Have Clogs, Will Travel ... Astrally

Clogs music transcends borders even they never imagined, writes Bernard Zuel. PADMA Newsome, the Australian principal composer of the trans-national quartet Clogs, would rather we didn't try to explain what kind of music his group plays. It's not that he wants to be difficult, it's just that he seems to be in no better position to explain than critics who have likened the band, made up of (but not limited to) bassoon, violin, percussion and guitar, to acts as diverse as Icelandic dramatic ...

Classical Out Of Fashion And Out Of The Festival

Has the Sydney Festival abandoned classical music? Or, to put it another way, has classical music become so terminally unfashionable that image-conscious publicists have run out of ways to pretend it is something it isn't? Crazy Penis, Ugly Duckling, Violent Femmes, the Necks and Clogs all grace this year's program.