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Arts Hub Australia, 19th May 2008
Prior to speaking with Frankie Airey, I had been advised that what she doesn’t know about fundraising is not worth knowing. Whilst I’m hardly equipped to play quizmaster in this area, it would be some task to formulate a question she could not navigate smoothly in her residual motherland lilt. (more…)
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Arts Hub Australia, 15th May 2008
Jeff Lang, Half Seas Over album and Tour, The Toff In Town, Melbourne, Saturday 10 May 2008
In addition to a stellar turn as poster boy for the new millennium resurgence of lush facial hair, Australian singer-songwriter Jeff Lang also does a fine line in blues and folk. (more…)
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Arts Hub Australia, 12th May 2008
The nine-month wait endured by most expectant parents is enough to tip them into hyper-reactive neurosis by week three. So for a man who has waited almost two years to find out whether his baby will be the anatomically correct festival of which every Artistic Director dreams, Next Wave’s Jeff Khan sounds impressively mellow, if a little weary. (more…)
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Arts Hub Australia, 23rd April 2008
It is a mildly disarming moment when Daniel Keene’s otherwise measured conviction in discussing his work abruptly segues into palms-up bewilderment. This moment comes as it must have done so many times before, when faced with the question of his almost disproportionate success in Europe – in particular chez those dramaphiles, the French – when compared with a somewhat diminutive if plaudit-festooned public profile in his home country. (more…)
