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Daily Review presents actor Neil Pigot’s series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. To listen to episode FIVE with composer Tim Dargaville, click here and to hear previous episodes, click here. When people ask, as they occasionally have over the past two years, why I haven’t been acting much
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As all conflagrations begin, so too did this one. Plume of smoke rising, a spark, a licking of small flames taking in oxygen, building upon itself, a blaze bursts forth. Coruscating. Incandescent. It burns still. It is a song. All Along the Watchtower started as one piece of a suite of low-key, restrained songs from the
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By Shane Murphy
It’s Melbourne cold, dark and pressing. It’s been a year or more since I’ve seen Cash Savage, and with a single launch tonight and a new album only 90 days away, it’s a good time to check in and see where she is taking her music. It’s at the good ‘ole Corner Hotel in Richmond, scene of
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Designer James Merry has created futuristic headpieces for Icelandic musician Björk and her flute players to wear during the Utopia tour. The masks were designed by Merry to compliment the costumes and sets for the tour of the album Utopia, which Bjork described as “magically utopian” in an interview with leading UK design website Dezeen. Merry, told Dezeen that
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The Adelaide Cabaret Festival has its rituals and the Opening and Closing Galas are among the audience favourites. The last night of the festival falls as near as damn-it to the shortest day and out-going artistic director, Ali McGregor (pictured above) has not only wanted to put some soul in Solstice, but plenty of heart
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I went to primary school with Sarah Blasko and we were in the same class in Year 6. When I got her to sign a copy of her first album on her first tour, I brought up the fact that we were in Mr MacCarthy’s class together. “I thought you looked familiar,” was her reply.
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Sometimes, you just get stopped. It’s not a freight train coming at you. It’s not a hurricane tearing towards you. It’s not the rush of traffic bearing down on you. It’s not a question you can’t answer. Sometimes, it’s the voice from a person you don’t know. They’re singing. You were doing one thing –
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By Helen Razer
May 1968 was a curiously big month for small forces. To illustrate: The May Offensive fought by Vietnam’s peasant-workers drained more life from an indomitable US military than in any other month of that war; 11 million French workers and countless students paralysed a major state and its partner economy; fifty years ago, a Paris
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The arts are profoundly important to our society. Rewarding artists adequately is not only morally right, it is essential if the arts are to flourish. Supporting artists is bound up with the importance of the arts. The case for the importance of the arts is not difficult to make, but it is not often made.
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When Bishop Michael Curry, the African American head of the American Episcopal Church, went off script at the wedding of Meghan and Harry and launched into a riveting and chaotic monologue about love, he turned a Royal Wedding into the greatest theatrical moment on live TV so far this century. All those lefty republicans who studiously
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