| Weddings, Parties, Anything reunion tour
WEDDINGS, Parties, Anything are set to hit the road for their ten year reunion tour in support of their new live DVD. It's been a complex chain of events that has seen one of Australia's best loved live acts of the late eighties and nineties decide to pull on the boots again. A charity show for a Melbourne homeless mission in 2005 saw people come from all over the country, warm-up shows at Melbourne rock venues that sold out in a matter of hours - and then an offer to headline the 2006 Queenscliff Festival seemed like a good idea. Enter Madman Pictures with plans to film the show for release which seemed too good an oportunity to pass up - and just the ticket to turn what would have been a great gig anyway into a nerve shattering event. Roll forward to 2007 where lead singer and founder of the band Mick Thomas finds himself in Toronto openning for a long time friend from Canada Ron Hawkins who decides to close his show with a stunning version of She Works - from the Weddings first album - and the prospect of going out and playing all the old songs again seems somehow an attractive one.
Film pair pay tribute to Cowley Road
TWO Oxford writers are planning a film which they say is a love letter to the city's Cowley Road. Martyn Chalk and Simon Porritt have been fine-tuning their screenplay, provisionally titled The Cowley Road Drinking Club, for two years. Their script is now in its third draft, and the pair have begun tentative talks with industry insiders about how best to transfer their characters to the big screen. The co-writers hope the film will immortalise Cowley Road as a cosmopolitan area, before it gets swamped by chain stores. Mr Chalk, 33, of Reliance Way, Cowley, said: "It's a comedy, and the story follows a guy called Sunny, who's a man in his mid-30s coming to terms with life after his divorce. "He's a funny guy who has had relative success at being a stand-up comic, and he uses the pubs on the road as a way of escaping from the seriousness of life.
Still calling Casa Pacifica home - three decades later
Three tenants of Casa Pacifica have entered the entry way of the complex for 30 years. They are, (l-r), Genevieve Moon, Josephine Appleby and Annie Aranjo. Not pictured, Laura Anderson, who also still lives at the facility. Casa Pacifica opened December 1977. .
Google sales, profit are below estimates
Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, on Thursday reported profit and sales that trailed analysts' estimates, signaling that an economic slowdown may be cutting into online shopping and Web surfing. Net income rose 17 percent to $1.21 billion, or $3.79 a share, from $1.03 billion, or $3.29 a share, a year earlier, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company said. That compared with the $3.91 average analyst estimate in a Bloomberg survey. The company's shares (GOOG) dropped 7.9 percent in extended trading. Bloomberg News Service .
Marriage wows
I found it odd that he made the bride pose every time he began to shoot.'' Reggie was sure that techniques he learnt while shooting sporting events could be put to good use when photographing a wedding. "I felt that positioning myself on the sidelines anticipating what might happen and then photographing people would be a better idea than asking them to pose,'' he says. "It would all depend on being at the right place at the right time.'' Reporting as it is Reggie is widely acknowledged for having coined the term 'photojournalism'. "A journalist's job is to report news, and a photographer is around to anticipate, sense, find and capture the moments as reality occurs," he says. "To be a photojournalist, one of the most important things is to be someone who has that ability to be quiet and to be motivated by the details.
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