Just waiting to ruin your concert, or live gig, going experience, gig pigs…
Everyone there was into the band. These four people though – two guys, two girls – were getting under everyones’ skins. They were loud. Really loud. They knew every word too. I timed it to the second where someone turned around and [...]

Break out the glow-sticks and sun-screen, it’s going to be another long hot summer of music and festivity in and around Sydney, and it all kicks off from this weekend. Here’s a quick run-down of what’s happening over the next two months:

Sydney Festival: launching on 9 January and running through to the 30th, the Sydney [...]

Some bands need to focus on performing their music rather than resorting to other methods of entertainment:
“This is something we just worked out backstage [cue huddled conference with the lead guitarist], how does it go again?” Nice try, but we’re not fooled – you said the exact same thing at the Frome Cheese & [...]

So This is it, the much talked about behind the scenes – or as far behind them as we are permitted – glimpses of the build up to the comeback extravaganza of the century, being Michael Jackson’s concerts that were meant to take place in London this year.
Ah yes, what might have been… “at [...]

The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Resonance concert series which sees ACO regulars combine with the ACO2 – the orchestra’s up and coming recital musicians – is in full swing.
A few of the many ACO2 leading lights on tour include Madeleine Boud who recently performed with the ACO on its smash-hit coast-to-coast tour of the USA; [...]

The Stone Roses are a story of rock excess in their own right in that they produced just two albums in the 12 years they were an act. Now rumours are swirling of their reformation and plans to play a string of shows in Europe and the US later this year.
Despite only recording two albums [...]

While Cockatoo Island in Sydney harbour conjures up exotic images of swaying palm trees and golden sand beaches, the reality is a little more stark, penal and industrial in-fact, as the island used to host a prison and an industrial school.
While such an ambiance may not be everyone’s cup of tea, given Nick Cave and [...]

Your degree of devotion to an artist or band, in this case U2, whose concert or festival you are queuing to buy tickets for, determines the level of agitation you will feel towards a queue jumper.
Even queue jumpers who attempt to barge into the line behind you.
At four U2 concerts in Philadelphia and Atlanta, [...]

Talking of Parklife, music festivals, and the like, Garrett Murray puts the boot into the concert system:
“Standing room only” is one of the worst phrases ever created by man. Do we stand to watch television? To watch movies in a theatre? To watch a play? To take in ANY other form of entertainment? People [...]

The Sydney leg of the V Festival is the next music event to take place in Centennial Park, this Saturday, 29 March.
The Smashing Pumpkins and Duran Duran are co-headlining (an unlikely pairing?), while Queens Of The Stone Age, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Presets, and Brazilian band CSS, form part of the extensive lineup.
This [...]