Live Music
From busker to arena spectacular, this hometown show was personal
For singer Tones and I, one of the perks of a sold-out hometown show at Margaret Court Arena was that she could bring her grandmother up on stage for a dance.
- by Kate Jones, Tony Way, Michael Dwyer and Cameron Woodhead
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Why Melbourne’s lord mayor wants to sell the Regent Theatre
The century-old Collins Street institution is estimated to be worth between $40 million and $50 million, and the council owns a 51 per cent stake.
- by Cara Waters
Helen Garner says this is the best thing she’s written. But does it work as an opera?
\With a theme leaning so heavily on music, it’s not a surprise The Children’s Bach was adapted into an opera – but does it keep its magic when taken off the page?
- by Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Bridget Davies, Andrew Fuhrmann, Tony Way, Jessica Nicholas and Barney Zwartz
Legal stoush between MSO and sacked pianist escalates
Relations between pianist Jayson Gillham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra appear to have reached a new low with the exchange of angry legal letters.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Meet the crew crazy enough to open a free live music venue in 2024
A shared passion for live music and country pubs has driven the new owners of the Punters Club to relaunch the Brunswick Street venue.
- by Martin Boulton
Everybody’s talking about ‘grace’. This is how it looks in action
Directed by Bert LaBonte in his mainstage directorial debut, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog at Melbourne Theatre Company is utterly transfixing.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Andrew Fuhrmann, Gemma Grant, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen and Tony Way
Meet the supergroup giving the middle finger to the Aussie music industry
New hip-hop supergroup 3% are taking an urgent, raw and honest approach to topics such as land reparations and Indigenous deaths in custody.
- by Gemma Grant
MSO managing director departs, Peter Garrett to lead independent review
After weeks of controversy and a vote of no confidence from its own musicians, the managing director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has left the organisation.
- by Gemma Grant and Elizabeth Flux
Live music is ‘broken’. This band is trying something radical to fix it
Cash Savage and the Last Drinks are staging a gig aimed at sending all profits straight to musicians, but they’ll be doing more than making music.
- by Martin Boulton
He played 200 days of pure noise. Now he’s performing in Melbourne
Marco Fusinato strummed a guitar eight hours a day for 200 days straight as Australia’s representative at Venice – but didn’t play a single song.
- by Karl Quinn
The Cat Empire postpones sold-out shows with MSO over Gaza furore
The band said it couldn’t “in good conscience” perform with the orchestra after a pianist was removed from a recital for dedicating a song to journalists in Gaza.
- by Ashleigh McMillan and Kerrie O'Brien
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