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 ...

IN HER NASHVILLE HOUSE, displaced New Jersey-ite Nicole Atkins is sharing with some regular irregular visitors, three cats – identified as the witches of Eastwick, though one of them at least is male ...

As The Avalanches have announced a March 2027 tour on the heels of a two-date festival start in Perth next February, Wind Back Wednesday has chosen to share the love. There was a lot of love needed in ...

A SLIGHT MAN, even more lean of hair, and seemingly built for low impact speed and melting into the background, like his softened Scottish accent, Midge Ure is even quicker to smile or deflect. As I ...

HAS ANYONE EVER BEEN so certain in her uncertainty as Julia Jacklin? So confident that she doesn’t know, that she couldn’t know how things are, so therefore must secretly know what will happen – i.e., ...

IF TRADITIONS, Fanny Lumsden’s fifth album, has a subtext beneath its close examination of what and why we choose to cherish and what think we should jettison of our family’s past and our culture’s ...

This week, the wicked fun and graciousness of Paul Hester, pictured in Tim Finn’s garden looking like an antipodean Noel Coward with mischief on his mind and a cup of tea at hand, sits between the mid ...