THE STARS

Addison Rae, Florian expansionism, Dog Boy

Thank you to everyone who attended our book launch a couple of Saturdays ago. We enjoyed our beetroot tartare and tarragon crisps, our Esses, our kick-ons at the Grace (and beyond). If you missed out, copies of EXCLUSIVE! are available for purchase at our shop and book stores around the city. And to any Sydneysiders reading this, we’ll be having a launch on December 6th at Hollywood Hotel in Surry Hills. It’s free, but numbers are limited, so please RSVP here.

★★★★★ Addison Rae concert, special report

If you did happen to attend our launch party, you might have accepted a cured trout blini from a platter wielded by local writer and community radio host, Lucy Grant. At 11pm that night, blinis dispatched, Lucy changed out of her black-and-white waiter’s garb and into a purple hoodie, neon pink wig, and white wired headphones for Halloween: she was pop princess Addison Rae in the “Headphones On” music video. Credentials proven, we asked Lucy to report on Addison’s Tuesday night show at the Forum in our stead (we missed out on tix). Hours after the gig concluded, she filed over 1000 words of detailed cultural-musicological ethnography. Editorialising her observations too much would be both unnecessary and girlist; what follows is a special report in Lucy’s own words.

The Scene

Outside the venue: The scene is young, femme, and online. The further you travel from the front of the line (those queuing since 5am to be at the barrier), the older the average age, and the more seemingly chronically self-aware the engagement becomes. A few make TikToks around me in the queue and I do not look down my nose at this because my L-plated comrades and I understand that, in the words of our blow-waved matriarch, “taste is a privilege,” “money is everything,” and “can’t a girl have fun?”