by Michael Coghlan | Jul 18, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Guitar Festival 2023, Live Music, Reviews
[Music – France, Australia] Antoine Boyer and Yeore Kim with special guest, Kathleen Halloran Dunstan Playhouse, 16 July 2023 This was Kathleen Halloran’s very first solo performance and she confessed to being very nervous. She needn’t have worried. Nervous or...
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 | Feb 19, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
Showroom One at The GC at The German Club, Sat 18 Feb. Adelaide’s jazz community has obviously heard the word. The Showroom is close to full for this special one-off concert: Miles Davis’ 1959 Kind of Blue album, played live. Rob Pippan, the man who has put the show...
by Jenna Bonavita | Jan 11, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Event, Interviews, Music
by Jenna Bonavita. Slava Grigoryan is rightly heralded as one of Australia’s finest proponents of classical guitar with a career spanning over 20 years and accolades galore. Young Australian Of The Year for the Arts in 2000, major prize-winner at the Tokyo...
by Michael Coghlan | Jun 20, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Space Theatre, Thu Jun 19 The pre-show has already begun when the audience filters in. There’s a self-absorbed guitarist sitting on stage practicing a few riffs. An Afro-headed cool guy is grooving around in the audience space and telling us how good the guitar player...