by Ian Bell | Nov 12, 2022 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ AUS] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel. Fri 11 Nov, 2022. Tonight’s music evening opens with local singer-songwriter Alana Jagt armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar, some excellent songs and strong set of pipes. Check out her album launch at The Grace Emily on...
by David Robinson | Dec 14, 2018 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Thu 13 Dec. She’s sung with Small Faces, Barry Gibb, Ike & Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel and Primal Scream. She features on some of the 20th Century’s greatest pop songs. Tonight, she is within touching distance. The legendary P. P. Arnold...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 9, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 8 Jun. Director Rob Reiner’s, sorry, Marti DiBergi’s fake, sorry, VERY REAL documentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has a formidable following, and it took Tim Rogers and You Am I to realise that the band’s...
by Adrian Miller | Jun 19, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Wed Jun 18 Vandemonian Lags is a presentation of 17 stories from an earlier time in Australia’s history when the boats kept coming and, laden with untrustworthy convicts from Van Diemen’s Land who had in turn been transported for often petty crimes,...
by Catherine Blanch | Jun 14, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews
by Catherine Blanch. It’s no secret that Tasmania has a cruel and dark convict history. The stories of people transported from England to Van Diemen’s Land for anything from petty crime to murder, the brutality of imprisonment and the struggles that families faced...