←Volume 32
![]( "Interview: Kathy Toka")
![]( "Interview: Happy Sex")
![]( "Interview: Dicklord")
![]( "Interview: Breabach")
![]( "Cinema Review: Sherlock Gnomes")
![]( "Interview: Áine & Son")
![]( "Homeless benefit from Habitat donations")
![]( "Walking the disused railway line")
![]( "Cinema Review: Love, Simon")
![]( "Live Music Roundup: 4 April, 2018")
![]( "Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box: Ball tampering – who cares?")
![]( "Art Expo treasures young people")
![]( "Extreme wellness: What can you tolerate?")
![]( "Erfan Daliri pays respect to Renew Fest heritage")
![]( "Northern rivers representative side wins AFL U/16 carnival")
![]( "Gold, gold and silver for Matilda")
![]( "McDonagh has first crack at the world’s best pro surfers")
![]( "Bill Wayte wins Stableford at Teven")
![]( "$10,000 sports grants to build inclusiveness")
![]( "April Spritz")
April 4, 2018
In this Issue:
Interview: Kathy Toka
Kathy Toka spoke with The Echo about An Artists’ Affair, a two-day artistic immersion in drawing and painting the human form. What is your vision for An Artists’ Affair? The vision is to create a unique event for artists to come...
Interview: Happy Sex
Laurie Handlers is a sex and happiness coach, author of Amazon #1 international bestseller Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy. Her current focus is on Sexual Ecstasy at Any Age. She will be presenting sessions at Taste of Love this year.
Interview: Dicklord
Everyone’s talking about Dicklord. High-energy punk-enthused rocking-out attitude from a band that unashamedly sings about cocks… It’s like The Beards, but better. Danielle spoke with The Echo about Dicklord, who are headlining at Popcrimes at Billinudgel this weekend. Where...
Interview: Breabach
Scottish five-piece Breabach deliver a thrilling and unique brand of contemporary folk music that has earned them international recognition on the world and roots music scenes as one of the UK’s most dynamic and exciting bands. James Lindsay of Breabach...
Cinema Review: Sherlock Gnomes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9b1orltc8 You have to wonder, don’t you – how many people have actually read those wickedly clever novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s that ultimately would create literature’s most famous detective? Certainly none of the little kids at whom this...
Interview: Áine & Son
Áine Tyrrell and Susan O’Neill, aka SON, come together to create a un ique show presenting music lovers with the rare musical experience of two County Clare musicians travelling Australia and singing eleven thousand miles from their original homes. I...
Homeless benefit from Habitat donations
Forty local brands, located in the Habitat development, donated the equivalent of ten per cent of their Christmas sales to help the Community Showers and Homeless Breakfast programs, which take place in Byron Bay each week.
Walking the disused railway line
Think the North Coast railway line can be reopened again sometime soon? Our reporter walked, jumped and crawled along a section of the line from Mullumbimby to Billinudgel – and this is what he found.
Cinema Review: Love, Simon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykHeGtN4m94 I am on side with any movie that includes the Kinks’ beautiful Waterloo Sunset on its soundtrack. The song, so perfectly chosen, is heard early and in its entirety (unusual in itself) when seventeen-year-old Simon (Nick Robinson) discovers that...
Live Music Roundup: 4 April, 2018
A round-up of the coming music events in the Byron Shire and beyond
Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box: Ball tampering – who cares?
How exactly does a ball make headlines? Malcolm TurnBALL – oops, Turnbull – must have been delighted that it was the leader of the Aussie cricket team, and not the country, copping the heat for letting everyone down.
Art Expo treasures young people
The Ocean Shores Art Expo committee has responded to Byron Youth Service’s call for community support by donating $1,000. President Richard Hazlewood-Ross praised the work of the youth service in valuing, supporting and advocating for young people.
Extreme wellness: What can you tolerate?
Professor Marc Cohen has long been on a mission to bring attention to worldwide wellness. At this year’s Spirit Festival, this Professor of Heath Sciences at RMIT will be running sessions on extreme wellness. So what does that mean?
Erfan Daliri pays respect to Renew Fest heritage
Social animator, author, youth educator, event director and international spoken word artist Erfan Daliri will be a key headline speaker for the upcoming Renew Fest 2018, to be held May 18 to 20 at the Mullumbimby Showground.
Northern rivers representative side wins AFL U/16 carnival
The northern rivers U/16 AFL team won the southern Queensland affiliate league carnival, beating Wide Bay in the final. On the Saturday of the weekend carnival played at Burpengary two weeks ago the northern rivers side won two of their...
Gold, gold and silver for Matilda
Mullumbimby’s Matilda Vial has confirmed her pedigree as a top-class athlete after winning two gold and a silver medal at the Queensland State championships held before Easter. Matilda started the weekend in fine form leading the long jump with a...
McDonagh has first crack at the world’s best pro surfers
At just 16 Mikey McDonagh from Lennox Head surfed in his first WSL Championship Tour heat against the current world champion John John Florence and Brazilian Tomas Hermes at the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach. McDonagh showed some...
Bill Wayte wins Stableford at Teven
Bill won the nine-hole Stableford competition of the Teven Golf Club Men’s Division played last Saturday. Bill got in front on the back of a countback as both he and runner-up Robert Tillman finished on 21 points John Mathias came...
$10,000 sports grants to build inclusiveness
Local not-for-profit community sports groups can now apply for grants of up to $10,000 to promote diversity and inclusion in sport. The Australian Sports Foundation’s Giving for Grassroots Sport4Everyone program will award grants of between $2,500 and $10,000 to selected...
April Spritz
Looking for something to do that’s really not very much to do, on Saturday afternoons in April? The April sun from 4 till 6pm will be shining at Byron at Byron’s pop-up bar on the lawns near the pool,...
