by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2017 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 85 Mins This multi-directed mixed-bag of skits and giggles from 1988 (or so) is less rude and crude than driving-force John Landis’ similar Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and follows a theme-of-sorts, as we’re supposed to believe we’re watching late-night TV...
by Matt Saunders | Mar 5, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Interviews, Music
by Matt Saunders. Movin’ Melvin Brown has been entertaining audiences worldwide for decades, having toured the US extensively at the height of the soul era among the likes of Stevie Wonder, James Brown and Lionel Ritchie, and has been performing at the Adelaide Fringe...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 17, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Rick Bragg (A&U Canongate) 2014, 498pp, RRP $32.99 Journalist, author and academic Bragg’s formidable tome about Lewis (or ‘Jerry Lee’, but never ‘Jerry’ and especially never ‘Jerry Lewis’) and his life story is written like a steamy, Southern-fried novel, and...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 1, 2014 | Live Music, Reviews
Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Sun Aug 31 Bob Dylan turned 73 this year but continues to tour, and while reports vary as to when he was last in Adelaide (surely it was 2011 when he was in town with B.B. King and not, as suggested by some, “over two decades” ago?), it...