SPACE INVADERS DROP IN ON MELBS

PREVIEW: Sun Ra Arkestra, The Forum, Sunday January 18 at 7pm The Abbott Government reckons it has stopped the boats, without really meaning to invade Indonesia’s space too much (oops!), but there’s no way Scott Morrison can stop the invasion that will hit the Forum on Sunday, January 18. Anyone who heard Sun Ra collaborator Marshall Allen leading the 10-piece Sun Ra Arkestra when last they landed in 2011 … Continue reading SPACE INVADERS DROP IN ON MELBS

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2011 — PREVIEW

Saturday, June 4 — Monday, 13 June It’s eclectic. It’s like an octopus. Yes, just when you thought the word eclectic had become too hackneyed a term, there is really no better way to describe this year’s MIJF, which had its program launch at 6pm today. The program devised by Sophie Brous is indeed wide-ranging, broad-based, extensive, comprehensive, varied, diverse, catholic, all-embracing, multifaceted, multifarious, heterogeneous, miscellaneous … Continue reading MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2011 — PREVIEW