Second US Presidential Debate
Thank you Frinkiac.
Jez
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Lilith: The Jungle Girl
Camp, trashtastic anachronism is the order of the day in Sisters Grimm’s Lilith: The Jungle Girl. Which is unsurprising on some level if you’ve ever seen a show from Declan Greene and Ash Flanders, or indeed just visited the company’s website. Blending the familiar colonial narrative tropes of taming-the-savage and classying-up-the-dame (TBH, pretty much the same story), and queering roles…
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Trailer: The Maze
Trailer shot for The Maze, an upcoming Melbourne Fringe Festival show written and directed by my partner, Kasey Gambling, and produced by The Honeytrap. The Maze takes a single audience member on a walking journey along night-time streets in North Melbourne, following an ‘ideal woman’ as she heads home from a bar. As she walks, the…
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The Punch Brothers, at the Melbourne Recital Centre
The stately Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Hall at the Melbourne Recital Centre is no stranger to hosting top-of-their-game musicians, virtuosos with something to prove. So to some degree, it’s no surprise the MRC programmers have taken another bite of the cherry in having the Punch Brothers return to play this space. The audience milling around the…
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Trailer: Real Piece of Work
A reel of video from a recent performance piece development, Real Piece of Work, by feminist theatre company The Honeytrap. Featuring performances by Debbie Zukerman and Kasey Gambling, directed by Jo Redfearn, and devised by all three women, Real Piece of Work explores a dystopian future and explores learned behaviours for woman, and what it means…
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Lake Wallaga, Bermagui and Tilba Tilba
A few photos from a long weekend camping in Bermagui, with serene sunsets from our camp site next to Lake Wallaga.
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The Decemberists at Hamer Hall, 29 March 2016
The Decemberists are one of my favourite, all-time bands. Hands down. Right up there. Ever since my sister introduced me to the band in the early 2000s, I’ve devoured each of their albums voraciously, from the consistent, folk-rock-sea shanty-heavy to the increasingly country-rock to the progressively conceptual. The Decemberist’s last visit to Melbourne several years ago…
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PAX Australia and Geekplate present the First Annual Foodfight
Hosted by Geekplate creator Tristan Lutze, the First Annual Foodfight at PAXAus 2015 featured guests including Eve Beauregard on Periscope and pizza duty, Good Game’s Stephanie “Hex” Bendixsen with the healthiest portion of the show, Tripod’s Scod spicing things up with a pasta dish, and Kotaku’s Mark Serrels getting back to basics with his trademark carbs.…
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It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
The furore around the booing of Adam Goodes (note the definite article for booing of Adam Goodes) has been inescapable and almost impossible to resist joining. There’s something morbidly fascinating about the stubborn, pitched ideological battle that’s being waged, and it is difficult to look away. Reading articles, letters, op-eds, tweets, shares, likes, re-posts, analyses,…
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Broken Man
[stag_intro]If I’m being completely honest, I came really late to loving country and bluegrass.[/stag_intro] [stag_dropcap font_size=”50px” style=”normal”]I[/stag_dropcap] liked guitar-heavy singer-songwriter types, and loved me some folk, but it took a while of slow genre-absorption before I realised that – indeed – I kinda liked country. Of course, not all country, but that whole batch of music…
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No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross, Sufjan Stevens
[stag_intro]Official audio for Sufjan Steven’s No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross, from his upcoming album Carrie & Lowell (available via Asthmatic Kitty).[/stag_intro] https://vimeo.com/118270296
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Adaptation
[stag_intro]Adaptations, the new EP coming out from indie outfit The Animators, is a tight quartet of alt-rock tracks.[/stag_intro] The Animators have been building a following since 2009, from a kickstart providing the soundtrack for a documentary film, through to supporting acts like Bonjah and winning over Triple J audiences. Adaptations takes four tracks from front…