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Sydney Sings Along-The Kooks Prove They’re Still Kings of Indie at the Hordern Pavilion 20.02.2025 – Backseat Mafia
The Kooks know their place in indie history. They also know they don’t want to live in it. And if tonight’s sold-out show at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion is anything to go by, they don’t need to—because the crowd is still very much here for them. It’s been nearly two decades since Inside In/Inside Out made them the soundtrack to a thousand coming-of-age montages, but with their new album Never/Know, out in May via Virgin Music Group, they’re proving they’ve got more in the tank than just nostalgia. The first taste of the record, lead single Never Know, dropped recently, and it’s classic Kooks: hook-heavy, breezy, and packed with the kind…
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Dan Kelly sings an eloquent paean to ‘The Sea Shepherd Cook’ ahead of new album and live dates – Backseat Mafia
The new track ‘The Sea Shepherd Cook’ from Australian troubadour Dan Kelly is a gorgeous dreamy and eloquent water-logged tale soaked in melancholy and drenched with a whimsical melody. The track veritably skims along the waters with a nautical lilt but leavened with a good-natured observations on nutrition, friendships and desire, with singer Jess Ribeiro adding a ray of sunshine, a golden filigree, to Kelly’s humorous and witty observational style. Kelly says of the track: I made up this one after an introduction to night kayaking, Tasmanian whiskey and homemade patè by the great Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan. Wandering through the Hobart docks the next morning, grimly trying to work…
