The album as a whole is no doubt a good listen, ranging from the trademark folky fingerpicking of album opener ‘Spring to Come’, through to gritty funk of ‘Livin’ in the City’ where John opens up on the ol’ electric guitar into a Hendrix-esque crescendo; And this occurs over the first two songs.
St. Jerome's Laneway Festival moved to a new home in Fremantle this year, if this is the future of festivals we should all be very happy!
First up, we have the English ‘middle-class private educated white boy’ Chris Turner’s Pretty Fly show which is touted as a journey of life through hip hop and secondly Perth’s own new-New Yorker Josh Makinda, performing a very impromptu and crowd-tailored comedy, Lots of Ideas and Limits .
The Big Day Out hit Perth for one last time in 2014. Here is it, in picture form!
And that’s how it all ended, one stage Major Lazer, a huge EDM collective, another Pearl Jam, arguably one of the biggest rock bands of the last 20 years and the Deftones, a successful alt. metal band. Quite fitting really.
As the final credits rolled, I felt completely satisfied. The film concludes without falling into any clichés and the ending itself is equal parts dramatic and graceful. All Is Lost is a fantastic look into the despair of a hopeless situation and one mans journey through it.
Crowd response is so critical to our performance... A good indicator of a successful night is when we notice the crowd subtly closing their eyes and moving their head to the music, little things like that make a big difference.
Here we present our round-up of this year's ambitious and jam-packed Fringe World Festival. With over 200 acts, here's our pick of the bunch!
Here we bring all of the news regarding events as a part of this year's Perth International Art Festival; Be it upcoming previews, event reviews and general good stuff.
On the last date of their Polymorphism Tour, Karnivool produced a perfect performance, shadowing both of the openers' sets, leaving a collective grin across the face of the crowd.
This year’s Fringe Festival is the most ambitious to date; With over 200 acts performing over the 4 weeks beginning with tonight’s VIP launch, as well as expanding into the Swan region with Midlandia (so much class with the extra ‘i’) nobody could argue with that.
It’s post-rock, experimental, synthy and has an undeniable pop element to it. This Brisbane three piece have seemingly struck a winning formula early on their debut EP Salvage.
POND, as a live animal, give a lot to the audience. When frontman Nick Allbrook isn’t wide-armed screaming to the crowd he is throwing himself around, writhing on the floor in the sweat dripping from his oh-so-Fremantle flanno.
The Growlers' Gilded Pleasures is a great EP, however given the current popularity of nostalgia soaked rock on first listen it can lack a certain punch. However, Gilded Pleasures' opener 'Dogheart II' will drag you in, and the EP constantly rewards on subsequent listenings, before heading into high rotation on your playlist.
Perth’s finest prog-rock technicians will be playing at one of the most amazing if not surreal locations on the 23rd day of this sweltering month.
The Love Junkies are a Perth (Thornlie methinks?) based post-grunge three piece who hit hard, and rock equally as hard as some kind of Children Collide x Queens Of The Stone Age x Scratch Acid (melody, groove and freak outs respectively) hybrid sexy dangerous animal.
Keith Buckley, always the energetic frontman, encouraged pit wildness, including a circlepit the size of Amps itself (which one unlucky stage diver jumped into, rather stupidly).
We were lucky enough to check out the sold out Elmar’s In The Valley venue for some food, music and most importantly alcoholic beverages before heading over to Belvoir Amphitheatre for a great mini-festival.
Overall, Coming Apart will be a challenging listen for anyone who isn’t drawn toward dirgey guitars, walls of noise, Gordon’s monotone drawl and oscillating feedback.
The Byron Bay lads dug deep through their crates and played tracks from Don’t Close Your Eyes, Killing With A Smile, Horizons, Deep Blue and Atlas. This show was mental, and for the encore, Carrion was played as the stage filled up with concert goers hanging out with the band.
