Talking music and dance at the Highett Music Bowl with Alli Harding on South of the River

Calling all musicians, singers, dancers, experts and newbies … get yourself along to the Highett Music Bowl, a new initiative that aims to bring the community together through music. Monica Cashin and Highett Bowls Club secretary Margaret Dobell came into the Southern FM studio to talk with Allli Harding about this extraordinary initiative that is being developed as a community

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Film review: ‘KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Martin Scorsese has largely built his reputation and ravenous following as a filmmaker on contemporary stories of misfits seeking redemption and Italian American gangsters.  Frequently, though, he’s stepped away from that milieu to explore historical subjects and biopics in films like The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York and The Aviator.  He hasn’t ventured into the western genre but

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Film review: ‘MUTINY IN HEAVEN: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Music doco, Mutiny in Heaven, which is directed by Ian White (Before the Fall) traces the tumultuous life of groundbreaking Melbourne band The Birthday Party, the film’s title coming from one of their songs. The iconic band featured Nick Cave at his most musically and visually punk and experimental and his most self-destructive; multi-instrumentalist and song writer Mick Harvey; bassist

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