The Festival of European zaniness is over for another year.

The winner - Russia, exemplifying the Eurovision template of a contorted singer flanked by formation dancers and/or acrobats. Instead of acrobats, this guy had an ice skater twirling around him in a Jon Heder-inspired frenzy- and he (the singer) was in his socks.

We were waiting for his feet to be cut off, but it didn’t happen. Read more »

Here’s the story of last weekend’s Apollo Bay music festival, in which Tess McKenna and her band do battle with multiple manifestations of Murphy’s Law, and still have a rollicking good time. Read more »