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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They do things differently in the South, for which, often enough, we have reason to be very thankful. It doesn’t always make complete sense from this distance, but that’s okay when the result is ...

CHOOSING WELSH ARTIST Cate Le Bon to produce their third album was one of the smart decisions made by Londoners, Dry Cleaning. And it’s not because she has transformed their sound or their thinking or ...

MOMENTS DON’T TELL YOU EVERYTHING; too many things happen, have happened, can still happen to be definitive. We know this, right? See someone at their worst and that’s not them; catch a slice of bad ...

Yeah, there was a bit of a Princess Bride moment as I was thinking about the 11th studio album from Rick Smith and Karl Hyde. A question hovering, a warning imminent. All because it occurred to me ...