by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Peter Laws (Icon) 2018, 312pp, RRP$29.99 The Bedfordshire-residing Laws is a crime novelist, a massive fan of horror in all its forms (movies, novels, all the dark and frightening stuff in real life) and, somehow, an ordained Baptist Minister, and he’s made quite a...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Viv Albertine (Faber) 2018, 292pp, RRP $39.99 (hardback), $29.99 (paperback) Former punk-as Slits member Albertine’s previous autobiographical work, the memorably-titled Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys, was primarily about her wild...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
J.P. Delaney (Hachette Australia) 2018, 388pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback), $14.99 (eBook) Delaney (a pseudonym for an author who wants to remain mysterious for some reason) had a major hit with her/his first (apparently) psychological thriller The Girl Before last year,...
by Janine Spearpoint | Jul 24, 2018 | Live Music, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 21 Jul. How many ways are there to say awesome, spectacular, amazing? Actually Led Zeppelin Masters – brought together by classically-trained Zep Boys frontman Vince Contarino – is almost indescribably brilliant and...
by Michael Coghlan | Jul 19, 2018 | Dance, Multimedia, Reviews, Theatre
Waterside Workers Hall, Wed 18 Jul. The historical Joan of Arc was a young French woman who fought against the English in the Hundred Years War in the 15th Century. She was burnt at the stake as a martyr at the age of 19, and was declared a saint by the Catholic...
by Clayton Werner | Jul 12, 2018 | Classical, Live Music, Reviews
Nexus Arts, Lion Arts Centre, Sat 7 Jul. Knock, Mark, Stitch is presented as a part of an ongoing series called Nexus Live. Tonight’s music consisted of two pieces. The title piece, presented by Iran Sanadzadeh, Ali O’Connell and Setare Arashioo (graphic/video...