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So I decided to try and make an archive of all the gigs I’ve been to.
Special shoutout to David James Young, whose legendary archive list was a major inspiration. This is a work in progress, with so many more to add! Follow along if you like ☺️
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Spotify buying Heardle, loading it with songs paid for by labels that no one could recognise and then shutting it down a year later because people stopped playing because they didn’t recognise the songs is one of the most music industry things ever.
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The Splendour cancellation will have severe ongoing effects. It will impact international touring and how we are viewed as market. It was already expensive and exhausting getting artists to come here for their own shows, things are going to get worse for all live music in Aus.
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@RhodeToLove
There’s a wall in Rod Laver Arena with her on it because she played 18 shows there on one tour. Australia is definitely her biggest market
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Just building on this, the statement from Spotify said that they wanted to focus on other forms of music discovery. That exactly tells you that they didn’t understand what Heardle, a tool for nostalgia not discovery, was gaining popularity.
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Triple J has had many criticisms over the years, some valid, some not so valid.
However, I can definitively say, no one has ever been like ‘Wow I wish this was more like Nova’
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Like if your response to all of this is ‘get better acts’ then I hate to fuckin break it to you, but if you’re an international act and you saw that every major Australian festival was getting canned over low ticket sales, then you’re not going to tour. Bookers are overcautious
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Ticket companies: Here’s a tour 🥰🥰
Me: Oooh, how much for tickets?
Ticket companies: Secret hehe 🥰🥰😇😇
Me: But how will I know how much I’m spending before they go on sale?
Ticket companies: hehe 😘😘😘
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Watching
@phoebe_bridgers
say ‘Fuck Margaret Court’ and then encouraging a room of mostly queer fans to scream it back is only made sweeter by the hysterics of the Murdoch press today.
Fuck Margaret Court. Change the name.
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G FLIP HAS THE MOST HOTTEST 100 ENTRIES FOR ANY ARTIST IN A SINGLE COUNTDOWN.
7 IS THE NEW RECORD
THEY DID IT!!!
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@tophiachuloves
@PopCrave
bisexual people can’t queerbait because they are *checks notes* queer. what is wrong with you
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Embarrassingly bad take.
Tame Impala and KGLW dominate on a global scale, artists like Courtney Barnett and Julia Jacklin are staples on outlets like KEXP.
Peach PRC is playing sold out US shows, Teenage Dads are playing across Europe
You muted because you knew you were wrong
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The Azealia Banks tirade is complicated. There ARE systemic issues in Aus music, there ARE things we need to be doing to make the scene more inclusive and forward thinking. It’s not an issue of quality, there are so many talented artists here making incredible music.
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Did every touring company today just get collectively tired of people saying Australia gets no tours and just went, have EVERYTHING all at once 😂
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First countdown to be won by a woman of colour, specifically a black woman. Also the first female rapper to win.
First Top 2 not to feature a man at all.
Regardless of how you feel about the win, this a moment that matters and will matter to so many people.
#hottest100
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What’s happened with the Eras Tour is unprecedented in Aus music history. Ticket policies must change in order to match a now global/more Americanised market or face stagnation and challenges the touring scene will not recover. The lobby is no longer good enough to meet demand
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Groovin’ cancelling is part of a much deeper problem than people not liking a single lineup is the problem. Live music was rough pre-pandemic and it has never fully recovered. Between that, costs to run festivals and artists straight up not wanting to tour here, things are dire.
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@lordvader11111
The state of live music is part of the cost of living issue. If people can’t afford their essentials, they’re not going to be able to afford things like this. This is decades of voting in favour of short sighted policy that lined one generations pockets and billed the next for it
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I really want to take what happened to Ethel Cain as an opportunity to talk about the touring pressure and scheduling artists are currently under. I’ve seen artists and bands who have basically been touring with only months in between for breaks. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Okay but hear me out
What if Teenage Dads and Chloe Dadd had national shows and call it
‘The Co-Parenting Tour’
yes no?
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Absolutely disgusted people poured their hearts and wallets into a campaign to save The Tote only for the current owners to basically say ‘if this can happen let’s try and get more money.’
It’s shameful, despicable and proof the current owners never cared about Melbourne music.
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It’s actually wild how many hoops you have to jump through on ticketing websites just to see how much tickets will be. Pricing should be on the page with all the other info or added in the map infographic, and it should be illegal not to display prices.
