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 Ian Bell | Jun 8, 2019 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews, Theatre
[WORLD PREMIERE ~ AUS ~ IF YOU LOVE… TO REMINISCE] Space Theatre, Fri 7 Jun. Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star. She gained fame in the silent movie era and appeared in one of the first feature films made in colour, The Thief Of Baghdad...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 22, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Entertainment, Live Music, Reviews
[NETHERLANDS/GERMANY ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Thu 21 Jun. Adelaide (“the town of sexuality and possibility” apparently) loves Sven Ratzke, and although there was sometimes a dark and curiously German aspect to his new show, his whooping fans had a...
by Catherine Blanch | Oct 5, 2017 | Interviews, Live Music, Music
by Catherine Blanch. Deep in the 1970s, DEEP THROAT THE BAND were facing the dawning of global fame as the biggest and naughtiest band to come out of Australia when tragedy came from nowhere and saw the boys being ‘trapped’ in Molly Meldrum’s basement for 40 years....
by Matt Saunders | Jun 25, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sat 24 Jun. Opening to the strains of a revolutionary medley incorporating anthems from artists spanning contemporary music from The Beatles and Michael Jackson to Bob Marley, Rage Against The Machine and T. Rex, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s...