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A friend sent me a random message some time ago about “this great song that I think you’ll like called ‘Jolly Fucker’ by the Sleaford Mods”. I looked up the song and was instantly hooked. It was my anthem for a while. It is the standout track on the collection of their early singles called
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Alas and alack to be these three syllables: oversight. It’d be exhausting. The work never stops. You get hauled out of bed, away from family and friends such as overshot and overside, at the drop of a hat. You’re on constant call, any time of the day or night. You’re thrown into situations not of your own
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By JonPerring
I am a survivor of the ill-conceived liquor licensing policy that nearly wiped out live music in Victoria in 2010. I now see with horror the same regulatory mistakes being made in NSW in reaction to the 1% of accidental drug overdose deaths that happened to occur at music festivals in NSW this year. Premier
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I am a white (if not straight) man. And I didn’t much like Nakkiah Lui’s blunt, irregularly funny new Sydney Theatre Company play How To Rule The World. My cultural confession is Lui’s idea, one I’m happy enough to make. As she writes on Twitter: “My gender and racial identity are mentioned in every review,
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The Five Best Albums of 2010 With the crepuscule of the decade approaching, Daily Review will cast its eye back across the years prior. Each month we’ll look at some of the best albums released each year, starting with 2010. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Arcade Fire’s lead singer, songwriter and band leader Win Butler always
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Sean Lennon and Les Claypool have had distinguished careers in music. Both have followed their own sensibilities regardless of trends, and their talent and independent spirits have won them admirers around the globe. Sean Lennon, son of John and Yoko, grew up a fan of Claypool’s band Primus and was stoked to find himself on
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Melbourne artist Paul Boston has produced a new group of pictures of highly refined aesthetic and philosophical concerns. (Upstairs is a sharp lively show by Dale Hickey.) The pictures are clearly the result of long practice and reflection about illusion and flatness — they draw on cubism, but they also recall something of Braque in
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Michael Griffiths – By Request Michael Griffiths – By Request is fun for the asking. Performing for a short season in Le Cascadeur before moving on to another show with Carlotta, and then back to GC duetting with Amelia Ryan for the Newton-John and Allen tribute, Livvy and Pete, Griffiths is having a busy Fringe.
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We should see more of Shaun Parker. Five years in the making, his outstanding new, all-male dance work was over within 90 mesmerising minutes. Parker reportedly got little development support and no major festival gig, but this premiere of King stands tall within the current Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras program. His company is well travelled
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When a theatre company takes on one of the seminal plays of the 20th century, there’s a lot of expectation. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, about the death of the American dream after the post-World War II optimism, has been performed many times with acting luminaries such as Dustin Hoffman and Philip Seymour Hoffman
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