Wear Your Purple Heart Out: an interview with drag darling Art Simone on ‘Wear It Purple Day’
Today is Wear It Purple Day, which is an important day to me as a journalist and member of the LGBTQIA+ community. I’ve known of this…
Interview with Bay City Rollers frontman Les McKeown (RIP)
Former Bay City Rollers frontman Les McKeown died suddenly last Tuesday. He was aged 65. The Scottish pop singer fronted the Edinburgh-born band during their most…
Interview with singer-songwriter and all-round spunk rat Pete Murray
Born in the quaintly-named town Chinchilla in Queensland, Pete Murray was destined to become something of a sportsman – excelling in rugby, athletics and even swimming.…
Interview with April Bowlby who plays Elasti-Woman in ‘Doom Patrol’
Viewers of prime-time TV would know the face of April Bowlby. She played Alan Harper’s ditzy girlfriend, Kandi, in Two And A Half Men, and then…
Q&A with one of hypnotist Matt Hale’s super-eager participants
Comedic hypnotist Matt Hale is a trusty fixture on the Fringe World stage, presenting his modern take on the art and science of hypnosis, which inevitably includes audience…
New musings by Booka Shade: Album ‘Dear Future Self’ out May 9th
Booka Shade is the somewhat unlikely success story of muso duo Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, who began as producers in the 1980s “for little girls…
Timezone: Getting you out of the house to game, exercise and score cool pop culture loot
Multi-Site Manager for Timezone Australia (WA & NT) Daniel Di Virgilio senses an upward curve in the popularity of arcade gaming.
Darius Davies delves deep into the web to stick it to the big guns
Fresh off a stellar reviewed Edinburgh run, and as seen on the BBC and Sky TV, Anglo-Iranian / English Comedian of the Year Darius Davies returns…
A chat with Master Hypnotist Matt Hale
Master hypnotist and all-round hilarious guy Matt Hale has become a staple on the Perth Fringe World circuit. And beyond. Refreshing his act year on year,…
Going Bonkas: Aussie DJ duo Bonka currently on [massive] international tour
With devilish good looks akin to, say, Justin Bieber and Drake, you’d think Aussie DJ duo Bonka would be more at home lip-synching in front of…
Interview with Baby Animals’ Suze DeMarchi & Dave Leslie
The music industry is one fickle beast. One minute you’re in a band, the next minute you’re going it solo. So it’s refreshing when a couple…
Interview with the vampires: Ezra Koenig and Chris Tomson of Vampire Weekend
From graduating with Ivy League educations to singing ‘Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?’, irony appears quite high on the Vampire Weekend agenda. The…
