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

Izzy Tolhurst, Journalist

Reviews / Arts
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
A hyperactive show; saccharine sweet with a touch of the bizarre.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: SLAM Day: High Voltage, Electric & The Jaded Cats
Needless to say the Cherry Bar floor will be a little gluier as a result, no doubt an apt marker of this significant event.
Features / Music
Diving Into Life
"This time the live visuals are much more developed, and we’ve figured out how to make a live performance.”
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sarah Blasko
More appropriate appreciation for Blasko’s set and graceful, ocean-like dancing is served up in an all-encompassing standing ovation and rapturous applause.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Lisa Mitchell & Georgia Fair
Mitchell’s performance closes with droves of punters of all ages dancing in the walkways to the merry Oh! Hark!, a beautiful image to watch the sun set to.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: JEFF The Brotherhood & King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
JTB have humble beginnings, their first instruments cast from paper and plastic, but rigid determination and diligence (plus a tremendously musical father, Robert Ellis Orrall) have allowed the boys to become masters of their genre in only their 20s.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: OFF!, Bloody Hammer & Batpiss
No encore plays, and no encore is needed. OFF! know how to carry themselves off with dignity.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Gary Clark Jr & The Murlocs
Clark Jr’s most striking tracks are his encore solo numbers, songs in which he pays his dues to the eras and artists that feature heavily in the rich blues he churns with ease.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Stompy & The Heat
"S&TH affirm that when it comes to playing proper rock’n’roll, being unforgiving, appropriately reckless and totally unpretentious are qualities too rarely seen and undervalued."
Features / Music
Family Ties
"That was the whole thing: to make an organic and real sound, like a band playing live.”
Features / Music
Writer's Poll - Izzy Tolhurst
For Izzy Tolhurst, 2012 was the year of Twerps and Alt-J.
Features / Music
Well-Read Star
"I definitely feel tremendously inspired by fiction. I love reading stories and I guess I love writing stories. I’ve always loved mythology and fairytales."
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