by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia: Two Roads) 2021, 389pp, RRP $49.99 (hardback); $19.99 (e-Book); $46.99 (audiobook). Sir Billy’s proper autobiography (his Tall Tales And Wee Stories three years ago was just a bunch of his favourite jokes) is all over the place in...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 9, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia) 2019, 330pp, RRP $45.00 (hardback) The latest volume from Billy (a.k.a. ‘The Big Yin’) isn’t a proper autobiography – something we could well do with – but a selection of old routines and anecdotes, some of which he...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Mar 13, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2019, Comedy, Reviews
[COMEDY/STAND UP ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ GBR] Thebarton Theatre, Tue 12 Mar. If Robin Williams, Billy Connolly and the Monty Python team had a baby, it would be Ross Noble. And Noble would probably tell you how they did it, in all its absurd detail. A Ross Noble show...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 23, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
Clubroom in the GC at the German Club, Wed 22 Feb Lord Of The Strings is an apt title for Mathew Fagan’s show. He treats his audience to string wizardry on a selection of guitars, banjo, and ukulele. He begins with a flowing medley of tunes on a 10-string guitar that...
by Siân Williams | Apr 6, 2015 | Interviews, Music, Theatre
by Sian Williams. Adelaide’s longest running Arts Repertory Theatre are fast approaching the debut of their next performance, a production of Quartet which, as the name suggests, is being shown with four lead characters in a sentimental, bittersweet yet comical tale...