Music Reviews: Welcome To The Skye, Or Louder Loops

Music Reviews: Welcome To The Skye, Or Louder Loops

By BRUCE DENNILL   Mercy Me: Welcome To The New           7 Skye: Transformme                                  6 Lea Michele: Louder                                 6 Jeremy Loops: Trading Change               6.5   With a career high point, I Can Only...
TV Review: Not So Hip To Be Rectangle, Or Sea Sighed Humour

TV Review: Not So Hip To Be Rectangle, Or Sea Sighed Humour

By BRUCE DENNILL   Spongebob Squarepants: Deep-Sea Games / PG   The world’s most famous clothes-wearing (and oddly ubiquitous) invertebrate continues to maintain his high profile in all things televisual with this collection of episodes built around...
Theatre Review: Pythons Strike Twice, Or The Full Monty Modified

Theatre Review: Pythons Strike Twice, Or The Full Monty Modified

By BRUCE DENNILL   Pythonesque / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Pieter Torien’s Montecasino Theatre       Playwright Roy Smiles’ affectionate homage to Monty Python has received a polishing and a tweak or three since its last run in South Africa in 2008, and...
Book Review: Polished Publishing, Or Coffee Table Craft

Book Review: Polished Publishing, Or Coffee Table Craft

By BRUCE DENNILL   Reflection by Heinrich van den Berg     Heinrich van den Berg’s latest collection begins its agreeable assault on your senses before you even open it. The cover – all three square feet of it; it’s a big book – features a close-up of half...