by Ian Bell | Dec 5, 2022 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ UK] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Sun 4 Dec, 2022 A mere forty years after they started making music, and three years after the original tickets went on sale for Liverpool synth outfit, China Crisis, they finally take the stage in Adelaide on their first...
by Ian Bell | Nov 30, 2022 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Indie/Grunge ~ UK] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Sun 29 Nov, 2022. Down the road Guns‘n’Roses are tearing up Adelaide Oval to a massive crowd. There was little danger anybody there was missing the Ride gig at The Gov. Likewise, the people bask in the swirly...
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 | Nov 15, 2022 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Metal/Rock ~ SWEDEN] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel. Mon 14 Nov, 2022. Well Adelaide, once again, you missed a good one. I say that with some conviction because most of you were not there. Swedish rockers Hardcore Superstar took to the stage of The Gov on Monday...
by Michael Coghlan | May 1, 2021 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ AUS] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Wed 28 Apr. Many of Warren Zevon’s songs begin with an instantly recognisable and catchy hook. Such is the intro to Lawyers Guns And Money – power chords belted out with a pounding beat and a great melodic hook – and so the show...