June 15th, 2010 - jessicah -
New Opera Hero, a dance, opera and artistic collective, have just completed a four week residency at Shunt, a theatre group and performance space based in the tunnels underneath London Bridge Station.
New Opera Hero are led by Steff Ungerer and Michael Wilson, a powerful creative duo who have worked on the National Opera in London, Tokyo and Hamburg, as well as working on live shows for big names such as Pet Shop Boys, Asian Dub Foundation and most famously, Lady Gaga, for whom they created 3D elements for her live tour.
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Brain Children are a fascinating musical proposition.
Brain Children is the brain child of Michael Mate and Maxwell Crumb, two Melbourne music veterans who’ve completely ruined their lives by relentlessly peddling their musical wares across the globe.
Indeed, these young men have spent the majority of their youths and adulthoods on tour, cutting their teeth on bad roads, sticky floors and ramshackle stages. These years of extended poverty have created a degree of musical knowhow and a lack of pretense that certainly sets them apart from their bovine contemporaries.
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May 26th, 2010 - sarahp -
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup kick-off only 27 days away, things are heating up in Cape Town and our streets are already beginning to fill up with overseas fans eager to swipe some plastic and hand over notes all in a united love for the South Africa’s generous exchange rate. Diversity is waiting to be discovered, each corner promising new smells, sounds and tastes in abundance.
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May 19th, 2010 - Simone Bruno -
In the Colombian Caribbean coast, the black population used to dance a music called Cumbia.
During the dance the man tried to seduce the woman. He used his straw hat, the same one he use to wear during the long hours bent down working in the fields, in an elegant and respectful gesture to invite the girl. Invariably, she would smile and constantly get close to the man, just to turn her back in a sensual way, followed by her large white skirt that describe amazing circles in the air. The man keeps on trying to seduce and the girl to accept and running away at the same time.
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May 10th, 2010 - sarahp -
Fiction: a love affair of all things dirty… A darkly lit battlefield of beats and bodies, and on May 2010 a birthday party…Cape Town’s cutting-edge underground playground turned 4. Tick tock, tick tock, the night held many surprises. Read more…
If you have ever wondered what the next era to hit vouge is, then stop wondering!
On Monday night I took a trip on the mean rockabilly sides of Melbourne and ended up on AC/DC lane at Cherry bar.
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