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Director Ray Argall’s documentary Midnight Oil 1984 is as much an examination of the social and political climate of 1984 as it is about the rise of arguably, Australia’s most important rock band. In 1984, Midnight Oil embarked on a national tour supporting the release of their album Red Sails in the Sunset. At the same
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In 1970, a dozen male and female mates and I were publishing Australia’s first pop music paper GoSet and a counter-culture magazine called Revolution from a terrace house in Drummond Street, Carlton and a funky office in Crows Nest by the Harbour Bridge. Our average age was 24 and take-home pay was about twice that in dollars. This was
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By Daily Review
In this edited extract from Currency House’s Platform Papers, the cultural economist David Throsby, a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University, reviews Australia’s fraught attempts to deliver a sustainable, wide-ranging arts and cultural policy – and on the eve of Budget 2018, points to where we could go from here. The last national cultural policy was
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By Helen Razer
It is possible that sounds emitted by the mouth of Miley Cyrus bring sincere relief to the dented souls of millions. It is possible that Cyrus is an artist greatly gifted. Don’t ask me. Like any critic beset by a case of advanced midlife, this one is powerless to assess a work like Malibu. Malibu appears
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As if the world wasn’t already hurtling to hell in a handbasket, along comes this: ABBA is threatening humankind with new songs. Yes. They sold enough records back in the day to lay a path of vinyl to the moon and back. Yes. They generated enough money from the hundreds of millions of albums they
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By Daily Review
Anglicare’s artsandminds.org.au in Brisbane has produced a web-series and a billboard campaign across the city to tell of artists and their commitment to increasing awareness of mental health. The church organisation has paired five emerging artists affected by mental health issues with five established artists to create artworks that will be auctioned at an event on May 31. The five
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Maynard James Keenan founded Tool in the early ’90s. After dropping out of the military, he became involved in the LA music scene and joined bands, including Green Jelly, before hitting the jackpot with Tool. Tool are massively popular. They’ve also been creatively dormant. Over the 12 years since their last album, 10,000 Days, there have
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Local government elections aren’t normally of national significance. When it’s a capital city mayoral election, however, all of Australia takes notice. Lord Mayors lead programs, budgets and square kilometres that encompass their state’s major public spaces, galleries, museums, festivals and performing arts centres, as well as the sites of their major events. Artists of national
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Anzac Day, and a nation turns its eyes upon something, anything, that gives it reason to believe in an identity that is both heroic and enduring. A century ago, WWI was entering its last six months, after four years of catastrophic death and destruction, and a French village, Villers-Bretonneux, was reclaimed by Australian soldiers from
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By Helen Razer
Not every human opinion is published in haste or on Facebook. Some of it is set down after days—even months—of thought. “To find the time for thought on arts and culture”. If Daily Review were the sort of place that printed out mission statements, something like this might have been posted in big red typeface on
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