Zoe Perks

Oct 28, 2024 | tobemagazine.com.au | Jonah Orbach |Hugh Barton |Sophie Martin |Zoe Perks

Matthew Murphy calls from the front seat of his car, smiling with the charm of a Wes Anderson character. He's here to talk about his new album, Oh! The Ocean, set for release next February. Murphy answered each question with the precision of a literary assassin, openly discussing everything from mental unrest and switching producers to Kate Moss and his first encounter with wombats. JAKE FITZPATRICK I had a thought today: why are you called the Wombats?

May 20, 2024 | tobemagazine.com.au | Rob Feher |Zoe Perks |Fia Fiell

A scream marks the beginning of most people's lives. While we rejoice and celebrate the miracle of birth and anticipate a destiny filled with greatness, the newborn emerges from the womb covered in amniotic secretions, shrieking and scowling with a reluctancy to that which has just commenced. Perhaps this is the very disparity that Annie Clark of St. Vincent wishes to draw our attention to with her seventh album, All Born Screaming.

Mar 19, 2024 | tobemagazine.com.au | Ryan Delaney |Leon Vynehall |Rob Feher |Zoe Perks

A festival experience is often shaped by the cultural storm that precedes it. Pitch Music and Arts 2024 was somewhat different. Our usual excitement about arriving and discovering which artist or stage would captivate us the most quickly shifted to concerns about the festival's duration and which performances we would manage to see. Amid a looming heatwave and the threat of wildfires, the festival concluded abruptly, but not without gracing people with a sonically intense finale.

Mar 18, 2024 | tobemagazine.com.au | Aaron Weinberg |Anna Stewart |Zoe Perks

Just three months after a rain-heavy Meredith, Golden Plains Sixteenth Edition played host to an oppressive heat wave. Swapping raincoats and gumboots for sunscreen and broad brims, the weekend was centred around survival. During the day, we only went to watch an artist if we were willing to get sunburnt for them, or were open to sitting down and watching under the ‘Sup’s eucalypts.