Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Goes Back to the Beginning By Peta Kent For most artists, nostalgia eventually becomes a trap. A place to revisit old triumphs, replay familiar stories and carefully preserve […]
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Hugh Cornwell
There’s a moment early in my conversation with Hugh Cornwell where he sounds less like a punk icon and more like a slightly mischievous GP. “What seems to be the
Stephen Cummings
Stephen Cummings Finds “Joy” in the Songs That Shaped Him For almost five decades Stephen Cummings has been revered as one of Australia’s greatest songwriters and singers. Why the former
La La Land Live
‘La La Land’ at 10: Justin Hurwitz on Bringing Hollywood’s Modern Musical Masterpiece to Australian Stages By Sean Sennett For Justin Hurwitz, revisiting La La Land isn’t simply an exercise
Sparks Are Coming
Sparks Are Still Chasing the Future By Sean Sennett There are legacy acts who carefully preserve their past, and then there’s Sparks — a band still driven by curiosity, experimentation
ARC play The Eagles
ARC has built a strong second life out of pulling classic albums apart and putting them back together onstage. This year the Australian Rock Collective — Kram (Spiderbait), Darren Middleton
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Finding Emily
Manchester has always made outsiders feel like they belong. From the ghosts of Factory Records to the emotional sprawl of Oasis and The Smiths, it’s a city where heartbreak, ambition
Baz Meets Elvis
It’s Saturday night at HOTA on the Gold Coast and Baz Luhrmann is standing in front of a packed cinema. At the AACTA Festival, the premiere of EPiC, his ambitious
Danielle Spencer
For Danielle Spencer, the return to music wasn’t part of a carefully mapped comeback strategy. It began quietly, almost accidentally, during the strange pause of the pandemic years. “I
Stewart Copeland
Stewart Copeland: Banging the World Into Shape Stewart Copeland has never lacked an origin story. Born into a world of geopolitics and espionage—his father a CIA operative, his mother analysing
AC/DC
AC/DC Bring Fire, Fury and a 15-Minute Guitar Sermon to Suncorp Stadium AC/DC returned to Brisbane on Sunday night for the first of two Suncorp Stadium shows on their Power
Kelsea Ballerini
Kelsea Ballerini Closes Her World Tour in Brisbane The last time Kelsea Ballerini played the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, she was the bright-eyed opener warming up the crowd for Tim McGraw.
The Housemaid
Inside The Housemaid: Paul Feig, Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried & a Thriller Wrapped in Silk and Razor Blades When the gates of Nina and Andrew Winchester’s palatial estate swing open
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution — A Brutal, Beautiful, and Divisive Arrival in Anime’s Golden Age By the time Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution hit theaters in late 2025, the franchise was already riding
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The Beatles Anthology
In the fall of 1995, The Beatles took over prime-time television like it was 1964 all over again. Families gathered around boxy TVs, VCRs hummed, and a brand-new Beatles song,
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Belinda Carlisle
In March 2027, international pop icon Belinda Carlisle will take one last victory lap around Australia, saluting four decades of hits on her aptly titled G’day & Goodbye Tour. One
Oasis
With Oasis back in Australia it seemed like a good time to rummage through our archive and pull out this interview from 2005 with band that was done for the
SISU: Road to Revenge
The Man Who Refuses to Die Returns: Inside SISU: Road to Revenge By Mitchell Peters There’s a moment early in SISU: Road to Revenge when Aatami Korpi — the Finnish
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The Running Man
Running for His Life: Glen Powell on Edgar Wright’s Bold Reimagining of The Running Man By Mitchell Peters Glen Powell is grinning when he talks about getting punched in the
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Springsteen’s Dark Night of the Soul — and the Movie That Finds the Light Inside It By Mitchell Peters Autumn, 1981. Bruce Springsteen is 31, coming off The River tour
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Harry Vanda
Still Playing with Fire: Harry Vanda Lights the Fuse Again By Sean Sennett You’re never too old or too young to release your debut single. Just ask Harry Vanda. At
British Film Festival 2025
Ralph Fiennes Leads The Choral as the 2025 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival Takes Flight By Mitchell Peters When the lights go down on November 5, the 2025 Russell Hobbs
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The Church
Steve Kilbey likes to swim. The Church frontman does a lot of thinking in the water. He’s been known to compile an album’s worth of lyrics over a few days
Wicked
After a hiatus of almost a decade, Wicked has returned to Brisbane. Since the musical last played in this town, the production has only grown in stature. The fourth longest
Kasey Chambers
It’s mid-afternoon in the Queen Street Mall and Kasey Chambers is backstage strumming her acoustic guitar. In half an hour she’ll play a short set to the assembled masses and
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
American actor Christopher Reeve is the subject of a new documentary from directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Ettedgui co-wrote the script with Otto Burnham,
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Madison Beer
Fortitude Valley Music Hall 28.08.2024 There’s almost no better feeling that turning up at a concert with zero expectations and then having your mind blown. Madison Beer is that good.
Griff
Princess Theatre (Brisbane) 13.08.2024 Fresh from supporting Taylor Swift on the London leg of her Era’s tour, Griff is back in Australia. The UK singer/songwriter started her Vertigo world tour
Conway sings King!
Deborah Conway is known to a generation or two as one of Australia’s finest solo artists and singer songwriters. Starting out, Conway earned her indie-cred fronting Do-Re-Mi in the 1980’s.
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Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson is on a roll. The singer/songwriter is staking a claim for being the hardest working man in Australian showbiz. His current ’50 Years of Hits’ tour will see
Billie Eilish
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, QLD Tuesday, February 18th 2025 The Australian leg of Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour’ opened to a full house in Brisbane. On
Crowded House
Brisbane Entertainment Centre 14.11.24 Crowded House brought their Gravity Stairs tour to a close in Brisbane on Saturday night. Neil Finn acknowledged that show number ‘sixty-nine’ was an auspicious number.