IF TRADITIONS, Fanny Lumsden’s fifth album, has a subtext beneath its close examination of what and why we choose to cherish ...

AS THE LINE CONNECTS, the camera boots up and the sound eventually works, I am greeted by Fanny Lumsden singing. Not one of her own songs, not even the new single, Traditions, but a jaunty little ...

Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the ...

Directed by Matt Wishnow. Screening as part of First Films festival. DON’T LIVE WITH A music critic, I strongly advise you. Just don’t. Yes you may be tempted by their general handsomeness, equanimity ...

First they came back to perform, which was not the same as a previous time they came back as this time they were in (pretty much) original form. And everyone was excited and reminiscing. Then they ...

OLD PEOPLE – YOU KNOW, 50 years and up: ancient types – like to reminisce about the days when out in the suburbs you didn’t have to go to the city but could see a band in a local venue or somewhere ...

THIS ALBUM IS PARCHED. Like drier than any part of a dead dingo, but especially that part. Certainly, it’s cracking underfoot a set of songs constantly scanning the horizon for any signs of a break – ...

Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the work of the brilliant photographer Stuart Spence, whose not-so-secret goal ...

SHE WAS, WELL, FINE. Adequate seems harsh, good seems flattering, and middling is about right, but the show was probably elevated beyond the implications of that term by Suzanne Vega’s efforts to ...