'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Sam Wall, Journalist

Features / Arts
Rise Of The Cyborgs: The DIY Hackers Carrying The Future Under Their Skin
"When I got my Opal card and my flat NFC [near field communication], the flexNT - it's pretty traumatic to get it done."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Meg Mac - Low Blows
"It's a quality that McInerney has shown from the start and she seems to have just about perfected at Niles City Sound."
Features / Music
Ready & Cable: Cable Ties On The 'Music Industry Bullshit'
"Suddenly you're like getting offers to play for about 5% of the total door cost of some fucking touring band. And they're like, 'The exposure!'"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Cable Ties - Cable Ties
"Will have you hooked by both ears in five seconds or less, pinned like a deer in the headlights..."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Allah-Las, Donny Love
"People seem a bit shy at first but a couple of the Donny Love blokes break the ice and a goodly portion of the room floods the stage."
Reviews / Arts
This Is Eden
"The countless shonky disguises that reasoning wears fall away as her imperious indifference turns to horror turns to fear turns to hate."
Reviews / Arts
Phillip A Mayer's Table 17! (MICF)
"This is a problem."
Features / Arts
Luke Mitchell's Been Putting His Blood, Sweat & Tears Into 'Blindspot'
"I'm not allowed to use my hand, which is the most frustrating part because I'm right-handed and of course I cut my right hand."
Features / Arts
Damien Power Needs Ice Cream To Power Through A Comedy Marathon
"I really have trouble selling the show 'cause I say all those things and then people get deterred because it's like, 'Ugh, it sounds like a lecture.'"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Vintage Trouble, Hamish Anderson
"We're starting to wonder if Vintage Trouble just don't sweat."
Reviews / Arts
Aaron Gocs: Classic Stitch-Up (MICF)
"... As true blue as Hard Yakka stubbies and VB tins."
Reviews / Arts
Josh Glanc: Manful (MICF)
"Is it the size of his muscles? His moist, protein-rich coiffure? Having a good, weighty cock?"
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