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Rhino Room – Upstairs, Tue Feb 10 Opening night of Rhino Room’s 10 year anniversary did not disappoint as an assembly of comedians took to the stage to not only celebrate 10 side-splitting years of Adelaide...
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Her Majesty’s Theatre, Fri Feb 6 The Searchers’ concert was always going to be a walk down memory lane. First formed in 1959 and responsible for a half dozen or so mega hits in the sixties, The Searchers...
Robert Cozzolino, Alethea Rockwell and David Lynch (Footprint Books) 2015, 157pp, RRP $55.95 Before he was a filmmaker (and a rather strange singer) David Lynch was a struggling artist painting and making...
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Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Sat Jan 24 On my way in to the theatre, I spy a Weeping Angel. I forget all about not blinking but I somehow survive. I guess the Angel didn’t see me… This evening ought...
Peter Swanson (Faber Fiction) 2015, 311pp, RRP $27.99 Swanson’s second novel after last year’s improbable but enjoyable enough The Girl With A Clock For A Heart suffers from the same problems – irksome...
Ian Lowey and Suzy Prince (Bloomsbury Academic) 2014, 272pp, RRP $59.99 Inspired by a series of lectures they delivered at Manchester’s Cornerhouse cinema and gallery in 2012, Lowey and Prince’s study...
Sort of by Jimi Hendrix and edited by Alan Douglas and Peter Neal (Bloomsbury) 2014, 205pp, RRP $19.99 Certain diehard Hendrix fans blindly love this first-published-in-2013 work ostensibly by the mysterious...
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Her Majesty’s Theatre, Thu Jan 15 Adelaide didn’t get the full So Frenchy So Chic Festival In The Park with wine and cheese like Sydney and Melbourne, but we did get a fine sample with this double...
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The Gov, Sat Jan 17 It’s going to be a big year of touring for Blue King Brown following the release of Born Free in November last year, but playing live is what Blue King Brown does best. There’s...
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),...
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