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
Shows Australia's Blues & Roots Music Festival 2019
Posted April 10, 2019, 3:53 p.m.
Showcasing music from every corner of this earthround – not at all merely limited to Blues - on the Easter long weekend close to the beauty that is Byron Bay, Bluesfest serves ...
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Tours Hugh Jackman: The Man, The Music and The Show in the flesh
Posted Feb. 26, 2019, 8:59 p.m.
One of Australian’s more prominent exports apart from vegemite and Crocodile Dundee is everyone’s darling and accomplished entertainer Mr Hugh Jackman. Needless to say that due to his ...
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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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T's most recent blogposts
Water of Life - Arran
Posted April 23, 2019, 9:31 p.m. by T
Water of Life - Arran Arran is not exactly one of the oldest island distilleries – having been around for less than three decades and based at Lochranza - that ...Water of Life – Hobart Whisky
Posted April 22, 2019, 8:35 p.m. by T
Water of Life – Hobart Whisky Tasmania is quite something. Hobart and MONA have become a second home. We have covered Tasmania in terms of whisky numerous times and just ...George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic @ Enmore
Posted April 20, 2019, 10:17 a.m. by T
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic Enmore Theatre Sydney, Australia April 20, 2019 There are bands and the protagonists driving them that you want to experience in the third dimension at ...Iggy Pop @ Opera House
Posted April 18, 2019, 9:42 p.m. by T
Iggy Pop Opera House Sydney, Australia April 15, 2019 The godfather of punk is certainly a big title. Having been active since the second half of the 1960s and actively ...
