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Making News: Tony Wilson
Charlie Dekker is an Aussie soccer player, recently retired from an English football club and still coming to terms with the lack of attention, TV spots and decent job offers. His wife, Monica, has gone from the standard WAG to…
The Red Wind: The Kingdom of the Lost, Book One: Isobelle Carmody
I didn’t think Isobelle Carmody could create a more delightful creature than Little Fur, but I was wrong! Bily and Zluty are such sweet, good-natured, caring characters that I was captivated from the start. On a bare, unyielding plain the…
The Radleys: Matt Haig
Home sweet home for the Radley family is a nice house, in a nice street, in a nice, quiet British village. Peter the village doctor and his wife Helen live the kind of life you’d expect, humming along to the…
Roddy Parr: Peter Rose
The book’s blurb talks about how Peter Rose takes us into the ‘golden circle of a literary giant as seen through the eyes of Roddy Parr, an outsider, an ambitious young man who has just completed his PhD on the…
Homeland: Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson has just been to Australia, curating the Vivid Festival in Sydney with husband Lou Reed. To say this album has been much anticipated would be quite an understatement.
She performed this music in Melbourne a couple of years…
Staring Down the Brilliant Dream Live: Indigo Girls
This double album features live recordings from various 2006–2009 performances. All the hits are here, in the gutsy, vibrant versions that live shows can generate. Sisters Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, with their penchant for socially and politically conscious song…
London Calling: Live in Hyde Park: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
This DVD captures Bruce Springsteen’s entire 28 June 2009 performance at the Hard Rock Calling music festival in front of 50,000 screaming Londoners.
The film documents 26 live tracks that begin in daylight and progress through a gorgeous sunset. You…
We Are Born: Sia
This is the fifth studio release from Adelaide-born Sia. She’s renowned for her previous involvement with electronic duo Zero 7 (as guest vocalist), as well as her gorgeous single ‘Breathe Me’ which featured on the final episode and scene of…
Cinema: The Cat Empire
Melbourne pop/funk band The Cat Empire exploded onto the scene in 2003 with their debut album. It was a huge hit and since then they’ve gone from strength to strength. Cinema is studio album number four and features more of…
Big Echo: Morning Benders
One of my favourite 2010 releases so far, Big Echo is a sometimes cheerful, occasionally serious but always wonderful blend of indie pop and 1960s-era soaring voices, run through with tinkling keyboards, lovely strings and addictive guitar riffs.
Standouts include…
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