feeds from barbershop.com.au http://barbershop.com.au/rss/ en-au http://barbershop.com.au/rss/ http://barbershop.com.au/static/campfire/layouts/images/omg-logo-small.png http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2010/2/4/movies-friday-february-5/ Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST news Bird on a Wire (1990)Channel Seven, 10.30pmMEL Gibson plays Rick Jarmin, a stumblebum whose greatest blunder seems to have been agreeing to be a state witness against some drug dealers. He is on the federal witness protection scheme and has had more new identities than David Bowie but, even after 15 years, the mobsters aren't going to let him go. His latest nom de guerre seems to be holding until he has a chance encounter with his college sweetheart Marianne (Goldie Hawn). He and Marianne hit th ...

Bird on a Wire (1990) Channel Seven, 10.30pm Barbershop (2002) Channel Seven, 12.35pm

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2009/9/19/sugarcoated-pop-tunes-easy-to-swallow-but-not-for-all-tastes/ Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST news MIKAThe Boy Who Knew Too Much (Universal)Two years ago, Mika Penniman, once of Lebanon, lately of London, landed like a fuel-injected children's television host — vibrant clothes, wide-eyed enthusiasm and frenetic energy, all with a touch of camp. Like the Scissor Sisters and the Feeling but twice as in-your-face, his songs didn't just wear his love of the '70s on their sleeves, they shouted it with the fervour of someone who had offered up first-borns and tithed their soul to the gods Freddie ...

MIKA The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Universal)

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2008/10/21/column-8/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST news Our "collective nouns for posties" search has gone off at a tangent, as we knew it would, courtesy of Wayne Davies, of Gordon, who writes: "While on collective nouns, the other night at barbershop rehearsal we inadvertently came up with the definitive term for a minority part of the chorus: 'A dearth of baritones'. Their low representation is possibly due to having to sing Jingle Bells upside down in the minor key while fighting the indelible memory of the melody that we all know so well." We ...

Our "collective nouns for posties" search has gone off at a tangent, as we knew it would, courtesy of Wayne Davies, of Gordon, who writes: "While on collective nouns, the other night at barbershop rehearsal we inadvertently came up with the definitive term for a minority part of the chorus: 'A dearth of baritones'. Their low representation is possibly due to having to sing Jingle Bells upside down in the minor key while fighting the indelible memory of the melody that we all know so well." We are ...

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2006/9/23/out-of-the-blue-to-hit-the-right-note-in-us/ Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST news WOLLONGONG'S Out of the Blue Singers are off to the United States next week to join a chorus of about 140 women competing in an international Sweet Adeline Barbershop competition. The director of the US chorus, called Pacific Empire Chorus, took the Out of The Blue Singers to a competition in Brisbane earlier this year. But Wollongong businesswoman Louise Meyrick, of Meyrick and Associates, said this would be much bigger and they expected to perform before an audience of 12,000.Most ...

WOLLONGONG'S Out of the Blue Singers are off to the United States next week to join a chorus of about 140 women competing in an international Sweet Adeline Barbershop competition.

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2006/8/27/no-nudes-but-a-boom-in-busts/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST news THE old-fashioned barbershop magazine is making a comeback with the blue jokes, bosoms, drongo trivia and more bosoms. Or as Zoo Weekly bills itself "sex, sport and stupidity".Zoo, a newcomer to the struggling lads market, has surprised publishing pundits by posting 85,000 sales in its first ABC audit - immediately outselling the much ruder and one-time very successful Picture and People magazines. Where Picture and People are pants-down publications - full frontal nudity mags - Zoo ...

THE old-fashioned barbershop magazine is making a comeback with the blue jokes, bosoms, drongo trivia and more bosoms. Or as Zoo Weekly bills itself "sex, sport and stupidity".

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2006/8/27/something-new-in-vogue-as-mags-taste-healthy-success/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST news Magazines for diabetics and for barbershop blokes are leading the way, writes John Elder.GLOSSY bibles such as Home Beautiful and Vogue Entertaining are apparently losing readers like dead petals off a flower arrangement - suggesting the lifestyle magazine as a species is on the decline. But it depends on what kind of lifestyle you're talking about. The diabetic scene, for example, is hot. Diabetic Living, published every two months, sells for about $8, is tasting sweet and astoundi ...

Magazines for diabetics and for barbershop blokes are leading the way, writes John Elder.

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2006/5/5/heavenly-harmonies-your-majesties/ Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 EST news MENTION "vocal harmonies" and small-minded people would either envisage the Seekers, a barbershop quartet, or have hideous flashbacks to school choir. But those of us still in the throes of a passionate relationship with popular music know only too well the strange magic that can be woven by multiple voices singing as one multifaceted whole.Take it from Katie, who speaks with passion about a song that many others would've simply relegated to the classic hits scrap pile. "I think my favou ...

