Author: Larry Heath

the AU review’s Cleatus Glob talks to Perfect Pussy about their experiences during their first ever trip to Australia as part of the 2015 St Jerome’s Laneway Festival. This interview was filmed just before they went on stage in Melbourne. They hit the stage in Sydney tonight (4th February 2015) at the Newtown Social Club!…

Today we’re proud to premiere the new single from Melbourne group Running Young – the track “We Are The Sons”, which is the title track of their debut EP, due out this April. The band features ​Joel ​Famularo​ (lead vocals/bass), Ben Williams (keys/vocals), Benjamin Cropper (guitar/vocals), Cassandra McCawley (guitar/vocals) and John Bellew (drums). With intricate…

The below review (film only) was originally published alongside the film’s theatrical release.  Writing a review for Gone Girl without spoiling the film in some way feels nearly impossible. So before I continue, I’d like to take this moment to issue a public service announcement: if you have neither read the book, nor seen the…

In this two part video, we meet Malysian band Enterprise, who spoke to the media backstage after their performance opening the main stage (and the festival) at Laneway in Singapore. They talk about about getting the opportunity to play festivals, future tour plans, the music scene in Malaysia, their experiences in Singapore and much more….

In this special interview with recent AU Awards winner Courtney Barnett, AU Radio’s Larry Heath sat down with the talented guitarist and songstress to talk about all her recent successes: from playing Lollapalooza to finishing up her long awaited debut record, Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit. We talk about writing the…

It’s been exciting to see Spookyland re-emerge in recent months, off the back of the band’s latest EP Rock and Roll Weakling. It feels appropriate to consider the EP something of a new start for a project that didn’t quite take off back in 2010, when it was essentially the solo effort of Marcus Gordon….

As if the first trailer wasn’t enough to get us all excited for the intense-looking Terminator: Genysis a new trailer has been released, and it debuted to the world at the recent Super Bowl. Although it was released online previous to the big game, the massive attention-grabbing move seemed to cause quite a stir as…

Last weekend, the AU review sat backstage with American synth-pop band Future Islands at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival in Singapore. In part two of the interview with the Baltimore natives, they talk about their writing influences, their most recent album Singles and the band reveals how they’ve managed to defy musical expectations. They go on…

Last weekend the AU review had the opportunity to sit in a media conference with Canada’s Mac Demarco at Laneway Festival in Singapore. Mac talks of his infamous gap tooth and his guilty pleasures – like enjoying listening to Coldplay – despite the strange reactions he may get. He and his band mate discuss his…

In about 24 hours, EA is opening up a multiplayer beta mode for the highly anticipated game Battlefield: Hardline, which is being officially released across just about all consoles on March 17th. The beta period – which is only open for five days – gives the public the chance to road test three of the…

Last weekend the AU review had the opportunity to chat to J and T from UK’s Jungle at Laneway Festival in Singapore. The boys talk about their love of touring Australia – “The Happy England”. They discuss how it’s the most amazing feeling to have people connecting to their music and let us in on…

This past weekend the AU review had the opportunity to sit in a media conference with Australia’s folk brother and sister duo Angus and Julia Stone at Laneway Festival in Singapore. In the first part, Julia discusses the idea of ‘making it’ and how it is driven on the love of making music; not keeping…

This weekend the AU review sat down amongst other media with Melbourne’s singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett (accompanied by drummer Dave Mundie) at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival in Singapore. Together we find out which city Barnett refers to as ‘the best place in the world.’ They discuss the origin of Barnett’s witty lyrics and she reveals how…

the AU review sits down with Wiki and Sporting Life from New York’s Ratking to chat about their Australian tour with Laneway Festival, the New York Hip Hop Scene, their upcoming album release – which will be dropping for free next month (February 2015). Find out all the details here: Ratking are currently touring Australia…

This past weekend the AU review had the opportunity to sit in a media conference with UK’s Jon Hopkins at Laneway Festival in Singapore. He talks about his definition of ‘indie’ music as being more “independently spirited music” and “music that’s a little more messier and free”. He discusses musicians he would like to collaborate…

