We hide way too much. Not that everything has to be out in the open – some things should be kept quiet for a variety of reasons. But too often we don’t discuss life in all its uplifting and brutal messiness, conversations that could help many of us to feel Continue Reading
Music
Songs, songs and more songs #3: MANE, Elk Road & JES, Eves Karydas, Haelos, Eilish Gilligan + Eurovision update
Life is full of all kinds of experiences, good and bad. Sometimes we can express how they make us feel and sometimes we can’t; for those times when words escape us, we have music artists to do the heavy-lifting, articulation-wise for us, such the five featured in this post. Hailing Continue Reading
Is this the real thing? It is … welcome to the Bo-Meme-Ean Rhapsody video
SNAPSHOT Welcome to the Official Bo-Meme-Ean Rhapsody fan video!. Initially, I just collected all the images and captioned them (lyrics by Freddie Mercury), and put them in order. But when I made the image folder public & shareable on Facebook, it went viral and exploded in about 3 days. My Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #2: SOAK, Dido, Beirut, Dodie, The Japanese House + Eurovision update
Life is a many-complicated thing. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s supposed to be “splendoured” but really sometimes, it doesn’t feel so much wondrous as complicated, a mix of the god and the bad, the lovely and the not-so-much and moments rich with potential but ripe with disappointment. Sure, we all Continue Reading
Boldly go where no carpool has gone before: the cast of Star Trek Discovery find their inner disco queen
Sure, they can face off against bloodythirsty, warmongering Klingons, triumph over bad guys from another dimension and rescue people in the nick of time from planetary into a devouring sun … but can the crew of the Discovery, Star Trek’s latest ship of the line, SING? Or, at least, singalong, Continue Reading
Can you sing 22 musicals in just 12 minutes? Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and James Corden can!
James Corden, host of, as luck would have naming-wise, The Late Late Show with James Corden, love musicals. And Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are currently starring in a musical at the moment by the name of Mary Poppins Returns (which is a supreme delight, and yes you must see Continue Reading
Sweet arachnid music: Lucas the Spider and his one man band
Lucas the Spider might be little but boy can he create some beautifully-big music. In this delightfully musical piece from creator Joshua Slice, Lucas uses violin, xylophone, drums and other instruments to create a jauntily-upbeat slice of mellow rockabilly that’s sure to get you up and dancing. (Just watch where Continue Reading
Songs songs and more Australia Day songs: KAIIT, Carmouflage Rose, Eilish Gilligan, Samsurah, Jesswar
Australia’s national day is not without controversy. Situated since 1994 on 26 January when European settlement of Australia began, displacing an indigenous people who had been on the continent for 60,000 years, the day is increasingly seen as marking invasion rather than a celebration of nationhood, with calling to #changethedate Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #1: Methyl Ethel, Touch Sensitive, Kinder, Ellie Goulding, Joji
A new year and after five years of rapturously and emphatically-declaring “Now this is music” – meet me in person and you’ll understand why that is; I am an extrovert and prone to being fulsomely enthusiastic – I’ve decided it is high time for a musical change. So I present Continue Reading
Dare to Dream with this Eurovision 2019 update: Logo + interval acts
You may be asking yourself right now – “Did we not just witness Israel’s fabulously-funky Netta win the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest? How we can be closer to 2019’s event than the one just gone?” Time, my friends, time and it’s already racing ahead to May this year when the Continue Reading