by Adrian Miller | Feb 24, 2022 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2022, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Pop ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ SA] The Moa (open-air) at Gluttony, Wed 23 Feb. If we had been expecting (from the name of this show) to hear classical music renditions of favourite Beatles songs, that is quickly blown away when ringmaster Anthony Leppa – dressed in Sgt...
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...
by David Robinson | Feb 6, 2016 | Live Music, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 5 Feb A Festival Theatre full house warmly greets the members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as the lights dim and a concert showcasing the music of The Beatles begins. Conducted by Nicholas Buc, the orchestra...
by David Robinson | May 17, 2015 | Live Music, Reviews
Thebarton Theatre, Sat 16 May It is probably a pretty tough gig, emulating the world’s most popular and, arguably for some, best-ever pop group. Despite that, in most cities of the world you are likely to find a Beatles cover band. Such is the enduring appeal of the...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 17, 2014 | Books, Reviews
John Lennon (A&U Canongate) 2014, 78pp, RRP $24.99 Lennon’s literary début, first published in 1964 and written during the height of Beatlemania, is a joyously strange and silly collection of nonsense rhymes, short stories and non-sequiturs interspersed with his...
