Marsala: Camelot, December 31. If you want sonic fireworks on New Year’s Eve rather than those humdrum ones in the sky, the place to go is Camelot Lounge and the band to hear is Marsala. This is multicultural Australia transformed into plain old fun. No band attracts a diversity of…
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Talk about being ahead of the game. In 2013 jazz singer Charenee Wade recorded Offering, an album reimagining the politically-charged r&b of the late Gil Scott-Heron, whose defiant 1970s-80s anthems (such as The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) are among hip hop’s precursors. Offering came three years before Trump was…
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn received his first review at the age of 10, the critic being a fellow schoolboy. Ayckbourn had adapted one of Anthony Buckeridge’s popular Jennings children’s books, and had cast himself in the role of the comic sidekick. Then he contracted a highly infectious disease, was packed off…