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I’ve never really talked about it publicly before, but I am actually terrified of flying. And ever since 2020 I just haven’t. Every festival from VIC, SA, QLD and NSW, I’ve hopped in my car and made the trek out.
Today I got on a plane and I was okay. Feeling proud
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I really feel for the kids in regional areas. Groovin’ is a lifeline for them to see acts that they’d normally have to trek into major cities to see. Those kids deserve the same quality of live music as everyone else.
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if i owned a kebab shop, i’d be like
$20 deal, one kebab + one blue powerade
Available 1am to 5am
And just watch the money roll in
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I get not liking Taylor Swift, that’s fine. But you have to understand how unbelievably stupid you look commenting ‘who cares’ under news articles about literally the biggest shows in Aus music history. She sold out the G 3 times, how can you even think people don’t care? 😂
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In the ARIA and Spotify Charts there are 200 spots. 7 of them are Australian. One is the same song. So 6 unique works out of 200.
So what’s our next move?
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Would love for 2023 to be the year I get a stable music industry job. If you see anything going please think of me 😌
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no skips allowed: what are 4 perfect records in your opinion? Aus music version 🥰
no skips allowed: what are 4 perfect records in your opinion?
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I know that influencers are often disingenuous in promoted content but what I said about Splendour in mine was genuine to my core. I love music festivals, they were an escape for me and my heart breaks that the landscape is this way now
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The Tote have turned off comments and deleted all the responses on their ill advised Instagram post after the entire Melbourne music community turned on them for their greedy decision to demand more money than the 6 million originally priced. Laughable they didn’t anticipate this
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Hello! Just a reminder that I can write Triple J Unearthed reviews of your songs! 😌
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Are presales just an opportunity for data mining? Give us your info and we’ll let you buy early? I think I’d much rather see a system like Spotify’s Top Fans algorithm, one that offers access to merch, that shows ‘Hey you’re in the top 0.001% of this artist, have a presale code!
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.
@TKAYMAIDZA
really said last week ‘You’ll get your house tracks, let me do my other shit’ and just revealed she has TWO Kaytranada collabs on this record. Honestly we’re not worthy of her
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If I started hosting a live music show on TikTok would artists join for a chat? 🥺 👉🏻👈🏻
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@GaryBurgmann
@SITG
Lizzo packed the Amphitheatre at Splendour and Kylie has been packing arenas for nearly 40 years. Just because you don’t like pop music, doesn’t mean it’s invalid. If anything dance music is and will be a huge future of the Australian live music landscape.
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AUSSIE ARTISTS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Meet
@cry_club
. You can’t box them into a genre and thats the way they like it. Pulsating glam queer cabaret punk full of life and truth. Powerful songwriting, thrilling musicality and one of the best live acts going.
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We need to kill this mentality. Our music is good. Our music can compete. So many genres of music from electronic to post hardcore cite Australia as a major influence.
I don’t know how we change this mindset, make discoverability more accessible to everyday people. But we must
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Thinking of Ethel Cain right now. She’s been on a massive show run from the Florence tour to now her own shows, especially blowing up so quickly within the last year. Touring is hectic and it takes a toll and I really hope she’s doing better now.
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idk i still think Splendour creating an Australian Legend slot is a solid idea. So many millennials and gen z grew up with bands preceding them blasting out of garages and sheds.
Homebake did something similar with Icehouse back in the day. I genuinely think it’s viable.
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My big hope is that the consistently excellent programming from
@risingmelbourne
emboldens other bookers to bring out emerging or indie artists with strong online fanbases. Both Weyes Blood and Ethel Cain packed houses around the country. Gig goers want these cutting edge artists
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Seeing amazing and unique Australian bands and artists build a fan base only to then get signed to a major and be remoulded into a generic outfit is always devastating. There’s a fear of difference and creativity that is choking us as a scene.
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What’s really got me is that a lot of the rappers and hip hop people cheering that insta post are people I either knew or have interviewed over the years.
Really disappointed in a lot of people today.
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All I wanted to do was talk about the music and artists I love. I love Aus music so much and I just wanted to share that love. Idk anymore.
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King Stingray have just announced they’re headlining the Forum here in Melbourne. Last year they supported Ball Park Music there and played The Croxton later in the year. The growth, success and hard work of this band is paying off and I can’t begin to express the joy I feel.
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So proud of
@gflipmusic
right now. Think I tell this story everytime but I still remember sitting in a mates garden and you playing me a demo of About You. I remember you saying ‘I don’t know if this is any good’ but of course it was.
You deserve all of this pal ❤️
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4.5 million albums sold worldwide.
