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Cinema Review: Halloween
John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978) is regarded as a masterpiece by aficionados of the horror genre (let’s not quibble over the superlative – hyperbole is the norm these days). With Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode, a... Read More →
15 days ago | John Campbell | 0 Uncategorised -
Bangalow Public School’s own film festival
Bangalow Public School students are preparing for their first Futurama Drama film festival, to be held October 23, 24 and 25.
28 days ago | The Echo | 0 Uncategorised -
Live Music in Byron Shire and Beyond for the week beginning Oct 10, 2018
A round-up of the coming music events in the Byron Shire and beyond
October 10, 2018 | The Echo | 0 Byron Echo, Entertainment News, All Entertainment, Uncategorised -
Interview with Matt Hanley
Matt Hanley & Friends: Menaissance album launch Court House Hotel, Mullumbimby | Saturday | $20 As a session guitarist Matt Hanley has played with some impressive artists, including Brian Cadd, Jenny Morris, Doug Parkinson, Troy Cassar-Daley, and a whole lot... Read More →
September 13, 2018 | The Echo | 0 Uncategorised
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Cinema Review: Halloween
John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978) is regarded as a masterpiece by aficionados of the horror genre (let’s not quibble over the superlative – hyperbole is the norm these days). With Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode, a... Read More →
15 days ago | John Campbell | 0 -
Bangalow Public School’s own film festival
Bangalow Public School students are preparing for their first Futurama Drama film festival, to be held October 23, 24 and 25.
28 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Live Music in Byron Shire and Beyond for the week beginning Oct 10, 2018
A round-up of the coming music events in the Byron Shire and beyond
October 10, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
Interview with Matt Hanley
Matt Hanley & Friends: Menaissance album launch Court House Hotel, Mullumbimby | Saturday | $20 As a session guitarist Matt Hanley has played with some impressive artists, including Brian Cadd, Jenny Morris, Doug Parkinson, Troy Cassar-Daley, and a whole lot... Read More →
September 13, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
State budget
Alan Veacock, Cumbalum At its most recent meeting, the Ballina Branch of Country Labor discussed at length the recently released NSW State Budget. The branch points out that the budget will do little to mitigate the continuing job losses in regional... Read More →
July 23, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
Gaza
Gareth W R Smith, Byron Bay Falling off a ladder and breaking my hip at age 76 is no joke. I am yet another statistic as 70 per cent of falls involve men aged 45 and over. Having braved a cadetship... Read More →
July 23, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
Animal cruelty
V Thompson, Binna Burra Animal cruelty is a serious crime that is linked to other violent crimes. Studies have shown that those who abuse animals are five times more likely to commit a crime against humans, such as child or elder... Read More →
July 23, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
Downgraded protection for Cape Byron Marine Park
Tyagarah Beach and East Cape Byron will now be permanently open to beach fishing after the state government downgraded their status from ‘sanctuary’ to ‘habitat protection’ zones.
June 18, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Are your knees failing to please? SCU wants YOU
Do your knees protest on cold winter mornings? Is there a familiar ache that let's you know when rain is on the way? Then you may be exactly the type of person Southern Cross University is looking for.
May 31, 2018 | Paul Bibby | 0 -
Interview: Clint Hurrell, Australia’s next top fashion show
In the last decade Byron Bay has made itself known as a brand synonymous with hip individualism and style. It seems only right that alongside all the festivals that Byron should have an event to showcase the fashion industry, and... Read More →
April 26, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
Music Roundup: 28 Feb-6 March, 2018
Composing Women Muses Trio once again push the boundaries around women composers. Those who have shared in Muses Trio performances know the importance the artists place on uncovering the stories behind the often-neglected creations of women composers. Often, these trailblazers... Read More →
February 28, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
Plans to convert Holden plant to solar and produce electric vehicles
UK-based billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is looking to buy equipment from and use part of the old Holden factory in South Australia to create an electric vehicle production line in what would be a remarkable transformation of Australia’s car industry and... Read More →
January 23, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Taking a bite of chocolate yoga
To a chocolate-loving woman like me, chocolate yoga sounds like the only way you would get me remotely interested in yoga. Sjha’ra is facilitating chocolate yoga at this year’s Starlight Festival of Healing.
