by Michael Coghlan | Aug 11, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Live Music, Reviews
[WORLD PREMIERE ~ SCOTLAND/ENGLAND] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 10 Aug. Richard Smith [ENG] and Tony McManus [SCOT] are old friends. Guitarists extraordinaire, they were both born in the UK and now reside in North America. Interestingly, Smith...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 21, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
The Flamingo at Gluttony, Tue 20 Feb. [MUSIC/THEATRE – UK] There was already a lot happening on and around the stage as the audience shuffled in to the venue for The Choir Of Man. It seems we’ve entered a pub, and it’s bustling with activity. Some people are ushered...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 4, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Interviews, Music
by Michael Coghlan. Harpist and soprano Emma Horwood and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra percussionist Steve Peterka join forces to deliver a program of Celtic music from across the centuries for the upcoming Adelaide Fringe. The Clothesline speaks with Emma via email and...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Fraser McAlpine (Nicholas Brealey) 2015, 360pp, RRP $22.99 The Oxfordshire-born and Cornwall-dwelling McAlpine, the lead writer for BBC Anglophenia (and a specialist in Doctor Who), here offers a lengthy list of things that get Brits going (in a good way most of the...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Will Boast, (Granta) 2015, 281pp, RRP $27.99 Boast’s movingly personal autobiography’s title is taken from his belief that he was an ‘epilogue’ in his family when he lost his mother (brain tumour), brother (car accident) and Dad (perforated ulcer) all within some...