John Shand Posts

August 24, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St, August 7 6/10 Ignorance is an avalanche; science a snow-plough trying to bulldoze through it to a less ignorant future. So it was in Galileo’s time (1564-1642), and so it is today. Some of the fruits of Galileo’s genius were temporarily stymied by Catholicism, which feared the rug…

August 22, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Blue Mountains Theatre, August 3 7/10 At his best Gregg Arthur is to jazz singing what a luxury resort is to a bedsit. Everything just happens rather than having to be wrangled into existence, with his voice sounding as if the component parts have been oiled. Conveying effortlessness is a…

August 19, 2019 / Album Reviews - Archive

COLOUR (Sunnyside) 9/10 Some music shouts to gain attention, some whispers in your ear. Listening to Anat Fort’s 20-year-old trio is like being privy to an erudite conversation between intimates. Nothing extraneous is said: every note is pertinent to the subject at hand, those subjects being nine of Fort’s compositions,…