by Ian Bell | Sep 14, 2022 | Interviews, Live Music, Music
[MUSIC ~ UK] by Ian Bell. Ah the 1980’s what a glorious time for pop music. After a decade of denim, self-important twenty minute guitar solos and things being very earnest and serious, the eighties was an explosion of glitz and glamour, dressing up, excess, and...
by Ian Bell | Feb 24, 2022 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2022, Comedy, Interviews
[COMEDY/Solo Show ~ ADELAIDE FRINGE PREMIERE ~ International] by Ian Bell. I know what some of you are thinking: ‘Tania Lacy… Tania… Lacy… where do I know that name from?’. If you were a ‘youth’ in the 1990s Tania Lacy was EVERYWHERE! Dancing on Countdown,...
by Ian Bell | Nov 28, 2019 | Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Pop ~ AUS/UK] Thebarton Theatre, Wed 27 Nov, 2019. Y’know, in the ‘90s, the ‘00s and the ‘10s, people would often refer to the 1980s as the decade that taste forgot. The fashion was mocked, the hairstyles ridiculed and the music dismissed as disposable, synth...
by Luke Balzan | Jul 4, 2019 | Live Music, Reviews
Schlachthof, Weisbaden, Germany, Fri 21 Jun, 2019. I first came across Victorian band Stonefield late one night on ABCs Rage when they were playing a great sounding bluesy rock act with a bunch of female players. I’d missed the title to find out who the band was, and...
by Catherine Blanch | Aug 10, 2015 | Children's Entertainment, Interviews
by Catherine Blanch. Since 1966, ABC’s Play School has been entertaining pre-school children with a bear in there, a chair as well, people with games and stories to tell. Along with favourite toys – Jemima, Big Ted, Little Ted and Humpty – plus regular familiar...
