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 | Sep 14, 2022 | Interviews, Live Music, Music
[MUSIC ~ UK] by Ian Bell. Ah the 1980’s what a glorious time for pop music. After a decade of denim, self-important twenty minute guitar solos and things being very earnest and serious, the eighties was an explosion of glitz and glamour, dressing up, excess, and...
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...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 22, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Entertainment, Live Music, Reviews
[NETHERLANDS/GERMANY ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Thu 21 Jun. Adelaide (“the town of sexuality and possibility” apparently) loves Sven Ratzke, and although there was sometimes a dark and curiously German aspect to his new show, his whooping fans had a...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 22, 2016 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Thebarton Theatre, Thu 21 Jul. The latest in a long, profitable and shamelessly joy-inducing list of ‘nostalgia circuit’ package tours, this particular gaggle of 80s pop stars hit the Thebby to the rabid delight of devoted fans, many of whom turned up in satin pants,...
