Architecture in Helsinki

One of my old time favourites was opening the Melbourne Music Week last month with a new stage at Queen Victoria Markets. Featuring a ton of fancy lights, and bar and restaurant designed by my old colleague Christina Bozsan, the vibe was excellent.

Architecture in Helsinki performed great, with heaps of energy to open and close and some of the slowest songs tucked in the middle.

Such a recommended event and so refreshing to go to a new venue right in the city where the fresh air flows while the band plays.

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The Beautiful Girls

If I had to think of a band that really captures Sydney Eastern Beaches essence, that would be the Beautiful Girls. They have been around for  nearly 12 years, featured often in Triple J Radio and also toured in Europe ad US multiple times during their career.

Matt Keegan, lead saxophonist from Sydney jazz band Matt Keegan Trio, was one of the few extremely talented musicians on stage that night. They put on a great show, and not only managed to fill up the whole venue, but also to keep the audience dancing all night long.

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Mia Dyson

Last night I had the pleasure to shoot Mebourne icon Mia Dyson in my first time at Howler in Brunswick. As you can remember, I took photos of a similar show last year at the Thornbury Theatre, and I was pleased to see a much more polished performance, great guitar solos, breathtaking sound and of course, the amazing good ol’ Tim Keegan on the bass guitar.

It doesn’t get much better than this.

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Chris Turner - Live

Unreleased footage from Melbourne International Jazz Festival, exclusive for our followers. Enjoy!

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Chris Turner performing Liquid Love @ the Forum Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

09-07-2014 Melbourne International Jazz Festival

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Festival Guide

Like every year, after a tough winter, we release a list of festivals with dates, line up and first impressions to cheer people up and get everyone excited about what’s about to come.

Click on the festival name to go to the official site, browse the line-ups and enjoy some of the tracks we have selected while you scroll down.

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Melbourne Festival. 10-26 October.

This is probably one of the most interesting ones if you have already left your mid-twenties behind. Ed Kuepper, Pat Metheny and Jeff Mills amongst some of the bands of the show. There is also Classical Music, Circus and Theatre shows available.

Meredith.12-14 December.

The War on Drugs, NYC trio De la Soul, the Lemonheads and iconic rockstar singer musician Mark Lanegan

If you miss this one, Golden Plains takes place at the same spot on 7-9 March 2015

Falls Festival. 28Dec-1 Jan

Partially sold out, there´s always a chance to get tickets closer to the date. The line up is awesome and includes artists like The Black Lips, Royksopp, The Presets, and John Butler Trio.

It seems that iconic festivals  Harvest and I’ll Be Your Mirror Melbourne will be definitely not happening in the future either (specially after Harvest being cancelled last year).

Big Day Out.

Right after a good Christmas meal. Line-up will be announced soon.

Laneway Festival. – 7 February Footscray

Saturday 7 February for Melbourne and Sunday 1st Feb for Sydney. The Line up will be announced soon but it´s always a good one. It usually stays away from the mainstream bands and throws a few fresh ones into mix.

Stay tuned Line-up to be announced by early October!

Future Music

Early March 2014 at Flemington Racecourse. Line-up to be announced.

Melbourne Music Week – 14-23 Nov

Architecture in Helsinki @ Queen Vic Markets 14^th Nov

Cut Copy (DJ Set) @ Queen Vic Markets 15^th Nov

Soundwave. – 21/22 Feb

The usual suspects in the rock, punk, metal scene.

Those who missed Mike Patton at Harvest couple of Years ago will like to know that Faith No More is headlining Soundwave festival this year.

Also featuring Soundgarden, Incubus, Marilyn Manson and Slipknot.

So Frenchy So Chic - 11^th January Werribee Mansion

17^th January Sydney, Camperdown

Conceived like the ultimate picnic day with the kids, champagne and a few French artists, this festival features artist such as Emilie Simon and The Do.

Childrens under 12 have free entry.

Rainbow Serpent 23-26 January, Lexton – Western Victoria

Started as a psy-trance music festival, some of world’s top DJs gather for a few days in Western Victoria.

Featuring Christopher Lawrence, Ben Coda, and DJ Pena.

Diego el Cigala in Melbourne

Last Friday night we had the extraordinary pleasure of seeing Diego el Cigala at the Arts Centre in Melbourne. Accompanied by a very talented band of Latino jazz musicians, the Spanish ‘Cantaor’ expressed his thankfulness all the Melbournites –a large proportion with Hispanic background- that came to see him in Melbourne after his first appearance 20 years ago, in a nearly sold-out show.

The 3 times Grammy-winning singer enjoyed himself on his own performance and with a smile, spread his good humour amongst the audience. His songs, sentimental and romantic at times, cheeky and playful at others, combined the tragedy of traditional flamenco and the joy of Latino rhythms.

Each individual musician performed extraordinarily, with instrumental solo passages that were absolutely breathtaking, to the point that the clamorous audience asked for an encore and stood up for a couple of minutes to applaud the quartet at the end of the show

I can only thank Diego for putting on a first-class show and bringing us this ancient and modern art from so, so far away and to treat us with an unforgettable Melbourne soiree.

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Ben Watt @ the NGV

Interesting crowd that gathered last Friday night at the NGV, a mixed a secret fans of Everything But the Girl, some curious hipsters and a lots of grown-ups.

Ben, who also came down to Melbourne, for the writer’s festival delivered a great performance, swapped guitars with keyboards and scattered it all with anecdotes his childhood in Britain. A truly great artist for another great night of this year’s NGV music program.

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