by Adrian Miller | Mar 4, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ SA] The Grace Emily Hotel, Sun 3 Mar. There are a plethora of tribute bands in this year’s Fringe and Trafalgar are not even the only BeeGees tribute. Named after the BeeGees’ ninth album, Trafalgar’s point of difference is to focus on the classic songwriting...
by Robert Dunstan | Jul 19, 2018 | Interviews, Live Music, Music
by Robert Dunstan. Adelaide’s PlanB have been getting out and about in recent times, including much overseas touring, but many may not realise that the band have been a going concern, in some form or other, for 36 years now. Peter Flierl formed the band in 1982 from...
by Robert Dunstan | May 23, 2018 | Interviews, Music
by Robert Dunstan. It’s been 15 long years since Adelaide’s David Robinson, originally from Long Eaton in the UK, issued a solo offering and the singer songwriter, who also fronts the large ensemble PlanB, says the issue had become a bit of a running joke. “I was...
by David Robinson | Dec 12, 2016 | Live Music, Reviews
Thebarton Theatre, Sun 11 Dec. The Monkees (these days there’s just two of them that tour) are in town, as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. The well-behaved, calmly seated crowd awaits the start of their show at Thebarton Theatre. Peter Tork and Micky...
by Matt Saunders | Nov 12, 2016 | CDs, Reviews
Time Is A Diamond – PlanB Fresh from a tour of the UK, Adelaide eight-piece outfit PlanB have returned with a new album, Time Is A Diamond, and it’s loaded with party-ready anthems blending pop, rock, ska and much more. The follow-up to 2013’s Too Late The Hero...