Music Archives : Alexandra Spring

Magic in the night: Bruce Springsteen closes his Australian tour in the sodden Hunter Valley

Alexandra Spring — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:16:14 +0000

Wind, rain and hail didn’t come between the performer and his devoted fans as he played three hours of blockbuster songs

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Crowded House review: ‘What a glorious night to be alive on the planet’

Alexandra Spring — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 07:18:02 +0000

Neil Finn’s band returns to the scene of their 1996 farewell show, with two hours of hits and jamming in front of 6,000 enraptured fans

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Music with a message: engineering industry tackles shortage of female students

Alexandra Spring — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 23:58:01 +0000

Nervo head up a new initiative aimed at encouraging young Australian women to study engineering With their spiked hair, sparkly eye makeup and heavily embellished costumes, they don’t look like engineers – and that’s exactly the point. The Melbourne-born electronic dance music duo Nervo – singer-songwriters and twin sisters Miriam and Olivia Nervo – have […]

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Ben Elton: there is no wisdom involved in being massively wealthy

Alexandra Spring — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:25:44 +0000

As a new production of We Will Rock You opens in Sydney, the writer and director sounds off about Donald Trump and the death of live music

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Josh Pyke: I’m not a pop singer, I write about stuff I care about

Alexandra Spring — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 08:35:24 +0000

The singer-songwriter on writing with kids, cuts to the arts and ABC and his worry that ‘only mainstream things get funded, and fringe stuff gets sidelined’

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Mark Ronson backstage at Splendour: talking Amy and Aussie newcomers – video

Alexandra Spring — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 04:34:26 +0000

Alex Spring talks to Mark Ronson backstage at Splendour in the Grass 2015. He talks about discovering new talent here with the Australian music scene having ‘such a good thing going on right now’. He also shares his thoughts on the recent Amy Winehouse documentary, describing his one-time collaborator as ‘one of the best lyricists […]

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Spinning Top: Flume

Alexandra Spring — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:20:33 +0000

Last time Harley Streten was in Europe, he carried a backpack and crashed in tatty hostels. This time round, he stayed at some of the world’s finest hotels. “The promoters were like: ‘I’ll take you out to the nicest restaurant and show you around. Oh, it’s snowing outside, come in, we’ve got a beautiful hotel.’ […]

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Woman on Fire: Jennifer Lopez

Alexandra Spring — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:29:15 +0000

She toppled Lady Gaga as Forbes Magazine’s Most Powerful Celebrity this year. She has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and is reportedly worth more than US$150 million. Yet for Jennifer Lopez, a moment shared with a fan in a hotel lobby exemplifies her career success. He told her he’d first met her when […]

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Renaissance Woman: Delta Goodrem

Alexandra Spring — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:08:11 +0000

I feel like it’s a totally different chapter; I feel like I’m back to being me again.” Delta Goodrem and I are in an elegantly appointed Sydney hotel suite. A light autumn breeze blows in from Hyde Park, through windows flung wide open. Goodrem is wearing a sleeveless white tuxedo shirt with fitted black tuxedo […]

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Second Coming: The Temper Trap

Alexandra Spring — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:39:51 +0000

If only Rolling Stone magazine could have seen them! Temper Trap singer Dougy Mandagi, guitarist Lorenzo Sillito, keyboardist Joseph Greer and drummer Toby Dundas holed up in a Los Angeles hotel room, not on a wild rock ‘n roll bender, but charged with looking after a newborn baby girl, so bassist Johnny Aherne could treat […]

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