by Dave Bradley | Mar 5, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Band Room at Grace Emily Hotel, Sun 4 Mar. [MUSIC/WORLD MUSIC – SA/VIC] A crowd partially composed of shamelessly proud ukulele devotees was on hand to welcome the Ukulele Death Squad at the Grace Emily, and although this show began rather quietly with a lovely...
by Dave Bradley | Feb 19, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
Treasury 1860, Sun 18 Feb. [THEATRE/COMEDY – SA] The audience could have been forgiven for being a little unsure what to expect with this first performance of Anna Thomas’ first show at the Treasury 1860 (open for the Fringe for the first time ever this year), and...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Liz Lawler (Bonnier) 2018, 362pp, RRP $29.99 Lawler’s first novel is set in her home city of Bath and benefits considerably from her 20 years’ experience as a nurse, meaning that the medical talk sounds sometimes scarily genuine and rather excuses the occasional air...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Tom Lee (Granta) 2017, 153pp, RRP $24.99 A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost impossible to like, which some readers might find odd or off-putting and...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | DVDs, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, MA, 84 Mins Co-directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott’s début feature Cooties was a troubled but enjoyable school-set zombie-esque horror comedy starring several players you’d have thought would never be caught dead in such material,...