Interview
Primal Scream Adena Jacobs, director of ‘The Howling Girls’
September 11 hysteria... five teenage girls report extreme symptoms of debris caught in their throat and being unable to swallow or even breathe.
The Ghost in You An interview with HTRK’s Jonnine Standish
Virtual reality, digital narcissism and dead friends: musician Jonnine Standish is riding a new kind of ghost train into town.
Second Guessing Yourself Jack Colwell’s search for a better identity
“I try to be a good person but I also know there’s a darkness and a poison inside me. It’s hard to separate all these things.”
Horses, Trolls and Hammers Improv theatre with the Bear Pack
"We don’t rehearse. I always say that if the show we did was planned, it’s terrible planning.”
Fear rules. Fear explains. Fear predicts. St. Vincent on charity, love and light
“I think we should do enough soul-searching to… know when we are being guided by fear or guided by something brighter.”
Into the Wild Artistic Director Eamon Flack’s vision for Belvoir
Australia is such a knotty, pent-up, uptight society. Any way we have to release those things we should go for.
Swept Away An interview with Jamie xx about music for changing times
"Love drives everything, for me. Even it’s just having some nostalgic, rose-tinted idea of it. It helps me get to a certain place when making music."
Slow-Burner An interview with photographer Jeremy Blincoe
Jeremy Blincoe recently won Campbelltown’s Fisher’s Ghost photography prize: “My ideas evolve as I work, so it’s a process for me… to grow what I know.”
Man of Colours Iva Davies, the architect of Icehouse, celebrates 40 years of making music
“I’m still surprised at the reaction we get playing live. I still look at the crowd and go ‘How do you even know this? This song was written before you were born.'"
Songs of Experience A conversation with Adam Curley of Gold Class
Toxic masculinity, the robot future and rock 'n' roll escape acts.
Waiting for the Man Louis Theroux and heroin addiction in America
In Huntington, one in ten babies is born with an addiction to heroin. Theroux is a proverbial Virgil guiding us through the American inferno.
The Letting Go Janice Liley’s ‘Coastal Walks’ at Art2Muse
‘Smokey Monday in Paddo’ has a menace that the Australian bush occasionally pushes to the coast: a raw land that sits out there every day behind our manicured urban lives.