Category: Features

Of all the reasons for dropping out of music school, Eric Harland’s has to be among the weirdest. There he was at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship, his career as a jazz drummer taking off like a rocket-ship, and the notoriously hard-to-please singing great Betty…

A Blue Mountains expert on ornithology and funk has commented that the election season “looks more like the mating season, given the number of grey men in grey suits who are suddenly wearing brightly coloured vests and making wild promises”. “It’s as though they wear their vested interests on the…