As we sat in the media marquee at the Mundi Mundi Bash on pre-festival day, we reflected back on our journey from Perth the previous day – early morning flights, issues with the hire car, […]
One of the most influential bands of their generation and beyond, The Jesus and Mary Chain mark their 40th anniversary in 2024 with a return tour to Australia and New Zealand, finishing up in Perth they did […]
Over the years everything has conspired against me seeing Hugh Cornwall live: weddings, weather and once many years ago a breakdown on the way to Sheffield that saw me arrive ten minutes after he’d departed […]
It’s 2004. You’re navigating your way through high school and the stressful bullshit that comes with it. You’ve just had a fight with your boyfriend or girlfriend and rather than communicating like a normal person, […]
To celebrate the release of Jebediah’s sixth studio album and first new release in 11 years, OIKS, the band have heading out on the road for a national tour with very special guests Magic Dirt. […]
After an absence from Perth of eleven years Municipal Waste certainly wasted no time making up for it. With a selection of guest bands that filled a multi-genre gap that catered to everyone. Having TURD! […]
After selling out her run of headline dates last year, Secret Sounds announced that Norwegian alt-pop artist and songwriter girl in red was heading back down under and is set to play some of her biggest […]
Tonight is the launch of Sisters Doll‘s new single “Don’t Give Up On Us” at the Northcote Social Club and as hinted by the band some very big, exciting news, but before they perform and […]
POND Gallery Prolific and beloved psychedelic rock band Pond have taken their Stung! Tour around Australia this June and July. Gia Como Gallery Coinciding with the release of the band’s tenth studio album Stung! on 21 June, Pond toured nationally […]
Talking to James Morley before the show we reckoned it was 13 years ago that we saw the first Bon But Not Forgotten show in Perth, a couple of years after the Rockpit was launched, […]
British legends The Animals lit up the Astor with their career highlighting blues-rock hits and classic rock sound that has earned them fame since the 1960s. This current lineup playing The Farewell Tour, The Final […]
In the heart of The Basin at the foot of the Dandenong’s stands The Oak Tree Tavern. Reminiscent of a rustic English pub with exposed beams and quaint memorabilia. This is tonight’s venue for the […]
I first saw the Tea Party way back in 1993 and incredible 31 years ago and don’t think I missed a tour yet, so to have them back again after what seems like an age […]
Kiera Jas is a renowned indie musician, hailing from Margaret River originally but now considers herself a Perth local. She has played at Nannup Music Festival, Groove In The Moo Festival, and shared the stage […]
Sparta celebrated the 20th Anniversary of their seminal and legendary debut album ‘Wiretap Scars’ by performing the album in full, closing the tour at Rosemount Hotel in Perth, supported by Gyroscope. Sparta formed from the ashes of At The […]
Guttered The first band of the night are a four-piece doom-core band made up of Perth locals that go by Guttered. They started the night with over driven, fuzz laden guitars that roared into life […]
Displeasure are a kiwi angry anarchist punk trio from New Zealand and the first support of the night. They are also known as the ‘digital subsidiary’ of band Unsanitary Napkin, in a remixed format. This […]
They had an opening act and as far as I’m concerned it really doesn’t matter because it was just two guys standing on stage making noise. There was literally nothing interesting about it at all […]
Ghost Kid, Creeper and BVB hit the Fillmore…
Hauntingly beautiful Folk Bitch Trio open the evening at The Astor this evening , the trio could almost be called acapaella given their low, soft support of the guitar seems to just tinkle in the […]
It was a warm night for local legends to be hitting the stage heating things up in the Four5Nine bar at the Rosemount in Perth for Colourmind’s new single launch, Quarter Life Crisis. They were […]
Fremantle was drenched in a heavy shower of Blues Rock music this week as Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton closed in on the final shows of their Death Wish Blues Tour, a tour which they […]
Strolling through Melbourne CBD on Friday night and it was an unusually quiet ghost town. There was an icy chill in the air that indicated Winter is well and truly here and keeping people tucked […]
It’s taken 45 years for The Skids to visit Australia, and that of course is a literal lifetime for many, but you now what? It was worth the wait! This is a night of […]
Finishing off ‘The Beauty is Everywhere tour’ Chelsea Cutler hits the stage at the Astor theatre, in Perth. In support of her latest album Stellaria, Platinum-certified American singer, songwriter, producer Chelsea Cutler headed down under for the […]
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