Review: Heroes presented by the Centenary Theatre Group
Heroes is Tom Stoppard’s 2005 adaptation of the French play, Le Vent des Peupliers’ (The Wind in the Poplars), written by Gerald Sibleyras, and winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006. 1959 is a troubled year in the life of three elderly First World War veterans: Gustave, Philippe and Henri, frustrated with being stuck in a retirement home like forgotten cast offs.
Synthetics: Crux
- CRUX delivers expertly controlled chaos and instantly catchy punk from the proverbial ‘90’s garage straight to your prefrontal cortex. Listeners who steep regularly in the uninhibited realms of lo-fi rock, as well as those who usually keep a modest distance from the fun will find themselves drawn like moths to the frenetic flames kicking & licking their way off the newest release from Melbourne’s four-piece powerhouse, Synthetics.
Fair Maiden: Oleander
- It seems entirely apt that the new album from Adelaide's Fair Maiden, Oleander, was recorded in a (re-purposed) church, now the suitably titled Holy Rollers Studios. After all, their hometown is Australia's very own city of churches.
Ex Hex: It's Real
- Out of the haze of the fun-and-fever dream that was Ex Hex’s 2014 album Rips, comes the tropical whirlwind of It’s Real, a wholesome ten-track LP released through Merge Records. Ex Hex, namely Mary Timony (vox, guitar), Betsy Wright (vox, bass) and Laura Harris (drums), came well-loved into the North American garage rock domain circa 2013. Building on the success of Rips, comes a cleaner, crisper and all the more cool LP that is It’s Real.
VulgarGrad: The Odessa Job
- Since 2004, the Melbourne based band VulgarGrad have been criminally and intentionally performing the raucous and at times threatening popular street songs of the Russian underclass. Having released their first album King of Crooks in 2009, their latest release -now on parole- The Odessa Job updates the repertoire to include songs made popular during the Soviet and later Perestroika eras.
American Football: American Football (3)
- In 1999, a band from a small college town in Illinois called American Football released their debut, self-titled album then promptly broke up. The album, with its hushed dynamic and noodly guitar interplay, redefined the style of music that had come to be known as emo. Yet the band remained enigmatic even as the album took on legendary status.
Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days (Reissue)
- Our Endless Numbered Days is the oxymoron-titled sophomore album by revered artist, Iron & Wine (AKA Sam Beam) released in 2004. In the fifteen years since this memorable record, Beam has gone on to have sterling career with a plethora of great albums, although Our Endless Numbered Days can rightly be seen as the quintessential Iron & Wine album. Full of finger-picked acoustic guitars, banjos, double bass, and slide guitar, it presents the style for which Beam is most known.
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Ferry sinks in Mosul, Iraq
Almost 100 people are reported to have died after a ferry sank in the Tigris river in Iraq's city of Mosul.
Most of the victims were women and children, the interior ministry said. It is thought nearly 200 people were on board.
The ferry was heading towards a tourist island as part of new year celebrations. Mosul's civil defence agency reportedly said most on board could not swim.
At least 19 children and 61 women were among the 94 people said to have died, and 55 people were rescued.
Theresa May accepts delays to Brexit date
EU president Donald Tusk has confirmed that British Prime Minister Theresa May has accepted an offer of two options for short delays to the date of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
EU leaders agreed to offer British Prime Minister Theresa May two options to delay Brexit to avoid a damaging "no deal" on March 29, two European sources said.
If the British parliament agrees May's divorce deal in the next few days, the delay would be until May 22 to give MPs time to ratify the text, a source in the French presidency told AFP.