GAME REVIEW: HITSTER and HITSTER: AUSSIE EDITION By Shane Pinnegar 90% Hitster is a self-proclaimed “music party game” where players listen to 30 seconds (or the full song) of a tune and decide where it fits on there timeline by year. The first step is downloading the Hitster app and connecting to Spotify – not […]
LIVE: JIM JEFFERIES – Perth | Boorloo, 30 July 2026 RAC Arena Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar It’s always a little odd to see one man on a stage telling gags in a room big enough to park a couple of jumbo jets (especially when the sound is echoing back off the rear […]
LIVE COMEDY: STEPHEN K AMOS – Perth | Boorloo, 14 May, 2026 Regal Theatre, Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar British comedy stalwart has been visiting our shores for 25 years now, he says, but he’s still endlessly amused by our laconic Aussieness – he shares that he feels Australia is like a […]
LIVE: WANKERNOMICS for the Perth Comedy Festival – 9 May 2026 The Astor Theatre, Perth | Boorloo, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar Currently riding high on a tsunami of corporate bullshit, the Wankernomics troupe of two (James Schloeffel, listed on their website as “Chief Disruptor and Strategy Optimisation Evangelist” and Charles Firth, “Customer Engagement […]
MOVIE: SCREAM 7 Written by Kevin Williamson, Guy Busick, James Vanderbilt Directed by Kevin Williamson Starring Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Isabel May, Jasmine Savoy-Brown, Joel McHale, McKenna Grace Reviewed by Tia Pinnegar “It’s all led to this” Scream is back for the 7th installment in the franchise. The opening credits started off strong with the […]
FRINGE FESTIVAL – VELVET METAL, Perth, 31 Jan 2026 The Red Room, Perth, Western Australia Review & pictures by Shane Pinnegar There’s a stunning power to rock and metal songs, as we all know, but rarely is that so highlighted as when the songs are stripped of their power chords and rows of amps and […]
FRINGE FESTIVAL – 27 CLUB, Perth, 3 Feb 2026 Rechabite Hall, Perth, Western Australia Review & pictures by Shane Pinnegar You won’t find a more authentic rock n’ roll experience at this year’s Perth Fringe Festival than the lauded 27 Club featuring Sarah McLeod (Superjesus), Carla Lippis (Mondo Psycho) and Dusty Lee Stephensen (The Wanderers). […]
MOVIE REVIEW: GOOD FORTUNE Written by Aziz Ansari Directed by Aziz Ansari Starring Keanu Reeves, Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogan, Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh Aziz Ansari has written and directed this spotlight on the failures of Western Capitalism (at least on a personal level) and cast himself in the lead role of Arj, a guy struggling […]
LIVE: SARA PASCOE – PERTH COMEDY FESTIVAL, 2 May 2025 Astor Theatre, Perth Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar It’s the last show of Sara Pascoe’s Australian tour and nothing is off limits – not her husband and his canoe-sized shoes, not her parents-in-law with whom she’s been staying in Sydney, not Clive Palmer, and most of […]
LIVE: BOB GELDOF – Perth, 5 April 2025 Riverside Theatre, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar Delivering his ‘LIFE – WTF’ show Bob Geldof – troubled child, rock star, activist, humanitarian, orator, fragile human, iconoclast – kept the sold-out Riverside crowd enthralled for around four hours as he trawled his storied life, starting with […]
THEATRE: BIG NAME, NO BLANKETS – Perth, 27 Feb 2025 Regal Theatre, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar After a musical Welcome to Country by Elder Nan Roma, co-director Anyupa Butcher introduces her father, Sammy Butcher, founding member of The Warumpi Band, whose story this is. And what a story! Three brothers in the […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: JUMP SISTER JUMP – 10 Feb 2025 The Ellington, Northbridge, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 92% An hour celebrating the enormous legacy of 1950’s jump blues and R&B (REAL R&B, long before autotune and pop charts stole the term) as popularised by immensely important female artists such as Sister Rosetta […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: SINCERELY, L COHEN – Jonesway Theatre, 7 Feb 2025 Starring Sylvia Cornes with Kirsty Hulka and Jamie Hall The Jonesway Theatre, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 92% A sublime song requires a sublime voice, and we’re in good hands here with star of the show Sylvia Cornes delivering Leonard […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: DOWN UNDER: THE SONGS THAT SHAPED AUSTRALIA – 30 Jan 2025 State Theatre Centre Courtyard, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar Led by singer Michelle Pearson and guitarist/harmonica/singer Brendon Williams this show – formerly known as Mix Tape, now as Down Under: The Songs That Shaped Australia – is an […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: ROSS NOBLE: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES – 28 Jan 2025 Theatre Royale, Northbridge, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% Imagine a carnival – a fair of sorts, like the Royal Show’s Carnival Alley, except this one is an embodiment of Ross Noble’s manic, scatological, cluttered mind. With inflatables in his image […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: STORIES FROM THE OFFICE OF A SEX DUNGEON – 25 Jan 2025 The Balmoral Hotel, Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 68% When you take a job as manager of a New York BDSM sex dungeon (albeit one on the sixth story of a respectable office building) to […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: WILLING PARTICIPANT : ROB CARLTON – 25 Jan 2025 State Theatre Centre, Northbridge, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 95% Rob Carlton is a Logie Award-winning actor and a masterful raconteur, delivering four engaging human stories from his life over the course of one immensely entertaining hour. It’s not […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: MRS WALLACE & THE ROYALES – 23 Jan 2025 Lyrics Underground, Maylands, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% When Quentin Tarantino burst onto the movie scene in the early nineties with his violence-drenched, non-linear gangster tales Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction it wasn’t only the stories on the screen […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: AWOL 22 Jan 2025 Written by Rob Gee Starring Shane Adamczak & Jon Patterson State Theatre Centre, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 80% Subtitled “2 Old Men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Festival,” AWOL isn’t pulling any punches about that’s about to happen. Canadian […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: THE 1940s NATIONAL RESONATOR GUITAR 17 Jan 2025 By Dave Lawrence – The Ambassador Bar, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 70% Gifted a beautiful old National Resonator guitar by his mother for his fiftieth birthday led Dave Lawrence – a veteran journeyman alongside Abi Tucker, The Waifs’ Donna Simpson, […]
