LIVE MAYHEM, the daring new album by Sydney’s own Sonic Mayhem Orchestra is launching on Monday, April 11th at Lazybones Lounge Marrickville, and it’s going to be a big night with a big band. Sonic Mayhem Orchestra, under the fearless leadership of saxophonist, composer and conductor James Ryan (Award winning and internationally touring composer, saxophonist […]
Arts Wednesday 6 April 2016
Ed Lippmann joins me at 10:40 am for Part 4 of Sydney By Design, this week talking about Barangaroo – yet again! At 11:00 am I am joined by Alexandra Joel, talking about her book Rosetta: A Scandalous True Story. It is the story of her great grandmother Rosetta and it is indeed scandalous! Music […]
REVIEW: Taj Mahal LIVE @ The Factory Theatre
(Photo by: Lachlan Douglas Photography (@Somefx)) Friday 1st April 2016 at The Factory Theatre Reviewed By: David Barr It was a full house at the Factory Theatre on Friday night to see and hear Taj Mahal, a blues and roots troubadour extraordinaire. Taj performed a solo acoustic set which focussed on his early rustic Delta blues, […]
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Album of the Week – ‘Mutiny Music’ by Baecastuff
‘Mutiny Music‘ by Baecastuff is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. The album orchestrates the English concurring of the Pitcairn Isle in 1789. The saga was violent, tumultuous and extremely scaring on the tight-nit community of Tahiti of which Baecastuff sensitively utilise in order to vividly recreate the terror of the attack. The track listing chronologically moves […]
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Alpha & Omega – Tales of Transformation
Join me, Jane Raffan on Arts Monday 4 April for a program that looks at tales from Greek and Roman mythology in an intriguing new exhibition, “Alpha & Omega: Tales of Transformation“. My guest interviews today are with Michael Turner, Snr Curator at Sydney University’s Nicholson Museum, whose collections of antiquities are the largest in […]
PLAYTHING
Dr Margaux Dombkins spoke with writer, Simon Dodd, and actor, Cherrie Whalen-David on Arts. PLAYTHING written by Simon Dodd is an absurdist one- act comedy that is a subtle mix of deep philosophical musings and toilet humour. Cherrie Whalen-David plays the female lead, accompanied by some of Sydney’s most seasoned and emerging theatre actors including […]
Mixing Classic with Modern Art- Four Finalists Exhibiton @ Juniper Hall Review
Classic and modern art are living in fusion at Juniper Hall this week for the Four Finalists Exhibition currently showing for the Moran Arts Foundation. The exhibition is a showcase of four artists whom were apart of the 2015 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. Guy Morgan, Darren McDonald, Andrew Bonneau and 2015 Winner Warren Crossett have presented […]
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Graham Nash Interview
Graham Nash is without doubt a living legend. As part of one of the most successful groups of all time he still records and performs today and recently came down under to help promote his new album ‘This Path Tonight’ and also play a special concert at Bluesfest 2016 in Byron Bay. We were lucky […]
Arts Thursday 31 March 2016
This week on Arts Thursday join me, Maisy Stapleton, with a focus on visual arts exhibitions in Sydney. Firstly, join Maisy in conversation with Gene Sherman from the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), which is launching its 2016 exhibition program with an ambitious moving image project by Mikhael Subotzky, entitled WYE, standing for the letter “Y”. […]
Gravitational Waves
On Wednesday 30 March 2016, astro physicist Professor Geraint Lewis, was Sylvia’s guest unravelling gravitational waves, the fourth and final part of Einstein’s theory of relativity to be proved. Follow the conversation here: Above is Part 1 of the conversation; now for Part 2: And now for Part 3: […]
REVIEW: The Bros. Landreth (CAN) LIVE at Newtown Social Club
Monday 21st March 2016 at Newtown Social Club Sydney Australia Reviewed By David Barr Fresh from BluesFest, The Bros. Landreth played the Newtown Social Club on Monday. They put on a big performance in front of a small crowd. Perhaps Easter Monday evening is not the best timing. The brothers from Winnipeg, Manitoba, have won music […]
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REVIEW: Kendrick Lamar LIVE in Melbourne
Monday 21st March 2016 at Rod Laver Arena Melbourne, Australia. Reviewed By: Suren Jayemanne I’m a stand up comic. I’m not telling you that as a means of subtly promoting an upcoming festival show (I would do that blatantly, rather than subtly (Please see me at the Enmore theatre this upcoming Sydney Comedy Festival)). I just […]