by Jenna Bonavita | Jun 9, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[UNITED STATES ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 8 Jun. Madeline Peyroux made a very odd entrance indeed; running into the Dunstan Playhouse looking like a stage-hand who had forgotten to fix something. It took a few seconds after Peyroux reached for her...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 9, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 8 Jun. Director Rob Reiner’s, sorry, Marti DiBergi’s fake, sorry, VERY REAL documentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has a formidable following, and it took Tim Rogers and You Am I to realise that the band’s...
by Bián Hickman | Jun 7, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Circus & Physical Theatre, Interviews
[AUSTRALIA ~ WORLD PREMIERE] by Bián Hickman. Mark Holden’s life has been so much more that the king of the Australian Idol ‘Touchdown’. A singer, songwriter, actor and TV personality, he once lived the dream life as part of his family’s once-famous Holden Brothers...
by Clayton Werner | Mar 17, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Art, Book, Dance, Live Music, Reviews
AMRC Hub at Australian Migrant Resource Centre Hub, Fri 16 Mar. [MUSIC/WORLD MUSIC – SA] Cafe Boite World Music & Culture, provided a foretaste and something of a casual, café-style rehearsal for their annual big gig – next week’s In Our Own Voices; a book launch,...
by Adrian Miller | Jan 14, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[FRANCE] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 13 Jan. Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains are a four-piece band led by quirky, charismatic Frànçois Marry, on guitar and vocal (and occasional piano). Frànçois talks to the audience in fluent English, but the...