Get revved up for this week. You'll need a lot of mental horsepower to sustain the will to live through a 2 hour childrens' book festival. 10) National Swap Day 6th October What: This year will be the ninth annual National Swap Day and to commemorate the day, The Clothing...
It's easy to be provoked in the era we're living in. There's so much to be angry about. Politics, the economy, mass poverty, the environment, Metallica cancelling their Australian tour and Michael Bublé not cancelling his Australian tour. But provocation doesn't necessarily involve anger. One can...
When the jazz man's testifying a faithless man believes. Which means in the country of jazz's origin its capacity to excite the human soul is only effective about 20% of the time. And due to the rise in nationalist-cum-religious hysteria, that percentage will only decrease. It's a...
New South Wales is experiencing the worst rat infestation in decades. That's right. It's not the ebb and flow of a calm, mercury-infused ocean you're hearing in the sultry twilight hours, it's the tiny claws of a million rats nesting restlessly underground on mountains of abandoned hipster...
Feel the music in the air. It'll distract you from the carbon monoxide. 10) The Drifter: Nights Like This 5th October What: The Drifter is Mark Flynn, an Irish producer, DJ and singer. The Drifter's DJ style, like his productions, definitely lean towards the hypnotic, melodic and emotive side of...
The world is paralysed between the past and the future. Some call it 'the present'. But that's a little too simplistic-a term that doesn't really account for the complex visceral emotions aroused when one encounters a 21-year-old smoking an e-cigarette wearing watchmakers glasses from the 1800s outside...
Being conscious on a macrocosmic scale is exhausting. To do an act that could be considered a moral one is to commit to a point in the future when you realise you've wiped out a species or decimated an economy or been genuinely appreciative of the...
'Romantic nationalism'. An interesting phrase equally at home in both a pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi narrative. And equally applicable and inapplicable to the genre of folk music. A nonthreatening musical genre whose pliable appeal is representative of the pliability of human morality. Folk is rooted in the vaguely...
The river's on fire. Come see it before the realities of future fracking make the experience less poetic and more literal. 10) K Motionz Live 22nd September What: At just 19, K Motionz has already become one of the most in-demand Drum & Bass producers in the UK. His 16-track...
This week is as big as it is little. Just like your fried chicken-induced heart attack in the grand scheme of things. 10) Reef and Beef at Iki-jime 25th September What: Iki-jime will partner with Dal Zotto Wines to present the finest from the kitchen accompanied by a selection from...