This Melbourne photo exhibition is celebrating the role of women in live music Sampa The Great at Golden Plains 2020 - image by Bandanna Photography
Words by Gabriela Caeli Sumampow
Featuring Sampa The Great, Courtney Barnett, CHVRCHES, Mo’Ju, Cash Savage and more.
It’s no mystery that the music industry is home to some incredible female voices. A once-male-dominated industry has evolved and there are now more entry points than ever for female artists to establish themselves in music.
This is what Melbourne photographer Anna Bandanna’s upcoming photo exhibition celebrates. Highlighting the contributions women make to the music industry, and more specifically live music,
The program begins with Lachlan Ryan’s
Dog Date Afternoon, where a germaphobe tries to win over his dream girl’s dog. Then there’s Holly Hargreaves’
The Friend Zone, which follows two recently broken up individuals as they navigate – you guessed it – the friend zone, while Millicent Malcolm’s
The Familiars revolves around a skeptical teenager’s decision on whether to use a mysterious heirloom for protection.
Sarah-Jane Woulahan’s
Objects Of My Disaffection will also be screened – a short that sees a young mother lash out her feelings on prized family possessions, following a difficult breakup.
Some more titles to look out for are Alex Lowes’
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The Living End perform at The Corner
Words by Gabriela Caeli Sumampow
The letter was signed by over a hundred Victorian live music venues.
Save Our Scene, the Victorian body launched last year to raise awareness for a COVID-hit live music industry, has issued an Open Letter to the Victorian government today, bringing attention to the possible closure of live music venues if they don’t receive assistance from above.
The Open Letter was signed by some of Victoria’s most beloved venues: The Forum, The Corner, The Espy, The Old Bar, The Curtin – you name it. These venues are among over a hundred in need of a clear and balanced roadmap for easing restrictions, and more importantly – for venue capacities to increase so that Victorian music venues can further open its doors.
Raw Deep’s new single ‘Squeezing My Heart’ is an emotive heartbreak anthem
Words by Gabriela Caeli Sumampow
It’s the first track the Gold Coast alt-rockers have released this year.
Gold Coast’s Raw Deep has just returned with their new single ‘Squeezing My Heart’ – a track that speaks of an escape from a one-sided relationship; the emotion and intensity of the track recalling everyone from Red Hot Chili Peppers to Coldplay and John Mayer.
On ‘Squeezing My Heart’, the alt-rockers fuse a hard-hitting instrumental with intense emotion that, like the title suggests, squeezes hearts. While this, their first new song of 2021, speaks of unrequited love, it leaves no room for clichés and exaggeration.