by Michael Coghlan | Feb 25, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[Music/Folk – SA, WORLD PREMIERE] Imperial Measures Distilling, Sat 24 Feb, 2024. There’s a lot to like about Cal Williams Jr’s A History Of Early Bob Dylan but it wasn’t without a few hiccups. The venue was declared ‘dry’ after the local council failed to get...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 11, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2021, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ SA] The Jade, Tue 10 Mar. SWT_HM_ADL is a collection of Adelaide songs written by people who clearly love the place – the local Fergus Maximus, and Doctor D, an emigrant from the UK. As we all know Americans have sung about their states,...
by Michael Coghlan | Apr 6, 2017 | CDs, Music, Reviews
TROUT AND TOOLBOX Ray Smith. Some musicians seem able to move happily between different musical worlds. I first became aware of Adelaide based musician, Ray Smith, when he was playing in loud, experimental rock bands like the Sympathy Orchestra. Sometime later I heard...
by Michael Coghlan | Dec 8, 2014 | Live Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Sun Dec 7 Joan Armatrading burst on to the music scene in the mid seventies as a black woman who didn’t sound like a typical black singer. She had a unique sense of melody and phrasing that was all her own. Born in the West Indies, she moved...
