2025 was a pretty busy one for me. I did 128,000 kilometres of travel, saw 21 gigs with 64 different artists. Phew!
Music
A lot of gigs. Best gig of the year was Ezra Collective at the Opera House. I've never seen the entire Concert Hall up and dancing.
Artists I saw (excluded some from festivals):
- Bahamadia
- The Beards
- The Beths
- Cloud Control
- Clouds
- DJ Shadow
- Egoism (twice)
- Ela Minus
- Ezra Collective
- Fontaines D.C.
- Furnace and the Fundamentals
- God Is An Astronaut
- PJ Harvey (twice)
- The Herd
- Kneecap
- Kristin Hersh
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
- The Necks
- Parcels
- Pete & Bas
- Hania Rani
- Severed Heads
- Skeleten
- Sun Ra Arkestra
- Tangerine Dream
- Throwing Muses
Travel
Nine trips to Melbourne, two to San Francisco and an epic Singapore-Paris-London-Porto trip with the Rumbleskins. The Europe trip was a load of fun!