Familiar Touch
Your chance to win a double pass to FAMILIAR TOUCH is here – coming to cinemas October 23! A triple award-winner at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Competition, FAMILIAR TOUCH […]
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Your chance to win a double pass to FAMILIAR TOUCH is here – coming to cinemas October 23! A triple award-winner at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Competition, FAMILIAR TOUCH […]
It’s mid-winter in Manhattan. Graham Nash is settling into a chat on Zoom and thinking about his setlist for his upcoming Australian tour. The man with an accent that slips
Almost sixty years ago Englebert Humperdinck enjoyed the biggest hit of his career with a grand tearjerker of a ballad called ‘Release Me’. In 1967 it hit #1 in eleven
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James Reyne continues to cement his spot as Australia’s hardest working man in show business. In recent years Reyne has been permanently ‘on tour’. And why wouldn’t he be?
Wes Anderson returns to form with his latest feature, Asteroid City. As the actor Fisher Stevens recently said, Anderson has assembled the biggest ensemble cast since Bridge on the River
The Tivoli 14.04.23 Part way through the 2020 Bee Gees documentary, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Noel Gallagher lays bare one of the great truths of rock ‘n’
Don McLean Fortitide Music Hall 01.04.23 Tony Migliore strides on stage, sits at his piano, leans into a microphone and asks the audience, ‘What is this? A library?’. He wants
There’s a certain symmetry to this A Day on the Green line-up that features both Sting and James Reyne. Almost forty years ago the pair shared a stage fronting their
The Red Hot Chili Peppers/Post Malone Suncorp Stadium 29.01.2023 Over 45.000 people crammed into Suncorp Stadium on a Sunday night to see a genuine double header, Post Malone and the
Elton John Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour Suncorp Stadium 21.01.23 At 7.30pm the lights at Suncorp Stadium briefly dim and Sir Elton John hits a single chord on his piano.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Gold Coast Convention Centre 10.11.2022 It’s a Saturday night on the Gold Coast, and the Convention Centre is hosting Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Yes,
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Our friends at Dendy have given us five double passes to give away to The Banshees of Inisherin. The film sees actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with Oscar-nominated
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The Killers. BEC. 29.11.2022 Kicking off the first night of their Imploding the Mirage tour in Australia, the Killers played to a capacity house at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Prior
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Flume. Riverstage. 16.11.22 Strolling onto the stage and getting behind the decks to deliver a mash-up of Holding On and Drop the Game, Flume lit up Brisbane’s Riverstage to the
Rolling Blackouts CF. Tivoli. 27/10/2022 The Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever rolled into the Tivoli on Thursday night, sprinting on stage to deliver a stir fry mix to their fans, a
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QAGOMA PRESENTS ‘FAIRY TALES’ AND MAJOR EXHIBITIONS OF WORK BY MICHAEL ZAVROS AND EX DE MEDICI IN 2023 The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) has announced its 2023
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KISS Brisbane Entertainment Centre 06.09.22 So here we are. A full house. The longest queue you’ve ever seen at a merch stand and Kiss are playing their final Brisbane show
KISS have arrived in Australia for their final tour. We’d had a dig through the Time Off archive and found some gems. KISS were no strangers to the Time Off
Thanks to our good friends at Studio Canal we have five in season double passes to give away to Orphan: First Kill. Directed by William Brent Bell, the film stars
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Nirvana bang the drum On the 27th January 1992, Nirvana played Brisbane’s Festival Hall, a day after a performance at Fisherman’s Wharf on the Gold Coast and just sixteen days
FOO FIGHTERS Head Foo Fighter, singer and guitarist, Dave Grohl got his license a year later than he should have and reckons that 12 months wait was the longest year
Thanks to our good friends at Studio Canal Films we have five in-season double passes to give away to The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent. Duke – which is in
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The late – great – Meat Loaf passed away this week. We rummaged through our vaults and found this classic interview done with Meat Loaf by Andrew Stafford. The interview
THE ROLLING STONES by Angela Pulvirenti The Stones have a history of rehearsing their world tours in Toronto; there’s an urban myth that the affinity was born out of Keith
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Garbage have announced the details of their 20th anniversary reissue of the band’s third studio album, Beautiful Garbage. The reissue will be released on October 1st, exactly 20 years after
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David Bridie’s classic Act Of Free Choice has just turned twenty-one. Here’s an interview with David from our archives, republished to celebrate a significant birthday. For the past 16 years,
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Thanks to our friends at Studio Canal we have five in-season double passes to give away to Gunpowder Milkshake.The action/thriller stars Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh, Carla
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Steve Kilbey continues an extraordinary run of album releases with his latest effort, The Hall of Counterfeits. The album follows the sublime Sydney Rococo (2018) and Eleven Women (2020). In
EUROPEAN MASTERPIECES FROM THE MET OPENS AT GOMA The most significant exhibition of international art to be presented in Queensland in recent decades, the Australian-exclusive ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan
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KEITH URBAN Legend has it at the dawn of the 1990’s guitar whiz Tommy Emmanuel was on a outbound Brisbane plane to Sydney when fate sat him next to Keith
At the Adelaide Festival in March, the World Premiere of MY NAME IS GULPILIL was a momentous and emotional cinema experience. The ailing David Gulpilil walked the red carpet and
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Thanks to our friends at Studio Canal we have five in-season double passes to give away to director Guy Ritchie’s new action thriller Wrath Of Man starring Jason Statham, which opens