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: 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, […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: DAN LEES VINYL COUNTDOWN 22 Jan 2025 The Parlour at The Pleasure Garden, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 70% You might call Dan Lees a very silly person, but I prefer to think of him as a master of energetic absurdist comedy. This show hangs on the premise that […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: HOW NOT TO RUN A MUSIC FESTIVAL, 19 Jan 2025 By Tess Birch, The Laugh Resort at The Shoe – Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 75% Tess Birch accidentally ran a boutique music festival a few hours out of Melbourne six times in an eight-year period and the lawyer […]
MOVIE REVIEW: IMAGINARY Directed by Jeff Wadlow Starring DeWanda Wise, Taegan Burns, Pyper Braun Reviewed by Tia Pinnegar 60% Imaginary is a 2024 Blumhouse horror movie about a stepmum who moves her new family into her childhood home, only to find that her stepdaughter has found the imaginary friend – in the shape of a […]
MOVIE REVIEW: THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES Directed by Francis Lawrence Starring Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage Reviewed by Tia Pinnegar 85% The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes (from here on referred to as TBOSAS) is the fifth movie in the Hunger Games series. This prequel is set […]
THEATRE REVIEW: EVERY BRILLIANT THING Black Swan Theatre, Perth, Western Australia – 25th August, 2021 Written by Duncan MacMillan with Jonny Donahoe Starring Luke Hewitt By Shane Pinnegar We cried true tears last night – equally from laughter, compassion and respect – as we experienced Luke Hewitt performing the one-handed play Every Brilliant Thing in […]
MOVIE REVIEW: BOSS LEVEL Written by Chris & Eddie Borey, Joe Carnahan Directed by Joe Carnahan Starring Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 72% Frank Grillo oozes charisma and cool as retired special forces officer Roy Pulver in this assassin-Groundhog Day action-fest. Waking up each day on the exact same day […]
