Interviews

As the Nimbin Roots festival finalé draws closer the artist line-up is proving that this festival will go out with a bang! Making their way from Adelaide, ARIA winners and AMC SA Music Hall of Fame inductees, The Audreys, have spent a big part of this year touring their new album, Ruin & Repair, featuring a selection of newly-penned songs honouring the legacy of their late founding member Tristan Goodall (01.01.1974 – 02.07.2022)

Film director Damon Gameau (2040, That Sugar Film) invited eight children on an epic adventure across Europe in a school bus powered by biofuel. Their mission: to better understand the planet’s predicament and take the conversation into the boardrooms of some of the world’s largest polluters and most influential companies.

Proud Gunai Woman Kirli Saunders (OAM) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, author of nine books, poet and singer-songwriter who will bring her bold, boundary-pushing voice to the Byron Writers Festival.

Byron Writers Festival talked to British novelist Esther Freud in the lead-up to this year's festival.

Debra Dank is passionate about the environment, especially as her Country, on the Beetaloo Basin, is under threat of being fracked. Her latest book is Terraglossia

Tony Armstrong found national acclaim as an AFL player turned TV personality. Now he’s a successful children’s book author and will share his latest book Maggie the Dragon at Byron Writers Festival’s Kids Program.

Ziggy Ramo is an award-winning artist whose work spans music, literature, film, and performance. This year, Ramo brings his powerful voice and vision to Byron Writers Festival.

As excitement builds for the inaugural Mullum Roots Festival headlined by The Waifs, Seven talked to one third of this iconic Australian act, Vikki Thorn about so many things…

The Old Mervs have only one New South Wales show at Stone & Wood’s 11th instalment of Festival of the Stone before heading to Victoria, Tasmania and the US.

Australian guitarist-songwriter-vocalist-producer, Jeff Lang has built a reputation for making startling music that is accomplished, intricate, gutsy, melodic and loaded with soul. Often taking unexpected turns, he has consistently inspired his audiences by creating a stylistically diverse catalog of over 25 albums. Headlining the Mullum Ex-Services stage on Sunday, 13 July as part of the Mullum Roots Festival, Seven had a chat with Jeff last week in the leadup to his Mullum show.

The last time I saw Reg Mombassa, we were on the Condamine River – he was sketching Ash Grunwald while he surfed the frack bubbling water, as neighbouring farmers fired threats, and a shot or two, over our heads. Ahhh those were the days…

Known to the world as Rag’n’Bone Man, Rory Graham burst onto the music scene in 2016 with his breakthrough hit ‘Human’, a track that masterfully blended traditional blues with hip hop and introduced listeners to his powerful baritone voice. 

Playing two home turf shows on the weekend, Ash Grunwald has inspired a generation with his signature blend of blues and roots. Known for his ‘surf by day, jam by night’ ethos

Two screenings in April will give movie-lovers a one-off chance to revisit films by renowned Byron filmmaker Richard Mordaunt, whose groundbreaking works explore community activism, art, and civil rights.

Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey have announced they will be taking their much-lauded musical collaboration, Fanning Dempsey National Park

When one door closes… Vanessa Larry Mitchell is one very funny chick, who has spent the last few years dancing around the globe with her...

Steve Banks and the fabulous Sidemen are returning to the Brunswick Picture House with a spotlight on Rick Fenn, who is just back from...

Vampires coming to the Northern Rivers With their latest, seventh, album Nightjar, ARIA Award winners The Vampires mark a watershed in their 15-year career, making...

The Cunning Stunts are pretty chuffed to be celebrating nine years and their 80th event this weekend, having raised over $421k for dozens of very good causes and raised the fun levels of everyone at their gigs. We had a chat with the four co-founders of Cunning Stunts ahead of their show this Saturday at The Billi.

Austen Tayshus is putting a very funny 40th anniversary spin on Australiana and will be supported by Cam Standen at Byron Bay Services Club. On Wednesday, January 8, he is at the Bangalow Bowling Club and Thursday, January 9, at the Tyalgum Hotel.