by The Clothesline | Mar 3, 2026 | Live Music, Reviews
[Music, Canada] Harry Manx The Guv Sun Mar 2, 2026 It was worth the wait. Leaving your audience hanging for an hour with no communication is poor form. No matter what the reason, it’s not good enough. One hour after the advertised start time Harry Manx appeared on...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 26, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Fri 24 Feb. Australian blues legend Chris Finnen was to be part of this show, and it was really disappointing to learn that due to sickness he would not be part of the line-up for A History Of Early Blues. Chris Finnen is a remarkable blues...
by Nikki Fort | Feb 27, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
The Garden Of Unearthly Delights – The Spiegeltent, Fri 26 Feb Russell Morris has been around long enough now to be considered an Australian music icon. An ARIA Award winner, Hall Of Fame inductee, successful singer, writer and musician, he has endured the fickle...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2014 | Books, Reviews
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CULT COMICS: Lost Classics From Underground Independent Comic Strip Art Edited by Ilya, (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 448pp, RRP $24.99 Ilya’s boffo collection of key examples of whatever you might care to call them (‘cult comics’, cult comix’,...
by Michael Coghlan | Dec 8, 2014 | Live Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Sun Dec 7 Joan Armatrading burst on to the music scene in the mid seventies as a black woman who didn’t sound like a typical black singer. She had a unique sense of melody and phrasing that was all her own. Born in the West Indies, she moved...
