The following was originally written in 2017 for the City Hill Supporters Group prior to the Coffs Harbour City Council deciding to focus on Gordon Street for a cultural center in spite of City Hill having being gifted to the city by the government for a cultural center. Given recent […]
The story of how Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez, and others fell under Dylan’s dancing spell The Pitch: Martin Scorsese’s second Bob Dylan documentary, Rolling Thunder Revue, picks up nearly 10 years after the conclusion of his first, No Direction Home. That first six-hour opus focuses on Dylan’s rapid cultural rise […]
The following was originally written in 2017 for the City Hill Supporters Group prior to the Coffs Harbour City Council deciding to focus on Gordon Street for a cultural center in spite of City Hill having being gifted to the city by the government for a cultural center. Given recent […]
Elton John has announced he will visit Coffs Harbour as part of his Farewell Tour in February 2020. The concert will be held at the Coffs International Stadium. “I still can’t believe it. I was almost speechless when I heard,” Coffs Harbour Mayor Councillor Denise Knight said. “Elton John – […]
If there’s one thing we know about Bruce Springsteen, it is that he likes, nay needs, to keep control. So this is his take on what is his most radical and arguably his best album for some time: “This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character-driven songs and […]
13 years later, David Milch’s Western series finally gets its proper finale. By Andrew Bloom The Pitch: It’s 1889, and South Dakota is soon to become the nation’s newest state. With that, the onetime hardscrabble camp of prospectors and cutthroats in Deadwood is being ushered into the future, grumbling but […]
This award-winning film will be screened across the north coast over the next two weeks. “Many people saw the film Gaslands and this spear-headed the movement against fracking.P eople power in the Northern Rivers region rejected this destructive activity and energy source. This film is to forests, what Gaslands was […]
The singer balances a dark side with a penchant for fun and sarcasm on her haunting debut by Christopher Thiessen The Lowdown: Billie Eilish (below) is the poster child for a new pop generation — a generation that bucks the conventional prerequisite of a debut album to begin one’s ascent […]
The Pitch: A rebellious misfit hopping from one foster home to another, young Billy Batson (Asher Angel) longs to find his real birth mother, who abandoned him as a child. by Clint Worthington But fate intervenes when Billy is summoned to the cave of a dying wizard (Djimon Hounsou, starring in […]
“Lost” album by the legendary soul singer that was shelved before its 1972 release, includes fresh mixes by Amy Winehouse and Nas producer Salaam Remi . By Thomas Hobbs Score ***** 5/5 The eerie parallels between 1972 and 2019 mean that this timeless, long-shelved record feels especially important, as though […]