By Neha Kale — 29 March, 2022
MYTH I knew it before I saw it, like an image from a dream or a fragment of a memory. A blonde woman, her neck adorned with an Egyptian ankh. She stares at the viewer, breasts bared, shoulders squared. The planes of her face are chiselled. The light hits her cheekbones at exactly the right…
By Neha Kale — 15 November, 2019
1. A Saturday evening at Carriageworks. A trestle table topped with gin bottles. Friends huddle in neon jumpsuits. Their murmurs bounce off the walls of the old railway yard, recreating the push-pull anxiety of walking into a high-school disco before it starts. Chicks on Speed’s Alex Murray-Leslie appears on stage, cocooned in a cloud of…
By Neha Kale — 21 June, 2019
PARADISE Nightclubs are places, but they are also ideas. For 50 Cent, ‘the club’ is the logical nexus of hedonism and capitalism (You can find me in the club/ bottle full of bub). Kendrick thinks it’s a bad habit (Don’t say I didn’t tithe for you/ or push the club to the side for you)….