With Are We There Yet? an album that has elements of pop, soul and jazz and on which he plays many of the instruments himself, Rick Astley has completely broken with his Stock Aitken and Waterman past and it seems that he is ‘reclaiming’ some of the old songs (although still good and much loved) as his own.
Read MoreThanks to guest blogger Mia McDonald for this piece about production studio Rove Live When the circus comes to town,…
Read MoreThe Pantomime – What Makes the Magic
We’ll take you on a daring and dangerous quest to retrieve the long-lost, sneakily-stolen Golden Goblet of Goodness. It’s goodies versus baddies, heroes versus villains, the happies versus the horrids
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Read MoreMusic of the Night’s Craig Urbani is exactly where he’s supposed to be
I chatted to Craig Urbani about Music of the Night. The show’s cast is made up of Craig , Carly Graeme, Adrian Galliard, and Stephanie Baartman – and introduces Emma-Jean Galliard. This cast gels well together from the word go and presents the flawless and seamless story of Andrew Lloyd Webber while dazzling us with his sparklng, uplifting music.
Read MoreJess Robus – A Few Slivers of Light
14-year-old Jess Robus spent the hard lockdown adding a few slivers of light to this rather tormented world. Quite literally, she wrote a collection of poetry, and published it in a book, called A Few Slivers of Light.
Read MoreIndie Dog are an exciting SA band!
When you’re scrolling through your local community page and you notice a BAND filming a VIDEO on the top of…
Read MoreThere are so many businesses in need at the moment more than ours that need support. Buy local, support local, visit the local coffee shops in Kensington, restaurants, stores. They need the support during all of this. They’ve really suffered tremendously specially in the hospitality industry.
Read MoreIn the midst of a global pandemic, a South African dance teacher has to keep her business afloat, and is forced to reinvent her traditional training methods.
Read MoreJust a guy who tweaked the golden thread
“I want to be remembered as just as a guy who was interested in the golden thread that intertwines all of us together. You know, that golden thread that goes through me and you, and the cameraman, and all the people out there and back through Nancy. That’s what an artist can do, that someone – anyone – could do, if they’re willing to pluck that. And either it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, it’s that golden thread of humanity, and I’d like to be remembered as maybe a guy who plucked a few of those.”
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