As the horde of patrons anxiously looked to the overcast sky, the bars of Newtown, and Enmore, Erskineville and Chippendale, opened their doors. With over thirty participating venues playing host to over a hundred artists, one of this year’s biggest music events consumed this pocket of the inner west last Sunday.
Read moreKingswood @ the Oxford Arts Factory, August 31
Before heading into the Oxford Art Factory last Friday night, I wouldn’t have said that I was a part of the few hundred Kingswood fans I entered with. This distance from the four piece, if only for a lack of familiarity, immediately dissipated when the opening song of their set blared forth from the stage.
Read moreRnB with a Social Consciousness
“RnB with a Tiwi twist” is how B2M (Bathurst to Melville) band member Jeffrey ‘Yello’ Simon describes the Indigenous Australian RnB group’s sound. Unlike anything you’ve ever heard before, B2M uniquely blends the rhythms of RnB with chants from the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin.
Read moreJohnny Hunter and live performance: breaking out when the city itself is an obstacle
On their debut single, Johnny Hunter told the world, “we want to be One of a Kind.” Last May, in a packed Lansdowne Hotel, the larger than life lead singer, sporting eyeliner, one shiny earring and a flowing red mullet, paraded through the crowd …
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