Julia Jacklin + Weyes Blood @ Zoo Twilights, Melbourne, 28.02.2020
Julia Jacklin @ Nine Lives Festival by Bianca Holderness It’s a cool Friday night, the penultimate day of summer, out on the lawn at Melbourne Zoo. As usual for Zoo Twilights, it’s packed with folk of all ages, relaxing with a beer or a pink gin with mates and family, waiting to hear some great […]
Nine Lives Festival @ The Tivoli, 01.03.2020
By Billie Stimpson Photos by Bianca Holderness In Brisbane Sunday the first of March, The Tivoli, Jet Black Cat and handsome tours collaborated on Nine Lives – the latest in ongoing efforts to creatively reach beyond the more unpleasant conventions of the large-scale Australian musical festival. Despite my utter lack of credibility or clout in […]
Phantastic Ferniture – Phantastic Ferniture (Makeout Records/Caroline Australia)
They wanted to make a pop record for fun, and yep, that’s what they’ve done. Phantastic Ferniture’s self-titled debut album gets the tick for ‘pop’ and ‘fun’, but not in that sickly boy-band/girl-band formulaic kind of way. It’s much more cool. There’s something that evokes the 80s for me, but the more I listen, the […]
Falls Festival @ Byron Bay, NSW, 01.01.2018: Day 2
Let’s not put the thumb on Georgia Maq and Camp Cope. Yes, there could have been a few more women on the line-up. But they are only articulating what a large number of their peers, fans, women, allies – Australians young and old – think. I’m not present as she as she causes the stir, […]
In Photos: Laneway 2017 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 26.01.2017 – Part 1
Part 1/3 of photos from Laneway 2017 at Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds featuring Confidence Man, Jess Kent, Koi Child, Camp Cope, Nicholas Allbrook, Julia Jacklin and Whitney.
Haiku from Japan
Earlier in the year I wrote a few haiku reviews that I didn’t get around to publishing, the story of my life given the collection of half written pieces and sketched out ideas that clog my hard drive. As I was recently in Japan on holiday, it seemed an apt time to think about posting them […]
In Photos: Julia Jacklin + Middle Kids @ Black Bear Lodge, 27.07.2016
Julia Jacklin plays at Black Bear Lodge, with support from Middle Kids.
