T's most recent reviews
Kollegah
Monument, 2018
The last few years have seen a good amount of great German hip-hop albums, however, now there is Monument. Kollegah’s previous emissions are outstanding, but the way he bookended the ...
Jesse Fink
Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black, 2017
Ronald Belford “Bon” Scott.Lyrics, the personality and presence – it is not merely because of his vocal range and the band he headed that he is considered to be one ...
Daniel Miller and Terry Burrows
Mute: A visual document from 1978 – tomorrow, 2017
For the uninitiated, and if you are, you might want to look at changing that immediately – shame on you: Mute Records (commonly known, referred to and stylized as “mute”) ...
NOFX
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories, 2017
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is a comprehensive autobiography from one of the world’s most prominent punk bands that worked its way up. New aficionados as well as die-hard ...
T's most recent features
Music Audio = ground zero
Posted Sept. 9, 2018, 1:14 p.m.Audio = ground zero First instalment - Sonos. Unfamiliar with Sonos yet you enjoy listening to music? Shame on you. They make speakers. They also make smart speakers. You know, “smart” as ...
Regular Columns Musings on the need to be ...
Posted Sept. 9, 2018, 12:02 p.m.Afterimages Wreckages of the pastEternally damned to repeat it.Exploded views incinerated by the electricity of truthPierced by the arrow of time keeping everything from happening at onceWhile the tombstone ...
Music Dark Mofo Festival 2018
Posted July 2, 2018, 3:44 p.m.Hobart, Tasmania Australia Dark Mofo is unlike any other festival on this earthround. Never merely l’art pour l’art. Dark. Weird. Sexy. Transcendent. Joyous. Provocative. Unapologetic. Curious. Challenging. Surprising ...
Music Review: Iron & Wine (Sydney Opera House)
Posted May 29, 2018, 12:22 p.m.Alright. Full disclosure: While the moniker Iron & Wine blipped here and there on my radar and your humble narrator thinking that it would not be the worst name for a ...
T's most recent news stories
Tours Eddie Izzard's Wunderbar
Posted Feb. 2, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Eddie Izzard is a conferencier par excellence and apart from that a veritable renaissance man. Not only being a cunning linguist and marathon runner, his on-point observations and quips make ...
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Tours Stick To Your Guns and Terror coming to town (Australia)
Posted Jan. 8, 2019, 9:39 p.m.
Talking of hard to the core: Stick To Your Guns will be incarnating in Australia alongside the mighty Terror. It would be surprising if anyone remotely into hardcore would have ...
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Tours Harms Way Australian tour
Posted Jan. 8, 2019, 9:24 p.m.
The evolution of Harms Way is quite something. Not that they were not a veritable heavyweight in the realms of hardcore to begin with, but they have evolved into a ...
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Shows MONA FOMA 2019: Program Revealed
Posted Nov. 10, 2018, 10:24 a.m.
This January, Launceston will bear witness to its first-ever Mona Foma—with its signature brand of unexpected, unpredictable and curious programming descending on the state’s second-largest city. Highlights of ...
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T's most recent blogposts
Thus Let Us Drink Mead - Stone Dog Meadery
Posted Feb. 19, 2019, 9:10 p.m. by T
Thus Let Us Drink Mead - Stone Dog Meadery Mead has quite an interesting history, harking back much further than what has manifested in Norse mythology to many thousand years ...Pieter Bruegel: Drawing the World
Posted Feb. 18, 2019, 9:59 a.m. by T
Pieter Bruegel: Drawing the World Heralded as the Netherland’s draughtsman of the early seventeenth century, Pieter Bruegel’s flag is firmly planted in the pantheon of greats alongside Hieronymus Bosch and ...Water of Life – Bruichladdich Port Charlotte
Posted Feb. 17, 2019, 10:18 a.m. by T
Water of Life – Bruichladdich Port Charlotte 10-year-old Bruichladdich at large and specifically its Octomore emissions enjoy a near cult-like following, which I do not find further wondrous. I have ...Why Would One Want To Wear a Hat?
Posted Feb. 16, 2019, 10:22 a.m. by T
Why Would One Want To Wear a Hat? As Philip Treacy put it, how a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about. Now, I am sure ...
