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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.

Features / Music
We Rank The Top 10 Best Billy Joel Songs Of All Time
A five-time Grammy winner, Billy Joel is one of the best-selling artists of all time. Now marking almost four decades since the release of his mammoth collection of Greatest Hits, you can’t deny he boasts one helluva back catalogue! Do you prefer the tender ballads Joel penned for his (now-ex) wives or his rambunctious rockers, which demand enthusiastic daggy-dancing? Ahead of his exclusive, one-night-only Australian performance at the MCG on 10 Dec, we rate Joel’s ten greatest songs.
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Ainslie Wills (pic by Rcstills) and Charlotte Abroms (pic by Benemac)
Quashing The Stereotype: ‘Being A Working Mother In Music Is Perfectly Viable’
“Being a mum doesn’t stop someone from writing a song or playing a show, neither does being a dad.” In part two of our Motherhood And Music feature, we sit down with artist manager Charlotte Abroms and Melbourne singer-songwriter Ainslie Wills to continue the discussion on changing “prehistoric narratives".
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‘The Hardest Part Of The Gig’: Breaking Down ‘Mum Guilt’ In Artists
We check in with two musician mums – Gumbaynggirr and Yamatji soul queen Emma Donovan, a single mum, and self-managed Melbourne art-pop singer-songwriter Georgia Fields, founder of the Mother Lode website, which shares resources to help mothers maintain sustainable careers in the arts – to discuss how we can help more women keep doing what they love doing creatively and pursuing their dreams within motherhood.
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Mikey Webb
Auslan Interpretation At Gigs Isn't An 'Extra' - It's An Essential
Auslan interpreter extraordinaire Mikey Webb – the one with the trademark snazzy duds and man-bun – plus one of his many cheerleaders Adam Hyde – one half of Peking Duk and also mastermind of new solo project Keli Holiday – discuss making Auslan interpreters “the norm” at gigs and just how much Dylan Alcott’s Ability Fest “changed the whole landscape”.
Features / Interviews
‘I Couldn’t Believe My Eyes’: Tim Freedman Talks The Whitlams, Black Stump Band
"I’ve been running around the country for seven weeks watching people sing together around the piano and, I can tell you, it beats Netflix every time.”
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Hatchie: ‘I Didn’t Realise How Good I Have It’
“I think I forget that good things that are happening to me that might seem normal now, didn’t even seem possible a few years ago. So I really need to sit and reflect on my present more.”
Features / Interviews
UK Singer Tom Grennan Talks Jarring Reality Of Sudden Stardom
"I was playing to like, I dunno, 20 to 30 people in this pub – it was an open-mic night – and then five or six months later I could see the pub from this stage I was on [performing to] 75,000 people at Wireless Festival! It was crazy.”
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‘Part Of Me Didn’t Wanna Go Back To Being Leon Bridges’
'It was very refreshing to just be away from [fame] during that time...'
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Missy Higgins: ‘It’s A Tough Industry To Get A leg-up In As A Woman’
“It makes me hopeful for the future of my daughter to see these brave girls doing what they’ve done over the past couple of years.”
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Sharing Space With Spirits: Methyl Ethel’s Jake Webb On Creating ‘Are You Haunted?’
“It’s my hope that this music can reward people who wanna listen to it in a deeper way.”
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Alt-J Aren't Letting Expectations Weigh Them Down
"I suppose we just react to the songs as they come and it kind of comes across as we’re, like, hopping genres.”
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The Music 2020 Writers' Poll: Bryget Chrisfield
Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2020…
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