by Adrian Miller | Mar 15, 2025 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2025, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Tribute/Cover Band ~ SA] The Jade, Fri 14 Mar, 2025. Full disclosure: this reviewer is a fully-fledged Magazine tragic! Endless nights of living alone in a maisonette in Forestville listening to the likes of Magazine, XTC, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello and The...
by Ian Bell | Nov 12, 2022 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ AUS] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel. Fri 11 Nov, 2022. Tonight’s music evening opens with local singer-songwriter Alana Jagt armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar, some excellent songs and strong set of pipes. Check out her album launch at The Grace Emily on...
by Ian Bell | Feb 27, 2020 | Music, Reviews
[MUSIC – UK] The Gov, Sun 23 Feb, 2020. By any measure Nick Lowe is one of the greats. He was in pub rock pioneers Brinsley Schwartz, he recorded an accidental hit song about The Bay City Rollers and was the first signing to legendary UK label Stiff Records....
by Ian Bell | May 9, 2019 | Interviews, Live Music, Music
[MUSIC ~ AUS] by Ian Bell. Icecream Hands are a classic pop group. Not in a boy band sense, but their songs have all the classic melodies, hooks, harmonies and singalong elements of The Beatles or Elvis Costello. My favourite quote about them came from Melbourne...
by Matt Saunders | Jun 28, 2016 | Classical, Interviews, Multimedia
by Matt Saunders. Zephyr Quartet has been challenging audiences since 1999, with recent performances including a stunning collaboration with Australian Dance Theatre at WOMADelaide 2016 and their recent production of Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet’s The Juliet...
