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Dua Lipa – Qudos Bank Arena
A recount of British pop star Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia concert could really just be synonyms for ‘feelgood’ strung together with the names of songs so uniformly earwormy ...
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Floors of Heaven underwater concert (Woolloomooloo Bay)
The line between novel and novelty could have been easily crossed last night at Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool at Woolloomooloo Bay. Floors Of Heaven: Submersive Study is a ...
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William Crighton (The Great Club)
It would be mad to pretend that the good times of country-rock artist William Crighton’s show on Friday were exclusively about him. The warm and fuzzy buzz was ...
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LIVE REVIEWS
The Presets (The Factory)
His voice awash with elation and relief, Julian Hamilton of The Presets speaks straight to the arse of every seated one of us when he says: “I thought ...
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Ocean Alley (Qudos Bank Arena)
Even before arriving on a filthily hot day to Sydney’s Olympic Park, the adjectives about Saturday night’s big gig have been beefed up into superlatives. Great Southern Nights is the ...
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Hockey Dad (drive in, Bulli)
If drive-in concerts could make enough of a buck for concert promoters to pursue them (they can’t), Wollongong band the Pinheads’ appeal on Friday to “give us a ...
Latest arts
‘An inscrutable and open-ended riddle’: the life and art of Jeffrey Smart
One reason Jeffrey Smart paintings have gone up in price is because that’s what happens when there’s a big show, such as the one at the National Gallery of ...
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Latest features
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features 0The ‘Yolŋu surf rock’ of Yothu Yindi’s next generation
The music of Yothu Yindi, says King Stingray guitarist Roy Kellaway, is in his blood. He and the brand new band’s singer, Yirrnga Yunupiŋu, grew up together as wawas (brothers) in the north-east Arnhem Land town of Yirrkala, population circa 800, on Yothu Yindi’s homelands – Yolŋu country. Roy is the son of Yothu Yindi’s bass player, Stuart Kellaway, and Yirrnga is the ...
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featuresA gentle hidden gem: a visitor’s guide to the NSW far south coast
About six hours drive from Sydney and seven from Melbourne, on Thaua Country in Yuin nation, are the small towns of Pambula and Merimbula. This is not your stereotypical Australian coast of bold, gold beaches and “aparthotels” with salt-smeared glass balconies. The far south coast of New South Wales has a gentle, hidden gem feel. Ringed by national parks and nature reserves, ...
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ARTS‘An inscrutable and open-ended riddle’: the life and art of Jeffrey Smart
One reason Jeffrey Smart paintings have gone up in price is because that’s what happens when there’s a big show, such as the one at the National Gallery of Australia celebrating 100 years since the late artist’s birth. Another reason is love. Specifically, how the love for Smart’s paintings stays unrequited because it’s never wholly fulfilled. “I’ve really noticed with this show that private ...
