I love Sydney. For most of its quirks. All in the space of a few hours you can smoke cigarettes and shisha inside a club with BYO drinks, then catch an Uber a few suburbs over and spend $25 on a smoothie that you’ll drink while cosplaying as a...
You hosted BLK.OUT recently, what does that event mean to you? This event was basically for the South African diaspora that’s in Australia. We don’t have a lot of our culture stuff actually happening, and if they are happening they’re not being done the right way,...
Lewis Garnham is coming back home for the 2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival season after moving to London last year. After a sell-out run last year, he’s returning with a limited run of work-in-progress shows – slightly different each night. If you’ve seen him before, you know what you’...
Ben Searle has been part of Melbourne comedy’s engine room since the mid-2010s, juggling his life on stage with the behind-the-scenes work that keeps rooms alive. This year, he’s getting ready for a new Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, Shelter in the Age of Loneliness, built around a...
We first came across Walkerboy on his single ‘On a Roll’, a track he put out a few years back. In it, he raps over a drill beat produced by his long-time collaborator Utility, while he’s hanging out the passenger window of an all-black Range. For the uninitiated: Anyway,...
I love Sydney. For most of its quirks. All in the space of a few hours you can smoke cigarettes and shisha inside a club with BYO drinks, then catch an Uber a few suburbs over and spend $25 on a smoothie that you’ll drink while cosplaying as a...
