As a teenager, Sheridan Harbridge heard ’80s Oz rock band The Divinyls’ Chrissy Amphlett singing the explicit I Touch Myself on ABC TV’s Rage. It was a revelation for the future actor and writer. “I grew up Christian Pentecostal,” she says via Zoom, “and we were banned from watching naughty…
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Hayes Theatre, January 22 7/10 Now here’s a puzzle. The Hayes’ Theatre artistic directors, Richard Carroll and Victoria Falconer, wanted a show celebrating Barbra Streisand, and asked Brittanie Shipway to direct it as well as perform in a cast of four. The creative team Shipway assembled has resulted in a…
Stand Up! (Analogoue Tone Factory) 8/10 When I first played this, I did a double-take; checked no one had slyly replaced my amp and speakers. No. So then I just bathed in the analogue sound: analogue at every stage of the album’s creation, including meticulous mastering to high-quality vinyl. Released…