The annual Laneway music festival that tours all major Australian cities is a great way to catch up with some of the staunch old gentlemen of rock’n roll. This year promised a stellar lineup from go to whoa. Continue reading
Author Archives: Les Everett
When effort isn’t everything

Elie Brush puts an end to a Fremantle attack.
Giving great effort is good. Great even. The Fremantle AFLW team gives that but there’s something missing. Continue reading
A classic Aussie western set in the outback by Richard Jones
A look at Sweet Country (MA 15+)
For a filmgoer who lists westerns as one of his favourite genres the lure of an Australian western set in the scrublands west of Alice Springs was irresistible. Continue reading
Unholy Toledo by Song List Rat
As Perth sweltered in the after effects of tropical cyclone Kelvin on the sort of night made for serial killer Eric Edgar Cook a cannibal flew into town. Continue reading
Winning and learning
AFLW Fremantle vs Melbourne, Fremantle Oval, 18 February 2018.

AFLW stars Dana Hooker & Daisy Pearce. Photos by Les Everett.
Churchill’s words unite parliament and the public by Richard Jones
A look at Darkest Hour (PG)
Winston Churchill might have been under extreme duress during May 1940 yet all that stress caused by constant German air raids and the mooted evacuation of Dunkirk never detracted from his brilliant speeches. Continue reading
Skating on the icy rink of disaster by Richard Jones
A look at I, Tonya (MA 15+)
Every four years those of us with a taste for sport tune in to the appointed commercial TV channel for the coverage of the Winter Olympics. Continue reading
Captaincy and learnings* in the Big Bash

Shaun Marsh trudges off Perth Stadium. It’s because, according to the ground announcer HE’S OUT!!!!
It felt like I was in a team meeting but I was just on the couch as usual. Perth Scorchers captain Adam Voges was being interviewed a few days before the historic Big Bash semi final at Perth Stadium. He’s learned stuff, he said, from two trial matches and the One Day International played at the new venue – in short the team batting first had won comfortably each time. The Scorchers tend to like bowling first but they’d obviously need to reconsider. Continue reading
The news they don’t want you to print by Richard Jones
A look at The Post (PG)
A whole range of United States presidents sat on the hard facts about the Vietnam War from the time of John F Kennedy and up to the period of Richard Nixon. Continue reading
Big Bash observations and solutions
The Big Bash has sucked us in. Neat TV package. Fair bit of excitement. Even got us some of us caring about a team. Continue reading