the AU review presents the AU sessions with The Superjesus’ Sarah McLeod performing the classic track “Second Sun” LIVE, solo and acoustic in a Sydney park! Don’t miss The Superjesus when they perform three very special shows over the Australia Day long weekend: Waves in Wollongong on the 24th of January, Bateau Bay Hotel on…
Larry Heath sits down with Columbus, Ohio duo twenty | one | pilots, currently in Australia touring with Paramore and You Me at Six. We talk about the tour, coming down under for the first time, what 2014 has in store for them, their live show aspirations and more!
Renowned for her boundless visual imagination, Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz has come together with celebrated baroque orchestra Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin to present her first opera: a majestic reimagining of one of the world’s great romantic tragedies, Dido & Aeneas, with performances at Sydney Festival until the 21st of January. Find out more HERE…
After seeing Limbo, I felt it would be hard to witness another acrobatic circus so soon. Surely it couldn’t top all the wonderful array of party tricks they had up their sleeves. Indeed, Limbo is a high-tech, over-the-top masterpiece of the circus. So I went into Scotch and Soda, Sydney festival’s other house circus, with…
New Girl was back with a bang with a surprisingly original episode that really brought out the best of the gang. The episode was essentially a flashback episode, formed under the guise of Jess needing advice concerning the possibility of taking on a new job. Jessica Day, not a teacher? I’m not sure if any…
The Iris is proud to present the second episode of our new Doctor Who Podcast “The Doctor is In” featuring Larry Heath and Sosefina Fuamoli. Larry, a newer fan, gets all the information from Sose, on the upcoming Doctor Who convention tour around Australia featuring Matt Smith, we look back at the Matt Smith Christmas…
We catch up with the co-host of SBS2’s The Feed, Marc Fennell, to find out his favourite films of 2013 and look forward to an exciting series of The Feed in 2014, where the nightly program will move from 15 minutes to half an hour! ———- This content has recently been ported from its original…
Another year, another set of Oscar nominations. This year, which sees the 86th Academy Awards take place, has provided us with a brilliant list of nominations.Gravity and American Hustle are the big winners here with 10 nominations each, while 12 Years a Slave has gathered 9. Those three films are seen as the frontrunners for Best Picture at this stage, but…
Ahead of Gwar‘s return to (and potential annihilation of) Australia for Soundwave, AU review reporter John Goodridge chat’s to lead singer Dave Brockie about the evolution of Gwar and heavy metal. Warning – bad language within… but we think you’ll like it. Hello. I’m looking for Oderus Ungerus from Antarctica. Well you found him. You…
A fantastic series of events and film screenings are coming up at ACMI in Melbourne, so we thought we’d fill you in on some of the highlights. Judy Dalton joins ACMI to discuss battle of the sexes This Friday, 17 January, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in conjunction with the Women’s Tennis…
In this brand new clip from the reboot of the popular RoboCop series, watch RoboCop go through his first training sequence against an army of EM-208 combat drones. José Padilha’s new re-imagining of RoboCop is released in Australian cinemas on February 6th, 2014. The film stars Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Jay Baruchel…
Based on the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan series, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is director Kenneth Branagh’s foray into the political and economic espionage thriller field. It’s also the first to not be specifically based on a Clancy novel, but take inspiration from the series and create a new story for our central character. Setting the…
You often hear an AU contributor rate a gig as a highlight of the year, but by the time the year is over, what still sits on that top 5 list? Well, we asked our contributors just that and from all those responses we bring you the AU’s top thirteen local touring artists of 2013!…
Disney’s Frozen has continued its world domination this past weekend by taking the top spot at the Australian box office away from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. It is always impressive when a film that didn’t debut in the top spot reaches #1, and Frozen could remain there for another week at least. Both The Book Thief and Saving Mr. Banks had impressive debuts…
It’s 1961 in Greenwich Village and in a short time this city will become a Mecca for folk troubadours. This all started when a young man called Robert Zimmerman changed his name to Bob Dylan and became a legend. But Llewyn Davis’ life is taking a rather different route, it’s one that is as aimless…
The Golden Globes Awards 2014, hosted by comedy duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, featured some of the biggest names in the business including Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Martin Scorsese and Spike Jonze. American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave proved their popularity and critical success by taking out Best Film: Comedy or Musical and…
The first group of films featuring at SXSW Film 2014 have recently been announced. The Opening Night Film will be the world premiere of Chef, an indie comedy film from John Favreau (Iron Man, Elf) starring Sofia Vergara, Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo, Bobby Cannavale, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey Jr. Keynote speeches will be given…
Over the weekend, Fairfax Media published an article entitled “Calling The Tune” (read it here), which captured this moment in the Australian music industry. A moment that sees the government funded radio station triple j as the leading national voice (musically) for 18-24 year olds. With essentially no competition, no one else has the ability…
If you could mix together a blend of emo, pop punk, fast paced alternative rock and a dash of rap you would be pretty close to summarising the different genres and sounds you’d hear at tonight’s concert. All of this would be delivered in large high energy doses courtesy of all three acts.
