REVIEW Still Night: Music in Poetry, Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Friday 25 November 2016, 7pm There is a gradually growing section in our hallway book shelves that contains poetry, yet it is all too rarely visited. In that respect it is like death, which we too often avoid confronting until it is thrust upon us. So much can be conveyed in poetry if we give … Continue reading FINDING CONSOLATION IN SADNESS
“In music you are allowed more elbow room to find your own way to whatever you interpret the music to be. So I think that’s a kind of interesting wrinkle in music, that because of its abstract nature it actually allows the listener to participate maybe a bit more with their own creativity and their own spontaneity … “ INTERVIEW Ronan Guilfoyle talks about his … Continue reading Suite for a shy revolutionary
PREVIEW Album launch, Uptown Jazz Cafe, Sunday, July 3 at 8pm Our perpetually smiling (currently caretaker) Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has exhorted us to help make this country “agile”, by which I have taken him to mean that we must be readily adaptable to all sorts of changes … such as “no cuts” meaning lots of cuts, or copper wire NBN rather than fibre, or … Continue reading UPTOWN’S WORTH CONSIDERING
