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

Baz McAlister, Journalist

Features / Arts
The Performing Avengers
“I found some nice cravats in London yesterday which are of the era. Unfortunately the MasterChef guy has sort of ruined cravats for everyone so I might go bow tie instead.”
Features / Arts
Closing The Book
“Well, you’re talking to a bloke with fucking liver cancer, mate, and I think you’re talking to him for the last time."
Features / Arts
Everybody Loves Lucy
"It's my answer to Eat, Pray, Love. At this stage it’s called Drink, Smoke, Pass Out."
Features / Arts
Chasing The Lollyman
“It’s been an amazing journey with this show, it still surprises me."
Features / Arts
Lost And Found
Theatremaker Yana Taylor of Sydney-based collective Version 1.0 talks to Baz McAlister about the company’s revolutionary work rooted in real missing persons cases, The Disappearances Project.
Features / Arts
She Got Game
Kellee Santiago strives to elicit uncommon emotional responses in gamers, the LA-based designer tells Baz McAlister ahead of ACMI’S interactive video game exhibition Game Masters.
Features / Arts
Rapping And Raving
British comedian Lenny Henry has crafted a new show addressing his lifelong flirtation with being a musician. He tells Baz McAlister all about Cradle To Rave.
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Casual Travellers
One half of fraternal musical comedy duo Smart Casual, beardless brother Ben Mattick talks to Baz McAlister about their upcoming Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow jaunt to regional Australia.
Features / Film & TV
Pictures Unknown
Space Nazis from the moon invade planet earth in sci-fi comedy romp Iron Sky. Writer-director Timo Vuorensola tells Baz McAlister exactly what he was smoking.
Features / Arts
First Degree Burns
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All Relish And No Cheese
“A lot of them are kids with a sour and negative attitude," remembers Neil Hamburger about playing BDO, "and some of them are predisposed to dislike me."
Features / Arts
Tall Travelling Tales
If Karl Pilkington is the monkey, Stephen Merchant (along with Ricky Gervais) is an organ-grinder on travel show An Idiot Abroad. He tells Baz McAlister about wrangling an international idiot.