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 Michael Coghlan | Mar 12, 2022 | Adelaide Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Family Entertainment, Interactive, Live Music, Music, Reviews, WOMADelaide 2022
[WORLD MUSIC/Contemporary/Dance ~ AUS/INT] Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla, Fri 11 Mar. WOMADelaide is back to normal: multiple stages, the village, market stalls, the Woshop, the Kidzone, tables and chairs placed out beneath the trees all over the park, the Angus Watt...
by Ian Bell | Mar 10, 2022 | Adelaide Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ~ AUS] The Village Green at Adelaide Oval, Tue 8 Mar. Proceedings opened with a Welcome To Country and a short but terrific (if largely ignored by chatting Icehouse fans) set of soulful blues from Emily Wurrama; Dance On My Own and...
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 6, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Orchestra, Reviews, WOMADelaide 2021
[WORLD MUSIC] King Rodney Park/Ityamai-itpina, Fri 5 Mar. Like so many things in the 2021 Adelaide Festival season, WOMADelaide this year is a very different creature to a ‘regular’ one. I say ‘regular’ because WOMADelaide is never any kind of ‘regular’. There are...
