Waywards @ The Bank 4 April 2019 The tender, dark and delicate voice of Elizabeth Fader suited the cosy and dark Waywards stage. Despite just a scattering of early-arrivals, they were super-attentive and hanging off every fragile lyric. With a song about the Marrickville Bowlo, the awkward moment of calling for encores when you don’t […]
A debut album is something to cherish for any artist and for Tanya Batt, her debut BATTS album, The Grand Tour, holds an even more special connection to her as it combines two of her loves – music and space. The concept album, based on the NASA project of Voyager 1, a space probe that […]
Bloods are the sort of band that don’t mind taking their time. With their first album, Work It Out, being released in 2014, many doors opened, including their first visit to the US as a band, along with their first South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival. Four years later, taking their pop-punk ethos and turning it into a more refined sound, the four-piece from Sydney have released […]
A freak #SydneyStorm prevented this reviewer from making the start of Spit Chewy, but the last two songs of their set – well supported by an early Lansdowne crowd that were encouraged not to be “lamos” by the Facebook event – showcased a perky grunge sound that has seen the band getting some well-deserved supports and attention. Eliza & The Delusionals have been taking a slowly but […]
The bass line infiltrates your body and consumes you. Then beat frees you and moves you. For those three and a half minutes, you don’t care where you are – all you can feel is the music. This is just a small example of what Kira Puru’s music can do. Since taking the step away from her band, The Bruise, and embarking on a solo career towards to […]
Like many musicians, Angie McMahon’s musical path started with the youthful stress of piano lessons. The pressure of knowing that you should practice between lessons is something that has haunted many a teenager in their quest to justify their parents spending money on a musical education whilst also wanting to play music like their idols. […]
