Author: Rob Stewart
BAND: Mr Chrisy Mertas ALBUM: Cookers Paradise RELEASE DATE: 22/02/2024 Sometimes reviewing albums can be an onerous task, listening to music that just isn’t hitting your triggers, but you desperately try to mine for the positive treasures. Sometimes, and this is very rarely, it’s a task where you find yourself thinking…’fuck this, I’d much rather […]
An Album review of sorts. Music, it should be acknowledged, has an indeterminate uphill battle in objectivity. The shit that shakes my derrière may not come remotely close to eliciting a modest jiggle of cellulite wiggle from your posterior! It’s a problematic issue for a lot of musos who would for examples sake love their […]
October 11 Rob Stewart (all ramblings within text are the thoughts and opinions of Rob and not reflective of Gove FMs ideology) Much like the Gurindji Strike (Wave Hill Walk Off), admittedly without the political significance, this little idea, is sure to become a very big thing for music and culture in North East Arnhem […]
Sunny coast punks, The Chats unapologetically announce the release of their second album, GET FUCKED for release worldwide on August 19th via Bargain Bin Records. The band have also let a new single and video rip PLUS revealed an Australian headlining tour for September 2022. LISTEN: THE CHATS – ‘6L GTR’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrkuo0y8gMU ‘6L GTR’ is the new […]
MusicNT have announced a rebranded, reimagined annual award ceremony to celebrate the incredible talent, innovation and dedication of the Northern Territory music industry. The NT Music Awards, previously known as the NT Song of the Year Awards, return for the first time since 2018 and include a number of new award categories to capture and celebrate the […]
Saturday night at Darwin Entertainment Centre’s Stage Theatre was the scene of paradoxical delights. It was where brutality and precision were interwoven through a seemingly unlikely ally. Welcome to the world of Southeast Desert Metal. A very metal band who hail from the Arrernte Indigenous Community of Santa Teresa, making them possibly one of the […]
Those magnificent human beings from Artback NT have been working with another group of fine humans from the Gove Arts Theatre and they have been working earnestly to bring to us mere beings the joyous craft of seriously creative artists. Sunday the 7th of March was a standout point in case. Myself and others made […]
Poolside at Lattitude 12 on a Saturday evening was the venue chosen for a seemingly rag tag bunch of troubadours from the alternative side of town who usually choose to operate under the cover of darkness, but here they were, the Diego’s, set to start before the sun went down. However any sense of dubiety […]
On Friday the 19th of February, the Gulf Room upstairs at the Walkabout Lodge played host to an evening of guitar mastery from Francis Diatschenko. For almost an hour and a half Francis mesmerised and captivated all who attended. He conducted his instrumental sermon astride a small stage riser, and albeit a modest mount, the […]
Saturday the 13th of Feb will go down in the annals of Nhulunbuy’s history as one of the towns very momentous occasions.Let me set the scene… the camera pans up the warm and well worn concrete path that leads to the entry doors of the Nhulunbuy town hall. A cacophony of feint screeches of joy […]
