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Cinema Review: A Simple Favour
On and on it twisted and turned, with director Paul Feig pulling rabbit after rabbit from his seemingly bottomless hat, each surprise development accompanied by an almost audible ‘You didn’t see that coming, did you’. In a whodunnit that is... Read More →
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Interview with award-winning vocalist Emma Pask
Brunswick Picture House | Sunday | 3.30pm The Jazz Singer Award-winning vocalist Emma Pask will delight as she interweaves storytelling through timeless swinging jazz standards, upbeat latin rhythms, tender ballads, and some raucous blues. She plays the Brunswick Picture House... Read More →
10 hours ago | The Echo | 0 Byron Echo, Interviews, All Entertainment -
Culture Roundup for the Byron Shire and beyond. 20 September 2018
Big Gig Comedy – Dan Willis, Robert Grayson, Mandy Nolan Ballina RSL | Thursday 27 Sep | 8pm | Free Born in 1973 in North Yorkshire, Dan Willis moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne aged three, where he remained until nineteen years had... Read More →
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Cinema Review: Searching
Unfriended (2014) led the way and set the bar pretty high for this new form of filmmaking, in which the story is told entirely on the screens of digital platforms (Facebook, email, Twitter, TV news etc). It was a horror... Read More →
Yesterday | John Campbell | 0 Byron Echo, Cinema Reviews, All Entertainment
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Cinema Review: A Simple Favour
On and on it twisted and turned, with director Paul Feig pulling rabbit after rabbit from his seemingly bottomless hat, each surprise development accompanied by an almost audible ‘You didn’t see that coming, did you’. In a whodunnit that is... Read More →
10 hours ago | John Campbell | 0 -
Interview with award-winning vocalist Emma Pask
Brunswick Picture House | Sunday | 3.30pm The Jazz Singer Award-winning vocalist Emma Pask will delight as she interweaves storytelling through timeless swinging jazz standards, upbeat latin rhythms, tender ballads, and some raucous blues. She plays the Brunswick Picture House... Read More →
10 hours ago | The Echo | 0 -
Culture Roundup for the Byron Shire and beyond. 20 September 2018
Big Gig Comedy – Dan Willis, Robert Grayson, Mandy Nolan Ballina RSL | Thursday 27 Sep | 8pm | Free Born in 1973 in North Yorkshire, Dan Willis moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne aged three, where he remained until nineteen years had... Read More →
11 hours ago | The Echo | 0 -
Cinema Review: Searching
Unfriended (2014) led the way and set the bar pretty high for this new form of filmmaking, in which the story is told entirely on the screens of digital platforms (Facebook, email, Twitter, TV news etc). It was a horror... Read More →
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An interview with the women of NORPA’s Wildskin
Lismore City Hall | Friday 28 Sept, Sat 29 Sept, Wed 3 Oct till Sat 6 Oct | 7.30pm | $20–49 Women of Wildskin Carrying on from the hallmarks of NORPA’s original works, the company presents Wildskin, an all-female ensemble... Read More →
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Live Music for the Byron Shire. 19 September 2018
The Byron Bay Guitar Festival Byron Brewery | 6 & 7 October The Byron Bay Guitar Festival (BBGF) is returning on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October 2018 at the Byron Bay Brewery for its second year. Amongst the incredible... Read More →
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Byron film fest program is now online
The full program for the Byron Bay Film Festival is now available online, introducing a stellar showcase of over 155 films.
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Interview with Saint Sister who play at Mullumbimby Festival
Mullum Music Festival | 15–18 November Saints, Sisters & Silence Irish two-hander Saint Sister sees Morgan MacIntyre and Gemma Doherty create music that draws from early Celtic harp traditions, 60s folk, and electronic pop to create what they dub ‘atmosfolk’ –... Read More →
5 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Interview with Graeme Batterbury and Wendy Royston about Women’s Empowerment in Indian Villages (WEIV)
Empowering women in India from right here What does it take to change people’s lives? Around $2,700 a month. For that very modest amount, Brunswick Heads residents Graeme Batterbury and Wendy Royston have been running a charity in rural India... Read More →
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Interview with writer Tommy Murphy
Drill Hall, Mullumbimby | Friday 28 Sep till Sunday 14 October | Q & A with Tommy Murphy Sunday September 30 The woman who gave Mark Colvin her kidney Writer Tommy Murphy has penned an extraordinary piece of theatre that tells the story of... Read More →
6 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Cinema Review: The Flip Side
Do you remember the interview given by John Millman after he’d beaten Roger Federer at the US Open? Almost apologetic, it seemed quintessentially Australian in its cap-doffing modesty – which is a vaguely annoying trait of this rom-com’s protagonist. Ronnie... Read More →
One week ago | John Campbell | 0 -
What’s happening in Culture for Byron Shire and Beyond: September 13, 2018
NORPA: Wildskin Lismore City Hall | 28 Sep till 6 Oct | Adult $49–25 NORPA’s upcoming Wildskin is the story of one woman’s journey played with horror… and humour. This intriguing piece by the region’s premier theatre company follows on... Read More →
One week ago | The Echo | 0 -
British India, Ash Grunwald and Dallas Frasca to headline guitar fest
The Byron Bay Guitar Festival is returning on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October 2018 at the Byron Bay Brewery for its second year.
