100 not-out as Brennan prepares for launch in city
By MICHELLE HERBISON
RACH Brennan last year reached her goal to play 100 gigs, so this year she’s upping the stakes to 125.
Venues as diverse...
Katie sings on Instinct
By MICHELLE HERBISON
“Purely instinct” directs ARIA-award-winning singer Katie Noonan to each of her musical projects.
Dabbling in different musical styles from rock to jazz to...
Percival pointed at peninsula
By MICHELLE HERBISON
Fame and fortune might be by-products of television appearances but 2012 The Voice runner-up Darren Percival has his sights set on other...
Young actors star with GSODA
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
DEBBIE Fraser can name drop with the best of them: Guy Peace, Portia De Rossi, Chrissy Amphlett, Peter Colman-Wright - even...
Gig’s heart for CFA
By MICHELLE HERBISON
CFA volunteer and roots singer-songwriter Tim ‘Tonic’ Hulsman realised the strength of Geelong’s music community when pulling together 13 local acts to...
New push for wharf to host stingray shows
By MICHELLE HERBISON
QUEENSCLIFF Harbour management is pushing to repair Fisherman’s Wharf and develop infrastructure for a stingray-feeding tourist attraction following State Government inaction.
Harbour manager...
Exhibitions capture Geelong spirit
By NOEL MURPHY
YOUTHS lounging at Eastern Beach, Buckley as interpreter in Batman’s talks with the Wathaurong, a brooding Corio Bay, the You Yangs by...
FINALLY FRIDAY: A Stache of music
By MICHELLE HERBISON
SARAH Armstrong’s computer crashed after making her second EP as Von Stache but the committed electronic artist accepted the loss with optimism.
“I’m...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Courthouse on a Fony journey
By MICHELLE HERBISON
PLAYWRIGHTS Ross Mueller and Georgina Capper took their four Fony 2013 cast-members on a journey as they wrote the production specifically for...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Fanning’s city show
By MICHELLE HERBISON
AUSTRALIAN rock royalty Bernard Fanning will play Geelong’s Costa Hall on 10 August, the former Powderfinger front-man has announced.
Following the release of...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Our opera royalty
By MICHELLE HERBISON
SOPRANO Donna King owes her opera career to renowned Geelong singing teacher Marcelle Cortous Grose-Menzel.
The 41-year-old from a “completely non-musical family” wanted...
Art wizard shows Hollywood how to get real with Oz
By NOEL MURPHY
DISNEY’S latest retelling of The Wizard of Oz might be a provocative prequel but artist Robert Ingpen’s take on the classic is...
Students win prize for innovative design
Two Deakin architecture students have received a new prize offered by Geelong mayor Stretch Kontelj.
Master of architecture students Neil Caguicla and Wili Wiliyanti won...
