By BRUCE DENNILL Elbow: The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Elbow are not your average band. They make music their way, including literary lyrical references, telling honest stories and making mini-epics rather than songs (the average length of the tunes on this collection is ...
By BRUCE DENNILL Viennese New Year Concert / Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, conducted by Richard Cock / Linder Auditorium The 2015 Johannesburg International Mozart Festival kicked off – as you’d expect – with a programmed packed full of, er, Strauss. Conductor and MC Richard Cock later explained ...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Greatest Love Of All: The Whitney Houston Show / Directed by Johnny Van Grinsven / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre Tribute shows are often unfairly regarded as staged karaoke, which underplays the effort that goes into making some of them and the ...
In Mma Ramotswe’s fifteenth adventure, Grace Makutsi launches a new enterprise of her own: The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Café. She is an ambitious lady with a business plan, but who could predict temperamental chefs, drunken waiters and more? Luckily, help is at ...
Described as a “racy, pacy crime thriller,” Priscilla Holmes’ Now I See You has met with popularity and warm reception. Filled with the sights, sounds, and local flavor of the Eastern Cape especially, the book travels from the glittering restaurants of Johannesburg to ...
0Described as a “racy, pacy crime thriller,” Priscilla Holmes’ Now I See You has met with popularity and warm reception. Filled with the sights, sounds, and local flavor of the Eastern Cape especially, the book travels ...
0A good story usually takes really long to tell, and this is the case with Nigeria’s film industry, affectionately known as Nollywood. Give Nigerian directors, producers and actors enough time and they will do what they ...
0In Mma Ramotswe’s fifteenth adventure, Grace Makutsi launches a new enterprise of her own: The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Café. She is an ambitious lady with a business plan, but who could predict temperamental chefs, drunken ...
0By BRUCE DENNILL Istanbul. Home to the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Golden Horn, the Grand Bazaar, the Topkapi Palace and dozens of other world-famous tourist attractions, it’s also riddled with side roads; non-descript, non-guidebook diversions ...
1By BRUCE DENNILL oneNineone / Hyatt Regency /Rosebank, Johannesburg Fine dining often puts more emphasis on the “fine” than the “dining”, which means that the sort of restaurant guest who only goes to an eatery at the fancier ...
0By PAUL ELLIOTT The Joburg Photo Umbrella is the first public photography-specific programme in the city of Johannesburg to bring together and network a wide range of photography content, exhibitions, activities and dialogue. Joburg Photo Umbrella is a festival of photography initiated by the Market Photo Workshop
0Do you have an idea for a book, a screenplay, a short story you would love to be writing, or a project you are struggling with?
0The late Frank Fenter was recognized for his contributions to the music industry with his induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The 36th Annual
7 By BRUCE DENNILL Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist Ian Thornley’s journey with his band Big Wreck has been multi-monikered: Big Wreck, then Ian Thornley (solo), then Ian Thornley & Big Wreck and now back under the single banner again. Whatever the finer details, that ...
4 What is Christian music? How is it different from music made by Christians? Is it different from church music? And why is it usually quite bad? As a worship leader, these are the sorts of questions I like to bore people to death ...
2 There are two things that annoy me about audiences in South Africa. The first thing is that they consider a local cast to be inferior to an international one. Nowhere close to true! The second is that they don’t support student productions. They need convincing them ...
2 Airport angst. It’s a thing. Anyone who’s felt annoyed when they’ve had to arrive at a placed composed primarily of tiles and x-ray machines four hours before they’ll be able to leave it ahead of an international flight has suffered from this condition. The bulk of ...
2 There were several moments on the Otter Trail where I looked up and thought: “This is tougher than I thought it would be.” When the pack I was carrying bit into my shoulders and my trail runners just wouldn’t grip on the wet ...
2 By BRUCE DENNILL A song is worth a thousand words. Or something. Below is a song I wrote about 2014 – not an easy period - with a demo for free download at the bottom of the page. Enjoy. Comments welcome/hoped for/useful. Centre Stage © Bruce Dennill, ...
2 Arriving at a studio to record your own original music is mostly incredibly exciting, but also a little nerve-wracking. Are you properly rehearsed? Will your voice last? Will the sound of a nearby electric gate opening and closing drive you to distraction? Time ...
2 Ben Trovato’s the hilarious misguided misogynist whose Sunday Times column thrilled and amused readers for years. Mark Verbaan is the man behind the persona, and his new book, The Memoirs Of Ben Trovato, suggests there was more to the man in the hat’s ...
1 By BRUCE DENNILL oneNineone / Hyatt Regency /Rosebank, Johannesburg Fine dining often puts more emphasis on the “fine” than the “dining”, which means that the sort of restaurant guest who only goes to an eatery at the fancier end of the scale on special occasions ...
1 The trick Steven Boykey Sidley got right in his first book, Entanglement, and has continued to refine via second release Stepping Out and through to this third effort, is to make small dramas feel extravagantly exciting and involving. All of his books involve men ...
