by Natasha Pearce | Jul 6, 2021 | Book, Interviews
[BOOK ~ AUS] by Natasha Pearce. With his debut novel, The Miscreants, Christopher Hawkes follows two brothers into a precarious adulthood that is charged with wreckage, risk and volatility. Hawkes has said that, for him, The Miscreants is about ‘a longing for...
by Adrian Miller | Mar 13, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2019, Music, Reviews, Spoken Word
[MUSIC/FOLK ~ GBR] The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, Tue 12 Feb. It’s James Taylor’s birthday, so it seems appropriate to head down to The Garage International at Adelaide Town Hall to see Dan Clews perform The James Taylor Story. Being a singer...
by Adrian Miller | Mar 2, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2019, Entertainment, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/ROCK ~ SA] The Wheatsheaf Hotel – Tin Shed, Fri 1 Mar. The Sgt Pepper costumes remain on the wall as decorations tonight. What we get instead is the early Beatles’ uniform of white shirts, black ties, waistcoats and trousers. So it is a bit of a surprise when...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Ray Connolly (Hachette Australia) 2018, 448pp, RRP $35.00, ebook $16.99 Even John Lennon’s most diehard fans might baulk at the idea of yet another biography of the man (1940 – 1980), and yet Connolly can claim to have been far closer to his subject than most other...
by Robert Dunstan | May 23, 2018 | Interviews, Live Music, Music
by Robert Dunstan. When Gary Burrows first staged Oranges & Lennons, a tribute to the music of John Lennon, it was a sell-out show and while subsequent presentations have been successful, Gary concedes that getting a full house for the premiere performance was due...
