by Cameron Taberner | Aug 17, 2026 | Reviews
The return of The Drones has caused a minor but genuine frenzy. What was originally intended as a “six show run for fun” has ballooned into an 18-stop tour plus festival appearances in Darwin and Wollongong. The Aus rock nostalgia circuit is a bloated... 
by Cameron Taberner | Feb 26, 2026 | Reviews
Belgian electronic musician Peter van Hoesen and the MESS Synthesiser Ensemble performed a new live score to Terminator 2: Judgement Day at Hamer Hall. Given our present-day geopolitical and technological reality, James Cameron’s 1991 sci-fi was a fitting choice... 
by Cameron Taberner | Feb 20, 2026 | Reviews
If fashion choices are any indicator, Nilüfer Yanya’s fanbase is a broad church. At the London musician’s first show in Melbourne/Naarm in over six years, scraggly haired rockers rubbed shoulders with young folks in tank tops and low-rise jeans and indie... 
by Cameron Taberner | Feb 17, 2026 | Reviews
The MSO took a departure from the classical world for Sonder, a collaboration with the Find Your Voice Collective at Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s annual free concert series has been bringing music to the people in an open-air... 
by Cameron Taberner | Dec 1, 2025 | Reviews
Dust off your chucks and dig out your skinny jeans: Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand are in town. On a grey and gloomy Friday evening, indie kids of all ages wandered into Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens to a soundtrack straight out of the Black Night...