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

Dave Drayton, Journalist

Features / Arts
The Many-Layered Process Behind 'Replay'
"I was interested in exploring just how incredibly fallible the human memory is and how constructed it is."
Features / Arts
Why It Takes Drive, Passion And Intuition To Find Your Path
"...he's trying to find out what his path is amongst that. You might even say trying to resist his fate a little bit."
Features / Arts
Breaking Down Modern Identity & Celebrity
"In a world where everyone is buoyed by the need to have this endless confidence in themselves that silence undermines that confidence..."
Features / Arts
Dreaming Of A Shack In The Middle Of The Rainforest
"That's what I'm trying to get the viewer to connect to, that place in the back of their mind where they would love to just escape their day-to-day at."
Features / Arts
Working For Crust Isn't Always Rude Mechanics
"I find [intelligent characters] very challenging, but that's why I do them as well."
Features / Arts
The Fanciest Place For Three Comics
"After a bout of cooing "fancy" in falsetto on speakerphone at one another for about a minute we talk about the fanciest place there is... YouTube."
Features / Arts
The Roundabout Road To Comedic Perfection
"I lost my mother and wonder how much that affected the way I am with women and deal with my relationships."
Reviews / Arts
This Is How We Die
"Christopher Brett Bailey offers an admirable portrayal of what it is like to feel something — disdain, disgust, disinterest — by a talented but emotionless mimic."
Reviews / Arts
Fase
"The music and movement emerge from parallel philosophies: both use a limited palette — of notes and rhythms, and of bodily movements."
Reviews / Arts
The Object Lesson
"Its object declaration, like so much else, abstract and tangible alike, tonight, is buried... somewhere here."
Features / Arts
One Man's Trash Could Just Be Geoff Sobelle's Treasure
"I also get very attached to things, to stuff, and I started wondering what that was really about."
Features / Arts
How To Find Theatre In Country WA
"It is really important to me that our culture in Australia is getting fresh audiences in all the time to experience storytelling..."