Western Australian singer Abbe May has delivered a brand new tune. Love Decline is described as a sultry jam about shallow, decadent seduction. “Love Decline is about a self-centered kind of love, a decadence and a sadness which tracks the rise and fall of passionate love,” said May. “I wrote Love Decline after hearing an older […]
Aristophanes, Kucka & L-FRESH The LION | Chevron Festival Gardens | ★ ★ ★ Friday night at the Chevron Festival Gardens saw an eclectic triple header with Sydney rapper L-FRESH The LION and local experimental-electronic favourite Kucka opening for Taiwanese internet star, Aristophanes. L-FRESH The LION was the highlight of the night. Despite playing to […]
Warpaint | Chevron Festival Gardens | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ The ladies of Los Angeles quartet Warpaint thrilled on Sunday night at Chevron Festival Gardens in front of a healthy PIAF crowd, and they made it look easy. Opening with the combo of Intro/Keep It Healthy, the first two tracks from their self-titled second LP, it […]
Explosions in the Sky | Chevron Festival Gardens | ★ ★ ★ ★ Perth fans of Explosions in the Sky were treated to an evening of emotionally-charged and orchestral post-rock with the Texan outfit returning for the first time in a decade to play at the Chevron Festival Gardens as part of this year’s Perth […]
Kishi Bashi | Chevron Festival Gardens | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With an electronic violin and banjo next to a set of drums and keyboard, Kishi Bashi was by far one of the ultimate live music experiences of my life and precisely my expectation for what all art should be working towards achieving: Giving. Perth International […]
A O Lang Pho | Regal Theatre | Until Feb 25 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It would be easy to throw out the usual suspects in reviewing the enchanting seventy minutes that I spent entirely captivated by contemporary Vietnamese circus, spectacular, spellbinding, a tour de force. Easy, but also lazy, while they do deserve every […]
The Perth International Arts Festival returns bigger and better, with a world-class line up of artists from around the globe. PIAF kicks off this evening by transforming Kings Park into a luminescent installation of indigenous imagery and a truly Australian soundscape with Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak. Hundreds of thousands of festival-goers are expected to share […]
Ben Rawlence spent four years in Dadaab Refugee Camp which has been in Northern Kenya for 25 years. At the University of WA’s Octagon Theatre on Thursday 25 February, he will talk about his book City of Thorns and open the 2017 Perth Writers Festival. The PIAF Writers Festival brings over 100 celebrated writers from […]
The Teacher (M) | Directed by Jan Hrebejk The teacher in this Slovak language film by Czech director Jan Hrebejk is Comrade Drazdechova (Zuzana Maurey) who is also the head of the local communist party. At the beginning of the 1983 school year, she asks her students to introduce themselves and notes down in her […]
Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid | Octagon Theatre | Til Feb 28 Melissa Madden Gray’s CV is formidable. While some of her many talents are on display in ‘Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid’, her astounding vocal technique and her impressive bodily awareness for instance, other talents remain hidden. Madden Gray studied law and feminist theory, is a graduate […]
