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

Joe Dolan, Journalist

Joe Dolan

In 2016, I was studying professional writing when an email dropped into my inbox with an opportunity to intern with a budding street press magazine (those were a thing back then). By the end of the eight-or-so-week course I was hooked - and for some bizarre reason,The Musicdecided to keep me around.

Since then I’ve gone on to review countless live gigs, albums, standup sets, theatre shows and gotten to interview some bone fide legends along the way too. Nowadays, I even perform and work on the occasional show myself, but I still like to find time to get out amongst the action whenever I can.

If it weren’t forThe Music, I can genuinely say my life would be totally different. Definitely more boring, to say the least.

Reviews / Arts
Josie Long: Something Better (MICF)
Something Better is the spoonful of sugar that is so desperately needed in the medicine of topical laughter.
Reviews / Arts
Abandoman : Life + Rhymes (MICF)
A jaw-dropping combination of skills that two pasty Irish white boys should not naturally possess.
Reviews / Arts
Stuart Daulman: A Very Good Year (MICF)
One of the most weirdly emotive and heart-tugging comics at the festival
Reviews / Arts
Fringe Wives Club: Glittery Clittery - A ConSENSUAL Party (MICF)
"Fringe Wives Club feels like the awakening of a long overdue overhaul in comedy"
Reviews / Arts
Tessa Waters: Fully Sik (MICF)
"Fully Sik is somewhere in between Broad City and the Boosh; stand-up for the ABC2 generation."
Reviews / Arts
Andy Zaltzman: Plan Z (MICF)
"No one is doing what Zaltzman is doing. No one else could."
Reviews / Arts
Alex Ward: Quiet (MICF)
"Sophisticated, intelligent comedy; Ward is a scholar of the craft."
News / Music
The Music’s Weekend Comedy Hit List At The Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The biggest weekend of the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival is about is commence, with more openings than an octopuses turtleneck!
Reviews / Arts
Arcade Arcade: Stranger-er Things (MICF)
"The whole gig feels like the directors cut of a show lost to the ages"
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Simon Taylor: Spectacular-ish (MICF)
"Taylor has remained as captivating and glossy as ever."
Reviews / Arts
Sarah Jones: Creepy Dummy (MICF)
"Jones is a true expert and master at what she does."
Reviews / Arts
Claire Sullivan: I Wish I Owned A Hotel For Dogs (MICF)
"Totally accessible comedy masquerading as random, alternative brilliance."
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