WA Talent Celebrated at the 2016 WAMFest and WAMAwards
The 2016 WAMAwards nominees have been announced, with the list being led by grunge outfit Tired Lion with six nominations and jazz-rap collective Koi Child with five.
Other artists with the highest multiple nominations include Hideous Sun Demon, Verge Collection, Rag N’ Bone, Methyl Ethel and Lucy Peach.
Nominees were selected from judging panels formed from category specific specialists in the industry.
Voting among the 700+ music industry members has commenced in order to decide the winners of the craft and genre and industry awards.
Members of the public are able to vote in the six Public Voted Awards – including Most Popular Live Act, Most Popular Event and Most Popular Video.
Make sure you cast your votes here before 11.59pm Sunday October 23. Choose wisely.
While you're voting, make sure you check out what else is happening at 2016's WAMFest. There's a stack of free gigs lined up, featuring performances from your new favourite artists, such as Mathas, Tobacco Rat, Ah Trees, Catlips (DJ), Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Tangled Thoughts of Leaving, Verge Collection, Spire and heaps more. Get pumped!
written by Joseph Wilson + Daniel Morey
The Alliance French Film Festival will be screening from 12 March to 15 April across Palace Raine Square and Luna Cinemas. Click here for full Perth program.
A technical masterclass, an emotional masterpiece: La Traviata is an operatic tour-de-force.
This film hits you with its immediacy and urgency so forcefully that at times my own mind was rearing away in self-preservation.
Walking away, I could hardly believe what I’d seen: a hip hop violinist, with World music running through each beat of heart and songs, dancing freely with strangers under the night sky.
What’s your favourite scary movie? Probably not Scream 7.
How is it that the most cinematic moment I’ve experienced this year came from a stage play?
A show to savour, and one I wish I could see again soon.
Adam is a wonderful performer, whose love for his Dragon interest is carried across in excitement and eagerness.
On the third date of Thornhill’s completely sold-out Bodies Australian tour, the band packed out Perth’s Astor Theatre on a Tuesday night.
Haribo Kimchi is a prismatic, one-of-a-kind experience that tells a deeply personal story many immigrants will recognise, while offering others an intimate window into what it means to carry home within you.




