Issue 34

.. brand-new in-balance ears on that very same night – and not just any mix, but a headphone mix. Now, every recording engineer will tell you that headphone mixes can be very dangerous, especially over a prolonged period. As you and your ears get more tired the volume tends to edge up to compensate and…

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..sign of Proust or a bottle of Pinot Noir, not a barbecued artichoke heart to be seen, just accents that could break glass at a hundred metres. I felt surrounded by stereotypes from the Bulletin and Billy Butlin holiday camps. But, with the exception of the on-going lack of Proust and the super strength strine…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. Suffice to say, the most interesting point in the show (up until we left anyway), was when one of the ‘Johns’ ripped off his headgear in full view and tried frantically (and unsuccessfully) to detach his ‘John’ placard (which admittedly must have been quite an encumbrance), before replacing his mask…

Anthems are sung – New Zealand gets three verses one in Maori and two in English to Australia’s single chorus. Hymns are sung with embarrassed and tremulous Australian accents. The service, my first for about 60 years, is lead without apparent irony by a Vietnamese minister; there is a moving address in a Scottish accent,…