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Liam Gallagher @ Aware Super Theatre

Blog — July 24, 2022

Liam Gallagher Aware Super Theatre Sydney, Australia 23 July 2022 Other than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, there are few British bands that have altered my perception of music and felt instinctively empowering like the Gallagher brothers’ approach to channelling their art.  With their musical emissions, …

Thus Let Us Drink Beer – Stoic Brewing

Blog — August 1, 2022

Thus Let Us Drink Beer – Stoic Brewing Per definitionem, being stoic means being in congruence with the truthfulness of one’s world view and accepting it as a guideline for arranging one’s life, irrespective of how it makes one feel. Applying and transferring this ancient Greek philosophical approach …

A Deep Dive into JBL's Headphone Range

Blog — August 2, 2022

Audio = Ground Zero A deep dive into JBL’s headphone range When it comes to running or more vigorous types of exercise, there are few things that are more of a buzzkill than ill-fitting earbuds that will not stay out of your way or cause more distraction than …

Thus Let Us Drink Beer – Your Mates Brewing

Blog — August 3, 2022

Thus Let Us Drink Beer – Your Mates Brewing Mateship is an intrinsic part of the Australian cultural fabric and an important national value, as is Australia’s love for beer, so would be more obvious to conjure a name like Your Mates Born when in 2014 ago a bunch …

Thus Let Us Drink Beer- Young Henrys 10 Year

Blog — August 17, 2022

Thus Let Us Drink Beer- Young Henrys 10 Year Anniversary Young Henrys must have been one of the first breweries that we covered as part of this series and we have consistently covered its ascent from a quality brewery to an entity that became much more than the mere …

Eternityland @ Department of Legend and Myth

Blog — August 15, 2022

Eternityland Sydney, Australia 06 August 2022 Given how impressed we were with how director Danielle Harvey channelled her alchemy in creating an immersive morbid experience centred around the legacy and literary emissions of gothic author Edgar Allan Poe, we were intrigued as to what was to ensue with …

The Formative Years - Talking Heads

Blog — August 16, 2022

The Formative Years - Talking Heads  Talking Heads has always been one of the more interesting bands. With their avant-gardist approach that was rooted in punk sentiments yet musically never confined to any musical genres and skilfully incorporating funk, minimalism, polyrhythms and world music into their idiosyncratic mix, they …

The Formative Years - Television

Blog — August 22, 2022

The Formative Years - Television  Television was one of the reasons why people started wearing CBGB’s shirts. If you dig stripped down, guitar based proto-punk, Television and their fantastic debut album Marquee Moon is basically the template for what most bands out of the 1970s New York rock …

Phantom of the Opera @ Opera House

Blog — August 27, 2022

Phantom of the Opera  Opera House 26 August 2022 Sydney, Australia Fourteen years after the last production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera incarnated in Sydney, audiences on terra australis got lucky like twice this year:  In April Opera on the Harbour staged an outsized open …

Six String Red IPA quartet + Wayward Everydays

Blog — August 29, 2022

Thus Let Us Drink Beer Six String Brewery Red IPA quartet + Wayward Brewing Everydays Ever since the homage to slappin’ da six-string bass incarnated on Australian craft beer radar, Six String Brewery has been going from strength to strength, so after an initial coverage of their core …

The Formative Years – Cathedral

Blog — August 31, 2022

The Formative Years – Cathedral When it comes to marrying the gloomy and sombre spirit of bands like Pentagram and with Black Sabbath worship and protracted, heavy doom metal, Cathedral’s debut album “Forest of Equilibrium” is a classic that raised the bar in 1991. Starting with the fantastically …

KISS @ Qudos Bank Arena

Blog — August 28, 2022

KISS Qudos Bank Arena Sydney, Australia 27 August 2022 photo by @k.a.vv Having been indoctrinated as a prepubescent into the KISS Army by a card-carrying and pinball machine owning elder family member who was there to witness the band's ascent to superstardom before the dawn of …

Water of Life -  Morris Whisky Smoked Muscat

Blog — September 1, 2022

Water of Life - Morris Whisky Limited Edition Smoked Muscat Given how immensely enjoyable I not only usually find the fortified wines, tawnies and matured muscats of Morris of Rutherglen, but specifically the first two releases of Morris Whisky’s core range, it goes without saying that I was coloured …

A Journey Most Unusual @ Hotel Palisade

Blog — September 4, 2022

A Journey Most Unusual Hotel Palisade Sydney, Australia 27 August 2022 The creation of immersive experiences and finding ways to augment everyday life by blurring the lines between reality and imaginary worlds that the recipient can interact with has become commonplace. Stimulating as many senses as possible has …

Audio = Ground Zero: JBL Bar 9.1 True Wireless

Blog — September 5, 2022

Audio = Ground Zero: JBL Bar 9.1 True Wireless There is no shortage of advancements in the realm of TV related picture technologies, however, while the fact that most screens are wafer thin in size is perceived to be a major selling point, it also means that there is …

Water of Life – Tasmania Rules OK

Blog — September 7, 2022

Water of Life Tasmania Rules OK Taylor & Smith Every time I get remotely close to the point where I feel like having visited and covered the lion’s share of the great distilleries Tasmania has to offer, a new one pops up on my radar that adds …

The Formative Years -  Rudimentary Peni

Blog — September 9, 2022

The Formative Years - Rudimentary Peni Of the array of British anarcho punk bands that became prominent in the early 1980s, Rudimentary Peni proved to be one-of-a-kind due to the band refraining from adopting the punk uniforms of the time, frontman Nick Blinko’s witty lyricism and his self-taught trademark …

Cape Byron Distillery whisky launch

Blog — September 12, 2022

Water of Life Cape Byron Distillery launches whisky with Jim McEwan When we first got to sample Cape Byron’s emissions in the realm of gin six years ago, we fell in love instantaneously.  Distilled in a rainforest and featuring twenty-five native botanicals, the lion’s share of which …

Father’s Day with Glenmorangie and Ardbeg

Blog — September 13, 2022

Water of Life Father’s Day with Glenmorangie and Ardbeg  When it comes to whisky bars in Australia, specifically within the confines of New South Wales, there are few that play in the same league as The Baxter Inn.  Pearl in the crown of the Swillhouse Venue Group …

Bernie Dieter's Club Kabarett @ Spiegeltent

Blog — September 14, 2022

Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett Spiegeltent Sydney, Australia 10 September 2022 After raving reviews that resonated left, right and centre of Germany’s queen of cabaret incarnations over the last years, it was about high time for us to check out Bernie Dieter and her debauched spectacular ourselves in the …