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    Ben Lee (Paddington Uniting Church)

    Hippies carrying pillows file into Paddington Uniting Church. An events company called My Heart Space is producing the evening ...

    On April 21, 2016 / By Kate
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    Abbe May – KISS MY APOCALYPSE

    Late 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 Kate
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    Dead Can Dance (The Opera House)

    From all directions toward the Opera House steps, distinct from the perambulating tourists, come a stream of people wearing ...

    On February 8, 2013 / By Kate
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    Grand Salvo – SLAY ME IN MY SLEEP

    Even 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 Kate
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    Liars – WIXIW

    A uranium glow of tragedy pulses from the core of all Liars records. Motifs of bones, burials, bodies and ...

    On July 6, 2012 / By Kate
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    Tumbleweed (Mess+Noise Icons Series)

    The line to enter Waves Nightclub in Towradgi is the kind that makes your heart sink. It snakes out ...

    On December 10, 2009 / By Kate
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    The Cab Effect

    “Pitchfork contacted you?” “Um, hang on, let me check … yeah. Pitchfork. The founding editor [Ryan Schreiber] got wind ...

    On July 24, 2009 / By Kate

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My 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.

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  • Zen in the Arabian desert

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    February 19, 2022
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    February 17, 2022
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    January 8, 2022
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