“HANGMAN” 2016 Al Pacino
As much as we hate serial killers and love Alper Chino this tired old cliché riddled tome tells me that wrinkly old Al has enough movie money and should go on a nice long...
American Song by Joanna Murray-Smith
Was it only last week that some f*ck-up in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, used a bunch of fully-automatic weapons to machine-gun a country music concert. Thousands ran in horror, about 500 were shot, some...
A life outside of rock & roll – 3
How someone met a drummer some time back
by colin talbot
Dateline: New York City, a while back
Nine years and a bit ago, Mitch Mitchell, drummer in the three-piece Jimi Hendrix Experience, died in Portland, Oregon....
CHINA ENTERS THE BATTLE TO BAN IVORY POACHING
GLOBAL MARCH FOR ELEPHANTS AND RHINOS
It’s an unusual position to be in and while there is still lots to be done and achieved, we cannot afford to be patting...
A life outside of rock & roll – 2
talking st kilda blues
tex, don & charlie - memo, st kilda.
a review hijacked a bit by a life in tatters
(but it's cool - not really totally tattered)
by colin talbot
So last week at Memo Hall...
BLUESMAN DOC WHITE’S CHINA TRIP
ANATOMY OF A MUSICIAN’S TRIP TO CHINA
On his recent trip to perform at Aussie Anthea Palmer’s Jimmy Hornet Creative Restaurant in Zhongshan, China, Australian Blues artist, singer and songwriter Doc White, took a detour which...
A life outside of rock & roll – 1
(from Wikipedia) James Keith O'Neill Edwards, DFC (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here...
Penguins in the desert
Penguins in the desert
Fear and Loving on the Stuart Highway to Hell
The reality of where his life was at was sheeted home to Rory. It happened while he was attending the highpoint of Central...
Incognito a one-act play at Red Stitch Theatre, East St Kilda.
There's no doubt Incognito is a fascinating and adventurous piece of theatre. What else? Okay, intriguing and mysterious. And the probability is that some audiences will totally get it, the possibility is also some (members of...
Incognito – Full Dissertation – Colin Talbot
There's no doubt Incognito is a fascinating and adventurous piece of theatre. What else? Okay, intriguing and mysterious. And the probability is that some audiences will totally get it, the possibility is also some (members of...