8 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Ten things about Falls festival
Catfish, Toto & Vaccines: This is what Falls is made of! Falls Festival at North Byron Parklands 31 Dec till 2 Jan. The summer of festivals is just months away, with Falls Festival a must on the calendar for those... Read More →
8 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Interview with Kamahi Djordon King, member of Yothu Yindi and The Treaty Project
Yothu Yindi and the Treaty Project Lismore City Hall | Saturday | 7.30pm | $65 It’s been twenty-five years since Yothu Yindi released Treaty, a landmark song that sent a message right to the heart of Australia about the need... Read More →
8 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Cinema Review: The Nun
Pardon my Protestant upbringing, but I have always considered nuns in head-to-toe black burkas – oops, I mean habits – to be creepy in the extreme. So this new-age horror flick, set in a monastery, was guaranteed to give me... Read More →
8 days ago | John Campbell | 0 -
Live Music in the Byron Shire, 13 Sept 2018
Curious Byron Brewery | Saturday | 6pm till midnight The team behind Nudge Nudge Wink Wink present CURIOUS – a new concept night that sees them make over the outside and indoor spaces at the Byron Brewery. The good people... Read More →
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Interview with The Flumes
Byron Guitar Festival | Byron Brewery | 6 & 7 October The Byron Guitar Festival is just a month away and tuning up for some epic playing is Steve Merry of the Fumes. Steve doesn’t really like talking about music... Read More →
12 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Interview with Shelly Brown on becoming a Mullumbimby festival youth mentor
Mullum Music Festival | 15–18 Nov Last week saw Mullum Music Festival’s Youth Mentorship open for nominations for the 2018 event. The mentorship offers young musicians a unique and very pivotal experience to work alongside an industry peer. Along with... Read More →
13 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Culture Roundup for the Shire: 6 September 2018
Stories in the Club- It’s a Mad Mad World Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club | Sunday 9 September | 4-5.30pm | $10 A year in, Stories in the Club are on a roll. This month’s theme for tellers is It’s a Mad Mad... Read More →
14 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
An Interview with Dan Cordero about his Photographic Exhibition, Getting Lucky
Byron Brewery | Friday | 7pm | Free Daniel Cordero is a Byron-based, Los Angeles-born photographer. Inspired by the beauty of Byron Bay, Dan began to explore the creative potential of landscape photography. Dan is a lover of natural beauty... Read More →
14 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Cinema Review: Book Club
Typically, the funniest scenes in this sweet-natured, oldies’ rom-com had been given away in a trailer that, in hindsight, tended to diminish the movie’s more thoughtful intent. For when the naughty saucy jokes thin out, after mostly being crammed into... Read More →
14 days ago | John Campbell | 0 -
Women Like Us finally put on a Mullum show
They’ve been doing it all around the country yet this is the first time the show Women Like Us will be on show in Mullumbimby and they are coming to town to help out kids at our local schools.
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Cinema Review: Mile 22
The blood-splattered uber-action flick has evolved in recent times, to the point that we now have not just bullet-proof blokes but also pretty young women blowing people’s brains out with automatic assault rifles that never run out of ammo. But... Read More →
15 days ago | John Campbell | 0 -
An Interview with Sam Foster from the NORPA play ‘Viral’
Lismore City Hall | Wednesday 12 Septmber | 7.30pm | $25–36 What is the price of internet fame? This is the question asked by award-winning theatre show Viral. It’s the story of Art and Zane, two boys who try to get more... Read More →
15 days ago | The Echo | 0
