by The Clothesline | Feb 6, 2018 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Fri 2 Feb. There was a vociferous crowd greeting the tremendous Lachy Doley at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel. Predominantly a crackerjack bluesman, the acclaimed ‘Jimi Hendrix of the Hammond organ’ has eloquently furbished the popular organ...
by Michael Coghlan | Jun 12, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Space Theatre, Thu 11 Jun Sun records holds a prestigious place in the history of early American pop music, and the Sun Rising Band have put together a selection of mostly well-known hits recorded at the Memphis Recording Studios in the 1950s. I, and many in the...
by Michael Coghlan | Jan 18, 2015 | Interviews, Music
by Michael Coghlan. It’s been fifty years since Love Potion No. 9 stormed up the hit parades (remember them?) in the US and Australia. It was one of a string of hits that made The Searchers a household name in the ‘60s. Fifty years on and these boys from Liverpool are...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 17, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Rick Bragg (A&U Canongate) 2014, 498pp, RRP $32.99 Journalist, author and academic Bragg’s formidable tome about Lewis (or ‘Jerry Lee’, but never ‘Jerry’ and especially never ‘Jerry Lewis’) and his life story is written like a steamy, Southern-fried novel, and...
