Tag: Music
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O-Week: The Thursday
Thursday’s sort was a successive lineup of three bands playing at the UniBar. The problem is that O-Fest has it’s spectacle located outside UniBar, music and play around the duck pond and such, and club stalls circling the whole library-cafeteria-jugglers-lawn perimeter; if anyone was to be at UniBar, it was probably because something loud and…
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SILVIA LANE – A Cataclysmic Trip of Controlled Chaos
Nobody knows better how to control chaos than two boys from Wollongong, and it’s safe to say that the newly seasoned band have earned their stripes. The two-man band, Silvia Lane graced the University of Wollongong’s infamous UniBar stage Tuesday night alongside an array of fresh local artists with a transformative, psychedelic performance that refused…
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Creating Space: Interviewing Wollongong Music Circle
“We want to create a circle, a community that can bring us together, so that you can get feedback from people that understand you, network and find resources.” This is what co-founder Martin Sholl said when asked why the name ‘Wollongong Music Circle’? Only formed in the tail end of 2023, this group aims to…
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The Final Crescendo – Reviewing GradFest
Friday 10th of November, I had the pleasure of attending UOW’s Music Gradfest. This event was hosted by the third-year creative arts, music students of Wollongong Uni. Mesmerised is an understatement. These were regular people who you’d pass by casually on campus, but Friday night at the Jillian Broadbent building revealed their undeniable talent. You…
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Review: Interpol & Bloc Party @ Hordern Pavillion, w/ Dust (Sydney)
Last weekend, indie-rock legends Interpol and Bloc Party co-headlined two shows in Sydney at the Hordern Pavilion for the first time post-COVID. The hype was real. Safe to say both bands dominated the stages just as they did in their impactful era of the 2000s, and despite their prolonged absence, both iconic bands illuminated the…