'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Sam Wall, Journalist

Features / Music
Living In An Iglu: Home Is Where The Art Is
"Whenever I tried to film at home, I would always be interrupted by either my mum or my brother."
Features / Music
Take A Class At Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock'N'Roll High School
"I don't think DJs wanted to play that because, you know, they didn't want mothers writing in saying, 'It's a bad influence on our youth'."
Features / Arts
Prep Your Ears For Yack Fest, Two Weeks Of Banging On At Giant Dwarf
"We're happy to announce she hasn't and she's still yacking away at an unprecedented rate."
Reviews / Arts
50 Song Memoir (Melbourne Festival)
"It's almost a shame the Fields didn't take a note out of hip hop's book and release a version of '50 Song Memoir' with the preludes included."
Features / Arts
Bringing The Kids Back To The Theatre
"I just get my dick out and they're like, 'This is great. This is champagne comedy.'"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Out On The Weekend
"Nobody needs telling to keep their elbows out of other people's personal space and most of today's acts step right off stage and into the crowd to watch whoever's up next."
Reviews / Arts
The Season
"It's a play about collisions; between family, and families, between tradition and progress."
Features / Arts
From Frontman To Musical Director, Rogers' New Lease On His Debut Album
"Aidan Fennessy said he wrote a play around the LP and would I be interested in talking to him about it and I said, 'Nah, it's ridiculous.'"
Reviews / Arts
Backbone (Gravity And Other Myths, Melbourne Festival)
"Director Darcy Grant has said that GOM's goal was to create meaningful circus. That almost sounds like an oxymoron, but the results are undeniable."
Reviews / Arts
Discordia
"Descending to the Fairfax Studio foyer through a layer of dry ice fog and lavender lighting there's a distinct feeling of leaving Earth's atmosphere."
Features / Film & TV
Child Poverty & Cannabis: Not Everything Is Green In The Professor's UK
"We took the child poverty documentary to Parliament for a screening last week, and there wasn't a single member of our government there."
Reviews / Arts
The Real And Imagined History Of The Elephant Man
"Among the shifting city and its amorphous population, Joseph seems like the only solid object."
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