by Michael Coghlan | Jul 15, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Guitar Festival 2023, Live Music, Reviews
[Music – Aus] The Music of Jeff Beck His Majesty’s Theatre, 14 July 2023 Jeff Beck’s name was first in the headlines as part of the British pop invasion of the mid 1960s. He was one of three guitarists who journeyed to the rock pantheon via The Yardbirds. The other...
by Ian Bell | Feb 28, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2021, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ AUS] The Moa (open-air) at Gluttony, Sat 27 Feb. “He’s joined that stupid club,” Kurt Cobain’s mother is believed to have said on the news of her sons passing death in 1994. ‘The ‘club’ is a mythical clique of rockers who all died before their 28th Birthday:...
by Clayton Werner | Feb 27, 2020 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2020, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Rock ~ SA PREMIERE ~ SA] Nexus Arts, Fri 21 Feb. While there are four musicians listed and photographed, the band on the night was a three-piece; drums (Zac Butler), bass (Zakari Raymond) and guitar/vocals (Caleb Raymond). And checking their web presence, a...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 19, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia) 2019, 310pp, paperback RRP $32.99 Indefatigable rock and roll biographer Wall has previously turned out very readable but somewhat conventional books upon Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, Prince and many...
by David Robinson | Dec 14, 2018 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Thu 13 Dec. She’s sung with Small Faces, Barry Gibb, Ike & Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel and Primal Scream. She features on some of the 20th Century’s greatest pop songs. Tonight, she is within touching distance. The legendary P. P. Arnold...