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I know we all know that Eurovision is all about the staging and the politics and the personalities and the drinking games, but let's ima...

I don't usually listen to audiobooks - I prefer the tactile nature of reading a book and will never ceased to be amazed by the fact that...

These are the latest designs by Spruce Craft , this month on a musical theme. I know they are sometimes cheesy and relatively easy, but I do...

"Appel à tous. Ceci est notre dernier cri avant notre silence éternel." - Calling all, this is our final cry before our eternal s...

The Music Shop  by Rachel Joyce (Black Swan) Pp.354 Frank owns a music shop which only sells vinyl, and he has the gift of being able to fin...

Following on from last week's Friday Five , here are the rest of the questions from the Autumn Arts section of the quiz, with answers at...

We had a party to celebrate the autumn equinox, for which I wrote a quiz. One round was called 'Autumn Arts' in which I described a ...

This is a cross-over post (of both Friday Five and My Newest Favourite Thing), as for the past six weeks I have been trying something new: n...

Last weekend it was Easter. I am a 'wishy-washy Anglican' (not actually my words, but I have been called thus) and only really a...

Last night I went to see a show at Smith's Alternative. It was called Strong Female Lead and it featured six acts of fabulous femal...

Following on from last week's Friday Five, I've been thinking about the mesmeric influence of dancing in a club; of the wonderful...

C J Ramone Feeling rather old and a little bit foolish, we went to see C.J. Ramone at the Transit Bar. Although not one of the original ...

This is a week late, so I apologise for that, but I wasn't aware that last Friday (8th August) was the 34th anniversary of the release o...

The last ice cream van at the edge of the world  by Curly The other weekend we went for a run in what turned out to be the heat of the m...

On Sunday I shall be running my first 10km race since rupturing my calf muscle nearly two years ago. It has been a long and sometimes pain...

Whenever I 'do' a play (act, direct, crew), I compile a soundtrack for it. This excludes musicals, obviously, which have kindly prov...

Billy Bragg Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me Tour Canberra Theatre Centre 23 October, 2012 Billy Bragg has apparently been recognis...