Are you frazzled? L Is life too intense and too full-on for you to collect your thoughts and think about what it all means, if it in fact means anything at all? Then sit down and listen to these five tracks which offer you not only lyrical introspection and thoughtfulness Continue Reading
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Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 1 – Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #45: G Flip, KUČKA, MAY-A, Odette and yergurl + Eurovision 2021 update
Life isn’t simple; we all know that. But expressing the many and varied things that life can throw at us can often feel like mission impossible when we’re dealing with break-ups or falling in love or wanting celebrate, really celebrate, the wonderful inspiring women in our lives. Thank goodness then Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: #44: Sumner, Kinder, Peach Tree Rascals, Cat & Calmell, CamelPhat + #Eurovision update
It’s been a tough year and while vaccinations are in the offing around the world, we’re a long way from being out of the pandemic woods just yet. So, it’s good that there are five songs by five supremely talented artists who talk about life, love and the human experience Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #43: FLAVIA, KRANE, San Holo, Porter Robinson, Harry Nathan
Love, so its formidable PR machine goes, is all wonderful, all the time, right? Well, no, not really; for all the people caught up in the rapture and ecstasy of the start of love’s sweet romantic journey, there are plenty of others sliding off the cliff of despair (not a Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #42: Jean Dawson, beabadoobee, Big Freedia, YDE, Baby Queen + Eurovision 2021 update
Honesty. Truthfulness. Authenticity. They’re all powerful words and they describe powerful states of being where all the artifice and pointless detritus of the world falls away and you are just yourself. Unapologetically, gloriously yourself. All five of the artists in this selection know exactly what that feels like and their Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: New & emerging Aussie talent – ASHWARYA, Budjerah, BEXX, Genes, BARKAA
Today is technically Australia Day. But honestly as someone raised to recognise, call out and fight inequality, I cannot sit here and pretend like everything is okay in this country I love so much. What many people outside Australia may not know is that the 26th January is the day Continue Reading
Movin’ Right Along? Kermit and Fozzy find a way to keep things going (virtually) during lockdown #COVID19
SNAPSHOTJoin us as we all get Movin’ Right Along into 2021 with a song in our hearts, a banjo on our knee, and a bear behind the wheel. Happy New Year!!! ….from The Muppets. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If ever there was a year that sapped, almost completely, our will Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #41: Solardo & Rowetta, Torren Foot, Kult Kyss, kenzie, Anna Lunoe
Life is hard. So, you need something to make it lighter, brighter and easier such as these five songs from artists who know we are living in pandemic hell but still no good reason why you can’t have some super upbeat, brilliantly danceable fun. And fun you will have with Continue Reading
Download. Play. Dance. Sing. My 20 favourite songs of 2020
Songs are the soundtrack to my life. Quite literally, in fact. Whether I am out exercising of a morning – this year saw me back at my 8km exercise routes which I couldn’t do without music – or commuting (a far rarer thing this year thanks to COVID-19) or simply Continue Reading