Jon Rose at the People’s Republic of Australasia – Sydney – 6/12/15 by Tony Mitchell
The People’s Republic of Australasia is actually SBS subtitling editor, author and publisher Nick Shimmin’s…
Author Tony Mitchell
Tony Mitchell
Tony Mitchell is an honoraray research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has edited a number of books: on global hip hop (Global Noise, 2001), on Australian Popular Music (Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now, 2008), and New Zealand Music (Home Land and Sea, 2011). He is currently co-editing a book about Icelandic music.
Miles Brown: ‘How about this great Australian theremin player?’ Goblin, the Night Terrors and Séance Fiction: Interview by Tony Mitchell
I first encountered Miles Brown as the support act for Italian prog rock legends Goblin…
Lloyd Swanton – Ambon (Bugle Records)
Ambon is a small island about 1,000 kilometres north of Darwin, now part of the…
Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival 4-15 November 2015 Reviewed by Tony Mitchell
The Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival started in 2012, with support from the City of…
Richard Pinhas: Electronique Guerilla – A Profile by Tony Mitchell
There’s always been a mystique surrounding French guitarist and electronic musician Richard Pinhas, partly due…
Rattle Records and Small Holes In Silence by Tony Mitchell
Rattle Records began as a small niche New Zealand label run by drummer and sound…
Mike Nock/ Laurence Pike ‘Beginning And End Of Knowing’ Album Launch – Colbourne Ave – 15th of October 2015
Colbourne Ave is a Sydney artist-run venue supported by The Glebe Justice Centre, formerly known…
The 28th Love and Anarchy Film Festival, Helsinki, 17-27 September 2015
Established in 1988, 15 years after the Lina Wertmuller film about a botched attempt on…
The Necks – Vertigo (Fish of Milk)
I’m not sure if there’s any significance to the Australian release date of the Necks’…
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival 2015 Espoo, Finland by Tony Mitchell
Espoo (pronounced Espo) is the second largest city in Finland, situated on the shore of…
Finnish Folk – Feral and Feisty, plus Folk Hip hop and the World’s First Deaf Rapper – Etno Espa, Helsinki, 10-20 August 2015 Tony Mitchell
Finnish folk music is among the most distinctive in the world, and some of its…
Flow Festival Helsinki August 2015 by Tony Mitchell
A recent article in the highly informative Finnish Music Quarterly on Finnish music festivals, of…
Jazz-Espa Helsinki July 27-August 7 2015 by Tony Mitchell
The Jazz-Espa series, of which this is the 16th, takes place every summer in the…
Mike Cooper: “I didn’t inhale.” Interview by Tony Mitchell
Rome-based English blues and Hawai’ian guitarist Mike Cooper’s latest release on Lawrence English’s Room40 label…
Emily Hall – Folie a Deux (Bedroom Community)
The latest signing, and the first woman, apart from label associate and viola player Nadia…