Fresh from a solid live-to-air on 3CR, local guitar-artist Nicholas Ogburn launched his new album – a fifth – with great aplomb last Friday night at the Acoustic Café in Collingwood.
Australia isn’t known for being generous to eccentrics, especially in the music industry. That’s one of the reasons Jeff Duff isn’t popular.
Saturday last saw the finals of Deadly Funny for 2011 which saw more amazing comedic talent emerge from Australia's Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander communities.
For me what most illustrates the moribund nature of Sydney's administration is not the public transport(try Melbourne's).
So how much have we have changed since 1987? Formerly, Wall Street conjured images of suits, corruption, women and of course, money, money, money.
It was oddly appropriate that there was a ferocious storm outside on the opening night of Redemption.
In 2010 the judges elected not to compile a shortlist, instead directing that the grant be rolled into a development fund for emerging playwrights. This did not sit well with the Australian theatrical community.
Australia's collective Monty Python obsession is clearly strong as ever, if the last Friday's packed opening night of “Spamalot” - Supa Productions' latest offering - is anything to go by.
We are presented from the beginning with a Macbeth who is probably already mad, or at least has some underlying mental health issues that remain unnamed and undiagnosed in medieval Scotland.
Way to Heaven is a translation of a superb script from Spanish writer Juan Mayorga which details the execution of an elaborate Nazi plan during World War II.
Pulling off a full-length show about Bob Dylan that uses not a single Bob Dylan song was always going to be a challenge, but the team behind The Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman have pulled it off masterfully.
Deadly Funny is about finding and supporting the funniest up-and-coming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander comedians in the country, made more interesting as they compete for a grand prize of $2,000.
By Steven Danno: Dollsquad / Intercontinental Playboys / Platinum Brunette – Sandringham Hotel Newtown 03/2010 From the second Dollsquad hit the Sando stage it was obvious they meant deadly serious business , decked from head to toe in high heeled leather hell , lead singer Joey swinging a massive chain, the band screamed danger...
By Alex Schlotzer It’s an energetic atmosphere at Melbourne Town Hall this fine-ish evening (31/03/10) as comedians and acts spruik their respective shows, as they do every night for their respective seasons. On this night the spruiking was momentarily stopped by the good folk pushing a tram to get it moving again but that’s...
The great thing about ignorance is the opportunity it gives you to learn. In my case I’d never heard of Baterz (real name Barnaby Charles Ward), an Adelaide songwriter who died at the tragically young age of 32 in 2002.
By David Bowden: Let’s get the history lesson out of the way first. Rowland S. Howard is famous primarily for two things – firstly for writing “Shivers” in the band Boys Next Door, which gave us our first glimpse of a young Nick Cave, but more importantly for his role in the band they...
