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  • Album Review – Geese: Getting Killed (2025)

    Album Review – Geese: Getting Killed (2025)

    Rating: 4 out of 5.

    Geese must be in strong consideration for best rock band going around these days. Getting Killed continues their experimentation in what it takes to be a great band in the twenty twenties. Is rock dead? Hell no, and it ain’t ever gonna die.

    Opening with Trinidad, we immediately get everything we come to expect from Geese – great guitar licks from Emily Green (probably the best rock guitarist right now), Cameron Winter’s melodic and chaotic vocals, and the tight rhythm section consisting of Dominic DiGesu (bass) and Max Bassin (drums). “There’s a bomb in my car” is instantly quotable and already has a t-shirt line.

    A few moments of quietness, but not really quiet and still plenty catchy, we get Cobra and Husbands, and then back into chaos with Getting Killed; the albums balance is spot on.

    Getting Killed continues this way and doesn’t let up. Bow Down is a masterful highlight that mixes interesting rhythm with a soaring, melodic chorus.

    Overall the album, like the three that come before it, is the kind that you just want to listen to front to back – it’s not any one single that stands out and dominates – every track is listenable in a different way, with influences coming everywhere from Zeppelin to Radiohead, but never sounding like anything other than Geese. If they can keep making music like this, the future of rock looks good.

  • Gig Review – Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds with support from Aldous Harding

    Gig Review – Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds with support from Aldous Harding

    Fremantle Park, Saturday January 17th, 2026 –

    Nick Cave has been good to Perth (unlike his bass player’s band who have not been to Perth since the nineties. Come on Colin, let the other Radioheads know it’s a nice place to visit), with regular visits in one form or another. Last time he toured with the bad seeds was about a decade ago, so the audience appeared itching and ready to hear how the years have aged the band (like fine wine, to use the cliche).

    Playing in the spacious setting of Fremantle Park, and down the road from my old high school, Nick and the band put on an arena sized show with giant screens and lights to boot, and boy did they bring the scale. From Wild God on this fan was blown away by the bigness of it all, and happy to see the veteran performer at his best. How age and experience conditions performers always amazes me. Every time “Bring your spirit down” popped up on the big screens the chills spread further through this reviewers body and justified the spending of the standard high ticket price on a show that left me reliving moments for days.

    Performing mostly tracks from the Wild God album, with some classics and deep cuts in between, noone in the audience seemed unhappy (apart from the usual jerks yelling requests – please audiences, never do this unless asked by the performer, let them play the show they have practiced so hard to get right). Emotional, exhilarating, it had it all. When he closed solo on the piano playing the now recontextualised Into My Arms, the emotion was hard to contain. Thank you Nick and band, and please keep coming and sharing your hearts with us.

    Before ending the review, I must make special mention of Aldous Harding, who I’ve only discovered a few weeks ago after my wife told me she’s supporting, and thank god she told me. I’ve since been absolutely blown away and obsessed with the brilliant NZ performer. Aldous walked on like she hadn’t seen a crowd of this scale before and wanted to ignore us and pretend she was in her room at home, but she brought an incredible vocal range and intensity that had this reviewer feeling chills. From tongue in cheek (Leathery Whip) to pure emotional outpouring (Horizon), she was a perfect warm up to the main show. Can’t wait to hear new material from Aldous this year, and fingers crossed a tour of her own to Perth.