Category: Music

Colour and community

Colour and community at the Glenelg Christmas Pageant. As the snow begins to fall in the UK, here as summer approaches it finally feels Christmassy. Local businesses, schools and clubs take to the streets in the annual parade that marks the beginning of the festive season. Elves, reindeer and nativity players are joined by samba

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Feast and footwork

“It’s amazing what a lesbian with an umbrella can do,” the brightly dressed middle aged woman joked. We had somehow, by chance, found ourselves at an outside bar near Victoria Square, just before the start of the Feast Parade, Adelaide’s Gay Pride festival.

Mac ‘n’ cheese?

Have you seen Fleetwood Mac before? Incredibly I hadn’t, despite having lived through their entire band history- from listening to The Green Manalishi with my brother in the days of Peter Green when the Mac were a bona fide blues-rock band, through their massive hit Albatross, Green’s mysterious disappearance, to whatever they are now.