IN THE AFTERLIFE there should be a special spot for the records that were just what we wanted, just when it was called for.

BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEEnmore Theatre, October 22 THE SHOPWORN CLICHÉ “from the sublime to the ridiculous” is more a tired ...

BEYONG ITS ROLE as a kind of pleasure spring, the thing that is triggered by activities that offer rewards of joy or warmth or satisfaction or achievement on one hand, or dissolution, disengagement ...

Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the ...

IN A LIST OF LIFE acts/achievements for one person, being an ER specialist doctor, a navy pilot and medico, an adult initiate ...

SBS On Demand IT IS PERVERSE but somehow apt, distressing but not wholly devastating, and both the perfect ending to and ...

As The Avalanches have announced a March 2027 tour on the heels of a two-date festival start in Perth next February, Wind ...

A SLIGHT MAN, even more lean of hair, and seemingly built for low impact speed and melting into the background, like his softened Scottish accent, Midge Ure is even quicker to smile or deflect. As I ...

OLD PEOPLE – YOU KNOW, 50 years and up: ancient types – like to reminisce about the days when out in the suburbs you didn’t have to go to the city but could see a band in a local venue or somewhere ...

THIS ALBUM IS PARCHED. Like drier than any part of a dead dingo, but especially that part. Certainly, it’s cracking underfoot a set of songs constantly scanning the horizon for any signs of a break – ...

SHE WAS, WELL, FINE. Adequate seems harsh, good seems flattering, and middling is about right, but the show was probably elevated beyond the implications of that term by Suzanne Vega’s efforts to ...