John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

January 20, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, January 10 7/10 Dear God, when she’s good, she’s so very good. You hear it in the way she can snip a consonant as precisely as a practiced circumciser might something else; even more in the way she can let a final consonant crumble to nothing more…

January 18, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, January 9 7/10 It might be the sense of belonging or security, or it might be a nest for hatching offspring. It may be cluttered with possessions or memories, or be the one house in the street where love lives. Whatever the case, most – but certainly…

January 17, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Foundry 616, January 4 8/10 This concert was a testament to stoicism, bravery, willpower, indefatigability, and the fact that, if music is in your blood, it will somehow find its way into the world. On July 2 Mike Nock was run over on a pedestrian crossing by a hefty four-wheel…