by Ian Bell | Aug 23, 2022 | Interviews, Live Music
[MUSIC NEWS] By Ian Bell, Next Tuesday night, the lights will go down at the Entertainment Centre, a low drone will come over the PA and a voice will declare for the last time ‘ALRIGHT ADELAIDE – YOU WANTED THE BEST YOU GOT THE BEST – THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE...
by Ian Bell | Feb 13, 2020 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Tue 11 Feb, 2020. Alice Cooper is the architect of theatrical rock; the costumes, the theatrics, the bombast. Without him there would never have been KISS, Slipknot or a million other bands. Alice Cooper is 72 years old and is out there...
by Bián Hickman | Nov 23, 2018 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Thu 22 Nov, 2018. From America to Adelaide’s Governor Hindmarsh Hotel came the ever charming and ever virtuosic progressive rock keyboardist, Jordan Rudess on his first solo Australian Tour BACH TO ROCK: A Musician’s Journey. Furnished with a...
by Jenna Bonavita | Nov 12, 2015 | Interviews, Music
by Jenna Bonavita. Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie, guitarist with seminal band Skyhooks, delivered a string of classic songs such as Balwyn Calling, Smut, Ego Is Not A Dirty Word, and Living In The ‘70s. Without question these etched a pivotal groove in the soundtrack to...
by David Robinson | May 7, 2015 | Live Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh, Wed 6 May. It’s just after 10pm when, to the obvious delight of the full house, one-time KISS lead guitarist Ace Frehley and his band hit the Governor Hindmarsh stage. They kick off with a storming version of Rocket Ride, a KISS song from the Alive...