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

Paul Ransom, Journalist

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Features / Music
How Bonnie Tyler Left Behind Her Insecurities With Age
"With age you get much more relaxed about things. You don't worry so much about what people think."
Features / Music
Travelling To The End Of The World At Last
"Nobody told us were big in Greece or Peru or Chile. The focus was all on the US back then."
Features / Music
Turning Desperation, Anger & Tragedy Into Something Beautiful
"You can't look away and you have to find the beauty in the flames."
Features / Music
Glen Hansard On His "Complete Fucking Ego Destruction"
"You're not the centre of the world, you're not saying anything that hasn't been said before."
Reviews / Arts
Lilith: The Jungle Girl
"A quick tempo, wise-cracking rollick that peels back the layers on gender roles."
Features / Arts
The "Poetic Monsters" Of A Walking Tragedy
"Art and 'intellectual' cannot match. Intelligence for sure, even intelligence of the sensation, but having an idea is not enough."
Features / Arts
Going Off Record On Stage
"I don't think there's one bit of unison in the show because it's not about everyone being the same."
Features / Arts
Ghislain Ramage On His Cirque 'Job' Being More "Play" Than "Work"
"Contemporary circus can tend to be more dark because its goal sometimes is not to please the audience."
Features / Arts
What It Really Means To Have Your Country Invaded
"This thing of boxing whole cultures and religions up because of extreme minorities isn't just sad, it's absurd."
Features / Arts
Dancing On The Overlap Between Perception & Reality
"There's this idea that identity only comes about through the observation of others; that identity comes from the outside."
Features / Arts
Exploring The Moments That Matter
"I started thinking about the times we might remember at the moment of our death."
Reviews / Arts
Keir Choreographic Awards Semi Finals
"What is also apparent, and quite possibly bizarre, is the form's obsession with intellectual rigour."
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