The best selling Australian album of the 21st century and the second of all time.
Every single off it went to
#1
Inspired countless little girls to play piano.
I’m not a fan personally, it’s not for me. But its place is deserved.
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AUSSIE MUSIC FACT
Eilish Gilligan briefly ran her own private detective service where she was praised for her ability to sense a pattern.
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I wouldn’t have built the platform I have if we didn’t have strong artists. I am literally nothing without them and the music they make. But we need more spaces to showcase artists and more diversity in higher positions of power, making structural and system decisions.
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Once again
@TKAYMAIDZA
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Manifesting Australian tours for the following:
boygenius
Caroline Polachek
Ethel Cain
Fiona Apple
Sudan Archives
Billy Nomates
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With all the turmoil in music journalism we have a real opportunity to return to form,authentic and passionate criticism and coverage. The take based era is dead. Stop hiring people who are about the clout and the aesthetic more than the music itself. Bring real music people back
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From a hip-hop night at Transit Bar in Canberra so many years ago all the way to Rod Laver Arena here in Melbourne. Genesis Owusu is living proof the future of Aus Music is bright. What a king.
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I love how they don’t realise that commenting ‘who?’ under an artist, who just played at a festival in front of 27,000 people at just ONE date of that festival, is more admission of how irrelevant and being out of touch they are than an own of that artist.
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Genuinely curious how many people saying Triple J isn’t backing local artists anymore have an Unearthed account
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THE VIDEO PINKPANTHERESS IS TALKING ABOUT IN HER CAPITALFM INTERVIEW IS MINE I AM SCREAMING
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I don’t understand people who comment ‘Who?’ on music posts. How do you find new artists? Every single artist on earth has been an unknown at one stage to you, at some point you decided to gatekeep yourself from new music, so weird and lame
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Oooh that’s a fancy looking lineup you got there
@BIGSOUNDtweets
😌😌 Not to be missed for me are
@tamara__1997
,
@RAAVE_TAPES
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@ashli_tv
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@MoaningLisaBand
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@oscarthewild_
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@stumpstheband
and
@suzisangthis
. That’s not even scratching the surface 😂
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The Charli gig made me 16 again. It reminded why I do what I do, it made me fall in love with live music all over again.
I’m super privileged to see lots of acts play live and I always enjoy it but there’s something about tonight that felt like a reset. A reminder.
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So just so I’m across it, bands are wrong for not wanting to be on the same lineup as noted abusers but are also equally wrong if they decide to remove themselves from lineups because they don’t want to be on the same lineup as noted abusers?
A laughable take
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So apparently Sampa asked to be taken off the lineup before she was even announced, and they just… announced her anyway? A mess!
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Sometimes after I read interviews like that one with Caroline Polachek, I think about how many times I’ve been told Australia no longer has a need for an in depth music interviewer in it’s current media landscape and I just think ‘hmm’
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Sounds like they briefed the international artists they’ve dialled in about what the Hottest 100 is this year
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Is G Flip about to break a Hottest 100 record???? How many songs do they need to have the most ever in one countdown!?!
#hottest100
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I can’t believe I live in a country where people are angry that working class people are getting a minor tax relief.
How greedy, self absorbed and out of touch are some Australians?
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Genesis is king, Stay Blessed should’ve been higher than 97
STRUGGLER and the live show is groundbreaking for our scene. Don’t sleep.
#hottest100
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This is a real cool concept, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone do this before
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Support acts are an ‘actual part of the concert’
You paid your money to see the headliner, you get supports as a bonus. Commenting hate under tweets congratulating a support act for getting an amazing opportunity is real loser shit. Then you lock your account? Embarrassing tbh.
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Kathleen Hanna was the one who popularised the concept of ‘Girls to the Front’ when Bikini Kill were playing shows. Other bands have carried that legacy for the 30 years since it’s inception. Dismayed to see it getting hate online and misinterpreted for its intention.
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It’s an absolute truth that
@benmaddenwriter
is one of the best to ever pick up a pen in this country. His nuanced, considerate approach to music is so valuable and needed.
This piece is no exception, if you care about live music read it.
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Can we all just acknowledge how mammoth it is that
@mayawithadash
is the face of New Music Friday AU/NZ on a day that both Doja Cat and Kylie Minogue have also released music. Sending an awesome message about backing newer artists who are making great work and platforming them.
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Does commercial radio (Fox, Nova etc) have the incentive to play local artists? I feel like especially in pop music more could be done to get artists charting who aren’t signed to majors.
