Life and love comes with more than their fair share of challenges and it’s safe to say that much as we would like a magic wand to be waved, there are no easy solutions to many of the things that vex and beset us (those two words don’t get used Continue Reading
Music
Hello Mrs Doubtfire! Shall we dance?
SNAPSHOTBeats and tunes made from the sounds of Mrs. Doubtfire. Enjoy! (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Mrs Doubtfire is one of the great comedic triumphs of the 1990s. Released in 1993, this deeply poignant film starred the late, great, sorely-missed Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard / Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire, a man Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #28: Remi Wolf, RAC, Brye, Woodkid, San Holo
Heartbroken? Sitting down too long? Longing to head home and live life on your own terms? Need an escape into a lushly cinematic landscape? Today’s five artists can be with you in all those situations, offering up solace, empathy, melodic diversion and a sense that for everything in life there Continue Reading
Eurovision Song Contest magic strikes again … Listen to “Volcano Man” from Will Ferrell’s “The Story of Fire Saga”
SNAPSHOTEurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is an upcoming American comedy film directed by David Dobkin, written by Andrew Steele and Will Ferrell and starring Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Pierce Brosnan, Dan Stevens and Demi Lovato. The film follows Icelandic singers Lars Erickssong and Sigrit Ericksdottir as they are Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 7 – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK
This is normally how I begin these review posts … 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 Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #27: Aquilo, Ane Brun, Price Park & Jade Alice, uomo, Porter Robinson
Life is busy and wonderful and exhausting and full of a million things to contemplate normally, even more so when things take a very dark turn like they have in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Processing it all can sometimes feel like an impossible task, beyond anything we can Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 6 – Moldova, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland
This is normally how I begin these review posts … 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 Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: ABBA and five songs of energetic defiance
There is a popular perception of ABBA out in the general public of a Swedish group who were perpetually upbeat and sunny and whose music, composed of rich melodies and luscious harmonies, courtesy of the combined superlative vocal talents of Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, was the stuff of endlessly Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 5 – Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia
This is normally how I begin these review posts … 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 Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #26: Dagny, NZCA Lines, Gorgon City, PVRIS, Lemaitre
COVID-19 has taken quite a lot of the expansive fizz from the world, making us feel that as we retreat into our homes, that our lives are following suit. But the thing is, as these songs remind us, that life, love and the pursuit never diminishes or is lost and Continue Reading