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Event Spotlight: Q&A with Bobby Womack
The truly legendary Bobby Womack talks about the Stax days: gospel with Elvis, guidance from Sam Cooke, playing with Aretha and getting high with Sly and Janis Joplin. Let's start in the '70s. 1974, you re-recorded your '62 single Lookin' For A Love and it became your biggest hit. Did you expect it to a hit second time around? I didn't expect it to be the massive hit that it was, it ... Read more
Theatre Review: War Horse
If you’re yet to take in the spectacle that is the critically acclaimed War Horse at the Sydney Lyric Theatre then now is the time. A National Theatre of Great Britain and Global Creatures’ production, the show’s successful four-month run in Sydney will come to an end next month ahead of a new season at the Lyric Theatre at Brisbane’s Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Read more
Outlook: VIVID hits
With Vivid Sydney kicking off this week, the city will be overrun with creatives holding industry forums, free public exhibitions of outdoor lighting sculptures and taking part in this year's cutting edge contemporary music program. Those not taking part can still fill up every spare hour with the plethora of theatre, comedy, music festival, home-grown and international artists filling venues ... Read more
Event Spotlight: Funeral For A Friend interview
Five years ago Funeral For A Friend left a bad taste in our mouths. A year earlier they’d returned from a taxing three-and-a-half year tour in support of 2005 sophomore LP Hours and 2007’s Tales Don’t Tell Themselves and made the decision to head straight into the studio. The opus – an insular collection of chord based let downs and rushed arrangements - was lacklustre ... Read more
Live Review: Local Natives
Local NativesMay 15Metro Theatre, Sydney Read more
Win a family pass to the Toy and Game Expo
Australia’s biggest play date, the Toy and Game Expo is back again this June long weekend at Sydney Olympic Park and we’re giving away family passes! Read more
Canberra Country Music Festival changes name
The Canberra Country Music Festival changed its name to Canberra Country Blues & Roots Festival. Read more
Event Spotlight: Q&A with VIVID's Ignatius Jones
Beginning this month, VIVID Sydney will take over the city’s antipodean winter after dark. Now in its fifth year, the two weeks of lights, music and ideas is bigger than ever, we chat to Ignatius Jones, Vivid’s Creative Advisor, about how Vivid became a harmonised hub for both investors and artists, how it became a victim of its own success before the expansion and why this ... Read more
Laneway Festival unveils Detroit line-up
Laneway Festival have announced that Sigur Ros and The National will headline the inaugural Detroit leg of their touring festival. The festival takes place on September 14 at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Detroit Michigan, and marks the first time an Australian festival has expanded into the American market. Laneway Detroit is a co-production with Detroit-based Palace Sports & ... Read more
Event Spotlight: Violent cult cinema meets medical research
Here’s one for the philanthropic Eventfinders out there: violent cult cinema meets medical research. Read more
