24 Apr 2015
Le Noir is a reinvention of circus of the most breathtaking, momentous and mesmerising kind. New superlatives could be invented for this show and still would…
21 Apr 2015
Local five-piece outfit Sun Theory have released their latest CD in an eclectic mix of folk rock/pop/bluesy original music written predominantly by founder and…
12 Apr 2015
The title may suggest that this book offers an easy way to declutter your house but it’s so much more than that. It’s a wide-ranging look at the…
10 Apr 2015
A very much up-for-it Frank Turner greets the crowd and immediately launches into the lurching intro of Four Simple Words . Within seconds he is roaring along…
10 Apr 2015
This play by Ronald Harwood is unfortunately timely and topical. Many of us have now had experience of dementia. You don’t need to have it yourself; being close…
7 Apr 2015
An 8-piece band fills the venue with some sweet reggae sounds. The band members are all wearing official t-shirts, so there’s no doubting who is playing…
1 Apr 2015
The lavish blue curtain goes up, and the band starts playing. There are about 10 of them, guys and gals, and they introduce the star of the evening’s show with…
28 Mar 2015
Vanessa Stephen, her sister Virginia and their brothers Thoby and Adrian are bereft at the death of their beloved father soon after their mother passed away.…
26 Mar 2015
Bill Oddie (Bloomsbury Academic & Professional) 2015, 224pp, RRP $35.00
26 Mar 2015
Halligan’s latest novel is often gorgeously written and melancholically moving, and yet there’s something a little precious and even (dare it be said?)…
26 Mar 2015
The latest in an ongoing series of glossy volumes dedicated to studying ‘History’s Best/Worst/Greatest…’ (mysteries, wars and so forth), Price’s straightforward…
26 Mar 2015
Charles M. Schulz [and guests] (A&U Canongate) 2015, 323/325pp, RRP $29.99 ea