Powerful song and video from Stella Donnelly, who makes a moving and challenging comment on our victim-blaming culture.

—-trigger warning: sexual assault—-

Loving this slimy weirdness from some superstars of melbn’s punk queer femme colour tribe, messing around with gender, texture, colour and beats.

I saw Gaff-E performing in Fox Pflueger’s “Freaky Sexy Weird” earlier this year at Midsumma – she was hilarious and freaky in a disturbing number about cats. Great to see this full production.

The very wonderful Fox is also in the video, along with the creative power behind Fizzy Fingers Fantascinators and Lexi La Fortune.

Warning: possibly NSFW

*melbn.. or wherever they are now, Berlin New York, i don’t know

**Official release at Kaltblut

Everywhere i have turned in the last 18 months, The Huxleys have been at the forefront of creative work. They were part of Discordia, they’re involved with The Guerilla Museum, they were part of Retro Futurismo, and this other amazing piece i saw at La Mama. Any time there’s a Fringe Festival, you’ll find them doing something incredible.

Here’s a beautiful video explaining where they’ve come from.. they’re like Melbourne’s Gilbert and George, and they’re very very magnificently wonderful.

How long have we been waiting for this?

(Answer: A Long Time, or since August 2014.) 

The exquisite voices of Kelly Day and Jane Hendry come together once more in a delightfully dreamy single release. Hopefully we’ll find out there’s a new album in the works as well (“Vacancy”, early 2017).

• 12 November at The Toff in Town.

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Magical work from Melbourne’s Gretta Ray, who has just taken out the TripleJ Unearthed High best in class award. I saw Gretta play last year with If You See Her Say Hello, and she is really great. Here’s an old video from Sofar in July 2015. Can’t rave enough about this singer-songwriter; her lyrics and vocals are astonishing and beautiful.

Oh wait, here’s the “surprise” video from TripleJ, with Amarina and Mim somewhere in the background, because they are her awesome teachers.

Busker Stories is a relatively recent production from Mashup Pictures.

Episode 1 features Tash Sultana, whose name has been getting a lot bigger lately, talking about how street performing affects her art and audience.  I like the way they’ve put this show together.

Honestly i don’t know what this woman is doing, i wish i could write a complex and reflective review, but this piece just takes me to a place where i have no logical understanding. Seriously, listen to this.

okay that’s a bit gushing, right? If i was being critically reflective, i would say.. i need more of this. What happens next? it’s too short in time.

This was a truly beautiful project to be involved with.. i played in the opening with many other people, and then First Chorus had a season singing next to the pianos as well. This video shows great community engagement not only in the city, but also in community centres around the outer suburbs. We had over 20 pianos all playing together in the opening. (There i am in the video, around 3:56, woohoo!)

The summer was stinking hot, but it was still a delight to walk around the city from piano to piano and play for a while. Had a couple of great days, playing keys with Sarah and David, and then another time playing characters with Jules and Stevie.

i’ve seen another amazing fringe show. Having a good season so far.

Candy Bowers in Who’s that Chik? (“A hip hop tale of a brown girl with big dreams”)..

Roads were full of trauma on my way home tonight.

Gilbert Rd., Thornbury.

i shouldn’t have looked, but i saw a car sandwiched between 2 big trams.

Scrunched up to about half its length.

Ugh.

Police cars everywhere, paramedics, the fire brigade.

Here is my artist’s impression of the event.