#barney simon

Look, it’s not that I forgot about New Zealand, just that I haven’t read any books set there. So that’s why South Africa reigns here lol. Meeghan Reads got all the prompts! 📚🚀📚 I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang (GR/SG) – AUSTRALIA. Unforgettable, snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love…

"Once upon a time at a taxi rank", a review of Obett Motaung's 'A Streetcar Named Desiree' at the South African State Theatre in Pretoria, until 24 November 2024.

PANDERING to the house husband. From left, Lucky Mqoboli, Sibusiso Mkhize and Kamogelo Molatlhoe, in A Streetcar Named Desiree, at the Sibusiso Khwinana Theatre, State Theatre Pretoria. Photograph by Nqaba Hadebe. HOW DO YOU hail a taxi in your city? Do you know where it will take you? Do you know how you should dress to do so and how you should pay the driver? It takes a very sophisticated…

"How to wreak havoc with a jacket and trousers", a review of 'The Suit' onstage at Theatre on the Square in Sandton, until 16 November 2024.

US three, together forever: Philemon (Sello Maake kaNcube) and Matilda (Tshireletso Nkoane) with the suit, in Can Themba’s ‘The Suit’, onstage at Theatre on the Square in Sandton until 16 November 2024. Photo by Phillip Kuhn. SOPHIATOWN IN THE 1950s. The very name of this Johannesburg suburb in a pre-Forced Removal era still sparkles with associations of jazz and art and life and possibility…

Perfect Souls – The Gathering

In From The Cold – Various Artists Sometime in the mid 80’s something weird started happening on Radio 5. There was this dude called Barney Simon who was a sound engineer, but who began to muscle into the Saturday afternoon show and eventually took over the slot entirely. He played strange music, stuff that was not dipped in honey, or dripped with disco floor sweat. Bands like Joy Division, The…