by Clayton Werner | Aug 13, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Live Music, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
[FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE ~ AUSTRALIA/BRAZIL/CHINA/SOUTH AFRICA] Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 12 Aug. There is more to the Adelaide Guitar Festival than the performances over the weekend, specifically I refer to the Winter School (there are also gigs in...
by Clayton Werner | Aug 14, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 14 Aug. The first part of the program features guitar students currently studying at the Elder Conservatorium, in solo and ensemble pieces, several of which were premiers, including the final two pieces. The musicianship...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 30, 2016 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, PG, 126 Mins Co-writer/director (and former Monty Python member) Terry Gilliam had just emerged from the whole David and Goliath battle for his Brazil (1985) when he began work on this hopelessly chaotic filming of the exploits of a character no one had heard...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Terry Gilliam and Ben Thompson (Canongate) 2015, 297pp, RRP $59.99 The five surviving members of Monty Python are all in their mid-70s now, and Gilliam (the animator, only American and most rarely-seen of the sextet) states early on in this lovely, glossy...
by Michael Coghlan | Sep 26, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Music, Reviews
[INDONESIA] Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 25 Sep. Gamelan music from Indonesia can be an acquired taste. Gamelan orchestras are primarily percussive ensembles featuring a range of metallophones (the metal version of xylophones), and bamboo flutes. The...
