Guest post by Marcus Westbury: Flotillas vs. flagships
We featured some of Marcus Westbury‘s commentary on cultural policy here at LP around the time of the 2020 summit. Here’s a guest post which originally appeared at his blog – it’s the text of a talk he gave to [...]
Friday night funny (and Sorry Ranga Day)
Another day, another festival in Melbourne. Currently, along with all the other festivals that are no doubt happening at the moment, Melbourne is hosting the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Films worth seeing during MIFF include Persepolis (fans of Marjane [...]
99 Dollar Riff
Those that watch Rockwiz may be aware of a segment called Million Dollar Riff. The idea of the segment is the Rockwiz Orchestra plays a selection of riffs (musical motifs) from songs and the contestants have to guess the correct [...]
11 long years
From a collective of Australian musicians comes ‘The Howard Years’.
Labor to win Lilley!
Yes, folks, it’s true. Wayne Swan will hold his seat and even get a swing of 10%, according to fascinating Galaxy polling in the Brisbane Sunday Mail today. There’s a lot of speculation over on The Poll Bludger’s thread as [...]
Culture wars target opera!
Quadrant must be the only “little mag” that gets to run its job ads for free via laudatory columns in the press – witness Frank Devine in The Australian a while back: THE worst paid – next to nothing as [...]
No Man's Woman
Tex Perkins sings “I am Woman” on No Man’s Woman No Man’s Woman, which is described as “a tribute to women in voice” on the CD’s liner notes, takes its name from the assertive song of the same name [...]
Melissa Etheridge's The Awakening
An appropriate response to the liner notes on the cover of Melissa Etheridge’s The Awakening is to ignore them, unless you like your philosophising as deep as Oprah. There are a few tracks on Etheridge’s latest CD (so short that they’re [...]
Hands up anyone who was offended
Few Complaints over Chaser song: According to a report by News Limited this morning, irate viewers called ABC to complain about the song and talkback radio had also been inundated with comments. But Taylor said he was not aware of [...]
Three chords and orchestration in Oz Rock
And now for something completely unrelated to the election! It makes me feel very old to realise that both Powderfinger and Silverchair have been on the Australian music scene for well over a decade. But it seems that neither group [...]
Brisvegas indie rock
Posting this week’s Lazy Sunday feature has reminded me that I totally forgot to link to the videos I took of the bands who performed at the Powerhouse last Sunday – Iron On and Do the Robot. So here they [...]
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