Camelot Lounge, October 27 9/10 This is how cultural treasures survive: because people care enough to ensure they do. A book of compositions by the late Australian music pioneer Kim Sanders was exactly the sort of project the Australia Council should be supporting, rather than propping up bureaucracy-obese companies with…
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Lennox Theatre, October 26 8.5/10 You know that feeling when you’re standing on a cliff, and are drawn inexorably a little closer to the edge, and then a little more, and then… This play is like that. It’s all edge, no safety-net. Daring and a touch dangerous, its sense of…
THE DARK PATTERN (Earshift) 9/10 Virtually all art is built on conventions. Only the brave or foolish strip them away, because of the danger only a vacuum will remain. On this deeply mysterious double-album Phil Slater applies some of the language of jazz, while often inverting accepted customs of groove,…