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...
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...
A STANLEY SKETCH FROM HONG KONG with ROBERT LOCKYER
https://youtu.be/FyE2K8Enfgg
Stanley Butler was a writer of ESL materials and a teacher of English and Japanese in Hong Kong, his journey to the East started in the 1850's goldfield town of Ballaarat where the Eureka...
There’s a Red Stitch Over Yonder…Theatre Review: “Rules for Living” by Sam Holcroft, directed...
The new play at Red Stitch is very modern, original and quite long - a two act show with each act at about 90 minutes, and add a decent interval, so pack your lunch...
ROCK&ROLL: Roll along with the breeze – if you can’t find your knees
Like, Just A Short Note: R&R & the new Rolling Stones Record..."BLUE & LONESOME"
”Blue & Lonesome"-- or somesuch, and no, not from the record label Nonesuch, this disc is apparently on Polydor, though one...