John Bailey

Cartersville, Cedartown, Rockmart

Writer at Freelance

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It’s time to meet the mystery woman behind Hitchcock’s greatest hits

6 days ago | brisbanetimes.com.au | John Bailey |John Bailey

The full power of Daphne du Maurier’s writing is unleashed in new stage productions of The Birds and Rebecca. By John BaileyMay 9, 2025, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
Uncle Archie Roach Block Party lands in three Melbourne venues on May 10

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | John Bailey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Soju Gang was probably always destined to become a DJ. “When it comes to blackfellas, we grew up listening to everything. We grew up to blues, Motown jazz, but then heavy metal, rock, rap, hip-hop.
Guy Montgomery is everywhere, but he thinks he’s ‘pretty generic’

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | John Bailey

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Guy Montgomery is everywhere, but he thinks he’s ‘pretty generic’

1 month ago | theage.com.au | John Bailey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. You might recognise Guy Montgomery from his regular appearances on the likes of Thank God You’re Here and Have You Been Paying Attention? You could know the NZ comic from his own ABC panel show, Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s best career move? Running away from the circus

Jan 27, 2025 | theage.com.au | John Bailey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Family members pummel aspiring actors with the same well-meaning phrases: “I just think you need a back-up plan”; “You’re setting yourself up for a lifetime of rejection”; “I thought you wanted to be a vet?”Nothing like that was ever thrown at Tilda Cobham-Hervey.
Are street artists like Banksy and Drez really still on the outside?

Dec 5, 2024 | smh.com.au | John Bailey

Some of their faces remain hidden, but a new exhibition brings graffiti’s biggest names in from the cold. By John BaileyDecember 6, 2024, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After earning degrees from Paris to Massachusetts, the artist now known as ELLE found her work consigned to an all-too-common fate. “Everything was getting rolled up and put under my bed and just dying.
Junkyard Artist Management enters liquidation, leaving comedians out of pocket

Dec 5, 2024 | smh.com.au | John Bailey

By John Bailey December 5, 2024 — 5.45pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Dozens of prominent Australian comedians say they have been left out of pocket after Junkyard Artist Management went into liquidation on Monday, and many say they are owed serious money.
This ACMI exhibition shows us the tomorrow we want is ours to make

Nov 18, 2024 | smh.com.au | John Bailey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of the great disappointments of living in the future is how backwards-looking it can feel. The richest tech bros of Silicon Valley are chasing the same dreams that excited science fiction readers of the 1950s. Colonising Mars? Robot servants? Anyone still promising us these quaint fantasies is clearly selling something.
We’ve been at it for millennia, but sex on the Fringe is something else

Sep 18, 2024 | theage.com.au | John Bailey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Artistic fashions wax and wane, but there’s one subject that will feature in any fringe festival. We might have been at it for millions of years, but there’s always something new to say about sex. This year’s Melbourne Fringe is awash with all things erotic, but as you’d expect, most of it’s a long way from the narrow version of sex that dominates the mainstream.
This playwright can say in 70 minutes what others need 500 pages for

Aug 6, 2024 | smh.com.au | John Bailey

Once upon a time we imagined a future in which we all wore identical jumpsuits. Nowadays, we all just sound the same. Every character in the Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars universes speaks in the same quippy manner. Our literary scene is dominated by novels written in an identical, stripped-back and unaffected voice. It's even become impossible to tell if your online customer service assistant is human or not. It comes as a welcome tonic, then, to hit upon a writer for whom character is everything.