by Adrian Miller | Feb 25, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
La Bohème, Fri Feb 24 A big rugged cowboy with a deep baritone voice and a Balkan swagger, Mikelangelo could just as easily be singing Johnny Cash or Elvis Presley, but tonight we are being treated to the songs of Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen. A solo show in...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 6, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Nick Cave (Text Publishing) 2016, 115pp, RRP $24.99 Not a work of fiction like his And The Ass Saw The Angel and The Death Of Bunny Munro, this one-of-a-kind description of life on the road as only Nick Cave could experience it supposedly began life as a series of...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
David Cavanagh (Faber) 2015, 620pp, RRP $45.00 The cover of Cavanagh’s formidable tome comes with fond raves about beloved DJ, radio broadcaster, journalist and all-round-good-egg John Peel (1939 – 2004) from Jack White, Johnny Marr, Elvis Costello, Elton John,...
by Nikki Fort | Jun 12, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Music, Reviews
Banquet Room, Thu 11 Jun You just know that anything these two clever comedic musos put together is going to be mad, funny and a bit outrageous and The Narelles certainly deliver the goods. Making their ‘comeback’ after a long hiatus, the dubious band includes drummer...
by Nikki Fort | Jun 6, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
Space Theatre, Fri 5 Jun Edith Piaf and Angry Anderson had a love child and they called her Christa Hughes! Strutting her stuff in The Space last night, beer-swilling, leather squeezed Christa was saucy, sexy and sensational. Setting up the Ladies’ Lounge with her...