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5 April 2025 in Melbourne, featuring doktorb, Wet Electronics, Daydream Deluxe, Dark5lalom, Killawarra, Mada Yana (まだヤナ), JR / KS and Post Dive. A feature of the past few weeks at our place has been Adrian, also known as doktorb, rehearsing for this show. It was the brainchild of Benjamin Chesler who
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21 March 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Ferla, Hearts and Rockets and No Hoper. Sniff! The excellent Bench Press are ending. This was the first of their two farewell shows at The Old Bar. We were sad to miss out on tickets to the final-final show but this night'
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11 March 2025, supported by Mick Turner. Here I am back seeing another international touring act. I promise the next show I see will be something local (I already have the tickets). I feel like these live music posts end up being venue reviews too. In this case, I'
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2 March 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Freya Josephine Hollick I swear I don't only go and see touring acts, but you wouldn't know that looking at my schedule in early 2025. This was my second Kristin Hersh show in about a year and a half
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15 February 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Mach Pelican, The Stripp and Raging Hormones. My friend Ange was into The D4 when she lived in New Zealand 20 years ago. I had no idea who they were and neither did the husbinator. But, we are yeppers, and we like live
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Melbourne, 1 February 2025 It has taken me this long to see The Flaming Lips play live. Their 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots meant a lot to me at the time, as it did to my good buddy Rai. We were both in our 20s, going through some