by Michael Coghlan | Feb 21, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Dance, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Rock – South Australia] Come Together – The Beatles Rock Show The Virago at Gluttony – Rymill Park, Tue 20 Feb Come Together needs to be commended for many reasons but especially because they have dared to do something different with cultural icons, and they’re...
by David Robinson | Jun 12, 2019 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Tue 11 Jun. It’s an increasingly common occurrence; yet another incarnation of The Fab Four is visiting Adelaide, this time presenting a celebration of the classic Abbey Road album to a keen, if a little modest, crowd. After a fairly cheesy...
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 Matt Saunders | Sep 17, 2016 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
The Gov, Sun 11 Sep. Musicians, friends and family assembled at The Gov for a Sunday afternoon of music and celebration of the life of beloved Adelaide musician Howard “Howie” Kehl, who passed away before his time in May, 2015. The occasion was set to honour his...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Steve Turner (Hachette Australia) 2015, 352pp, RRP $49.99 This updated version of Turner’s Fab-Four-focussed collection (originally published in 1994) might have had a little of its thunder stolen by All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release and yet...