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Oct 20, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Graham Strahle |Heidi Maier |Sean Sennett
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Sean Sennett |Graham Strahle |Zoe Rice
It’s mid-afternoon in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall and Kasey Chambers is backstage strumming her acoustic guitar. In half an hour she’ll play a short set to the assembled masses and afterwards she’ll sign her new memoir and accompanying album for any fan that wants one. As she’s jotting down what songs to play there’s an unexpected knock at the door and an office worker enquires if he can have a book signed for his wife “now”.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Sean Sennett |Olivia Stewart
Sitting under the Big Top watching Cirque Du Soleil’s latest show LUZIA I had a flashback. I was five and at the circus in Maitland, NSW, where there was a monkey wearing a fez riding a Shetland pony around and around the circus ring. There were a couple of tired elephants and a not very convincing strong man in a leopard skin leotard. The smell of sawdust pervaded the air. The flashback was fleeting as then I was back in the tent and ready.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Sean Sennett |Graham Strahle |Shannon Pearce
Steve Kilbey likes to swim. The Church frontman does a lot of thinking in the water. He’s been known to compile an album’s worth of lyrics over a few days in the pool. Creatively, he’s like a shark. He has to constantly move forward or it’s lights out for his muse, the music and the band. Kilbey has just turned 70. As always, he’s thinking about the next thing. As well as a national tour later in the year, that might be a book, a painting or a song. He’s pretty much always been like that.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Olivia Stewart |Graham Strahle |Sean Sennett
If the audience really wanted to get in the mood for Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s first concert for 2025, they could start a riot. We haven’t seen any riots in the Concert Hall at QPAC thus far. The thing is that the QSO’s first concert next year – its opening gala – is Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky’s avant-garde score was first played to accompany a performance by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at the Theatre du Champs-Élysées in Paris in May 1913.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Graham Strahle |Sean Sennett |Murray Bramwell
Everything is “global” these days, and it is hard to think of a more over-used word than that in reference to a cultural event. Yet this centrepiece of the Adelaide Guitar Festival did live up to that theme, and that was mainly on account of two genuinely outstanding guitarists: Chrystian Dozza from Brazil and Xuefei Yang from China. Yang has aroused a lot of interest this year because she is regularly listed among the top classical guitarists in the world.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Murray Bramwell |Steve Evans |Sean Sennett
Last year’s Adelaide Guitar Festival featured an excellent tribute to the incomparable Jeff Beck. This time around it is the pre-eminent rock ’n’ roll guitar band The Rolling Stones. Sixty years on, and they are still out there on the (gold-paved) road, filling stadiums like there is no tomorrow. Mick is now 81 and Keith (a medical miracle in his own lifetime) is not far behind.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Steve Evans |Sean Sennett |PHIL BROWN
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Sean Sennett |Gillian Cumming
Two years ago, I received an email from a friend in London telling me she’d been out to see Dire Straits the night before and I should, under no circumstances, miss them when they come to Australia. This was unusual on two counts. Firstly, I had no idea my friend was a Dire Straits fan. Secondly, the band stopped playing live after a gig in Zaragoza Spain in October 1992 on the final stop of their On Every Street Tour. On that tour they played 300 shows in front of 7.1 million ticket-buying fans.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Rachael Mead |PHIL BROWN |Sean Sennett
The play opens with Question Time in Parliament House on October 9, 2012. Julia Gillard is about to stand up and deliver “the misogyny speech” – those minutes in which she distilled every slight, slur and slander she’d endured into a speech that sent shockwaves around the world. The moment is broken down and dissected – the layout of the room, the seating plan, the position of clocks on the wall and how much time she has left to speak. Gillard (Justine Clarke) opens her mouth – “I will not…”.
