Bryget Chrisfield

1 week ago | themusic.com.au | Bryget Chrisfield

Upon arrival at Hobart airport, we’re greeted by Dark Mofo’s “Return To Me” slogan, illuminated in giant red font. This one-of-a-kind highlight on Australia’s annual festival calendar is back, following a year’s hiatus, with a new Artistic Director, Chris Twite. At this midwinter solstice festival, revellers are invited to embrace the dark (and freezing temps). Splashes of red lighting signpost Dark Mofo-related spaces, and the entire festival encourages you to be curious and open-minded.

3 weeks ago | themusic.com.au | Bryget Chrisfield

More Katie Noonan As part of the Sydney Festival earlier this year, Katie Noonan celebrated the 30th anniversary of Jeff Buckley’s Grace by recreating the only album he released during his lifetime across five sold-out dates. She’s now taking this show on the road for an extensive 20-date Australian tour, which kicks off in September. We check in with Noonan to geek out over this singular, gone-too-soon artist and his enduring legacy.

1 month ago | themusic.com.au | Bryget Chrisfield

More ZZ Top “What a great privilege of life!” Dallas Frasca enthuses about the position she finds herself in: of late, she’s been warming up stages all around the country for two important acts who significantly shaped the evolution of rock’n’roll. Performing solo with her custom-built stage rig, Frasca sounds like no one else on the planet. She’s a majestic presence up there, strutting around the stage space like a boss and shaking her fuchsia-pink balayage tresses.

2 months ago | beat.com.au | Bryget Chrisfield |Lucas Radbourne

Words by Bryget Chrisfield Although he’s the son of a coach driver, Tom Allen has been “cursed with a posh voice” – the way he pronounces Yarra (River) as Yah-rra! – and we could listen to his singsongy delivery, and icy retorts, aaaall night. Allen’s faux outrage is our favourite mode.

2 months ago | beat.com.au | Bryget Chrisfield |Lucas Radbourne

Words by Bryget Chrisfield Olga Koch breezes by the queue for her own show, thanking us for coming, which prepares us for the fact that she doesn’t sound Russian (she went to uni in New York and is currently London-based). “Melbourne, are you ready for a vibe shift!?” she hollers, starting a vigorous clap-along to welcome herself to the stage.