Hippies carrying pillows file into Paddington Uniting Church. An events company called My Heart Space is producing the evening ...
On April 21, 2016 / By KatePerhaps the most surprising thing about Oliver Mann’s blend of opera and folk is that it’s so surprising. Given ...
On August 16, 2013 / By KateNever has a welcome to country felt more genuine and less necessary than at the official opening of Australia’s ...
On June 12, 2013 / By KateLate one night at Sydney’s Annandale Hotel, as a hard-liquor-swilling Abbe May stomped along the bar-top playing one of ...
On May 17, 2013 / By KateFrom all directions toward the Opera House steps, distinct from the perambulating tourists, come a stream of people wearing ...
On February 8, 2013 / By KateEven before the arrival of Grand Salvo’s sixth record, Slay Me In My Sleep, Paddy Mann’s folk music was unparalleled ...
On August 27, 2012 / By KateIt’s no wonder New War named their debut LP eponymously. War aptly describes this record’s overtones of steely, purpose-built ...
On August 15, 2012 / By KateA uranium glow of tragedy pulses from the core of all Liars records. Motifs of bones, burials, bodies and ...
On July 6, 2012 / By KateThe line to enter Waves Nightclub in Towradgi is the kind that makes your heart sink. It snakes out ...
On December 10, 2009 / By Kate“Pitchfork contacted you?” “Um, hang on, let me check … yeah. Pitchfork. The founding editor [Ryan Schreiber] got wind ...
On July 24, 2009 / By KateMy name is Kate Hennessy. I am a freelance arts and travel writer and music critic. I contribute to Guardian Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, The Saturday Paper, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Wire (UK), NME and more.