←Volume 32
May 23, 2018
In this Issue:
Good design does more than turn profit
The character of Byron Shire’s built environment is likely to change over the next decade as recommendations emerging from the various town Masterplans take effect.
Interview: WH Chong
WH Chong is one of Australia’s foremost cover designers, winner of multiple awards, and is an inductee in the Book Designers Hall of Fame. He is well known for his portrait drawings of writers and artists – his near-life-size portrait...
Interview: Secret Parlour, A Dark Cabaret
Secret Parlour is the dark cabaret that brings together all that is wild and wonderful from the Guilty Pleasures shows. Louise McCabe spoke with The Echo about what to expect… Can you tell me what inspired you to create The...
Interview: The Paul McKenna Band
The Paul McKenna Band have built a solid international reputation. Ahead of their show in Mullumbimby The Echo spoke with the band’s namesake about the music from these five guys from Glasgow. You are acclaimed for your live performances. What...
Interview: Caiti Baker
Vocalist and frontwoman Caiti Baker was raised in a house full of the sounds of vinyl, CD and tapes of blues, soul, gospel, jazz, big band and rock’n’roll. It’s no surprise that this daughter of a blues musician should...
Culture Roundup: May 23rd 2018
Groove Therapy Hip-Hop Class Beach Hotel Byron | Saturdays | 10am | $20 Known for their community projects with refugee girls, at-risk youth and early dementia patients, Groove Therapy have also been running sellout adult dance classes in Sydney, Brisbane and...
Cinema Review: Deadpool 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D86RtevtfrA This movie had smashed all box-office records after opening in the US, but Hoyts at Tweed City might have been gilding the lily just a tad by giving it fifteen sessions on the day of its debut in Oz....
Interview: Carlotta
Carlotta has astonishing energy. For a start she’s no regular 74-year-old. She’s still touring the country performing live shows and guesting on the telly. Carlotta has a story to tell and she sure knows how to tell it. ‘I never...
Real estate agents warned over holiday letting
In a move that opens up a new front in the fight against short-term letting, Byron Council is sending letters to every real estate agency in the shire declaring that from now on they, and not just the owner of a property, could be held responsible for illegal short-term letting.
Byron Visitor Centre spruced up
The Byron Visitor Centre has been refurbished at a cost of $620,000, say Council, and improvements include new technologies and a showcase of Byron’s history and culture.
From deep within the thought cocoon
What better way to craft your inner thoughts than in a luxurious Possum Creek hideaway with a world-class mentor? Four north coast writers have just spent an intensive week working with award-winning author Marele Day to streamline their manuscripts.
Indigenous dancers off to train in Sydney
Byron High students Hunter Mains and Kiahn Ladkin have been selected to join the 2018 NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Company. Over 1,000 students applied to participate in the program statewide and only thirty children are selected for the Sydney-based workshop.
Give a little, change a lot – it’s volunteer week!
Volunteering time, energy and empathy for the betterment of those less well-off is nothing new – humankind has been supporting and loving and encouraging each other since the beginning of time – it makes us unique as a species.
Cinema Review: Life of the Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1B1CxmAXLk As a comedienne of faultless timing and subtle delivery, Melissa McCarthy can be both vulnerable and madcap. In this piece of fluff she plays Deanna, a doting mom whose husband of twenty-two years tells her he wants a divorce...
Live Music Roundup: May 23rd
Cheynne Murphy & Mark Heazlett Bangalow Markets | Sunday 26 May | 10am | FREE Headlights and Goodbyes is the title single from the new album of north coast folk rocker Cheynne Murphy, and is due for release at the end...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Guns before kids
I can’t understand why America loves guns so much. At this point in history it would appear that those in power love their guns more than they love their kids because they’d rather protect their right to bear arms than create safe spaces for children.
Shores United beat MBVFC
In last Friday night’s long- awaited first-division match Shores United Brownsnakes downed Mullumbimby Brunswick Valley FC 6–1. It was a turnaround from the weekend before last when Shores’ thirds left MBVFC’s Pine Avenue field battered and bruised, on the end...
Skaters battle at Brunswick
The Brunswick Heads Skate Park exploded with talent and determination as daredevils of all ages gave their all at the Battle @ Bruns. The annual Youth Week event is run by Byron Youth Service, Byron Bay Skateboard School and Byron...
Billy Goats charge in Grafton
The U/13 Brunswick Billy Goats rugby union team defeated the Grafton Redmen on Friday night playing away in Grafton. After a long drive the boys played exceptionally well, earning themselves a convincing 54–7 win in their second game of the...
Brothers impress at Lennox Longboarders
The 36 members who turned up for the Lennox Longboarders Mothers Day round got to enjoy a pristine day at Main Beach with one metre plus waves. Standouts for the day were the mums and their commitment to surfing. Voucher winners...
Bladers vie for NSW title
The second annual Brunz Blade Battle was held at the Brunswick Heads skatepark on May 5 and decided the U/18 NSW champions in the skatepark and bowl division. Competitors came from Australia-wide and the level of skating was amazing and...
Solar train awarded for design innovation
Byron Bay’s heritage world-first solar train has been recognised at the 60th Annual Good Design Awards ceremony, held at the Sydney Opera House last night. The highest honour for design innovation in Australia, the Awards attracted a record 536...
Marketing: what money can’t buy
Local business woman Anna McCormack has recently been nominated for the Social Media Marketing Institute’s Best Emerging Social Media Marketer for 2018 to be announced at the Social Media Marketing Awards in Sydney on August 16th. Anna started her business...
An elixir of hemp at Elixiba
By Vivienne Pearson At the time of writing it is exactly six months since the legalisation of hemp food. The world hasn’t stopped turning and I have finally tried a hemp burger. Elixiba, a plant-based restaurant in Byron Bay, added hemp...
Warming Thai food? Success!
Story and photo by Vivienne Pearson Winter is coming and the need for comforting and nutritious food is rising as fast as the darkness in our evenings. Thai food ticks all the boxes. Dishes such as green and red curry, laksa,...
