Reviews

Talent and energy trumped their ignorant flirtation with parody on the night, and the show proved they have boldly pushed past sideshow irrelevancy and into legitimate ’legend’ status.

Good intentions and an admirable step in a new direction, but the energy's ultimately lacking.

Chaotic, joyless, earth-crushing crust-influenced hardcore.

The Merger has the genius premise, the timely relevance and the charm to go beyond a mere stage show and find new life as a film script or, ideally, a Chris Lilley-alike sitcom.

Not to produce lacklustre material, SOJA still pushes through the technicalities to deliver another album to inspire, stir your soul and groove along to.

The Next Day is a clumsy, hairy record; but with a vital and brilliant intelligence. Bowie naked is what we wanted all along.