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  • al creed 2025Lisa Gough Photography

    1. LACHLAN X MORRIS – “ILLUSIONAIRES”
    If you don’t know about Novocastrian pop genius, Lachlan X Morris’s work, then you need to get off your ass and give his latest album, “Illusionaires”, a spin and subsequent purchase. 

    In my mind, Lachlan is one of those artists that you wonder, “how is this guy not world renowned and a household name?” He also surrounds himself with a cast of superb musicians whose abilities are equally the perfect vehicle for driving his musical offings into your worn-out earholes, making them feel fresh and resonant.

  • graham steel 2025
    Another busy year in the gig circuit in 2025. Plenty of gigs were attended. Plenty of old and new bands were viewed and enjoyed. It was also a year where seven Newcastle bands took on the domestic and global radio land.

    Over the past six months Drugs in Sport, Melvic Centre, Autumn Hearts, Joint Pains, East Coast Low, Lachlan X. Morris and FÄHM ended up being played by more than 450 syndicated radio stations across 11 countries, including Cambodia and Mexico, with a total of over 2800 plays (that are known!! - most are on a regular rotation now) that consumed over 9000 minutes of airtime and made 32 Top Tens and produced four number-ones.

  • DIS SPLIT cvrNothing Is For Everyone – Drugs in Sport/Sound of Speed – Lachlan X Morris (Outtaspace)

    Split records can be problematic. Too often the vehicles of economic convenience for cash-strapped but otherwise disparate bands who pool their money and patch two sides together in order, just to get a release out. And there are splits like this one where some pop-rock magic works together.

    Drugs in Sport and Lachlan X Morris both come from Newcastle in Australia. A onetime hotbed for blue collar rock and roll, the former Steel City has gentrified and diversified. This shared release on Central Coast label Outtspace is five songs from DIS and four from Lachlan X over two sides of 12-inch vinyl, and proves that there’s still rock and roll life in Newie.