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Right Here, Right Now (Previously Scarred For Life): Josh Belperio Is Angry At The World – And For Good Reason ~ Adelaide Fringe 2020 Review  

Adelaide Festivals / Adelaide Fringe Festival 2020 / Cabaret / Reviews / February 14, 2020
5.0
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[CABARET/Music ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ SA] Judy’s at HST at Holden Street Theatres, Wed 12 Feb. Josh Belperio’s last two Fringe shows have been hugely successful. I thought it was great that he changed...


ALICE COOPER, MC50 & AIRBOURNE: May The Nightmare Never End! ~ Live Review

Featured / Live Music / Music / Reviews / February 13, 2020
9.0
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Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Tue 11 Feb, 2020. Alice Cooper is the architect of theatrical rock; the costumes, the theatrics, the bombast. Without him there would never have been KISS, Slipknot or a million...


Bec Hill is ‘Out Of Order’ @ Rhino Room: Exceptional Homegrown Talent And Really Very Funny ~ Adelaide Fringe 2020 Review

Adelaide Festivals / Adelaide Fringe Festival 2020 / Featured / Reviews / February 9, 2020
10.0
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[COMEDY ~ SA/UK] Rhino Room, Fri 7 Feb, 2020. It’s fitting that the first show out of the gates for Fringe 2020 takes place in Adelaide’s year ‘round Comedy HQ, Rhino Room, with a world class comedian...


Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkey’s Skyhooks Show: You Just Like Me ‘Cos I’m Good In…. ~ Live Review

Live Music / Music / Reviews / January 22, 2020
10.0
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[MUSIC/Rock – AUS] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Sat 18 Jan, 2020. Skyhooks! What a brilliant game changing, life-altering, behemoth of band they were. When they exploded into our lives in the early 1970s...


TALL TALES AND WEE STORIES by Billy Connolly: Yin And Yang ~ Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / January 9, 2020

Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia) 2019, 330pp, RRP $45.00 (hardback) The latest volume from Billy (a.k.a. ‘The Big Yin’) isn’t a proper autobiography – something we could well do with –...


INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS: Double, Double, Toil And Trouble… ~ DVD Review

DVDs / Reviews / December 23, 2019
8.0
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Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated M, 80 minutes. (Flashback DVD Review) The original 1956 grandpappy of the ‘pod people’ sci-fi/horror subgenre, this beloved, film-noir-esque cult classic was directed by Don Siegel...


THE MONSTER SQUAD (M): Bless The Beasts And Children ~ DVD Review

DVDs / Reviews / December 23, 2019
6.0
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Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated M, 89 minutes. (Flashback DVD Review) This love-letter to the Golden Age of Universal Monsters wasn’t a hit when released in 1987 but has become quite a cult pic, and despite...


THE TENANT (M): Roman In The Gloaming ~ DVD Review

DVDs / Reviews / December 23, 2019
6.0
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Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated M, 125 minutes. (Flashback DVD Review) Roman Polanski co-wrote, directed and starred in (despite oddly receiving no credit for the latter) this 1976 filming of Roland Topor’s...


One Step Behind: It’s (Almost) Madness At The Gov! ~ Live Review

Live Music / Music / Reviews / December 20, 2019
8.0
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[MUSIC – UK] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Thu 19 Dec, 2019. It’s hot enough to fry an egg on the footpath outside, and the temperature inside The Gov is also rising. The place is packed. Adelaide’s...


TWO RIDERS WERE APPROACHING: THE LIFE & DEATH OF JIMI HENDRIX by Mick Wall: Acting Funny, But I Don’t Know Why… ~ Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / December 19, 2019

Mick Wall (Hachette Australia) 2019, 310pp, paperback RRP $32.99 Indefatigable rock and roll biographer Wall has previously turned out very readable but somewhat conventional books upon Metallica, Guns...



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