I’ll be honest with you, sweet readers. I’m sending my love from afar this month.
While you’ve been enjoying the tail end of patio season, I’ve been off sinking cheap beers and looking at churches and castles.
But my time away has only made me more grateful for what we’ve got at home: our taps that can provide hot and cold water at the same time (what a concept), our coffee (obviously) and most of all, our culture, made up of you lot.
And there’s nothing that better encapsulates the spirit of our city than RISING, which will soon be settling in over our venues like a dark and magical fog.
This month’s cover star, Suki Waterhouse, has been lured in by the festival’s enigmatic charm and will soon perform in Melbourne for the first time ever. The show-stopping lineup also includes indie angel Soccer Mommy and local menaces Tropical Fuck Storm, who both kindly shared some insights ahead of their upcoming shows.
Elsewhere, doom-metal pioneers Divide and Dissolve discuss using their words (and when not to), folk hero James Vincent McMorrow takes us back to his breakthrough release and young punks Sonic Reducer dish out turbulent tales from their first overseas tour.
I’ve got to stop or I’ll get too homesick, but I swear it’s a good one. Enjoy it for me!
