by phoenix | Jun 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
Today’s musical styles couldn’t have contrasted more. The afternoon was upbeat reggae and African rhythms in one room, West Papuan and pacific in another and smells of cooking wafting through. This evening was serious young men (and they were all men),...
by phoenix | Jun 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
Things I would like to go do/see in the near future: The Unquiet World exhibition @ ACCA (free), on now. Some of the Gypsy films at ACMI (films $13/$10, season passes $60/$48), starts Thursday. The opening of James Geurts’s exhibition Tidemark at the SPAN...
by phoenix | May 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
Thursday night I dropped by the Stencil Festival Opening night (and wrote up a story for {ariel flux}). Friday night I dropped down to Café Quince down the road from my new place to listen to Phil Carroll and Ernie Gruner play tunes from all over Eastern Europe,...
by phoenix | Apr 13, 2006 | Uncategorized
Oh wow. Just got my regular Multicultural Arts Victoria newsletter and saw this: Diafrix & Daara J @ the Arts Centre, Sun 23 Apr, 5pm. “Rap, reggae, soul & Cuban music will be layered with traditional rhythms as Hamer Hall explodes in a blur of colour,...
by phoenix | Feb 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
I think the Cat Empire may well be one of the best live bands in Melbourne. Every single member of the band is so incredibly proficient at their instruments and the results are so tight and irrepressibly danceable that it’s impossible to catch the vibe of the...
