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October 27, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Paddington Uniting Church, October 17 Influences are more like friends than relations, in that you can choose who they are. They might come from New York or Delhi, from yesterday or 500 years ago, but a certain logic pertains to considering those close to home. In his first Paths and…

October 26, 2015 / Album Reviews - Archive

Lounge Suite Tango (Armchair) Despite the shared suffix can any two instruments be more dissimilar than the sousaphone and vibraphone? The former suggests some lumbering earth god and the latter is all flitting notes and air. That both happily cohabit in the Umbrellas says much about this little orchestra and…

October 23, 2015 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Ensemble Theatre, October 15 On the page David Hare’s My Zinc Bed is often a cold as the cocktails that litter its story. The three characters jostle and banter, love and betray, but the stakes seem small, with Hare’s motives split between a cursory investigation of the nature of addiction,…