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A kid, barely 20, in a red Pantera shirt darts through the room, the first band has yet to play but he’s gripping the barricade with two hands, shaking out his full mullet. Two friends appeared beside him, drinks in hand, and passed him a golden, frothing beer. The lights sink, two men walk onstage, and Melbourne’s 15th Birthday Bird’s Robe celebration gig begins.  It’s a Friday night and The Sea Shall Not Have Them warms Max Watts' scattered 6:30pm crowd perfectly, providing

Digging back through my playlists and my memories, that are increasingly becoming one in the same, Dead Poet Society (the band, obviously, this is a music blog) entered my life in 2021.  Specifically, I can remember listening to ‘American Blood’ on a death-defying repeat cycle, meaning, I listened to it until the words and sounds blended into a meaningless mush and I had to put it away for a little while. A little while ended up only being a few days, after which I added it t

photo credit: @thegraveyardbar The Graveyard Bar in Coburg North, so named for the co-owner Dave Warner’s record label ‘ Headstone Records ’ and the Fawkner Graveyard down the road, underwent a rapid week and a half long transformation this October in preparation for their official launch weekend beginning Friday the 17th of October and running until Sunday the 19th.  A previously long neglected petrol station that residents would walk past at a pace has been transformed by

On Friday the 26th of September, we embarked on a journey to Sydney’s Red Rattler for the remarkable, the one and only, like no other,...