Author: Larry Heath

Every now and then a comedy comes along that just seems to work. It’s not terribly intelligent, nor will it win any Academy Awards, but it ticks the most important box that any comedy needs to possess: it’s genuinely hilarious, without being painfully cheesy. Already riding on healthy word of mouth in American cinemas, This Is…

Every now and then a comedy comes along that just seems to work. It’s not terribly intelligent, nor will it win any Academy Awards, but it ticks the most important box that any comedy needs to possess: it’s genuinely hilarious, without being painfully cheesy. Already riding on healthy word of mouth in American cinemas, This…

While at Oz Comic-Con in Melbourne, we met Jeffrey Combs, whose impressive career has included well regarded performances in The Re-Animator, The Frighteners, The 4400 and Star Trek, among many others. We spoke to Jeffrey about all these roles, working with the great Peter Jackson and much more… Filmed in Melbourne in July 2013 during Melbourne Oz…

With the dates for Big Day Out now set in stone – and two shows in Sydney (and a venue upgrade in Adelaide) proving they have something MASSIVE up their sleeves – the rumour mill is now in full swing for the 2014 Big Day Out Festival. Based on trends of past years, and the…

I head down to Melbourne several times a year and always stop off at Federation Square for one reason or another; the latest exhibit at ACMI, a meeting at one of the area’s cafes, a concert in the square or a beer at Transport. But never had I had the opportunity to experience the much…

While on the Vans Warped tour in the USA, Larry Heath caught up with Trenton Woodley from Canberra band Hands Like Houses to talk about their upcoming record, their successes overseas, life on the road and much more… You’re currently on the ‘Vans Warped’ tour in the USA. How has it been going? It’s been…

The latest cafe to enter the trendy Surry Hills scene is Devon, appropriately named on the Central end of Devonshire Street; a sort walk away from the crowded Crown and Bourke Streets, in an area of the suburb which always seems to be reinventing itself. Devon is by far the most upmarket cafe to approach…

Good friends of the AU review, Melbourne’s Metals, recently packed their bags and headed to the UK to perform at the legendary Glastonbury festival. They compiled a tour diarty exclusively for the AU review, which you can enjoy here… Above: Ehsan and Chris picking up our stage set from our friend, artist Holly-Anne Buck. She’s…

Having now self-published three books, I know first hand the challenges at perfecting a hard cover, coffee table book. Clocking in at 450 pages – more than double anything we’ve put together here – I can only begin to imagine the task Kane Hibberd had in front of him when he was putting together his…

Everyone wants tacos. Tacos tacos tacos. It’s the pub food craze that has turned places like the Norfolk in Sydney into a must go destination (especially on Taco Tuesdays!). They followed a similar objective with the relaunched Abercrombie and even the Newtown Hotel, while the old Excelsior is making a killing as the rebranded Mexican…

Larry Heath interviews Sydney based, Byron Bay bred quartet Glass Towers, who reflect on recording their new album Halcyon Days (the new triple j feature album – in stores now!), what triple j support has meant to them, touring Europe/UK with The Kooks, Japan and look towards their upcoming Australian album launch tour, supported by…

Sydney based singer/songwriter Josh Pyke stops by the AU review offices to talk about his brand new album “The Beginning and the End of Everything”, which was released in Australia on Friday. We also look ahead to his upcoming live shows, talk about life on the road, his punk rock days and find out which…

Held in a Chain Factory on Friday night, Converse brought their national run of “GET LOUD” shows to Brisbane, featuring explosive performances from The Laurels, The Murlocs and Tiny Migrants. Here are a few photos from the night and if you’re in Auckland on the 18th of July you can heads along to the last…

One of our favourite Perth bands, The Novocaines are just about to release a 7″ complete with two new singles, “Freedom Please” and “‘Til Death”. We have the former available for your listening pleasure. It’s easily the heaviest track we’ve heard from the rocking and rolling five piece, and if this doesn’t get your blood…

A long time fan of food from Continental USA’s Southern most regions, it’s fair to say I’m not spoilt for choice when it comes to finding food of a similar style here in Australia – not to mention price. Some of the ingredients we just don’t have readily available here while some dishes just aren’t…

Directors LAMAR+NIK, who we caught up with at SXSW earlier this year, have just released their music video for the first Pixies track to be released since “Bam Thwok” in 2004. The single, entitled “Bagboy” has been released a couple of weeks after Kim Deal quit the band, though the song seems to retain her…

Michel Gondry has always been one of my favourite directors. His ability to take dreamlike concepts and turn them into something visually tangible has always been his strength, and a unifying quality between all his productions – be they feature length, short or music video format. Though perhaps we won’t consider The Green Hornet in amongst this…