by The Clothesline | Jun 8, 2024 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2024, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Featured, Music, Reviews
[Cabaret Music Comedy – New Zealand / Australian Premiere] Jekyll & Hyde by A Slightly Isolated Dog Space Theatre Fri 7 Jun 2024 When all the members of the Australian cricket team are in danger of falling victim to his horribly violent sprees, something...
by Catherine Blanch | Sep 15, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews, Live Music, Music
[AUSTRALIA] by Catherine Blanch. Ngaiire [Joseph] is a Papua New Guinea-born singer-songwriter based in Sydney. She spent her early years living in New Zealand, attending and almost exclusively Maori school and was exposed to as much opera and ballet that her parents...
by Dave Bradley | May 26, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Leigh Hopkinson (Hachette Australia) 2016, 312pp, RRP $29.99 The first book from stripper-turned-author Hopkinson is a most readable account of one woman’s experience in the ‘table dancing’/‘lingerie dancing’/whatever industries in New Zealand, London and Australia,...
by Denise Brazil | Feb 7, 2016 | Comedy, Music, Reviews
CASA MONDO, The Pleasure Garden, Perth Fringe World. Fri 29 Jan Juan Vesuvius, the outlandish Venezuelan DJ, is back at Fringe Perth in Calypso Nights: Juan, Two? Juan is created and played by New Zealander Barnie Duncan. There’s no bro, beached as, fish ‘n’...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Astle (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 308pp, RRP $22.99 Astle, legendary crossword setter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and an author of several books on wordplay themes (no less than Geoffrey Rush has described him as “The Sergeant Pepper of cryptic...
