Live Review
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 […]
4th March 2022 Madison Thomas After two years of despair, the very suggestion that any international band, let alone arguably the world’s biggest rock band, would once again hit our shores seemed like a fever dream. Alas by some miracle, we find ourselves making the long journey out to GMHBA Stadium to watch Foo Fighters. There […]
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 […]
Wednesday Feb 3, The Cell, Nhulunbuy, NT. Comedy is quite the compelling challenge…How does one person engage a cohort of strange human beings, and tickle each and everyone of their jocular nerves with sufficient hilarity to have them smiling inanely throughout the show? That of course is a rhetorical interrogative statement, and is a very […]
Dallas Frasca / King of the North / Papa Said Live @ TAC August 12 Reviewed by Rob Stewart Dallas Frasca are one seriously popular band around these here parts, band shirt to punter ratio is at an all time high whenever this charmingly brutal trio of lovable troubadours grace us with their ever lovin […]
Battle of the Bands Live @ TAC June 25 By Rob Stewart As part of the Family Fun Festival that was held at the Arnhem Club last Saturday the Battle of the Bands was nothing short of an epic success. 8 local acts came, and they sung, rhymed, shouted, sweated, danced, bled, played and even […]
