pop, the biggest show of the month sees P!nk’s Summer Carnival shows come to an end in Sydney with a huge show at the 80,000-plus […]

I would like to acknowledge that the gigs that are pictured here, the stages they’re played on, the bars and venues they’re held in, and the good times they represent, are all held on lands that were never ceded by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I acknowledge these First Australians as the traditional custodians of the continent, whose cultures are among the oldest living cultures in human history. I pay respect to the Elders of the community and extend my recognition to their descendants.

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