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Live Review: Niall Horan at Rod Laver Arena 3 April, 2024 ‘Welcome To The Show!’ flashes up on the screens at the front of the arena to mark the beginning of the first sold out show at Rod Laver Arena tonight. “I’m so glad to be back in Melbourne – my favourite city on the…
Live Review: P!nk + Tones And I at Marvel Stadium, Melbourne “It’s so good to be here in my hometown to play the biggest show I’ve ever played,” says Tones And I as Marvel Stadium fills up with crowds of fans. She starts off with a cover of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young and her powerful…
Live Review: Taylor Swift at MCG, Melbourne 16 Feb, 2024 A clock appears on stage with a two-minute countdown. As it strikes midnight, the crowd unleashes deafening screams of excitement and dancers walk the runway wearing giant windsails like peacock feathers with a sailor’s sky print. Taylor Swift emerges on a podium that elevates her up…
Live Review: Paramore @ Rod Laver Arena 28 Nov | Michael Prebeg Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas plays over the speakers to welcome Remi Wolf to the stage filled with inflatable Christmas decorations. She begins with Liquor Store to kick off her fun and energetic performance to warm up the crowd with top marks. “I’ve come here…
Live Review: Dermot Kennedy @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl 24 November “I woke up this morning with literally no voice, but I was given a steroid and here I am,” exclaims Mia Wray. It seems to have done the trick as she belts out her powerful vocals without fail. Wray showcases her new single called…
Live Review: Bloc Party @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl 16 Nov 2023 It’s fitting that Interpol and Bloc Party are co-headlining this tour as their histories have intertwined in many ways throughout their impressive careers. Interpol even took Bloc Party on their first ever tour back in the early 2000s. Tonight, Interpol start off and…
Live Review: Sam Smith @ Rod Laver Arena 31 October 2023 Meg Mac is joined on stage with two backup singers by her side including her little sister Hannah and long-time friend Danielle as she begins with ‘Every Lie.’ The power in her soulful vocals blows the audience away as she belts out some of…
Live Review: Delta Goodrem at Hamer Hall 28 October 2023 “20 years have past and still one thing that lasts is these songs that we will play on tonight,” says Delta Goodrem before appearing on stage and taking a seat at her butterfly-decorated grand piano while her band begins to play an instrumental that leads…
Splendour in the Grass Byron Bay 21-23 July 2023 Day 1 – FRIDAY The Splendour gods have conjured up the perfect weather forecast for the first day with sunny, warm and dry conditions. They’re pulling out all stops this year to redeem the festival after last year’s disastrous weather events and following a hiatus due…
Ruel Margaret Court Arena 21 April Following a Welcome To Country, Forest Claudette kicks things off with his first song Gone Without A Trace from his debut EP – The Year Of February. His “big ass” green flared pants, which he describes are featured in the video he did for a song called Mess Around…