The joyful Soweto choir that even Nelson Mandela wanted to join

The joyful Soweto choir that even Nelson Mandela wanted to join

The three-time Grammy Award winners are back with a concert about the struggle against apartheid.

  • byGarry Maddox

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Meet the crew crazy enough to open a free live music venue in 2024

Meet the crew crazy enough to open a free live music venue in 2024

A shared passion for live music and country pubs has driven the new owners of the Punters Club to relaunch the Brunswick Street venue.

  • byMartin Boulton
‘The Brits made us feel like it was a peasant language’:Kneecap’s rebellious rise to power

‘The Brits made us feel like it was a peasant language’:Kneecap’s rebellious rise to power

The real-life story of a rap trio from Belfast and their fight to save the Irish language has become one of the year’s hottest films.

  • byThomas Mitchell
Everybody’s talking about ‘grace’. This is how it looks in action

Everybody’s talking about ‘grace’. This is how it looks in action

Directed by Bert LaBonte in his mainstage directorial debut,the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog at Melbourne Theatre Company is utterly transfixing.

  • byCameron Woodhead,Andrew Fuhrmann,Gemma Grant,Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen andTony Way
Call yourself an Oasis fan? Darren spent $200k to become Liam Gallagher

Call yourself an Oasis fan? Darren spent $200k to become Liam Gallagher

As the lead singer of Noasis,Australia’s most successful Oasis tribute band,Darren Spiby can lay claim to being the group’s biggest fan - and he’s got the receipts to prove it.

  • byThomas Mitchell
Meet the supergroup giving the middle finger to the Aussie music industry

Meet the supergroup giving the middle finger to the Aussie music industry

New hip-hop supergroup 3% are taking an urgent,raw and honest approach to topics such as land reparations and Indigenous deaths in custody.

  • byGemma Grant
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Anyone excited about the Oasis comeback has taken too many Class A drugs

Lads,Britpop’s ancient history – and you weren’t that good anyway.

  • byBen Coady
Bum note:The predictable,avoidable MSO mess that was months in the making

Bum note:The predictable,avoidable MSO mess that was months in the making

The confused and complicated situation engulfing the MSO goes beyond the Israel/Palestine conflict to a cold war raging for months inside Australia’s oldest professional orchestra.

  • byChip Le Grand
‘I might need to go to emergency’:Oasis superfans in race for tour tickets

‘I might need to go to emergency’:Oasis superfans in race for tour tickets

Oasis fans are making plans to be there when Manchester’s famous Gallagher brothers are reunited on stage.

  • byMartin Boulton andFrances Howe
‘The great wait is over’:Gallagher brothers bury the hatchet for Oasis tour

‘The great wait is over’:Gallagher brothers bury the hatchet for Oasis tour

Noel and Liam Gallagher have ended several days of intense speculation,revealing Oasis will return to the stage in 2025.

  • byMartin Boulton
Definitely,maybe the most rock’n’roll band ever:Why Oasis matter

Definitely,maybe the most rock’n’roll band ever:Why Oasis matter

Part theatre,part poetry and purely for the people. As Britpop’s self-declared kings will tell you themselves,they are really all that.

  • byKarl Quinn