Let yourself be taken on a journey

Late in 2015, artist Jessi Lewis stayed in Jambu – a small village about five hours drive from Surabaya in East Java. Surrounded by fields of chilli and corn, mornings where heralded by roosters, the buzz of motor cycles, the morning ritual of bathing with buckets of cold water and soap. His time there culminated in a performance as part of Tobong Arts Festival, however what emerged as most significant was the unexpected deeply impacting friendships and transforming cultural exchange....

Edited by Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman. Published by Ventura Press.

Rebellious Daughters is a delightful read, composed of 17 true stories written by premium Australian female writers. The stories capture a period of time in the authors lives that reflects on the development of their characters, shaping and greatly influencing who they have become as adults today.
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The Sunday Session at Hong Kong’s leading live music venue, The Wanch, was spiced up last Sunday July 24, 2016 with appearances by Aussie film and musical theatre writer and director, the impresario Frank Howson.


_{Barry O’Rorke, Brian Greytak, Phil Whelan, Rocky Dabscheck and Frank Howson take the Hong Kong Drinking Oath of Allegiance at the Wanch}
The Sunday Session acts as a scoop for the cream of Filip...

Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced by Rob Greaves for Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times.

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principal of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.
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ANTENNA FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES KEY DATES AND 2012 COMPETITION


^{Into Eternity - Winner 2011} Antenna International Documentary Film Festival returns for its second year and will take place between the 10th to 14th October, in Sydney. Hosted at Dendy Cinemas, Antenna 2012 will showcase over 30 feature length documentaries from around the world, film competitions, special events and international guests. Over five days, the documentary film festival will share the creative talents of...

DAVE HUGHES headlines Felix Bar Comedy this Wednesday!!

Hughesy is perhaps one of the most important and significant talents to have emerged from the Australian comedy scene. A natural and unmistakably Australian comic, Dave’s laconic style thinly disguises one of the fastest comic minds this country has ever seen. Along with Kate Langbroek and Ed Kavalee, Hughesy makes up Melbourne’s Nova 100 breakfast team. And if that’s not enough, he can be seen on Network Ten’s Before the Game du...

"It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat." [Joe Strummer]
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The Australian rock scene of the 70s was at its best, courtesy of Marshall Amplification and bands like the Skyhooks, Sports, Company Caine, Mighty Kong, The Toads and Murtceps. For the best part of the seventies Australia created ever more sophisticated popular rock bands that had re-drawn the boundaries of acceptability and given the youth of Australia its own music, so no JOK, Johnny Chester or Delltones; but JOK did make the stage at Sunbury to a surprisingly joyous crowd, about the time l...

In a desperate move to shore up failing economic policies, the federal treasurer Joe Hockey has raised a proposal for a tax on all bank deposits.
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NEWS: WA Music Award nominations; #WAMConf Speed Dating Sessions; Wheatbelt Touring Circuit Finale; Beaufort St Festival; Sounds at the Bassendean; Last chance for SOTA Survey; Planned Maylands music venue & more

EVENTS: Wheatbelt Touring Circuit Tour; Angove Street Festival, Tonight Show & More!

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"(The album) is a winner alright, paced and pitched for today."(Jim Carroll - New Music Express 1992)
"They were definitely at the top of the chain when it came to purveyors of quality urbane pop of the time." (This review)



This is album review number One Hundred and Eighty Six in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
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