MENTION "vocal harmonies" and small-minded people would either envisage the Seekers, a barbershop quartet, or have hideous flashbacks to school choir. But those of us still in the throes of a passionate relationship with popular music know only too well the strange magic that can be woven by multiple voices singing as one multifaceted whole.

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2003/5/22/warm-tale-just-a-cut-above/ Thu, 22 May 2003 00:00:00 EST news FILM REVIEW: BARBERSHOP (M), Selected release *** Tim Story's Barbershop has an energetic soundtrack and a leisurely script: set inside a Chicago barber shop, it feels at times like a theatrical adaptation. Its central character is Calvin (a nicely judged, low-key performance from Ice Cube), who works in the family's 40-year-old business. For Calvin's father, the shop was a benevolent institution within the black community: to the son, it is a burden. He wants something more pro ...

FILM REVIEW: BARBERSHOP (M), Selected release ***

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2003/3/14/barbershop/ Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST news Opened the US September 13, 2002 Director Tim Story Stars Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Cedric the Entertainer The story After his father dies, Calvin (Ice Cube) inherits his struggling barbershop on Chicago's south side. Seeing it as a burden and a waste of effort, he sells it to a loan shark. Soon afterwards, Calvin begins to understand how important the shop is to the neighbourhood. It dawns on him that he is the one who has sold out and tries to b ...

Opened the US September 13, 2002 Director Tim Story Stars Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Cedric the Entertainer

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2002/6/8/tuned-in/ Sat, 08 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EST news TUNED IN: More than 1000 women were in tune with each other yesterday at WIN Stadium's northern grandstand. Twelve hundred top Australian female barbershop singers belted out their tuneful notes at the start of the Sweet Adelines International Southern Cross Convention. The competition will run all weekend at the WIN Entertainment Centre, concluding on Monday at noon. It is being hosted by the Wollongong Harmony Chorus.

TUNED IN: More than 1000 women were in tune with each other yesterday at WIN Stadium's northern grandstand. Twelve hundred top Australian female barbershop singers belted out their tuneful notes at the start of the Sweet Adelines International Southern Cross Convention. The competition will run all weekend at the WIN Entertainment Centre, concluding on Monday at noon. It is being hosted by the Wollongong Harmony Chorus.

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2002/6/7/out-of-shower-onto-the-stage/ Fri, 07 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EST news Karen Wilmott is in strict training for this weekend's barbershop convention at the WIN Entertainment Centre. The Wollongong Harmony Chorus member said she had been singing in the shower where the acoustics were particularly good, and had also been stretching her vocal chords while driving the car and doing the ironing. ``At this stage it's just practise, practise, practise," she said. `` All of my favourite pop tunes have had to take a back seat. ``I haven't sang a ...

Karen Wilmott is in strict training for this weekend's barbershop convention at the WIN Entertainment Centre.

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2002/6/6/dare-to-dream/ Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EST news Rightly or wrongly, the humble barbershop has traditionally been a men-only domain, where gents gather to relax and discuss the day's matters free of female interjection. But more than 33,000 women worldwide regularly make a cappella barbershop singing all their own as members of Sweet Adelines, an international organisation of women dedicated to promoting the singing form through education and performance. The seventh biannual Australian regional convention, Dare to Dream, will ...

Rightly or wrongly, the humble barbershop has traditionally been a men-only domain, where gents gather to relax and discuss the day's matters free of female interjection.

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2002/5/14/chorus-group-imports-some-us-expertise/ Tue, 14 May 2002 00:00:00 EST news US vocal coach Jim Arns has made an unlikely career out of teaching women the art of barbershop singing. The Chicago-based former high school and college teacher regularly travels the globe at the request of chorus groups. ``I always thought I would be a teacher. When my chorus won (the Sweet Adelines International competition) all of a sudden I was in demand - and I just love it," he said. Sweet Adeline is the name given to female groups who sing acappella barbersh ...

US vocal coach Jim Arns has made an unlikely career out of teaching women the art of barbershop singing.

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/2001/9/4/short-back-and-sides-of-song/ Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EST news At the turn of the century, barbershops across the United States were the concert halls for men who loved to sing. A hundred years later, Melbourne is preparing for the third Pan-Pacific Barbershop Convention, the largest event of its kind ever held in Australia. Barbershop has updated its image from men in straw boaters, red braces and bow ties singing around a lamppost, but the 1100 competitors will still enjoy sweet harmonies of old once the convention gets under way on September 13 ...

Barbershop singing is hardly hip - but that doesn't faze enthusiasts. More than 1000 of the world's best are coming to town. Selma Milovanovic reports.