The 2014 Sydney Festival has well and truly set the standard for high quality gatherings of artistic types once again! The opening weekend saw many stellar performers, from Ben Caplan to Amanda Palmer, there was something for everyone. Jamie Williams brings you some highlights in this gallery.
Sometimes on very rare occasions an artist is so mesmerising and captivating, that all you can hear is their performance and nothing else. It’s not often that I get to be a part of shows like that, but tonight was one of those nights.
Following years of successful cabaret “house shows” at the Sydney Festival’s Famous Spiegeltent, it should come of little surprise that this year’s production LIMBO is set to follow in the footsteps of critical and box office smashes like Cantina and Smoke & Mirrors. Well, we certainly can’t predict a sell out season, but we can…
New Years Day 2014, Sydneysiders were treated to an incredible display of rock and roll at The Vic in Enmore. You Am I turned the venue’s car park into a mini-festival to show their appreciation for the local locals. The lo-fi gig lived in the band’s pub rock tradition and saw The Mountains, The Love…
You often hear an AU contributor rate a gig as a highlight of the year, but by the time the year is over, what still sits on that top 5 list? Well, we asked our contributors just that and from all those responses we bring you the AU’s top thirteen international tours of 2013! Read…
the AU review sits down with two parts of Born Ruffians just before they hit the stage at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney, on their Falls Festival sideshow. PART ONE: PART TWO:
The house show of Sydney Festival this year is an incredible production going by the name of LIMBO. The full review will be online shortly, but in the meantime enjoy these photos from opening night at The Spiegeltent. Performances continue nightly (except Mondays) until the close of the festival. Photos by Prudence Upton.
Larry Heath meets Canadian artist Mo Kenney while in Australia to talk about her time down under, which included a performance at Woodford Folk Festival… we learn a bit more about what’s coming next for Mo on her long awaited second album – working with Joel Plaskett – and also find out the artists, like…
Ever since they were announced on the Big Day Out lineup, fans have been waiting for announcements on their sideshows. And now that time has arrived. Playing Sydney are the Deftones, Melbourne will get a The Hives sideshow while Ghost will play both Sydney and Melbourne. Check out the dates and details here: DEFTONES +…
Make the most of everyday – Summer is more than just a reason, it’s the feeling that something awesome could happen at any moment. Summertime has well and truly begun, being right in the midst of the festival season, summer and music go hand in hand. Guvera has created a Summertime playlist featuring international artists…
the AU review presents Canadian artist Mo Kenney performing the unreleased track “Wind Will Blow” (Working Title) LIVE, exclusive and acoustic on the AU sessions. Filmed in Sydney, Australia at AU HQ on 8th January 2014. Mo Kenney is currently touring Australia with the following dates remaining: Friday 10th January at Caravan Music Club, Melbourne
