I  still can’t say the word “roots” without whisper-screaming, “ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS!” They’re lyrics from Sepultura’s 1996 album Roots, which was responsible for the vocal cord haemorrhaging of an entire generation of longhaired, head-banging heavy metal fans across the world. Sepultura’s founding members, brothers Max and Iggor Cavalera, will celebrate Roots’ 21st anniversary in Perth next…

FOUR young women in a small camper van on a road trip up and down the east coast, sleeping two to a bed, surrounded by guitars drums, saxophone…and knickers. Nobody said the music industry was easy. “Once we started touring it was a test…you get a good idea early on whether you can survive together,”…

AN audience of one for a hip hop or dance performance? Or a filmed interview where the interviewer is the sole audience member and the interviewee the actor. Proximity Festival is a one-on-one theatre experience that’s not always comfortable, but promises to be entertaining and thought-provoking. “It’s about looking at a form of intimacy and…

WA blues musician Lez Karski’s family history would make a riveting book or movie. Shortly after Germany and Russia crushed Poland and launched the Second World War, his father Tadeusz Kryska-Karski was rounded up with thousands of other defeated Polish soldiers, police officers and intellectuals and put on a train destined for the Katyn forest.…

THERE aren’t too many people who have upstaged Jim Carrey. But Rhys Darby’s performance in the 2008 comedy Yes Man, was the highlight of a truly underwhelming movie. The Kiwi actor/comedian has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, but he’s best known for playing Murray Hewitt, the inept band manager in HBO’s Flight of…

LEOTARDS, nipple pasties, and outrageous colours take centre stage in Wendy Sharpe’s Burlesque and Circus. The exhibition mixes drama, romance, a slice of life lived on the edge, and a liberal sprinkling of naughty bits, in a nod to her beloved burlesque. “At its best it’s a bit like vaudeville,” Sharpe says. “It can be…

CAMIKNICKERS and nipple pasties, raunchy dancing and seductive moves—is burlesque just striptease with larger underwear or an art form? The naysayers have never seen burlesque well executed says Melanie Piantoni, co-founder of Sugar Blue Burlesque. “It most certainly has striptease, but it also has elements such as comedy, parody, acting and dance,” she says. “A…

AN Almost Perfect Thing is a dark and thought-provoking psychological play about possession, desire and the public’s right to know the truth. When Mt Lawley director Gabrielle Metcalf first read Nicole Moeller’s award-winning script for the play, she was instantly hooked. “I thought, oh my God, I have to put this on’.” Metcalf says she…

KYLIE Minogue’s 2002 hit Come Into My World may not be her most memorable track, but the accompanying music video was arguably one of the best of the last decade. Featuring a multiplying Minogue walking through a crowd in Paris, it had four Kylies on-screen by the end, and it inspired Perth filmmaker Johnny Ma…

PERTH band the Money War are getting ready to blitzkrieg Perth this month. The duo will shrug off the winter blues with warm harmonies and summer anthems as they support Holy Holy on their Australian tour. Money War’s Dylan Ollivierre and Carmen Pepper were doing a road trip across America in 2015 when they used…