Kate Hennessy : Freelance Writer

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

First published in The Big Issue

Please see review in PDF.

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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March 8, 2012.

First published on The Vine, here.

There’s no music while we wait for Aphex Twin. Just roadies roaming the first few rows bearing video cameras with searchlights, gathering footage of faces in the crowd. Purposeful and silent. Some people try to duck the interrogative shaft of light but most stare back, enjoying the confrontation. They’re fans of Aphex Twin, after all. Confrontation is the point. We’re all strapped in here.

Aphex Twin live at Future Music in Brisbane. Photo C/O Justin Edwards

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First published on The Vine, here

When I first heard The Orb as a 15-year-old they detonated my idea of what music was and how to listen to it. And when the pieces settled again they were in a different shape for good. As the years passed, I could place their influences and see where they slotted in. But by then it was too late. The Orb had already dissolved into my psyche as a whole and original sound.

In 2012 I still cherish them because much of that early delight is preserved. Tracks like the 17-minute subterranean epic ‘Blue Room’ are frozen in time by an enduring, impermeable nostalgia; a remembrance of discovery. I can still hear it – faintly, reflexively – how I heard it back then and I can still summon the same excitement. It also means I arrive at The Orb’s show at The Metro Theatre on Saturday night with an oversupply of emotional expectation. I want – need – for this to take me on the journey that I want – need – to go on.

Image C/O The Vine

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