Camelot Lounge, February 14 It is curious that the Moral Minority’s more stitched-up members have never tried to ban the tango. Perhaps their seething minds miss its implicit erotic charge, most obvious in the dance steps, but evident in the music, too: a constant collision of dark and light, loud…
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Playhouse, February 10 For all Dame Edna’s technicolour bravura and Sir Les’s slobbering buffoonery the most telling segment of a Barry Humphries show could often be Sandy Stone’s. Suddenly a cloud of wistful poignancy passed across the comedy. At the end of Max Gillies’ one-man show Once Were Leaders he…
Blame Sting. He was the one who gave Jo Lawry the guitar that added “songwriter” to a CV previously dominated by “jazz singer” and “Sting’s backing vocalist”. The resultant folk-pop album, Taking Pictures, follows the Adelaide-born Lawry’s appearance in the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet From Stardom (about backing singers), and…