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Pretty disgusted. I was two rows from the front at Chemical Brothers and these two women appeared behind me. One was like ‘my friend needs to get security to get her out’. So I move to let them close to the barrier. They then laugh and just stand there. Scum. Absolute low class.
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Driving to the nearest Maccas cause Optus is down on mobile and home internet, anybody need anything?
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Reviving this. Lemme review your songs for the green drum
Hello! Just a reminder that I can write Triple J Unearthed reviews of your songs! 😌
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Fred again.. doing so many shows and pop ups is a direct result of the frenzy caused by 2023. He can do this because he knows people will get tickets immediately.
The power punters hold in first day sales can make or break live music.
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"The worst kind of person is someone who makes someone feel bad, dumb or stupid for being excited about something."
Taylor Swift
Ignore the comments from idiots, to all the Swifties going tonight tomorrow and in Sydney, have an absolute blast. It’s been a long time coming ❤️
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I can be having the absolute worst day, I can feel defeated and like what I do has no importance or impact. Then I come into the photo and I’m reminding of how badly I wanted to do this, how hard I worked to get here. I’m so grateful and blessed to have the privilege to do this.
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Read this if you care about the state of music media in Australia
🧵 Aus music industry story time.
18 months ago I sat on a panel at BIGSOUND discussing the next cycle of Aus media. This panel included senior people from CADA, SGC Media & ABC.
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The delight at hearing Matt Healy refuse to do a shooey on stage melting away to the horror that I approve of something Matt Healy said
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I just shot Karen O on a main stage
I remember the first time I listened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I’d never heard anything like it. Teenage me would be so proud of this moment. I will be grateful til the end of time that this is my job
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I came to BIGSOUND with the plan of introducing or re-introducing myself to people in the industry. So to arrive and have not only people already know the channel but feel so positively about it was just the most wonderful feeling. I’ve never felt more energised and grateful ❤️
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Huge respect for this. I imagine talking to her about her music and artistic direction would be so insightful. And I imagine too that she’d challenge critics in a way that makes both her art and their overall music criticism stronger.
Ice Spice on why she cares about the opinion of music critics 👀
"They actually study music and care about it. So I feel like I'd rather hear their opinion. I'm more interested in that because at least it'll be paragraphs explaining why they feel that way and I'll be able to
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Crazy concept, but trust me:
If you go to a local or small gig and talk to your friend during the band or artists set, most people can hear you and they probably don’t like you xo
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lol deleted all the muted videos off my channel because i think it’s restricting the views of my new videos. lost 900k likes on the profile.
it’s such a frustrating experience because there is no internal support. all i wanted to do was show how amazing our music scene is..
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The content I made for Falls is about to crack 1 million total views 🤯🤯 this is wild
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adding to the fred again discourse just to say, as someone from melbourne every time i hear marea we’ve lost dancing i’m almost moved to tears thinking about what we all went through
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Funny seeing the Bakehouse Studios owners in The Tote comments because I actually thought of Quincy and Helen when I was raging about this. Because they’re the total opposite of this greedy act, the most genuine and amazing people who would never do anything like this. Legends
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Genesis Owusu on Friday night in Melbourne was akin to a revelation. He hasn’t just lifted the bar for local performance he’s taken the bar home, hidden it somewhere and said to every other artist
‘Come get it’
Game changing, once in a generation artist, a privilege to watch
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IN FOR 2024:
Gigs with decades spanning lineups
OUT FOR 2024:
Festival bars with only Red Bull as the non alcoholic option
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Kid LAROI headlining at AAMII Park is astounding. I don’t think he even played like the normal venues Aussie acts do when they’re coming up. So good to see an artist move the goal posts.
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Festival tour, national then regional tour whilst also expecting artists to release singles or an EP in months between tours is only going to cause burnout and potentially health effects, like Ethel collapsing on stage. Artists aren’t machines you put a coin in, they’re people.
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Thanks to an email I got today I can say
It’s been a long time coming…
🤯🤯🤯
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Really hoping SZA has a local support for her upcoming Aus tour. So much great local talent in
@paniaxo
,
@iamchanelloren
and
@ashli_tv
that any of these incredibly talented artists would be such a great choice
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My Rebecca Black video going viral has created two vastly different comment sections
People who know about the Rebecca Black Renaissance and how slay she is
People who still think bullying a 13 year old 10yrs ago is fine, and don’t understand how reclaiming your narrative goes
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