by Ian Bell | Apr 14, 2021 | Interviews, Live Music
[MUSIC] by Ian Bell. Ahhh… the 1970’s. Long before a phone was smart, the net was something you caught a fish in, kids shoes didn’t have wheels in their heels, there were TV shows that weren’t all fake ‘reality’, and there was no...
by Janine Spearpoint | Feb 25, 2020 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2020, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/a Cappella ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ UK] Wonderland Spiegeltent at Gluttony, Thu 20 Feb. Those talented men with their remarkable voices and astounding a Cappella harmonies are back to entertain us as part of Adelaide Fringe 2020! In 2019 it was the ‘80s party...
by Ian Bell | Feb 13, 2020 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
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 other bands. Alice Cooper is 72 years old and is out there...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 19, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
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 N’ Roses, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, Prince and many...
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...