By MIKE GEE The Church's light show is stunning. Photo by Mike Gee Greatness is hard won. It is a battle long fought and the title well earned. I have been a fan of The Church for 45 years. I’ve lost count of the number of shows I’ve seen. Singer, songwriter, raconteur, Steven John Kilbey, is The Church. He has had a remarkable number of stunningly talented compatriots over the years in this wonderful band but make no mistake this is HIS group. We first met at a motel at the

By MIKE GEE Fabels new album, Ophera Ben Aylward has never made a fuss. He’s that kind of guy. That kind of musician. In the 1990s he co-helmed the brilliant trio, Swirl, delivering - out of nowhere it almost seemed - one of the 10 greatest Australian albums, The Last Unicorn , of all-time. Part-pop, part-rock, part-shoegaze, part-soundscape, it is a one of a kind in the Australian music lexicon. Swirl didn’t know what they created then but the pure freedom of being under no

Clelia Adams and her all-star band take the heart of country and deliver its soul.

And the beats go on - 38 years after forming Underworld still cut it.

Clelia Adams is a country music legend. Three days with her in Mullumbimby as she prepared for Mullumbimby Festival 2025 was just perfect.

He's been the ultimate sideman and there’s a few more gigs left in him yet. And he has a little bit of musical glory that will never die.

"I was always torn between hanging on to a job, making sure I had enough money to support my family, and being a musician"

ORLANDO AGOSTINO stands thoughtfully on a railway track, eyes looking away from the camera, a cool beatnik figure, hands tucked into a...

THE STORY SO FAR: In early 1971, our heroine, Megan Sue Hicks, records an album of folk and folk psych songs, Maranatha, with Doug Rowe,...

Megan Hicks at home in Philadelphia In 1971, Megan Sue Hicks, was living in Sydney, Australia, with her family, working at noted music mag, Go-Set, and singing for tips with a group of local musicians. Some how, the then 20-year-old, ended up in the studio with one of Australia's leading groups at the time, Flying Circus , as her backing musicians, and recorded what was to become one of the most sought after folk albums of all-time, Maranatha . It was eventually released in 1

By MIKE GEE Forty years ago, Ian Curtis, lead singer, lyricist and co-founder of one of the greatest bands in the history of music, Joy Division, committed suicide by hanging himself in the kitchen of his home at 77 Barton Street in Macclesfield, Cheshire. He was just 23-years-old. The news gutted me at the time. It still does now. It guts me just like the death of Jeff Buckley guts me, and others who went too, too young. You wonder what might have been. Always, what might h

25th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE: In 1966, when Brian Wilson prepared the follow up to his masterpiece Pet Sounds, he employed the services of...