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Music and Fragrances

Blog — February 14, 2021

High Adventures in the Great Outdoors Music and Fragrances   There are quite a few commonalities between music and fragrances in that at closer inspection, both are based on harmonious compositions and notes that have been arranged and blended together in a concerted manner – all of …

Dainton Equalizer and Supertrooper

Blog — February 17, 2021

Thus Let Us Drink Beer Dainton Equalizer and Supertrooper   Every now and then when I am on the verge of not feeling overly excited about the colourful barrage of new craft beers that see the light of day on a weekly basis down under, there is …

Dirimart and Hermann Nitsch review

Blog — February 21, 2021

Dirimart and Hermann Nitsch   I have to admit that Turkey has not necessarily been on my map of art destinations. As a matter of fact, Turkey is one of the few countries in Europe I have yet to visit. All the more delighted I was when …

Water of Life – Banks and Solander

Blog — February 27, 2021

Water of Life – Banks and Solander   While my DNA has me more geared towards whisk(e)y, my better half is all about gin, which enables me to sample new variants from around this earthround on a regular basis. What I really like is when gins are enhanced …

Swiss Wave and Calida

Blog — March 2, 2021

High Adventures in the Great Outdoors Swiss Wave and Calida   Gottfried Keller, precision watch manufacturing, the Alps, Max Frisch, fondue, versatile wee red knives, solid milk chocolate, more than seven thousand lakes, Jean-Jacques-Rousseau, multi-culturalism, Roger Federer and Gruyère cheese – stereotypes and clichés aside, I have …

powerHouse Books – Art of Sneakers and Art on Deck

Blog — March 9, 2021

powerHouse Books – Art of Sneakers and Art on Deck   powerHouse Books is one of the more interesting publishing houses as with its diverse portfolio, it covers a range of areas from pop cultural phenomena via books zeroing in on celebrities to fine art, with the common …

Kicking It Old School – Beats, Hoops and Kicks

Blog — March 17, 2021

Kicking It Old School – Beats, Hoops and Kicks Through the Ages For anyone who straddled the better parts of the 1980s, there is a borderline romantic concept of the joyous aspects and contexts of basketball. Cue urban environs, “back to school” jams, boomboxes, rap, rhymes, poetry, emceeing, …

Monet & Friends: Life, Light and Colour

Blog — April 17, 2021

Monet & Friends: Life, Light and Colour Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park Sydney, Australia April 17, 2021 After first incarnating with a multi-sensory ode to the Dutch master van Gogh, 2021 sees the Royal Hall of Industries hosting Melbourne-based Grande Experiences’ homage to the …

Turbonegro, Tom of Finland and High Gloss

Blog — April 18, 2021

Turbonegro, Tom of Finland and High Gloss   My first exposure to Turbonegro must have been via the triumvirate that are the Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives, Helta Skelta and Never is Forever albums, which entered my rotation in the early 1990s. However, it was not …

Design Innovation and Integration book review

Blog — April 21, 2021

Design Innovation and Integration  BIS Publishers   The times and circumstances we live in force us more than ever to innovate and adapt to new ways of living and working, moving. Being open to change is the vital first step to ensure and facilitate innovative transitions. …

Young Henrys Unifier and GABS Festival

Blog — May 14, 2021

Thus Let Us Drink Beer – Young Henrys Unifier and GABS Festival   The intersections of love for music and beer is one of the focus areas that in ingrained into the DNE of Young Henrys brewery, which is not only evident in their collaborations with bands to …

This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else

Blog — May 16, 2021

This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History Faber & Faber   Joy Division aficionados would be intimately familiar with the movie on the band from 2007, which was meant to portray the story of the band channelled through their own lenses, …

Bands and Flannel

Blog — May 23, 2021

High Adventures in the Great Outdoors Bands and Flannel   Ah, the good ole flannel shirt – what would bands spurned from the advent of the grunge scene in Seattle and underground music at large from the mid-90ies have had to dress up in without it? …

Akashic Books – Depeche Mode and Washington DC HC

Blog — May 28, 2021

Akashic Books – Depeche Mode and Washington DC hardcore   What started as an independent publisher founded by the former bassist of Girls Against Boys and ex-member of Dischord’s Soulside in Brooklyn at the end of the 1990s has since seen an evolution that established Akashic Books as …

Lydia Lunch and Quincy Troupe

Blog — May 30, 2021

Seven Stories Publishing Lydia Lunch and Quincy Troupe   Lydia Lunch has always been known for her dry humorous raunchy and raw approach to channelling her alchemy, i.e. spoken-word and performance art, fuelled by anger and outrage. Defiant in tone and style, So Real It Hurts meanders …

Midnight Peat, StrangeLove and Seven Zero Eight

Blog — May 31, 2021

Water of Life Midnight Peat, StrangeLove and Seven Zero Eight   We have covered Bladnoch Distillery the first incarnation of its offshoot Pure Scot not too long ago. While Bladnoch has a history of more than two hundred years, its two blends, i.e. Pure Scot, and Pure …

Me and Mr. Cigar by Gibby Haynes

Blog — June 2, 2021

Me and Mr. Cigar Gibby Haynes Soho Teen   The Butthole Surfers have had an immense influence on me during my formative years, given that they broke the mould with their idiosyncratic melange of punk infused psychedelic, noise and a welcome dose of black humours. …

Ed Kuepper and Jim White @ Sydney Opera House

Blog — June 13, 2021

Ed Kuepper and Jim White Opera House Sydney, Australia June 13, 2021 My first exposure to Ed Kuepper and his oeuvre must have been in the early 1990s, when I acquired a Spanish pressing of The Saints’ (I’m) Stranded LP on Harvest Records, which curiously …

Tinnies and Tomahawks

Blog — June 14, 2021

Thus Let Us Drink Beer (and eat meat) Tinnies and Tomahawks There are many benefits to vegetarian and vegan eating and I tend to live a vegetarian lifestyle 99% of the time. However, I love great steak and every now and then I treat myself to …

Brogan’s Way Distillery and Goodradigbee

Blog — June 21, 2021

Water of Life – Brogan’s Way Distillery and Goodradigbee   Brogan’s Way Distillery was incepted in 2018 when the father, a qualified engineer, and daughter team, the latter of which contributing not only her scientific chops but also giving the operation its name, decided to study the art …