Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Izzy Tolhurst, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: I'lls, Fishing, Guerre
When the hotly anticipated I’lls take to the small stage... there are flashes of Radiohead’s brilliance and delicacy.
Features / Music
Mojo Rising
"I wouldn’t dare try to write about something I didn’t know, but at the same time I appreciate a bit of a tall story… Sometimes, you just make them a little bit more colourful than the actual event."
Features / Music
This Is Not The End
"There’s no bullshit. That’s the whole thing [about] working with Ash – if it doesn’t sound good and if it doesn’t feel good then don’t do it!"
Reviews / Arts
Legally Blonde: The Musical
Overall, a musical that could have been a brightly coloured, high-pitched travesty is engaging, fun and a genuine success, where the film gets honoured while still allowing for creativity to be injected.
Reviews / Arts
Insomnia Cat Came To Stay
With the closing line, “I must have nothing in common with myself”, the total entrapment and isolation of insomnia is finally and most powerfully branded on the audience.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cosmic Psychos
The documentary and gig alike attest to the endearing adage that for Knight, both the unlikely protagonist of a film and frontman of the supreme Cosmic Psychos, “you can take the boy out of the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy”.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Ella Hooper, Hailey Cramer
Hooper asks, 'what am I doing putting Hailey Cramer on before me? Am I undermining myself?'
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Hamish Anderson
He’s a talent that provides an exhibition that is addictive to watch, and gives total bang for your buck if you get the chance to witness it.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jeremy Neale, The Laughing Leaves, Dirt Farmer
Neale transitions smoothly to a fleeting stand-up comedy stint, maintaining the crowd’s attention in this brief, unexpected intermission.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Strange Talk, Phebe Starr
The music is confident and tight; Gillan Gregory’s guitar solos are particularly impressive.
Reviews / Arts
Hoo-Haa You?
United, the cast deserve credit for the energy with which they deliver quick, genuinely funny, and theme-appropriate lines, keeping the audience entranced.
Features / Music
Medicinal Compounds
I’m going to keep making records forever, as long as I feel enthusiastic about it, which I can’t really see that I won’t.”