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Eliza Spencer

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A Moment with Aussie Darling Julia Stone

December 15, 2018December 15, 2018 Eliza Spencer

The Eye Creative Magazine, Issue 14,  December 2018. The Indie-folk darlings of the Australian music scene, Angus and Julia Stone have been giving us heartfelt tunes since the early 2000s. Whether it’s a memory of your first kiss as ‘Big Jet Plane’ plays in the...

Review: The Cat Empire at The Enmore Theatre, Sydney, 14 September 2018

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 Eliza Spencer

Halfway through a sold-out Australian tour, The Cat Empire filled the Enmore Theatre to the brim with a show that sent fans dancing into the weekend with some help from Sydney’s own Odette. Fresh off her own tour after the release of her debut album To a Stranger, Odette serenaded the...

Q&A: Ball Park Music riding high on ‘GOOD MOOD’

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 Eliza Spencer

Aussie indie rockers Ball Park Music are riding the high of their latest release GOOD MOOD all the way to Splendour and back before hitting the road with San Cisco in September for an Australian tour. We sat down with Ball Park’s Sam Cromack and Jen Boyce to chat Nirvana, politics and keeping one foot in...

Review: Regina Spektor at Sydney Opera House, 9 July 2018

July 15, 2018July 19, 2018 Eliza Spencer

Music Insight, 2018. Image Courtesy of Sydney Opera House/Prudence Upton New York’s queen of indie, Regina Spektor, received a rapturous welcome at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Monday night. Debuting her 2016 record Remember Us to Lifeto Australian audiences in her first visit in six...

Q&A: Xavier Rudd talks Storm Boy and Vegan Chilli

May 24, 2018July 19, 2018 Eliza Spencer

Music Insight, 2018 Aussie roots icon Xavier Rudd is set to release his latest album, Storm Boy, on May 25. Six years since his last solo project, his spiritual, indie-folk sound combines complex multi-instrumentation and an overarching connection between soul, land and spirit. We caught up with the...

Album Review: Many Rooms – ‘There Is A Presence Here’

May 11, 2018July 19, 2018 Eliza Spencer

Music Insight, 2018 A lullaby for existentialists, There Is A Presence Here is the debut album from Brianna Hunt, known as Many Rooms. After the critical acclaim received from the release of her single ‘Which Is To Say, Everything’, which debuted on NPR’s All Songs Considered, Hunt has authored an album...

Review: Alex the Astronaut and Stella Donnelly at Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, 18 April 2018

April 21, 2018December 15, 2018 Eliza Spencer

Music Insight, 2018 Stella Donnelly and Alex the Astronaut have swapped noodles and astronaut suits for guitars in the first of their two sold-out shows at the Oxford Art Factory. They were supported by local artist JEFFE, and the ladies-only lineup delighted the crowd on Wednesday night.

Review: LANY at Big Top Luna Park, Sydney, 25 March 2018

March 27, 2018July 19, 2018 Eliza Spencer

A late start didn’t stop LANY from dazzling crowds at Luna Park’s Big Top on Sunday. The band made an impressive entrance through thick haze and humidity to the cheers of a rain-soaked crowd, lead vocalist Paul Klein standing with arms outstretched as he thanked audiences for braving the...

Newton Faulkner on Owning a Label and Finding His Sound

February 18, 2018December 15, 2018 Eliza Spencer

Music Insight, February 2018 Ten years after releasing his first record, English pop-folk artist Newton Faulkner believes he has found his sound. Describing his latest release, Hit the Ground Running, as a ‘fully updated version’ of his debut album Hand Built by Robots, Faulkner’s newest record is an engaging...

Review: Moses Sumney at Sydney Opera House, 8 February 2018

February 10, 2018July 19, 2018 Eliza Spencer

Music Insight, 2018 Few indie artists can say they’ve performed to a packed Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House, and the wonder wasn’t lost on Los Angeles native Moses Sumney. A soulful mix of R&B, folk, and jazz, Sumney was accompanied by Sam Gendel (Percussion, Woodwinds, Electric...

Eliza is a Sydney-based freelance journalist, copywriter and photographer dabbling in marketing and social media management.

Shamelessly addicted to strong coffees and always finding an excuse to be by the ocean, she is a local news reporter for the Sydney Sentinel and Communications Coordinator for Opportunity International Australia.

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