by Matt Saunders | May 7, 2017 | Interviews, Live Music, Music
by Matt Saunders. It’s not every day you get to chat with a lifelong idol, a two-time Grammy winner, and a genuine guitar hero. As the founder and primary songwriter of Living Colour, Vernon Reid has been melting fretboards and faces all over the world for more than...
by David Robinson | Apr 25, 2017 | Live Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh, Mon 24 April It’s brim full at The Gov, standing room only, and the faithful await the arrival of the one and only Billy Bragg. Bragg appears and straps on his Telecaster. Never slow to make a point, he dedicates his first song, All You Fascists,...
by Adrian Miller | Jun 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Space Theatre, Sun 12 Jun. Barb Jungr has long held a reputation as a fine interpreter of Dylan songs, and she is at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival to present songs from her latest CD Hard Rain – The Songs Of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen. Her first offering is a...
by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 11, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Burlesque, Cabaret, Comedy, Entertainment, Music, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Fri 10 Jun TheVariety Gala Performance ushered in the 2016 Adelaide Cabaret Festival with a line-up of selected acts handpicked by curators Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect to showcase their idea of what cabaret ‘could be’. The very tone of this year’s...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 6, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Nick Cave (Text Publishing) 2016, 115pp, RRP $24.99 Not a work of fiction like his And The Ass Saw The Angel and The Death Of Bunny Munro, this one-of-a-kind description of life on the road as only Nick Cave could experience it supposedly began life as a series of...