If you’ve never heard the phrase ‘bury your gays’, you’ve been watching too many hetero movies. Tropes are around in every movie, and there’s an ever-surviving one that results in ending what feels like every lesbian love story by killing…
The East Pointers are folk legends. Anyone who’s been to Woodford (i.e. not me) has heard their name flung about, usually accompanied by gushing over how good they are. I finally got to cure my FOMO with their recent gig…
Melbourne Music Week has kicked it out of the park this year. Acclaim Magazine and Paradise curated one of my dream lineups for a night in the MMW hub for 2017, the ever-so-casual St Paul’s Cathedral. Unfortunately, I missed openers…
On what felt like the first sunny sunday in months, it took a special sort of event to lure hundreds to sit in the Melbourne Town Hall for a day of debates and discussions. With their debut event (under the…
Melbourne’s winter months are rough, but they’ve been hotting up with the arrival of the Cocoa Butter Club to the fabulous Spiegeltent. Focusing on some of the most wonderful POC cabaret artists, performers, singers and dancers, Cocoa Butter Club brings…
Port Fairy Folk Festival has long been an institution in the Folk scene of Victoria, a warm-up of sorts for the National Folk Festival held just a few weeks later. Celebrating it’s 41st birthday this year, I finally managed to…
Phill Jupitus has finally got himself back to Australia, after a 30 year absence. I missed seeing him last time, as I had not yet been born, but I’m mighty glad I got to see him in his new show…
I really really love Lady Sings It Better. Story Time is the fourth show of theirs I’ve seen and they keep getting better than you can believe. It especially helps that people just don’t seem to stop writing horribly sexist/creepy/aggressive songs…
Jude Perl dances along the line between comedy and Serious Art, and it’s a great jig to watch. Roommates: The Musical is a one-woman show, the stage simply set with a grand piano, a couch, and a broom. The rest of…
Clara Cupcakes ‘The Worst’ is, in fact, the best. In the bowels of The Butterfly Club exists the best video game you’ll ever play, and all you have to do is press that START button. I never owned a gaming…