By BRUCE DENNILL Mark Gevisser has done something quite substantial with this book. It’s an intellectual treatise that reads like a relaxed memoir, and examination of the difficulties involved in coming to terms with both his homosexuality and the changing...
BY BRUCE DENNILL Film soundtracks are usually about creating atmosphere for the visuals – sharp jabs at a violin to signify a man with a knife behind a shower curtain; two notes on a cello to suggest that you’re about to lose your abdomen to a giant...
By BRUCE DENNILL Pastor, writer and music label head Louis Giglio is driven by a calling to minister to young people, with college-age kids the major focus of The Passion Movement, which he founded. Much of Giglio’s reputation is based on his ability to take...
By BRUCE DENNILL There’s no idiomatic phrase, using the same imagery anyway, to describe the process of coming out from “under the radar”, but that is what Johannesburg-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shaun Jacobs is currently doing. That it...
By BRUCE DENNILL Following up on the near-perfection of a full debut like Barton Hollow was never going to be a simple matter, especially when the band went through some difficult in-house politics – a bigger issue than usual when there are only two people...