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/1999/11/26/in-full-voice/ Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST news ITS ranks swelled by a flood of new members and buoyed by international recognition, the Wollongong Harmony Chorus is on song to score its name into Australian choral history. In June 2000, the 80-strong barbershop-style harmony chorus will compete in the sixth Sweet Adeline International Australian Area Convention and Competition in Perth and this time a gold medal is no long shot. In 1998 the chorus scored a remarkable third placing behind the larger choruses from Perth and M ...

ITS ranks swelled by a flood of new members and buoyed by international recognition, the Wollongong Harmony Chorus is on song to score its name into Australian choral history. In June 2000, the 80-strong barbershop-style harmony chorus will compete in the sixth Sweet Adeline International Austral

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/1997/9/11/fred-on-cutting-edge-of-barbershop-quartets/ Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:00:00 EST news BARBERSHOP quartets are hip. So say the members of Fred, the all-singing, all-joking foursome from Atlanta, Georgia, who are currently ranked No 2 in the world. `People have a stereotype of a barbershopper as an older person with a top hat and very little hair,' said the group's amiable tenor, Jerry Carlson. `OK, I'm some of that,' he said patting his follically-challenged forehead. `But there are arrangements of a lot of newer tunes; The Beatles and popular show tunes from Phan ...

BARBERSHOP quartets are hip. So say the members of Fred, the all-singing, all-joking foursome from Atlanta, Georgia, who are currently ranked No 2 in the world. `People have a stereotype of a barbershopper as an older person with a top hat and very little hair,' said the group's amiable tenor, Je

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/1997/9/11/the-short-back-and-sides-of-song/ Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:00:00 EST news Barbershop quartets are hip. So say the members of Fred, the all-singing, all-joking foursome from Atlanta, Georgia, who are ranked No 2 in the world. "People have a stereotype of a barbershopper as an older person with a top hat and very little hair," said the group's amiable tenor, Jerry Carlson. "OK, I'm some of that," he said patting his follicly challenged forehead. "But there are arrangements of a lot of newer tunes; the Beatles and popular show tunes fro ...

Barbershop quartets are hip. So say the members of Fred, the all-singing, all-joking foursome from Atlanta, Georgia, who are ranked No 2 in the world. "People have a stereotype of a barbershopper as an older person with a top hat and very little hair," said the group's amiable tenor, Je

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/1997/9/4/harmony-on-a-grand-scale/ Thu, 04 Sep 1997 00:00:00 EST news THE Wollongong Men's Barbershop Chorus will be on the cutting edge of its trade next week when the singers make their debut at the National Convention of Men Barbershop Singers. The 1997 convention is the largest of its kind in Australia and incorporates the competition to select the country's championship quartets and choruses. The Wollongong Chorus, encompassing about 20 singers, formed just before the 1995 convention and has been working hard in preparation for its competitiv ...

THE Wollongong Men's Barbershop Chorus will be on the cutting edge of its trade next week when the singers make their debut at the National Convention of Men Barbershop Singers. The 1997 convention is the largest of its kind in Australia and incorporates the competition to select the country's ch

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/1997/8/6/songs-from-the-barbershop/ Wed, 06 Aug 1997 00:00:00 EST news If you sing naturally and can hold a tune, you too could be a barbershop singer. With voices raised in harmony, barbershop quartets and choruses do it all for the love of the song, and, in September, will indulge in a little friendly rivalry to find the best barbershoppers in Australia. Barbershop singing originated in the United States, said Patrick Dunch, who sings with The Broadway Chorus at Lindfield. "The men used to hang around waiting for a shave and a haircut and t ...

If you sing naturally and can hold a tune, you too could be a barbershop singer. With voices raised in harmony, barbershop quartets and choruses do it all for the love of the song, and, in September, will indulge in a little friendly rivalry to find the best barbershoppers in Australia. Barbe

http://www.barbershop.com.au/barbershop-articles/1996/8/24/families-slow-to-get-the-mail-the-new-post-is-delivering/ Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:00:00 EST news IT WAS always the bloke's barbershop magazine - busty women on the cover and inside, off-beat stories about boxers or someone who built a garage out of beer cans. `Australasian Post', the country's oldest magazine, also used to be one of its biggest sellers. That was in the innocent early 1960s when illustrated articles about whether attractive women should wear skimpy bikinis on our beaches pushed its sales to more than 330,000 copies a week. Now it's a different story. In 1993 ...

IT WAS always the bloke's barbershop magazine - busty women on the cover and inside, off-beat stories about boxers or someone who built a garage out of beer cans. `Australasian Post', the country's oldest magazine, also used to be one of its biggest sellers. That was in the innocent early 1960s w