January 3, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: New Years Revolution
In a few weeks I’m 50. And let me tell you it’s not ageing I regret. It’s the fact nothing’s changed. The world I shook my fist at three decades ago as an anarchist socialist feminist marxist radical environmentalist continues to revolve around violence, greed, exploitation, cruelty, injustice and murder.
January 3, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 3 -
John Campbell’s Top (and worst) Ten Movies 2017
TOP 10 ❶ T2 Trainspotting The Godfather 2 is the only other sequel I can think of that actually improved on its fabulous predecessor. Director Danny Boyle, again collaborating with writer John Hodge, returns to Edinburgh to see how his... Read More →
December 20, 2017 | John Campbell | 0 -
Movie Review: Paddington 2
It’s all about the suspension of disbelief when you’re watching a movie about a talking bear living with a family of humans in Notting Hill. Fortunately, this sequel to 2014’s adorable Paddington has that essential element in spades. Directed and co-written once more by Paul King, with the same cast in the central roles (Hugh Bonneville, the lovely Sally Hawkins, Samuel Joslin and Madeleine Harris
December 20, 2017 | John Campbell | 0 -
The Blues Rush!
American blues musician composer and singer Bobby Rush incorporates elements of blues, rap and funk in his music. Bobby was born in 1933, and his musical career seemed as though it was meant to be, with some of the most influential musicians of the day crossing his path
December 7, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
Movie review: The Man Who Invented Christmas
If you are familiar with Charles Dickens’s two timeless novels, Oliver Twist ] and Great Expectations which is irreplaceably in my all-time top ten – A Tale of Two Cities I had to read at school, which blinded me to its worth), you might have trouble aligning Dan Stevens’s at times flippant portrayal of the 19th century’s prolific writer/speaker/polemicist with the man who is presented in the archives.
December 7, 2017 | John Campbell | 0 -
In Loeb with Byron: Meet 2016 Aussie Comedian of the Year
Jackie Loeb is a very funny woman. This character-playing comedy chameleon found her feet early in the Australian award-winning sketch TV comedy series Full Frontal. Loeb has something special. She’s an impressive cabaret singer and musician and has the kind of voice that easily has people fronting to see her for that talent alone.
December 6, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
Movie Review: Wonder
Little Auggie (Jacob Tremblay) was born with a congenital condition that, even after twenty-seven operations, has left him with a sadly messed-up face. Lucky for him, he lives in a luxurious New York brownstone with parents Nate and Isabel (Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts), who are the nicest people in the world. It’s easy to be flippant if you have not been cursed by disfigurement (‘winning the lottery of life in reverse’), so I would not wish to pretend for one minute that I was not deeply affected in a choked-up, heart-swelling way by this movie.
December 6, 2017 | John Campbell | 0 -
Live Music Roundup: Wednesday 6 December, 2017
In the dimly lit interior of a small nightclub, where the stale smell of a thousand extinguished cigarettes drowns out the smell of spilt beer and broken dreams, a band plays against a backdrop of cheap golden tinsel. Outside, palm trees line the night’s horizon.
December 6, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
Movie Review: Goodbye Christopher Robin
Who doesn’t adore Winnie the Pooh? The mere utterance of the teddybear’s name, along with Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore, is enough to transport so many people of a certain age to a happier world of uncomplicated intimacies and honey-soaked innocence. The history behind Pooh is considerably more layered, however.
November 29, 2017 | John Campbell | 0 -
Live Music Roundup: Wednesday 29 November, 2017
Audio Vixen Sibling trio Audio Vixen presents a stunning salute to some of the music industry’s greatest classic rock artists such as The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Bruce Springsteen and many more. As seen on The X Factor, Audio Vixen... Read More →
November 29, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
Cinema Review: Borg V McEnroe
Because the leitmotif is tennis, you might worry that this comes too soon on the heels of Battle of the Sexes to be relevant. Forget about that. The two films are the same but significantly different.
November 22, 2017 | John Campbell | 0 -
When Comedy Burns
He’s performed in some of the best comedy rooms in the world; he’s even starred in the Xmas episode of The Office in a part his mate Ricky Gervais wrote for him, but when UK comedian Greg Burns came to Australia, it was love at first sight.
October 19, 2017 | The Echo | 0
