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0‘I might get my boobs out’: aboard Air Mofo’s bonkers flight to Launceston
“How was your flight?” will have a new reply in future from the 150 passengers on board Air Mofo’s maiden trip on Friday. “Fine,” they’ll say. “But did I ever tell you about that bonkers flight I took to Tasmania?” When I pass them at Melbourne airport, I assume the young women in matching yellow tees are a boisterous sporting team. Then I see the ...
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0How #MeToo has changed the way women travel
This story was first published on adventure.com “Boyfriend? Husband? I liiiike you,” hisses the young Moroccan man, shaking a menu at me. I veer around him and continue to the ATM on the other side of the square. Dirhams withdrawn, I return to my hotel the long way. A second guy, older, sitting in the shade of a doorway, makes kissing noises to get my attention. ...
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0Is Tasman Keith Australia’s Next Great MC?
AS a kid, Gumbaynggirr man Tasman Keith thought everyone’s dad rapped. “That’s what mine did so I thought it was normal,” he says of his dad, Aboriginal hip-hop pioneer Wire MC. When Tasman moved to Sydney, he realised his dad was kind of a big deal. “People would say ‘You’re Wire’s son?’ and be amazed. I was like ‘Fuck, I didn’t know he knew this ...
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0Music You Missed: Oct, Nov, Dec – 2017
Last year my 13-year-old nephews went from kids who liked music to full-blown teenage obsessives. Eminem came first and then a landslide of Logic, Travis Scott, Migos, Post Malone, Lil Pump, 21 Savage, Gucci Mane and Playboi Carti. Their taste shrunk in breadth, but deepened in intensity. “The twins are into really mopey hip-hop,” I told a friend. “E-mop?” he said. I was sad they ...
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0Four days at Øyafestivalen, Norway
In August I went to Scandinavia for the first time. I was a guest of Music Norway as part of its international delegate program, showcasing Øyafestivalen. Øya was started in 1999 by four Oslo residents who ran venues or were involved in Norwegian music. One founder, Claes Olsen, says it started small, with Norwegian acts, on an island (Øya is Norwegian for island). It grew into the ...
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0Blacken Festival , 2017
Drive 1,500 kilometers south of Alice Springs and you’ll reach Adelaide. Sixteen hours north is Darwin. These are the closest big towns. Alice (as it is known) is red dirt country – traditional home to the Arrernte people and four hours from Australia’s most famous rock, Uluru. A return flight to Alice from Sydney or Melbourne costs about $700. It’s no casual weekend away but ...
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0Reflections on a weekend in exile
“This song is about underground communities and how they tear themselves apart.” Fifteen minutes after Shogun of Royal Headache said this onstage, I began to experience an offstage version. Only there was no catharsis; no song. In the gig washout, a message popped up on my phone. It was from the admin of a Facebook group I’ve been part of pretty much since inception. “We’ve ...
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0Music You Missed: Jan, Feb, March – 2017
Last weekend in Melbourne, and the week before in Brisbane, A Rock & Roll Writers Festival returned for a second year to put songwriters, music critics and novelists on stage to discuss their craft. Speakers included Adalita, Bunna Lawrie, Tim Rogers, Jess Ribeiro and Jenny Valentish. I took part in a panel with three other music critics. The festival claims to “celebrate the creative relationship ...
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0Empire of the Sun on the ad that changed their lives
On YouTube, views of the Honda Civic advertisement first televised in January are ticking towards 200,000. “Song iz awesome,” reads one comment. “Hey what is that song called and who is it by I like that song,” reads another. A commercially placed song, known as a “sync”, is an increasingly legitimate way for musicians to make a buck in an industry where sources of cold ...
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0Paradise Daily Records Turns Two: Interview
While fossicking in a recycled garbage shop in late 2014, Sydney’s Jaz Brooking found a cassette duplicator. Brooking played in five or six bands and had a bit of money saved from trading second-hand goods. It was a logical next step to start dubbing tapes of her and her friends’ bands and thus, Paradise Daily Records was born. The label has racked up nearly 40 ...
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