Review : 65daysofstatic at The Woolly Mammoth, Brisbane – March 12, 2015

Review by Denis Semchenko Photos credit Stephen Goodwin ‘Post-rock’ is a tired term – in fact, so tired it’s lost its meaning since the genre’s noughties heyday. This writer has long discovered that instrumental rock music doesn’t need to come with a ‘post-‘ or ‘math-‘ prefix attached to it in order to sound good; in … Continue reading Review : 65daysofstatic at The Woolly Mammoth, Brisbane – March 12, 2015

Live Review : Mogwai at The Tivoli, Brisbane – March 4, 2015

Review by Stephen Goodwin Photos by Stuart Blythe Mick Turner spends 40 minutes creating slow-moving, somnolent guitar figures interspersed with distorted drags of cello bow, while a Jim White sound-a-like softly layers staccato drum patterns underneath. It’s a “solo” mode that could almost be The Dirty Three on benzos, but if so it shows that … Continue reading Live Review : Mogwai at The Tivoli, Brisbane – March 4, 2015

Live Review | Sepultura + Malakyte + In Death @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – October 4, 2014

As soon as Eloy Casagrande drives in those double kickdrums and Andreas Kisser’s guitar starts to lurch, the tune just takes off and the front rows collectively lose it.