Junction Arts Festival 2025
Junction Arts Festival Reviewed Kutcher Edwards – Photo: LTTL Launceston, Tasmania Junction Arts Festival 2025 Music Program 13 September By Jim Jacob By Rob Dickens Junction Arts Festival is Northern Tasmania’s significant multi-arts festival, transforming Launceston’s landscape into creative experiences each spring – featuring diverse performances, visual arts, music and unexpected experiences. Photo: LTTL Celebrating...
Celebrating Yirrmal
The Artistry Of Yirrmal Yirrmal – Photo: LTTL Yirrmal Live From Kansas City To Lilydale By Jim Jacob By Rob Dickens We at Listening Through The Lens have been separately impressed by Yirrmal. Rob first captured him in 2018 at Folk Alliance International in Kansas City, Missouri (read his take of that conference HERE), and Jim just the other day at Valentino Safe Co’s quirky and successful venue in rural northern Tasmania....
Music and Safes – The Correct Combination!
Valentino Safe Co. and Formidable Vegetable Photo: LTTL Valentino Safe Co Music Venue, Lilydale Tasmania Formidable Vegetable Live Images by Jim Jacob Words by Rob Dickens Valentino Safe Co Rudy Valentino has been locksmithing for nearly twenty years, mostly in Tasmania. Collecting safes these days is definitely a goer, as bank branches drop like flies and the need for businesses to store and protect large amounts of cash is...
Frazey Ford Live
Frazey Ford at Archies Creek Frazey Ford Live at Archies Creek Hotel/Caravan Music Club Victoria, Australia 30 September 2022 By Rob Dickens When you have listened to music over multiple decades, you can be seduced by the notion that nothing really is completely new anymore – heard it all before in terms of influences, styles, messages. Of course it is not true (thank goodness!). In the case of Frazey Ford, I’ve been...
Charm of Finches – Live
Charm of Finches Album Launch Photo: LTTL Charm Of Finches ‘Wonderful Oblivion’ Album Launch Show Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne 26 Nov 21 By Rob Dickens There is beauty in youth, as the adage goes. In the case of folk duo Charm Of Finches, you can add persistence, resilience and, of course, sheer talent. Some things haven’t been falling into place for sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes. Their previous album Your...
Keep The Circle Unbroken – Live
Australian A-List Live Collaboration Photo: LTTL An All-Star Australian Nod To The Classic Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Collaborative Albums Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Concert 14 March 2021 By Rob Dickens The Verdict Let me be clear. This was no post-pandemic placebo. We’ve all been starved of live music for sure, so much so that even the sight of a blazing mixing desk is extraordinarily comforting. The warmth and intrigue of live...
CINDER WELL - A Blooming Body
