by Ian Bell | Nov 27, 2022 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Pop/Synth ~ AUS] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Fri 25 Nov, 2022. Ahh the 1980s! What a brilliant time for shiny synthy-pop music. Everything seemed so futuristic and modern. The charts were full of impossibly glamorous looking pop groups like Duran Duran, Spandau...
by Ian Bell | Feb 24, 2022 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2022, Comedy, Interviews
[COMEDY/Solo Show ~ ADELAIDE FRINGE PREMIERE ~ International] by Ian Bell. I know what some of you are thinking: ‘Tania Lacy… Tania… Lacy… where do I know that name from?’. If you were a ‘youth’ in the 1990s Tania Lacy was EVERYWHERE! Dancing on Countdown,...
by Ian Bell | Jul 7, 2021 | Live Music
[MUSIC/Pop ~ AUS] by Ian Bell Ahhh the 1980s! For a long time the Eighties was referred to as the ‘decade that taste forgot’. The images of stone washed denim, massive hair, pirate shirts and ‘serious’ music fans in the ‘90s and ‘00s, scoffed at the hyper-pop, synth...
by Ian Bell | Apr 14, 2021 | Interviews, Live Music
[MUSIC] by Ian Bell. Ahhh… the 1970’s. Long before a phone was smart, the net was something you caught a fish in, kids shoes didn’t have wheels in their heels, there were TV shows that weren’t all fake ‘reality’, and there was no...
by Ian Bell | Nov 28, 2019 | Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Pop ~ AUS/UK] Thebarton Theatre, Wed 27 Nov, 2019. Y’know, in the ‘90s, the ‘00s and the ‘10s, people would often refer to the 1980s as the decade that taste forgot. The fashion was mocked, the hairstyles ridiculed and the music dismissed as disposable, synth...
