John Shand Posts

March 3, 2018 / Album Reviews - Archive

JOHNNY SANTO (Tone Ranger) 7/10 Wow! If recorded sounds came any fatter than these they would have to be reclassified as obese. Jim Kelly – the fabled guitarist from Crossfire all those years ago – now plays producer and engineer in a studio he built near Lismore, and I suspect…

March 1, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Eternity Playhouse, February 6 6/10 Religion has to be humanity’s single most catastrophic invention. With its decrees and wars measured in lives lost, children orphaned, women raped, bodies tortured and hearts wracked with guilt and malice, it makes greed, weapons manufacturing and even nuclear bombs look as benign as soup…

February 27, 2018 / Album Reviews - Archive

YIELD (Off-Label) 8.5/10 If the knowledge that a solo pianist is playing a Steinway even infinitesimally narrows your idea of how this album may sound, forget it, because post-production treatments have been used in ways that are both disorienting and enchanting. It is like hearing a piano conversing with its…