Currently gallivanting their way around Australia, we grabbed guitarist of The Darkness Dan Hawkins for a quick chat about what’s been going on, and what is to come. We’re a couple of months in to the new era of The Darkness. What has the reaction been so far? So far it’s been pretty amazing. Generally, it just seems like...
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Local talent Dune Rats took to the stage for a second time that day in support of the main act Bleeding Knees Club. Having played an all-ages gig earlier that day, the boys had still enough in the tank to back it up with a second set. Was it me, or was the crowd exceptionally young? Cheap drinks were being knocked back like water...
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After some seriously big recent shows with the Foo Fighters and Tenacious D, a new single and a huge tour just announced, we caught up with Hannah Findlay from Stonefield for a quick chat. It’s just been announced you are playing at Triple J’s One Night Stand in Dalby this year. You guys are from a country town I’m...
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Words: Amber Shadlow “Im a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, life in plastic its fantastic”- now don’t pretend you have never sung these words- even a huge cynic like me has to admit I have (on more than one occasion) hummed this tune. Starting out the night feeling a little silly being at the Aqua reunion gig I looked around at...
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Manchester Orchestra sort of snuck up on me, I had heard their 2009 album Mean Everything to Nothing but it didn’t really stick with me and they faded off my radar for a while, until last Tuesday. Manchester Orchestra are a peculiar group of elements that wouldn’t necessarily mesh well together if you talked about it, but after...
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