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  • KLLO
    Melbourne based pop-electro duo ‘Kllo’ made their ‘conservative’ debut at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall -at the Melbourne Recital Centre, last Friday. Since their debut in 2014 with the dark single ‘Make me Wonder’, the band has gained momentum at a strong and steady pace. Their tracks have received thousands of streams on Soundcloud, and they released their debut album ‘Backwater’…
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  • STEAMPHUNK
    With so many different party collectives constantly popping up in Melbourne, it is surely hard to stand out in the crowd. However, that’s is exactly what SteamPhunk manages to achieve with their wild, whimsical events. Combining performance art with electro swing, glitch hop, ghetto funk and tech house sub genres, their events encourage us to…
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  • HEREDITARY
    Avid horror fans, rejoice! For Hereditary, the new Art-House horror film of the hour, is now showing at cinemas across Australia. Proclaimed as the scariest film of the year and heralded as the modern-day equivalent to The Exorcist, Hereditary is like a nightmare which  lingers in your mind for days to come. It will leave…
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  • AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC
    Bush Gothic are a Melbourne-based trio, often described as an Australian Folk Music band with a twist. Slowly but surely, these guys have been making their mark not just on our minds or on our local music scene but, more importantly, on the emotional landscape of Australia as a whole. The work of this trio…
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  • FURY
    Relevant, contemporary and edgy as all fuck, this is theatre with a message and a meaning; tackling, head-on, Australia’s “fear of the other” and, more specifically, in response to our times, the plain fact that over 20 percent of our population expresses fear or mistrust in Islam and in our Muslim brothers and sisters. But…
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04/06/2018

RETRO FUTURISMUS

Going off the previous work of Retro Futurismus, Brave World promises to be funny, bizarre, immersive and boundary-breaking. The collective of 5 fierce women – all from varying backgrounds of burlesque, circus, theatre, music and more – describe the show as a post-apocalyptic after party. And what better response to the end of the world…
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23/05/2018

GOING DOWN

Going Down, penned by Michele Lee, is the kind of side-splitting comedy that commands its audience to put aside all airs and graces and, in the process, take a long hard look at their entitlement and privilege, particularly if you’re a Gorman-wearing, soy latte sipping inner-Melbourne-living individual, because if you are, you are most certainly…
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21/05/2018

FEAST YOUR EARS

As we enter the days of Feast Your Ears Radio Festival 2018, The Melbourne Critique talks to Emma Peel, the presenter celebrating the first decade of her radio show  ‘Switched On.’  Emma can be described as ‘The High Priestess of Vintage’ and this trend is apparent in her love and aesthetic choices across both music…
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21/05/2018

CARGO

In 2013, the story behind a feature film called CARGO, began with it being selected as a Tropfest finalist, while it was then still only a short film. This success then lead to a series of amazing breakthroughs;  describing the process, Ben Howling; one half of the creative team, says that “It felt like it took a long time…
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18/05/2018

THE BLEEDING TREE

When you go to see a play that already has multiple awards and sell-out success at the Sydney Theatre, you know that you probably won’t be disappointed. Gripping, powerful and beautifully poetic, The Bleeding Tree certainly does not disappoint. This minimalist production explores family abuse, moral conflict, community and vengeance; all set against the quintessential…
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18/05/2018

THOSE STRINGS ARE FOR GIRLS

Laura Imbruglia is the producer and host of something called ‘Amateur Hour,’ an online variety special full of skits and local music.  She is a musician, a DJ and she has a short film in this year’s St Kilda Film Festival called Gender Reversed Guitar Shopping.  The Melbourne Critique caught up with her to find out why she has all these women in a…
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16/05/2018

CARRION

What does it mean to be human, in a period when destruction on the planet is rapidly redefining the laws of nature?  Melding flesh, costume and a robo-primordial aesthetic, Carrion is a stunning new solo performance by Justin Shoulder (V and The River Eats) that introduces the figure of Carrion – a shape-shifting, post-human spectre that speaks…
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10/05/2018

BLISS

Ripped from the literary womb, and brought kicking and screaming onto stage, this is the kind of bastard adaption we wish to disown the moment we cast our gaze upon it. Bliss, originally penned by Peter Carey, with its satiric portrayal of the middle class should prove rich source material. It’s narrative and characters should make…
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