Picture by Daniel Boud DREAMS Vivid Live, Sydney Opera House, May 29 Daniel John and Luke Steele are having a pretty fab time with their long-mooted collaboration, the two-man, electro-pop, audio-visual, hyphenate’s dream, Dreams. This enjoyment is its primary calling card and certainly the reason why Johns, whose discomfort with public performance is well known, has been to Coachella and now the Opera House. For this night Johns arrives dressed as a member of early Roxy Musi

Checked out the first batch of best albums of the year? Good. Here's the concluding half, with ten more excellent releases. Buy them all. Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul The instrumental Stark’s Reality, with its marimba flirting across a ‘70s crime film atmosphere (leaning bass, strings for emphasis rather than tension, shaker percussion more than drums) may be over in not much more than two minutes but its connection to a similar modern film noir soundtrack you

If you were anywhere near me this year you'd have heard these songs coming from my room, car, headphones or - if you were really unlucky - my singing along. Trends? Patterns? Foibles? Maybe - knock yourselves out if you want and let me know if these tell you anything about me or 2015. But more likely they are just songs which tripped me up and held my attention. Repeatedly. And I didn't even include older songs that came into, or back into, my life this year like the 752 vers