Sunday night sees the return of Big Nelly to the cabaret stage after an absence of over a decade. Drawn back into the spotlight after several years of persuasion by my darling friend Mark Trevorrow (AKA Bob Downe, pictured) , I will sing an old favorite from the Patsy Cline songbook (no, not the one featured …
Read more »Back in the olden days when I was a reporter on the ABC’s weekly arts show ‘Review’ I worked with a fabulous producer called Paige Livingstone. Together we humped our blueys all over Australia in search of exciting arts stories that veered off the beaten track onto all sorts of rugged bush tracks. I lost …
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Whilst pounding the pavements of Wellington on a recent window shopping spree, my eye caught sight of a gorgeous little red merino wool dress on an old fashioned mannequin in a quaint shopfront on the corner of Willis St and Te Aru. Upon venturing in to Good Score, I noticed that all the labels had …
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Popped in to Monstrosity Gallery last night to deliver two art works by The Stoked for the exhibition ‘Fur’. The show, which opens tonight, is a group exhibition by “some of Sydney’s most dynamic and talented contemporary artists” responding to the theme of fur. Curated by West, who has a particular penchant for fur herself, …
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In preparation for a gig to launch Sydney Design 2011 I popped into the Powerhouse Museum to take a squizz at their contribution; ‘Love Lace’. Contrary to popular rumor this is not an exhibition about Linda Lovelace, star of that infamous porm flick ‘Deep Throat’, but a show about Lace Love. And we’re not talking …
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It was a vintage New York kind of night. We had tickets to see the fabulous Miss Peggy Lee who was still singing and swinging at the age of 72 albeit from the confines of a wheelchair. Our ex-pat Aussie contingent included Peggy’s greatest fan Stephen MacLean, who wrote the film ‘Starstruck’ and the original …
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Caught K.I.J.E. at the Old Fitz last night and what a pleasant surprise it was too. Being ‘Cheap Tuesday’, the tiny garage theatre space was packed to the rafters so my buddies and I had to take the front row seats which was all well and good until the cast started to let loose with …
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Big thanks to Margot Gordon for introducing me to the magnificent Ali Hughes who performed with her fab jazz ensemble last night at The Basement. The gig was a one-off fundraiser to help get the band to the Big Apple for The New York International Fringe Festival in August and they performed the show that …
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It really is a wonder that there are any birds left in Papua New Guinea given the passion that the locals lads have for dressing up in their plumage. The extent of their fondness for feathers is revealed in an exhibition at the Australian Museum called ‘Rituals of Seduction’ in which a comprehensive collection of …
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In Melbourne this weekend with my gorgeous mother Anne who has a stall at the inaugural Australian Antique Dealer Show at the World Heritage Listed Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens. Mum has the most divine collection of antique jewellery, some of which she has brought down from her shop in Queen Street Woollahra Sydney …
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Paid three consecutive visits to the new and very fabulous Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) in Hobart last weekend with Lisa George Michael Cruise Brando nee Bourne. She and the seven other women in our party were blown away by the place – so radical, so chic and so free! Arriving first by …
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