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 | Apr 9, 2022 | Live Music, Music, News, Obituary
[MUSIC/Festival ~ Obituary ~ AUS] by Ian Bell. In November of 1988, I was standing outside a sold out Run DMC gig in Sydney, pondering my predicament. A guy saw me through the fence and says “Hey, you were in Melbourne!” “Yes, I was!” I reply. “…and you’ve come...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia), 310pp, RRP $32.99 Rock author Wall is a goddamn writing machine, having turned out biographies on Prince, Lemmy and Guns N’ Roses in less than two years and then followed them up with this, a pretty illuminating study of the life and...