Eight unmissable gigs and events to see at Leaps and Bounds Music Festival 2021 Leaps and Bounds 2019 - image by Naomi Lee Beveridge
Words By August Billy
Leaps and Bounds Music Festival kicks off on Friday July 16.
No interstate travel? No worries. The 2021 Leaps and Bounds Music Festival program proves that Melbourne has more than enough talent and diversity to pack a ten-day festival full of live music, talks, markets and special events. After running the 2020 instalment virtually, this year’s LBMF will be a celebration of what makes the City of Yarra such a special live music ecosystem.
There are mini-festivals such as the soul, funk and hip hop extravaganza Fitzroyalty and label showcases from Bad Apples, The Push and Rockhopper Records. There are also intimate shows at The Tramway and The B.East, Sunday sessions at The Tote, late night parties at The Night Cat and even a First Nations trivia night.
What Fitzgerald called Gausse’s Hôtel des Étrangers was of course modeled after the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, a glittering refuge for the one percent since 1870. For 150 years, the property has served as the sun-kissed home away from home for titans of literature (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stefan Zweig, Noël Coward), film (Marlene Dietrich, Alain Delon, Elizabeth Taylor, who brought all of her husbands there, and every Hollywood A-lister in town for Cannes), art (Chagall, Picasso, Matisse), music (John and Yoko, Jane and Serge, Ella Fitzgerald), politics (Churchill, De Gaulle, the Kennedys), and high society (Russian aristocrats, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson).
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The Great Gatsby’s copyright to expire. Some Fitzgerald wannabe has already cashed in with a prequel, and I’m certain the worst is yet to come. I suppose the insatiable hunger for fame and celebrity in order to impress a shallow and scatterbrained blonde across the water made Gatsby a very tragic hero, but not as tragic as Hemingway’s Jake Barnes, who had his you-know-what blown off in the war and could only flirt with Lady Brett from afar. Or Scott’s other tragic hero, Dick Diver, whose talent was wasted away while amusing his rich wife’s friends.
Christopher Plummer brought gravitas with a quicksilver kick
The actor, who has died at 91, may have been most famous for The Sound of Music, but he underpinned all his films with star power
5 February 2021 • 8:37pm
The late Christopher Plummer with Julie Andrews (and Von Trapps) in The Sound of Music
Credit: Bettmann
Christopher Plummer was the kind of star who seemed to underpin every movie he made. If you tried to imagine one of them without him, it wasn’t clear if the rest of the enterprise would remain standing up.
The Canadian actor, who died today aged 91, started out on Broadway and on television, though just before he turned 30, Sidney Lumet gave him his cinematic break in Stage Struck, a 1958 theatreland drama, in which he played a handsome young playwright on the rise. That got him spotted in his early 30s by David O Selznick, the Gone with the Wind producer and one of the great architects of golden-age Hollywood, who could see Plummer’s buttressing potential e