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 | Jul 7, 2021 | Live Music
[MUSIC/Pop ~ AUS] by Ian Bell Ahhh the 1980s! For a long time the Eighties was referred to as the ‘decade that taste forgot’. The images of stone washed denim, massive hair, pirate shirts and ‘serious’ music fans in the ‘90s and ‘00s, scoffed at the hyper-pop, synth...
by Ian Bell | Mar 9, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews, WOMADelaide 2021
[WORLD MUSIC ~ AUS] King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina, Mon 8 Mar. Midnight Oil and the First Nation Collaborators, The Teskey Brothers, Siberian Tiger. It occurred to me last night that I have been going to see Midnight Oil pretty consistently for four decades. They...
by Ian Bell | Mar 9, 2020 | Adelaide Festivals, Children's Entertainment, Dance, Event, Family Entertainment, Live Music, Reviews, WOMADelaide 2020
[EVENT ~ World Music ~ INT] Botanic Park, Sun 8 Mar. Sometimes WOMADelaide becomes WoDadelaide. My seven year daughter is with me for the first part of my day and it’s always an exciting cornucopia of stuff for kids at WOMADelaide. Apart from their excellent Kidzone...
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...
