Category: Features – Archive

December 15, 2022 / Features - Archive

It’s been a year since Dreams of Falling, perhaps the only violin/harp/drums trio on the planet, last played in the Mountains. Now Rebecca Daniel (1741 violin, vocals), Martyn Cook (electric Irish harp) and the Walkley Award-winning John Shand (words, percussion) are back, with plenty of new material as well as…

December 13, 2022 / Features - Archive

If you were lucky enough to know John Pochee, it merely confirmed the qualities palpable in his music-making behind the drums: the warmth of heart, the glint-in-the-eye wit, the raconteur’s instinct, the congeniality and the deep affection for people and for jazz. His drumming had a vibrancy that picked the…

December 6, 2022 / Features - Archive

On Christmas Day, in the stable right next door to where you-know-who was born, Joe and Mary Funkenstein also had a baby, whom they called Doctor, in the hope that he would become one. Alas, the attempted nominative determinism failed, because before he could even crawl, Doctor was hammering away…