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Road to Eurovision: semi finals 1 predictions

Posted on May 14, 2013May 5, 2014 by aussiemoose

It’s only hours, mere hours my friends, till the first semi-final takes places in Malmö, Sweden, and 16 countries battle it out in song – of course this being The Eurovision Song Contest, all the battling will be done in the most loving, life-affirming way possible with an angst-ridden Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision: Big 6 reviewed – UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Sweden

Posted on May 14, 2013May 14, 2013 by aussiemoose

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 Continue Reading

Eurovision news roundup: what’s happening in Malmo

Posted on May 11, 2013May 10, 2013 by aussiemoose

We’re so close to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – the first semi-final takes place on Tuesday 14 May – that you can almost taste the herrings, smell the brännvin, and your chances of being blinded by glittery costumes in close proximity, especially Latvia’s luminously sparkly outfits, grows ever Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision: week 5 – Bulgaria, Iceland, Greece, Israel, Armenia, Hungary

Posted on May 9, 2013May 9, 2013 by aussiemoose

Now this is music #6: my 5 favourite songs of the week – Blondfire, Sia, Taped Rai, Mr.Little Jeans, London Grammar

Posted on May 3, 2013May 5, 2013 by aussiemoose

Once more to the iPhone, dear friends, once more! Or close up our ears with the sonic dead. OK there’s an extremely good chance Shakespeare didn’t write this exactly and certainly didn’t own an iPhone, but the sentiment remains. It’s time to plug in your playing device of choice, Continue Reading

Ring! Ring! First ad for the ABBA Museum

Posted on May 2, 2013May 2, 2013 by aussiemoose

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

Road to Eurovision: week 4 – Latvia, San Marino, F. Y. R. Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Finland, Malta

Posted on May 2, 2013May 2, 2013 by aussiemoose

Road to Eurovision: week 3 – Moldova, Ireland, Cyprus, Belgium, Serbia

Posted on April 25, 2013April 26, 2013 by aussiemoose

What’s a country to do when there’s no money for Eurovision?

Posted on April 23, 2013April 23, 2013 by aussiemoose

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

Posted on April 19, 2013April 19, 2013 by aussiemoose

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

Joy to what’s left of the world … Thoughts on Fallout S2

The end of the world is generally considered to be a fairly awful, lawless, dark and terrible place where civility has died and base humanity rules in all its terrible glory. You know it, I know it and Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), ex-Vault 33 Dweller and unexpected wandered of the Continue Reading

A mini-mass of movie trailers: In the Blink of an Eye, Caterpillar + Tow

(via Shutterstock) One of the things I love about indie films is the time they take to really tell a story. That’s not to say that more mainstream, blockbuster fare doesn’t, but smaller, more dramatic films like the three spotlighted here take the time to let the characters and narrative Continue Reading

Book review: The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Scott Yambao

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Create a real sense of fantastical otherworldliness is not as easy it sounds. Surely, you reason, it’s simply a case of letting your imagination run free and allowing it to express itself in ways that defy any and all caveats of our actual reality? But while Continue Reading

A tiny ton of TV trailers: Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Lucky + How to Get to Heaven From Belfast

(via Shutterstock) The sheer amount of programs on streaming simultaneously excites and terrifies me. I love the idea of all those amazing stories at my dispersal and how much viewing pleasure they will give me; but I also know that I don’t have the time to get to them all. Continue Reading

Raising the curtain is still all kinds of happily offbeat fun: Thoughts on The Muppet Show special 2026

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT It’s The Muppet Show! Kermit, Miss Piggy and the beloved Muppet gang are back with a brand-new special event. Music, comedy, and a whole lot of chaos are bound to ensue when The Muppets once again take the stage of the original Muppet Theatre with their very special Continue Reading

Movie review: Is This Thing On?

(courtesy IMP Awards) One thing that strikes you pretty quickly as you exit childhood and enter the uncertain wilds of adulthood is that many of the big moments, which Hollywood has conditioned us to believe happen in big, soap operatic scenes, actually play out in far smaller, quieter ways. It’s Continue Reading

Book review: The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Expert System book #2)

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) If you read a lot of really good science fiction, it will become immediately apparent that imagination is rarely in short supply among the boundlessly creative authors of the genre. But what will also emerge is how imaginatively fertile some of the giants of the genre Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #132: Scandipop special feat. Chris Holsten, Tove Styrke, Janice, Cazzi Opeia + Agnes

(via Shutterstock) I have loved Scandinavian everything since I was kid. I was fortunate that my local country NSW library stocked the Moomins, Agaton Sax and a host of other titles and that ABBA wakened me to the emerging power and captivating creativity of Northern European pop. That love of Continue Reading

Where it all ends … thoughts on the final season of Upload

(courtesy IMP Awards) You kind of have to feel sorry for Upload. Created by Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation), Upload has the misfortune to release right in the middle of the first year of the COVID pandemic, and while that was a boon for many shows, and likely helped some Continue Reading

Book review: The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) Laments about middle age are often viewed as a tired old cliché. But what is often forgotten in the midst of all the eyerolling and lowkey dismissals is that the cliché exists for a reason; middle age is a time when youth is walking Continue Reading