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Bryget Chrisfield, Journalist

Bryget Chrisfield

A lifelong love of music and writing consolidated when Bryget Chrisfield started penning live reviews for Inpress (now TheMusic) while studying Professional Writing & Editing at RMIT. After graduating, Bryget was initially employed as full-time staff writer before being promoted to Victorian editor of this national street press publication - now website - where she remained for over ten years. She is currently a freelance journalist - her byline appearing in publications including STACK, The Big Issue, The Music and Beat - and it is through interviewing musical geniuses that Bryget finds true happiness.

Reviews / Live
Live Review: The The
"Instantly recognisable, 'Infected' burrows its way into our collective muscle memory and fishes out retro dance moves."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cher, Andrew McClelland
"A life-size elephant prop with illuminated tusks and eyes peers through the back wall of the stage, eventually storming through. Cher's riding on its back!"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: REMI
"This spare-no-expense, full-band incarnation of REMI appears before us as a dream fully realised."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Liars, HTRK DJs
"Not many could physically manage to reach up and punch a part of The Curtin's ceiling, but Andrew does - emphatically, to punctuate the beat - and we momentarily fear he'll literally bring the house down."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Wolf Alice, WAAX
"We’re spellbound by the band's triple-axe interplay. Ellis actually looks like he’s copping an electric shock up through the soles of his boots at one point."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jack Ladder
"The tone is set: songs that will break your heart into smithereens interspersed with fascinating, often side-splittingly funny tales about their genesis."
Features / Music
The Paper Kites: Personal Music With Worldwide Reach
The Paper Kites recently achieved Gold status in the US with their single 'Bloom'. When Bryget Chrisfield checks in with frontman Sam Bentley she learns he "brewed up a lot of the direction" for the band's latest pair of companion-piece albums while working late shifts in a cinema.
Features / Music
Even: Just The Three Of Us
When Bryget Chrisfield meets up with singer/guitarist Ash Naylor for a cheeky pint, they discuss Even's current mission to "not bring outside instruments in" and how he felt playing Spencer P Jones' slide guitar part in Paul Kelly's 'How To Make Gravy' live for the first time since the late, great legend's passing.
Features / Music
Jen Cloher: 'When Opportunities Arrived, I Was Ready'
Bryget Chrisfield sits down with Jen Cloher to find out who looks after Bubbles the cat when she's touring and why she thinks it was her latest, fourth, self-titled set that opened up so many opportunities on the world stage (including a debut US festival set at Newport Folk Festival, which attracted three standing ovations).
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Tkay Maidza, Kwame, Arno Faraji
"Maidza climbs the stage-right scaffolding once more, stage dives and then crowd-surfs back to the stage."
Features / Music
DREAMS: Luke Steele & Daniel Johns' Two-Man Gang From The Future
What happens when two of Australia's most enigmatic artists join forces? After chatting with Daniel Johns and Luke Steele, Bryget Chrisfield learns there's so much more to DREAMS than "just a band and an album" - it's another world, which is best explored while burning nag champa.
Features / Music
Gaz Coombes: 'I Think We Can Become Too Omnipresent'
His eldest daughter is now the same age as Gaz Coombes was when he joined his first band. Bryget Chrisfield discovers the artist most famous for fronting Supergrass thinks it's possible to become "too omnipresent".
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