Day: 11 February 2014

Festival Review: St Jerome’s Laneway Festival – The Esplanade, Fremantle (08.02.14)

Laneway Festival returned to Western Australia for the 5th year on Saturday, moving from its home in the Cultural Precinct, to the leafy surrounds of Fremantle’s Esplanade park. In a period of uncertainty for festival organisers Laneway seems to be going from strength to strength consistently selling out across the country, even in Perth! But…

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Live Review: Eddie Vedder + Glen Hansard – State Theatre, Sydney (11.02.14)

Some gigs are really hard to put into words. It’s that “look, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you weren’t there and you really missed out” sort of feeling. You don’t want to come off a dick, but at the same time, you know it’s true. And nothing you can say in…

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TV Review: The Feed Season 2 Episode 2 – 11th February 2014 (SBS2, Australia)

As if it needed anything to prove at all, The Feed easily showed that its success and ease in the half hour format was no flash in the pan with its second 2014 episode. The Feed has clearly got its format down-pat with an opening few minutes dedicated to what’s gone down in the day’s…

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TV Review: The Walking Dead – Season 4 Episode 9 “Alive” (USA, 2014)

Last season The Walking Dead kicked off their second half of season 3 by introducing Tyreese, a character which hasn’t yet made the impact he does in the comics, and hasn’t yet been developed properly. Despite this, it was still a big moment in the series and kicked the mid-season off with a finale-quality feel….

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TV Review: New Girl – Season 3 Episode 13 “Birthday” (USA, 2014)

Any episode entitled “Birthday” is probably going to have an aspect of significance to it, particularly when the birthday in question is that of Jess. Within the very first minute it was established that Jess has unrealistically high expectations for her birthday, evidenced by a flashback of Cece gifting her a sweater made in China,…

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