Dear Guilt-Lovers, A million thanks to all who have so generously contributed towards having my play Guilt staged by Washington DC’s brilliant Scena Theatre in 2017. The finishing line is in sight. Alas it keeps moving! Following on from the unfortunate Trump Effect, the US Federal Reserve’s decision to hoist…
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LET LOVE RULE (Liberation Music) 8/10 Countless songwriters use adversity as a catalyst for composing, even subconsciously wallowing in it because they can’t write without it. Archie Roach is one of the rare birds in this business to treat adversity as a challenge to be transcended. In Roach’s scheme it…
RROMANTICS (lololovina.wordpress.com) Three-point-five stars Lolo Lovina makes music that seems to come from an imaginary land nestled in the Balkans, yet somehow sunnier. Basically the band lets its Australianness colour its take on Romani (sometimes “Rromani”) music by infusing it with a host of parallel influences. Were it not done…