by Michael Coghlan | Mar 2, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Burlesque, Cabaret, Reviews
The Cabinet Room (Upstairs) at La Boheme, Thu 1 Mar [CABARET – ACT/NSW/VIC] It could be 3am at some unidentified secret location that only the privileged know about and Michael Wheatley is camped comfortably on someone’s couch weaving wicked magic about addiction,...
by Catherine Blanch | Nov 19, 2016 | Book, Entertainment, Interviews, Live Music, Music, Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. Part Three in our series of interviews with Jimmy Barnes – Australian music icon, lead singer of legendary band Cold Chisel, devoted family man and best-selling author of his childhood memoir Working Class Boy – A Memoir Of Running Away, see us...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 26, 2016 | Books, Human Interest, Music, Reviews
Jimmy Barnes (HarperCollins) 2016, 362pp, RRP $45.00 Dead-set Aussie Legend Jimmy’s – sorry, Barnesy’s – autobiographical volume is the first of a projected pair, and therefore fans of Cold Chisel and his beloved solo work might be surprised by the fact that this is...
by Nikki Fort | Jun 6, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
Space Theatre, Fri 5 Jun Edith Piaf and Angry Anderson had a love child and they called her Christa Hughes! Strutting her stuff in The Space last night, beer-swilling, leather squeezed Christa was saucy, sexy and sensational. Setting up the Ladies’ Lounge with her...
by George Kaplan | Mar 5, 2015 | Live Music, Reviews
Clipsal 500, Sun Mar 1 After forty years of explosive rock‘n’roll, Cold Chisel returned for this year’s Adelaide Clipsal 500 to rock with their hometown fans. After being inducted into the SA Music Hall Of Fame earlier in the day – on Pit Straight, no less – you could...