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[GIVEAWAY]: Debit MasterCard Brings You Florence!
In 2011’s third and final installment of the Debit MasterCard Priceless Music Series, they’ve pulled a bit of a rabbit out of a hat: Florence And The Machine. (See: Red hair. Long legs. All of the lungs. All of the songs.) She’s celebrating Ceremonials, her brand new record which comes out this week (October 28), [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2011 under Feature Music, New, Uncategorized.
Tags: Florence & The Machine, Giveaway, Music
[MUSIC: Live Review] Custard @ The Standard, Saturday September 24
After dusting off 1995 hit song, ‘Apartment,’ Custard’s frontman Dave McCormack leaned back, looked at his newly reformed band and yelped, “This is fun! We should do it more often!” As wry as that catch-cry may have been, no one argued at Custard’s first Sydney shows in 12 years – two consecutive nights which succeeded in [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Custard, Max Easton, The Brag, The Standard
[THEATRE: Review] Blood Wedding
Blood Wedding
Until September 11/ Wharf 1, STC
****
Federico Garcia Lorca was a poet first, and Blood Wedding – one of the Andalusian tragedies that put him on the map as a dramatist both in Spain and internationally – rolls together his fascination with fate, death and desire, and his distinctive style, which fuses the symbolic and [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Blood Wedding, Dee Jefferson, The Brag
[Sydney Film Festival 2011: Review] The Turin Horse
The Turin Horse (HUNGARY)
Dir. Béla Tarr
Info/ Screenings
Does Béla Tarr have a sense of humour? Yes, he does. There’s a point in The Turin Horse, about half way through, when he compacts more dialogue than the rest of the film combined into the space of about two minutes, in the form of a stream [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2011 under Arts, Film Reviews, Sydney Film Festival 2011, Uncategorized.
Tags: Bela Tarr, Dee Jefferson, Sydney Film Festival, The Turin Horse
Jethro Tull @ The State Theatre, Thursday April 28
JETHRO TULL
Jethro Tull were just one of the many grey pilgrim acts putting on post-Bluesfest sideshows as part of their nostalgia tours tonight. One woman, who had bought tickets to both tonight’s show and that of Mr Robert Zimmerman, was anxiously trying to offload one or the other in the queue, while simultaneously trying to [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Jethro Tull, Oliver Downes, The Brag