by Ian Bell | Apr 3, 2020 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Synthpop/New Wave ~ UK] Tue 17 Mar, 2020 One of my favourite Ultravox songs is Dancing With Tears In My Eyes from the 1984 album Lament. It is the tale of a couple spending the last few hours together as an unstoppable apocalypse bares down on them. Vocalist...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Mar 13, 2020 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2020, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Soul ~ SA] Main Room at The Gov, Thu 12 Mar. Aretha – RESPECT was not billed as a tribute show or an imitation of Aretha herself, instead, it is a celebration of the music of Aretha Franklin and proof of the prolific performer and hit maker she was. As this is...
by Ian Bell | Feb 27, 2020 | Music, Reviews
[MUSIC – UK] The Gov, Sun 23 Feb, 2020. By any measure Nick Lowe is one of the greats. He was in pub rock pioneers Brinsley Schwartz, he recorded an accidental hit song about The Bay City Rollers and was the first signing to legendary UK label Stiff Records....
by Bián Hickman | Feb 5, 2020 | Interviews, Live Music, Music
[MUSIC/Brit Punk ~ UK] English punk rock and new wave group The Stranglers have their sights set on Australia in 2020, landing in Adelaide on Tue 11 Feb to perform at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel. In anticipation of The Gov gig, we catch up with bassist, songwriter...
by Michael Coghlan | Nov 30, 2019 | Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ UK] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Fri 29 Nov. As Jethro Tull’s lead guitarist Martin Barre spent decades in the shadows of front man Ian Anderson. In the Martin Barre Band he is free to step forward and be the front man and it suits him. It’s always interesting...