Reviews

Broken Diamond House is thoughtful, confessional and finds the hilarity in both larger issues and life’s insignificant annoyances.

Nicholson is 22, astonishingly assured, and the smartest dressed comedian on the festival bill. He’s also cynical and anxious.

With about two-dozen swear words per minute, it’s not for the easily offended, but Williamson has presented an outrageously boisterous and hilarious show.

Fan Fiction Comedy has big laughs, big love and you leave wanting to be friends with all of them.

Nina Conti: suffering from socially acceptable form of multiple personality disorder.

The routine suffered at times of the delivery front, but the audience was clearly gripped from beginning to end, proving the up-and-comer is doing something very right.

His raw delivery is sobering but there is no self-pity in Fleet's words and his interjections of wit (and some great accents) keep things from becoming too dour.

This is a good album that could stand as an oddball highlight in a lesser band’s oeuvre, but Depeche Mode have set their modern-day standards a little out of this record’s reach.

Twenty-five years on and Mudhoney are still full of playful vim and vigour.

It becomes clear he can handle himself in an “intimate” setting and he’s able to work the crowd, involving the audience in bits about annoying Facebook photos, pretentious coffee drinkers and placenta face cream.

Dassalo’s great claim to fame has always been the fact that his great-grandfather, Fred, invented Vegemite.

Ably supported by her assistant, “Flaxen McGinty” (the incomparable Virginia Gay, dripping sex and talent in equally abundant measure), and accompanist Simon Ross, McGregor is ringleader to a different circus each night, showcasing the best of the festival.