←Volume 30
August 26, 2015
In this Issue:
Southpaw
https://youtu.be/Mh2ebPxhoLs Let’s not beat about the bush; if you’re not into boxing flicks you will want to avoid this one like the plague. My companion (of the fairer sex) scathingly referred to it as ‘Rocky #587’ and tore strips off...
Irrational Man
https://youtu.be/Z1CQX1trWDg You’d think that, having turned eighty, Woody Allen might have finally gotten over himself. That is not the case, however, if this typically egocentric movie is anything to go by. As usual, the protagonist, Abe (Joaquin Phoenix), a drink-addled...
Good mates with guitars and a song to sing
A couple of years back Tom Busby and Jeremy Marou found themselves in Nashville recording Farewell Fitzroy, the album described by many as perhaps the duo’s finest hour yet.
Feeling the Bern!
ABC TV’s Funny man, media entertainer and radio host Peter Berner, is seriously funny.
Culture Roundup – August 26, 2015
Full Points for Byron Ballet Gala Byron Ballet Company performs a spectacular gala at the Byron Theatre on Saturday. The programme includes the comedic family ballet Coppelia (Act 2 ), variations from special male guests and a contemporary piece to...
Live Music Roundup – August 26, 2015
Having a Ball with White Feather Shores United Soccer Club invite club supporters and the general public to their fund raiser at the Ocean Shores Tavern on Saturday. Featuring live music by White Feather Band and heaps of prizes up...
Tinkering with spoons
Spoonbill returns to the fore with his fourth full-length album Tinkerbox. He celebrates with a launch party at Durrumbul Hall on Friday. Unlike anything he’s ever done before, this sonic anthology traverses the landscape of cinematic groove electronica like a...
Rams best in the end
Saturday’s final round of the Football Far North Coast Premier League competition saw reigning poinstcore champions the Byron Bay Rams, finish the season with a comfortable 1–0 victory over Alstonville.
The Squeak that roared
Squeak LeMaire of Ocean Shores may just be 18, but he already has two years of gigging under his belt, and he has just achieved the benchmark that most musicians don’t crack until well into their twenties, some even later.
Too much fun in Byron to Bruns
The fourth Byron to Bruns Beach Run was held on Sunday over a glorious sun filled morning
Mr Walker and His Suave Fucks
There is something incredibly poetic about the songs of Don Walker, although if you said that to him he’d probably grunt in disapproval.
