Mahalia Barnes & Jade MacRae: Sharing Soul At The Trinity Sessions ~ Review

by Audrey West | Jun 16, 2022 | Live Music, Reviews

[MUSIC/Soul ~ AUS] Trinity Sessions, 318 Goodwood Road, Clarence Park. Wed 15 Jun, 2022. In the city that has so many of them, there is nothing quite like listening to soul music inside the acoustic church walls of the Trinity Sessions. It is not so often you get this...

Carpenters From Kempsey: If I Were Those Other Carpenters… ~ Adelaide Fringe 2021 Review

by Ian Bell | Mar 14, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2021, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews

[CABARET/Comedy ~ NSW] The Chamber at THE QUEENS, Sat 13 Mar. In the 1970s there was a brother and sister outfit called The Carpenters. Karen and Richard Carpenter had a brand of non-threatening, honey harmony-ed, soft pop proved wildly popular and turned them into...

Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Boy: An Evening Of Stories & Songs – Part Three of Our Chat with One of Australia’s Most-Loved Music Icons – Theatre Tour Interview

by Catherine Blanch | Nov 19, 2016 | Book, Entertainment, Interviews, Live Music, Music, Theatre

by Catherine Blanch. Part Three in our series of interviews with Jimmy Barnes – Australian music icon, lead singer of legendary band Cold Chisel, devoted family man and best-selling author of his childhood memoir Working Class Boy – A Memoir Of Running Away, see us...

Working Class Boy ~ An Evening Of Stories & Songs: Part Two of our Three Part Series with Jimmy Barnes – Theatre Tour Interview

by Catherine Blanch | Nov 18, 2016 | Book, Interactive, Interviews, Live Music, Music, Theatre

by Catherine Blanch. We continue our three-part interview with Australian music icon, devoted family man and best-selling author Jimmy Barnes about his life between moving from Glasgow to Elizabeth, and the hope that gave way to poverty, alcoholism, violence and...

Working Class Boy ~ An Evening Of Stories & Songs: Jimmy Barnes Opens Up About His Childhood and The Life That Inspired his Book “Working Class Boy – A Memoir Of Running Away” – Interview… Part One of Three

by Catherine Blanch | Nov 17, 2016 | Book, Entertainment, Interviews, Music, Theatre

by Catherine Blanch. In the summer of 1962, Dot and Jim Swan arrived in South Australia with their six children. Travelling by boat from Glasgow, Scotland, this move to the Northern suburbs of Adelaide was meant to be a new beginning in their lives, but hope gave way...