On Wednesday night, some of Brisbane was missing. Huddled within the well-roamed walls of the Crowbar (previously Brisbane’s beloved The Zoo ), a certain few were drawn into a world where the raw and vulnerable ran wild. It was all because of heavenly indie-folk musician, Billie Marten . A poetic master with a voice sent from angels, this woman has quickly become one of my favourite artists of all time. All the way from the UK, she kicked off the Australian leg of her tour f

Photo: @raganhenderson It was a quintessential Gold Coast summer's day on Saturday the 7th of February as 35,000 festival-goers descended on Southport Sharks for St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival’s first-ever Gold Coast edition on Yugambeh Country. Completely sold out, the coastal debut brought together a stacked lineup of beloved national and international acts such as Blusher, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, Benee, Lucy Dacus and Wolf Alice all building toward a headline perfo

The Last Dinner Party at Riverstage, Brisbane, 19 January 2026 Photography by @robihume

Photo by Robbie Hume I wasn’t sure what to expect when I went to see UK indie rock band The Last Dinner Party perform at Brisbane’s Riverstage on January 19th. It was an ordinary Monday night. The air was unusually cool for a summer’s day, and it slowly crept up on us as the sky changed from a pale blue to a lemon sunset. The cold was aided by a breeze sweeping in from the water, as we stood clustered around the iconic open-air grass amphitheatre (my favourite venue to watch

Julia Wolf  at Hotel Esplanade, Melbourne on Friday the 2nd of January 2026. Photography by Ashleigh Noordhoek ( @ashndhk )

Turnstile with Basement at PICA, Melbourne on Thursday the 1st of January 2026. Photography by Ashleigh Noordhoek ( @ashndhk )

Photo credit: Sarah Louise Bennett There are some insane artists who manage to get exponentially better each time you see them live - and Sam Fender is incontestably one of them. Wednesday the 19 th  of November was my third time seeing him live but the first time at our beloved Magandjin/Brisbane River Stage, and every second was electric with ecstasy. Sam’s music has meant the world to me since I first discovered Seventeen Going Under, the year I graduated. At such a pivota

Photography: Thomas Vu @thattomvu I can’t lie - Tuesday the 10th November 2025 was one of those nights I was exceptionally close to staying in. It had been a massive week and frankly, I was exhausted. But when the media pass for Jacob Collier came through, I knew that I couldn’t sit this one out. Being in a Jacob Collier crowd is an opportunity I’ve long dreamt about. The all-encompassing choral exultation, the dynamic musical range and the bubbling authenticity has drawn me