Live Music
You don’t often see a performer of this calibre slumming it down an alleyway
Mike McLeish’s solo show, Pensive Like a Fox, is a charming and offbeat cabaret filled with off-the-wall tangents and genuine poignancy.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way, Kosa Monteith and Jessica Nicholas
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Network outage
Ticketek website back online, but crash frustrates promoters and buyers
Major ticketing website Ticketek shut down on Monday and into Tuesday, leaving fans unable to access tickets and promoters scrambling for alternatives.
- by Thomas Mitchell
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Live music
I was excited to see one of my favourite bands. Except I didn’t see them, not really
At 23, I’m too young to remember a time without phones obscuring people’s views at concerts. Our need to document everything is coming with a price.
- by Angus Delaney
‘I’m pretty boring and sort of straight-laced’ – how sobriety improved a musician’s work
Indie darling turned bona fide star Waxahatchee returns to Australia later this month.
- by Brodie Lancaster
‘That’s not planned’: Coldplay’s final Melbourne stadium show goes out with a bang
Coldplay singer Chris Martin brought some drama to the band’s last Melbourne gig with a dangerous tumble through an open trapdoor.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
Major sporting events in ‘arms race’ to secure top singers
In an effort to attract new fans, sporting events invest heavily in securing musical acts.
- by Angus Delaney
Gangsters and toy koalas: This unknotting of a sibling relationship is oddly affecting
A portrait of a dysfunctional family loving each other in the ways they know best, Golden Blood is a story of yearning and ambition.
- by Sonia Nair, Barney Zwartz, Michael Dwyer, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen and Jessica Nicholas
Thom Yorke challenges pro-Palestinian protester at gig
Playing a solo show in Melbourne, the Radiohead frontman walked off the stage after being heckled by an audience member.
- by Katy Hall and Kate Lahey
Cold Chisel at 50 show why they’re one of the world’s great rock bands
Jimmy Barnes sang with every atom of his visibly scarred body. Pianist Don Walker, guitarist Ian Moss, bassist Phil Small and drummer Charley Drayton played like their lives were on the line.
- by Michael Dwyer
Christie Whelan Browne’s hilarious cabaret serves up rare authenticity
The zany, raw, warts-and-all Life in Plastic follows Whelan Browne’s own journey from the irrepressible awkwardness of girlhood to stardom.
- by Andrew Fuhrmann, Will Cox, Cameron Woodhead and Barney Zwartz
Christie Whelan Browne on smashing her own personal beauty myth
In her upcoming cabaret show Life in Plastic, the musical theatre triple threat reveals intimate details of her life.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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