To Do: Gotye, Sir Ian McKellen and Pre-Splendour Giddiness

· Music round-up: British India in WA; Kid Kenobi at Room 680; Gotye at the Metro (check out his Heart’s A Mess vid).
· Witness Gandalf/Magneto/Sir Leigh Teabing, aka Ian McKellen, in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s only Australian performances of King Lear at the State Theatre, Melbourne.
· Engage with journos David Marr and Leigh Sales, author of Detainee 002: the Case Of David Hicks, at the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival before the place is infested with music devotees for Splendour in the Grass next weekend.