by Michael Coghlan | Feb 28, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
Semaphore RSL Club, Sat 27 Feb Dylan (the Prophet) and Donovan (the Poet) had parallel careers on opposite sides of the Atlantic as folk musicians representing the voices of social conscience in the 1960s – Dylan in the US and Donovan in Scotland. It was a time when...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon (Black Dog & Leventhal) 2015, 703pp, RRP $60.00 While there have been formidable books studying the prolific output of the great and oh-so-difficult Bob Dylan before (such as Dylan: Disc By Disc earlier this year),...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Jon Bream (Voyageur Press) 2015, 240pp, RRP $39.99 Bream’s beautiful tome attempts to encompass Dylan’s vast body of often variable work, from 1962’s Bob Dylan to 2015’s inexplicable Shadows In The Night, with each album entry introduced by a cool description written...
by TheClothesLine | Jun 13, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews, Theatre
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Fri 12 Jun The powerhouse trio of performer Bernadette Robinson, director Simon Phillips and writer Joanna Murray-Smith have united again to create an outstandingly beautiful show. The three previously produced one of the stand-out shows of the...
by Nikki Fort | Jun 5, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Interviews
by Nikki Fort. As front man of The Cruel Sea, hard pub rock band The Beasts of Bourbon and most recently The Ape, Tex Perkins has a stage presence that assimilates to what ever style of music her performs, from dark and brooding, channelling Johnny Cash or even...