Following my foray into the world of freelance writing, I began writing for a number of publications including the likes of Beat. I first wrote for the publication in May of 2022, and continue to write for the site as of today. Below, you’ll find handy links to each of these articles in chronological order.
30/05/2022: Eight unmissable events at Leaps and Bounds Festival (and why you’ll love them)
15/06/2022: TISM are back: The long-awaited return of Melbourne’s cult heroes
21/06/2022: ‘We’re reminded of why music is important’: Paul Grabowsky on finding ‘Sanctuary’ in ambient music
27/06/2022: On The Road Again: 10 events set to revitalise Victoria’s live music scene
18/07/2022: Something For Kate: It’s not what people say or what radio station plays you…it’s the people you’re standing in front of
18/07/2022: Hot Chip: ‘For every excitement, there’s a comedown’
09/08/2022: Choose your own creative adventure: Box Hill Institute’s Winter Discovery Nights
30/08/2022: There’s no denying Something For Kate’s status as one of Australia’s finest bands
27/04/2023: Frankston Is Set To Illuminate With The Dynamic South Side Festival
13/07/2023: ‘It just blew my head off’: You Am I on touring The Who’s Tommy
24/07/2023: ‘We were a bit bored with yelling and screaming at people’: Grinspoon looking back for their Easy Detention tour
02/11/2023: 'I have to live this double life': Lenka on elusive Aussie success and new album Intraspectral
02/11/2023: 'You don’t really know what’s going to happen': The Grogans on touring Europe and new album Find Me A Cloud
24/01/2024: St Kilda Festival: How Australia’s largest community festival continues to get better every year
31/01/2024: St Kilda Festival lineup: Eight unmissable acts for 2024
07/02/2024: St Kilda Festival’s First Peoples First is a proud celebration of First Nations music
20/02/2024: Brunswick Music Festival 2024: The massive program packed with free events ‘bringing our wild ideas into fruition’
21/02/2024: Sydney Road Street Party: Brunswick’s massive free street party is on next week with more than 90 acts
23/02/2024: ‘It is killing us all’: How a 400% increase in insurance costs is slowly destroying Melbourne’s live music scene
26/02/2024: Melbourne Chilli Eating Championship is on this weekend, with an insane atmosphere, awesome food and plenty of pain
06/03/2024: St Kilda Festival: With eight stages and 60 acts for free, Big Festival Sunday is insanely good in 2024
18/03/2024: The Soul Movers: ‘We just leave a smoking barrel there as we walk away’
20/03/2024: Catherine Bohart: ‘Fair play to the manifestation girlies and vision boarders, but I have very much been seeing how it goes’
21/03/2024: Lara Ricote: ‘I need to think of it as an invitation to really get in there and get weird and take risks’
22/03/2024: ‘Repulsive stories about objects in orifices’: Adam Kay brings This Is Going To Hurt to Melbourne
25/03/2024: Rob Auton: ‘I like Austin Powers, but if they’d made the audience cry it would have been a much better film’
25/03/2024: Celya AB: ‘I’d like to own a house someday, but if it doesn’t happen I’ll be glad to just respawn at this one’
26/03/2024: Frankie Rowsthorn: ‘He’s a 60-year-old family man and I’m a 21-year-old girl, but we do have the same sense of humour’
26/03/2024: Urooj Ashfaq: ‘I’m a bit too comfortable with talking about my feelings…psychology has had a very direct impact’
09/04/2024: vaultboy: ‘For a long time, I tried to hide a part of who I was in the music that I made’
22/04/2024: ‘Emerging bands working with emerging brands’: The Maggie Pills are forging an exciting new pathway for Melbourne bands to follow
26/04/2024: Fat White Family: ‘It’s amazing how far you can get on sheer negativity’
15/05/2024: Adam Wakeman’s Jazz Sabbath: ‘The reactions from metal and jazz fans alike have been fantastic’
20/05/2024: ‘We fought tooth and nail’: How Elefant Traks changed Australian music
21/05/2024: A love letter to Revolver Upstairs, and the epic variety they put on each and every week
28/05/2024: Honouring Elefant Traks’ immense visual legacy: ‘They just blew my socks off’
03/06/2024: Dan Sultan reflects on Blackbird before ‘epic’ MSO show: ‘It feels like 10 years, but I mean that in a really beautiful way’
03/06/2024: Kingswood: ‘Everyone needs to organise 15 grand, from their families, friends – whoever the fuck it is’
04/06/2024: Leaps and Bounds: Here’s all the hidden gems on at Melbourne’s buzzy inner north music festival
01/07/2024: The unsolved mystery of Triple R and Hole’s Celebrity Skin
01/07/2024: How The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army started at the Corner Hotel
03/07/2024: The Whitlams’ Tim Freedman on ‘the moment I would either become a one-hit wonder or have a career’
15/07/2024: ‘Lightness and darkness’: CORIN on how she’ll shape her unique sound at Now or Never
17/07/2024: What are the biggest Aussie rock anthems of all time?
29/07/2024: ‘I’m very selective’: Now or Never is giving Naarm a rare chance to witness one of its greatest enigmas