Now I don’t usually act as the promotional mouthpiece for museums, art galleries, and small stalls selling toy cats made out of used felt and aluminium (delightful though they may be). But in the case of the ABBA Museum, which is being opened in honour of a musical supergroup Continue Reading
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Road to Eurovision: week 4 – Latvia, San Marino, F. Y. R. Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Finland, Malta
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw 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 Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: week 3 – Moldova, Ireland, Cyprus, Belgium, Serbia
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw 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 Continue Reading
What’s a country to do when there’s no money for Eurovision?
The Eurovision Song Contest has always occupied a very special place in the entertainment universe. Started in 1956 as a way to bring the nations of Europe into one big happy wind-machine blown, pyrotechnic backlit family, it’s always felt set apart from the normal day to day concerns of Continue Reading
Now this is music #5: My 5 favourite songs of the week
My virtual radio spilleth over. So much music, so many talented artists … and so little time (and space on my iPod). Picking just five songs out of the maelstrom of the audio tsunami that washes over me daily has been a challenge but I have managed it – Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: week 2 – Ukraine, The Netherlands, Montenegro, Lithuania, Belarus
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw 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 Continue Reading
Behold the Eurovision 2013 anthem: Music fit for a “Dancing Queen”
I think it’s fairly safe to say that if you were to offer a dyed-in-the-wool ABBA fan three wishes, their first wish, which likely would be repeated three times anyway with ever-increasing levels of breathless excitement, would be the reformation of the iconic 70s pop supergroup. Speculation that the Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2013: Week 1 – Austria, Estonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark, Russia
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw 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 Continue Reading
Come “Alive” with Empire of the Sun’s new music!
Walking on a Dream by Australian electropop duo, Empire of the Sun, was one of my favourite albums of 2008. The songs from Nick Littlemore and Luke Steels, already major figures on the Australian music scene in their own right, were possessed of the most beautiful otherworldly melodies and Continue Reading
Now this is music #4: My 5 favourite songs of the week
Turn up your amps! Strum those guitars. Make love to your synths like Duran Duran. Or just listen. Yes, listening will work too. Here are the five songs that have enthralled, seduced and made love like an over eager Chihuahua to my ears (hmm perhaps I should rethink that Continue Reading