Editor's picks

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Northcote's Finest Kick The Winter Blues Away

Country Struts bring their raw, stomping folk to the Northcote Theatre on a night that'll have sawdust on the floor and frost on the windows. This is the kind of hoedown where strangers end up dancing with strangers by the second song.

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Dystinct Brings Their World to Festival Hall

Dystinct land at Festival Hall with a live show built on magnetic stage presence and genre-fluid confidence. Few artists command a room the way they do — watch closely and you'll understand why the hype refuses to die down.

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Colin Hay Strips It Back at Southbank

One of Australia's great songwriters plays the Recital Centre alone with a guitar, and that's more than enough. Hay's voice carries decades of hard-won tenderness — songs like *Overkill* hit differently when there's nothing between you and the man who wrote them.

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Mental As Anything Bring 50 Years to Northcote

Few bands have soundtracked Australian suburban life quite like Mental As Anything — *The Nips Are Getting Bigger* alone earns them a lifetime pass. They play Northcote Theatre on Friday 26 June, and a half-century of pub-rock charm in a room that size is going to hit different.