Cosmic Psychos: Souped Up and Loud Mouthed
Aussie pub-punk legends The Cosmic Psychos are defiantly one of a kind, their sound having once been described by Melvins lynchpin Buzz Osborne as…
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Pop Will Eat Itself + Jim Bob: Live Review | The Triffid, Newstead | Thursday 8 March 2018
A drizzly Thursday evening sees two of England’s finest from the 90’s alternative music explosion deliver a delightfully contrasting evening of music (and in…
Pop Will Eat Itself: Wising Up and Diggin’ It
Pioneering genre-blenders Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI), one of the most innovative British bands that emerged from the alternative music explosion of the late…
Manchester Orchestra + Slaughter Beach, Dog | Live Review and Gallery | The Triffid | Tuesday, 6 February 2018
With a pedigree like Slaughter Beach, Dog, – Jake Ewald’s solo venture – there are expectations to meet when you perform live. Born from…
Noname: Live review | The Triffid | Tuesday 5 December 2017
Fatimah Warner – better know as Noname – came into my life when I was on one of those late night music searches. You…
The Church: Live review | The Triffid | Thursday 30 November 2017
It had been a while – six years in fact – since I had seen The Church. That was an evening pretty hard to…
The Stems + Rocket Science | The Triffid, Newstead | Saturday 18 November, 2017
Melodically charged, 60’s channeling garage-pop proponents The Stems burnt a blazing trail through the Australian alternative music landscape during the 80’s, culminating in the…
Me First and The Gimme Gimmes + Pandemic + Something Something Explosion: Live review and Gallery | The Triffid | Wednesday 4 October 2017
It’s not often you get to see your childhood musical heroes take the stage as an entire band, but this band is different, this…
Gimme Gimmes: Getting star-struck with Spike
When talking to Spike Slawson, its hard not to get a little star-struck. The guy has been at the forefront of modern punk since…
Starset + The Comfort + Skies Collide – Live review and gallery – The Triffid, Wednesday 9 August 2017
After recently discovering their latest album Vessels and having it on high rotation in my car for the last month, I was really excited…