The Wife
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Wife’ is a film based the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. I would be very surprised if it proved to be a smashing box office success as it is anything...
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‘The Twentieth Man’ Tony Jones
Reading Time: 3 minutesPrior to picking up this book I had no idea that Tony Jones, the journalist best known as the host of the often controversial ABC current affairs program QandA, was also a writer of...
Respect for Religious Institutions, Religious Office and those Occupying such Positions.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCatholic Church and community leaders urge us to acknowledge the good work of Archbishop Wilson, rather than just remember him for concealing the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the 1970s. Is...
Archbishop Wilson’s Crimes and Changing Community Attitudes
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have held Father Frank Brennan in high regard. He has not towed the party line when certain Catholic leaders needed to be criticised or for example when the church needed to consider recognising...
New Classical Music – Noted but not Reviewed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMax Richter – Sleep – eight hours of carefully varied classical and electronic contemplative music on 204 tracks. Peoria – Mass (Re-Imagined) – Beautiful, minimalist-classical music song by, surprisingly, a ‘post-rock’ quintet, better known for their experimental...
Doc Neeson’s Angels – Acoustic Sessions
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis album presents the Angel’s most loved songs in a style that takes us away from the frenzy of the original loud sound and beat, to a softer but equally rhythmic version of the songs sung by the Doc. While I would never have imagined preferring acoustic versions of ‘Be With You,’ or ‘Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again,’ I must confess that I’ve grown extremely fond of them, and think of them as presented as if in a very intimate concert venue.
Cowboy Junkies ‘All that Reckoning’
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 33 years, the Cowboy Junkies have played rock/blues/country/folk music that has not grown old for those of uslucky enough to hear of this fabulous Toronto based four piece band. Amazingly, the composition of...
Amaya Laucirica – ‘Rituals’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Amaya Laucirica – Rituals – As a long standing fan of Amaya’s music I had been looking forward to this album particularly its international release was to herald her foray...
New Rock Music – Noted but not Reviewed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJimmy Hendrix – Both sides of the sky – The ten previously unreleased songs on this 14 track album are actually worth a listen as they showcase the man’s versatility and guitar genius.
Cowboy Junkies
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll the Reckoning For 33 years, the Cowboy Junkies have played rock/blues/country/folk music that has not grown old for those of uslucky enough to hear of this fabulous Toronto based four piece band. Amazingly,...
