Ben Howard at the Palais Theatre - July 30th 2014

 Palais Theatre, Lower Esplanade, St Kilda

On a balmy Melbourne winters night, people flocked to the beautiful Palais Theatre in St Kilda, in anticipation of the wondrous Ben Howard. Proceedings began when Nick Mulvey trudged onto the stage with a guitar in hand. Nick then spent the next 45 minutes treating the crowd to some fantastic acoustic guitar and even more fantastic singing. Nick closed with his most known song “Cucurucu”.

Mainline - One Day

Mainline is the introduction to Australian hip-hop collective ‘One Day’. Made up of Solo and Adit from Horrorshow, Nick Lupi and Jimmy Nice from Spit Syndicate, Kai and Raph from Jackie Onassis, and MC Joyride, One Day is one of the only Hip-Hop supergroups in Australia, that’s if you count groups like Gully Platoon as supergroups. If you don’t, then One Day are trendsetters in the hip hop world, a group that announces itself as a group rather than having a single act featuring others. In saying that, not every artist involved in One Day is present on each track of the album, they chop and change quite frequently, all coming together for the title track ‘Mainline’ and opener ‘Many Hands’. 

Startup Cult - Allday

The debut album from Adelaide-based rapper Allday (Tom Gaynor), and the second record released on Illy and Unified’s label ONETWO. ‘Startup Cult’ adds something to the Australian hip-hop scene that has taken it that one step further. What could be described as hipster rap or in Allday’s words “Soft Grunge Love Rap”, Startup Cult provides the listener with a scope into the future of Aussie hip-hop, with an artist that adds a kind of new identity to the genre. Think Kriss Kross’ backwards clothing, Alldays choice of clothing is somewhat obscure, but it works, and matches the beats and smooth lyrics he creates. Often his Facebook and Instagram pages will be photos of a guy with long hair and a bucket hat, and most likely clothes that look more than one size too big. It’s awkward, but god-damn it’s ballin’.

Wish I Was Here (Music From the Motion Picture)

First off, let me say that all Soundtrack Reviews will be compared to ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ OST, as I feel that, as far as soundtracks go, it was perfect.