Category: Festivals
Review – The Girl Who Won’t Grow Up
Girl Who Won’t Grow Up is surprisingly quirky and refreshingly unique; a top-notch show from an emerging local talent.
Review – Dungeon Crawl
Put on your robe and wizard hat, because the brothers from Shaolin Punk have come to the Fringe to weave some improvisational comedy magic.
Review – A Grizzly Took My Bébé
You’d kinda hope that if you flew four comedians to Australia all the way from the Arctic, you’d give them a stage with some aircon so they don’t melt in the 40 degree heat.
Review – Abigoliah Schamaun: Girl Going to Hell
This is punk rock comedy: shocking, minimalist, energetic, honest, and a mess of fucking fun.
10 (9) Quick Qs – The Correspondants (UK)
10 (actually 9) Quick Questions with UK outfit The Correspondents
WOMAD – The Cat Empire (Australia)
As Australia’s favourite ‘indie’ act for the most part of the last decade, not only have they consistently delivered great music, they have also enchanted audiences at their high-octane gigs.
Womad – Kristian Matsson
Folk singer Kristian Matsson might sound like he’s from the good ol’ U S of A, but he’s actually Swedish.
Womad – Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba
Celebrated Malinese musician Bassekou Kouyaté leads a quartet of Ngoni…
Review – Between the Lines
Geordie Little’s debut Fringe show ‘Between the Lines’ is a forum for you to sit, listen and watch in awe as this one guy gets layers of sound out of one instrument.
Review – Bane
Joe Bone plays Bruce Bane, a hard-boiled detective working outside the law to bring his righteous fury on the criminal underworld.
Review – Doku Rai – You, Dead Man, I Don’t Believe You
A feverish descent into East Timor’s heart of darkness, Doku Rai is a unsettling mixture of traditional myth, discordant grunge rock and black comedy.
Review – Iridium
In the modern digital age, Jazz kinda gets a bad rap sometimes. Perhaps it’s too intrinsically linked with the time and place of its genesis and rise to prevalence, so people don’t always have an open mind. But is that how you want to think? Don’t be that guy: see some quality local jazz with Iridium.
