by Ian Bell | Jun 24, 2022 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
[CABARET/Comedy/Rock ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ DEU/AUS] The Famous Spiegeltent, Festival Plaza, Thu 23 Jun. The long-awaited return of punk rock cabaret brother and sister team of Astrid & Otto a.k.a. Die Roten Punkte (translation: The Red Dot) has taken way too long in...
by Ian Bell | Feb 25, 2022 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2022, Comedy, Music, Reviews
[COMEDY/Music ~ NSW] Rhino Room – Upstairs at Rhino Room, Wed 23 Feb. He is a little bloody genius, you know that, right? Oh sure, he’s abrasive, irreverent, some might say a twisted degenerate, but nobody can touch Paul McDermott as my favourite infante terrible of...
by Ian Bell | Feb 28, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2021, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
[CABARET/Music ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ NSW] The Chamber at THE QUEENS, Sat 27 Feb. After 35 years of a fearsome reputation while on stage, you’d think that even the most casual audience member would not be foolish enough to want to ‘join in’, while artist, painter,...
by Ian Bell | Feb 16, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2021, Cabaret, Comedy, Interviews, Live Music
[CABARET/Music/Comedy ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ NSW] by Ian Bell. Paul McDermott is a national treasure to many of us who grew up worshipping at the altar of the Doug Anthony All Stars explosive and anarchic musical comedy in the eighties and nineties. Between vicious...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 13, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2019, Comedy, Reviews, Spoken Word
[COMEDY ~ SA PREMIERE ~ NSW] The National Wine Centre – Exhibition Hall, Tue 12 Feb. Tim Ferguson is fortunate enough to have had a glittering career, and much of it is on film, so this show is peppered with filmed highlights and funny stories of his rise and fall....