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CLAIRE EDWARDES Dual Attractor (ABC Classics)   MUSHROOMS ARE SO PASSE now, Beef Wellingtons having settled that issue for a while. But curiosity is not so easily sated. How do you die if you are poisoned with nightshade? Or hemlock? Or Crocus sativus? No, I’m not asking for a friend, chef, true crime podcaster, or indeed anyone with access to the White House kitchen, as appealing as that may well be. I am not sure I have the complete answer after listening to a three-part pi

Shadings and more. Chrissy Amphlett by Stuart Spence. WHAT COMES TO MIND …CHRISSY AMPHLETT THROUGH GLASSES DARKLY Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the work of the brilliant photographer Stuart Spence. Each time, he will dig out a photo from his archives going back almost 50 years and challenge me to respond with what comes to mind when I look at that image. It might be serious or ridiculou

Nearly the full squad, waiting for epiphany. IT’S OLD STYLE VALUES at play here. The good ones. Proper ones, of respect, dignity, communal responsibility, bloody good shows, reparations, forgiveness, and ideas you remember no matter how much, or how little, you’ve drunk because they’re worth it and no one either on or in front of the stage needs to pretend. Not about questioning Australia and the myths we tell, masculinity and the bullshit we cover it with, or rock with pop h

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The ultimate package deal, Julieanne and William Crighton. Photo by Jess Bowditch HYPOCRISY IS A CURRENCY and some people spend freely. Consider the faecal righteousness of each party in the fight between the obnoxious radio bully who cried foul when sacked this week and the equally odious network that protected and paid him obscenely while making millions from him, and only found disgust when profits squealed. Not everyone has, or wants, the readies to play this game though,

What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks." Bernard Butler and Jessie Buckley, Having absolutely dominated the film awards in recent months, up to and including Sunday’s Oscars, Jessie Buckley has been everywhere, doing everything, seemingly all at once because everyone wants her. If you’ve seen Hamnet you’d know why, and agree. But wait, there’s more, as those who have caught the video of her singing Nothing Compares 2 U at the Sinead

Hmm, not with those shoes my son ... Trixies' doormen, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook. Photo by Dean Chalkley. IT’S A RIDICULOUS, highly unlikely story. The kind of story that if you turned it into even a preposterous rock opera and then tried to sell it, would be laughed out of a producer’s office. But, spoiler – it’s ridiculously true. Act one : two teenage boys in London in the early ‘70s with little to no experience of life outside the songs they’d heard and the books t

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