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 Ian Bell | Nov 1, 2022 | Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Pop ~ UK] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Fri 30 Oct 2022 There is a weird thing that happens at gigs like tonight’s show by Thompson Twins front man Tom Bailey. I see a bunch of people that only exist in my world at this sort of ’’80s tour. Oh there is that...
by Ian Bell | Nov 28, 2019 | Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Pop ~ AUS/UK] Thebarton Theatre, Wed 27 Nov, 2019. Y’know, in the ‘90s, the ‘00s and the ‘10s, people would often refer to the 1980s as the decade that taste forgot. The fashion was mocked, the hairstyles ridiculed and the music dismissed as disposable, synth...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 28, 2014 | Books, Entertainment, Reviews
Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum with Jeff Jenkins (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 457pp, RRP $39.99 Originally mooted by ‘Molly’ back in 1979, this non-chronological autobiography by a true Aussie music legend isn’t exactly beautifully written (he thanks Jenkins at the end for cleaning...
