Archive for April, 2012

Burial – KINDRED

Rating: ★★★★½

First published in Metro (Sydney Morning Herald), April 2012

A challenge throbs deep in the flesh of this EP from UK dubstep producer Burial: to listen without feeling heart-sore. Just try. And when you fail, trace your fall. You’ll find what’s responsible are the trademark sounds Burial – real name William Bevan –deployed on previous releases to the same devastating emotional effect.

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Dig It Up! Sydney festival 2012 – Enmore Road venues

First published in Mess+Noise, here.

In his welcome message in the Dig it Up program, Hoodoo Gurus’ frontman Dave Faulkner says: “Dig it Up is NOT seeking to carve up the potential audience into marketing segments with a little bit of this for the ‘this’ people and a little bit of that for the ‘that’ people.”

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Sydney Theatre Company – Greening the Wharf

Between October and December in 2011, I worked with the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) to develop six comprehensive case studies of the Company’s incredible sustainability achievements. The case studies were used to create the Greening The Wharf website, here: http://greeningthewharf.com/ STC Artistic Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton introduce Greening the Wharf on the homepage.

The Greening the Wharf website team

You can link through to the individual case studies here:

Project Planning
Energy
Water
Waste
Theatre Production
Advocacy

Chet Faker – THINKING IN TEXTURES

The Big Issue,

April 2012

First published in The Big Issue

Please see review in PDF.

Lambchop – MR. M

First published in The Brag.

Were I Lambchop’s publicist for Mr. M, I’d allow a long lead-time between promo copies and the record’s release date to give critics the longest possible time to let this one marinate. Like furled seedlings, all Lambchop records need time and attention to bloom. All are eventually growers. Especially Mr. M.


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