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Shaun Colnan, Journalist

Shaun Colnan

Shaun's been writing with The Music since 2015 and in that time has written on everything from high art to hip hop, from spectacular jazz in grand arenas to burgeoning bands in back rooms at pubs. He's mapped the rise of such acts as Winston Surfshirt and Noname, reviewed musicals, theatre shows and a tonne of music including the reunions of Wu-Tang Clan and TLC.

His one claim to fame is a short-lived time as singer in a band that Julia Jacklin opened for before she was famous. He's interviewed the Tibetan Prime Minister and a radio comedian he can't remember the name of. Outside of reviewing for The Music, he is a full-time English teacher, part-time poet and avid music and literature aficionado/desperado.

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Lucinda Williams
Live Review: Lucinda Williams @ Sydney Opera House
It was part concert, part memoir, part cinema in the round, and full of joy, candour and resilience.
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moktar
Live Review: Moktar @ Carriageworks, Sydney
moktar's set provided a reminder of what club music can do: bridge worlds, shake assumptions, and, above all, make people move.
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Black Star
Live Review: Black Star @ Carriageworks, VIVID Sydney
Black Star isn’t just music; it’s a living archive. A communion. A reminder.
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Japanese Breakfast
Live Review: Japanese Breakfast @ Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
By the time 'Diving Woman' crashes into its final, thundering chords, we’re no longer inside a venue. We’re in Michelle Zauner’s universe: romantic, weird, luminous, alive.
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Beth Gibbons
Live Review: Beth Gibbons @ Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
This was a performance of fragility and control, intimacy and grandeur, warmth and distance, held together by Gibbons’ unmistakable voice.
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Jessica Pratt
Live Review: Jessica Pratt @ Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House
In a magical set, Jessica Pratt proved that she isn’t a performer in the theatrical sense; she’s a conjurer.
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ANOHNI And The Johnsons
Live Review: ANOHNI And The Johnsons @ Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
This wasn’t just ANOHNI’s last performance in Australia with The Johnsons. It was an elegy for the Anthropocene.
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MISNEACH Festival
Live Review: MISNEACH Festival @ The Domain, Sydney
Headliner Dermot Kennedy shone in the way he always does, making sure the spotlight didn’t just fall on him but on everyone around him.
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New Order
Live Review: New Order @ Sydney Opera House Forecourt
The night showcased New Order’s enduring ability to craft propulsive electronic music, and keep audiences singing along.
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Ganavya
Live Review: Ganavya @ The Vanguard, Sydney
Ganavya wove an atmosphere of transcendence in Sydney, inviting the audience into a world where poetry and music became one.
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Jordan Rakei
Live Review: Jordan Rakei @ Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Jordan Rakei's Sydney Opera House debut was a culmination of everything he has worked toward: a masterclass in musicianship, storytelling and soul.
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Maribou State
Live Review: Maribou State @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Maribou State delivered a performance that was as cerebral as it was visceral, as technically masterful as it was emotionally stirring.