From Academy Award winning director James Marsh (Man on Wire) comes the much anticipated film based on the Jane Hawking’s memoir My Life with Stephen, the story of world renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, as seen through the eyes and experiences of his ex-wife. Much of Hawking’s story is well known – a…

This past weekend, the AU review’s Larry Heath had a chance to sit down and interview UK rock duo Royal Blood at Laneway Festival in Singapore. We talk to them about their crazy past 12 months and how much they are enjoying touring and playing. The duo talk about how their live show hasn’t changed…

More Australian music followed Courtney (read about her in part one) with Angus and Julia Stone taking the stage to play tracks from their latest self-titled album and old favourites like “Big Jet Plane” and “For You”. The duo played well, accompanied by a four piece band. But their down tempo tracks didn’t quite match…

Ahead of tomorrow’s Hottest 100 countdown, we ask The Preatures, Ball Park Music and Tkay Maidza to talk about the first time they heard themselves or their band on triple j. We also talk to KLP about the first time she hosted House Party… Filmed during the radio station’s 40th anniversary celebrations in Sydney: Beat…

Tomorrow is Australia Day, which means the winner of the Hottest 100 will be revealed – and finally we’ll never have to hear about the whole Taylor Swift “controversy” again. Assuming she isn’t eligible, there are two favourites looking to take out the top spot: Australia’s Chet Faker and Peking Duk. Either could walk away…

“This country is becoming one of the cultural epicentres of the world!” – Festival co-founder Danny Rogers said yesterday, as he thanked punters at the end of St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2015. The country he was talking about was Singapore, which served as the opening date of the festival run for the fifth consecutive year,…

With 13,000 punters from Singapore and around the Asian region descending on the iconic Gardens By The Bay, yesterday saw St Jerome’s Laneway Festival take place for the fifth consecutive time in the city, with organisers selling out tickets for the first time ever. On arrival, punters are handed a bottle of water sponsored by…

the AU review sits down with Josef Salvat to talk about his time in London, his upcoming move to Paris, his past EP, the future LP, other plans for 2015 and he discusses how he loves writing music in the bush of Australia… Follow Josef on Facebook to find out where he’s touring in UK…

It’s all too rare to see an artist genuinely doing something that seems to run against what is “popular”, or deemed “sellable” for either commercial or “indie cred” success. Underneath the demeanour of any artist is the drive for success, and though one would assume Canada’s Jaron Freeman-Fox is no different, when it comes to…

the AU review asks The Preatures, Ball Park Music and KLP to talk about their earliest memories of listening to triple j. Do they remember the first time the listened to the station? Filmed last week during the radio station’s 40th anniversary celebrations in Sydney: Beat The Drum.

the AU review sat down with Raf Rundell of UK electronic duo The 2 Bears while he was in Sydney, Australia in January 2015 to discuss their latest record, a Bears in Space project, upcoming performance at the Australian festival Sugar Mountain, being a family man and much more! They’re touring Australia right about now……

It was Catfish and the Bottlemen‘s first ever Sydney show on Monday night – in the country acting as a support act to The Kooks. The support act for Catfish, however, were Sydney group Food Court, who proved themselves a tight outfit, bringing forth some surfy vibes – think Wavves and you’re on the right…

It’s that time of the year again that we get ourselves revved up for the massive Laneway Festival tour of Australia, New Zealand and Sinagpore – the first date of which kicks off this weekend in the Asian city. Now the only question is: who do we see? We’ve gone through the lineup and chosen…

Recommended for use with the new Sony Xperia Z3 Smartphone, the Sony Digital Noise Cancelling Headset (RRP AU$79, MDR-NC31EM) brings together high quality sound with digital noise cancelling technology for an affordable price. Audio Quality Firstly, let’s talk about the audio quality. Putting it simply: it’s solid. With frequency response from 20Hz to 20,000Hz, it…

BANKSTOWN:LIVE kicks off as part of Sydney Festival tomorrow, showing off an eclectic program over four days. To find out a bit more about what we can expect from the event, we caught up with the event’s curator – Urban Theatre Project’s Artistic Director Rosie Dennis. Tell me a little bit about how you came…