Category: Features – Archive

April 28, 2022 / Features - Archive

A Blue Mountains expert on ornithology and funk has commented that the election season “looks more like the mating season, given the number of grey men in grey suits who are suddenly wearing brightly coloured vests and making wild promises”. “It’s as though they wear their vested interests on the…

March 31, 2022 / Features - Archive

Imagine Sydney’s best ever jazz festival at an obscure venue that’s so hip you can’t even buy a ticket. That’s exactly what’s happening when the four-night STRATA festival descends into the nest-like cavity of Phoenix Central Park, surely the most beautiful music venue Sydney’s ever had. Phoenix was the brainchild of…

March 6, 2022 / Features - Archive

Barney McAll doesn’t set out to surprise the socks off people, it’s just the way the music comes out. His new album, Precious Energy, is a bigger surprise than most, partly because the world in which he made it was turned upside down, partly because the pianist/composer has added lyric-writing…