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 ...

YOU JUST KNOW that Benjamin Clementine, an author, a poet, a songwriter and commanding singer about to tour Australia for the first time, would smell nice. And I don’t mean his association with the ...

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 ...

More matters poetical and musical in playlists like this can be found on the windy moors of Spotify. Just scroll through my website and look for the magic words "a playlist" to find a link.

SOMETHING WICKEDLY SMART this way comes, a counter note more than antidote to those who had parked Grace Cummings and her astonishing, deep and ridged voice in the car yard of the very bruised and ...

INTIMACY AND VASTNESS, the finer details observed but the space around them no less clear for its openness, is not just tricky to make work but potentially disconcerting to experience. If you are ...