by Adrian Miller | Mar 15, 2025 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2025, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Tribute/Cover Band ~ SA] The Jade, Fri 14 Mar, 2025. Full disclosure: this reviewer is a fully-fledged Magazine tragic! Endless nights of living alone in a maisonette in Forestville listening to the likes of Magazine, XTC, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello and The...
by Ian Bell | Nov 15, 2022 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Metal/Rock ~ SWEDEN] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel. Mon 14 Nov, 2022. Well Adelaide, once again, you missed a good one. I say that with some conviction because most of you were not there. Swedish rockers Hardcore Superstar took to the stage of The Gov on Monday...
by Catherine Tune | Jun 20, 2022 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
[CABARET ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ Aoteoroa/NZ] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 18 Jun. Hayden Tee can wow an audience with his velvet voice. After years of performing in musicals such as Les Misérables and Matilda he knows how to milk the layers in his...
by Catherine Tune | Jun 18, 2022 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
[CABARET ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ AUS] Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sat 17 Jun. I was aware that Meow Meow has performed in Adelaide many times to consistent acclaim, but had never managed to see her shows before. Tonight’s performance accompanied by the Adelaide Symphony...
by Natasha Pearce | Jul 6, 2021 | Book, Interviews
[BOOK ~ AUS] by Natasha Pearce. With his debut novel, The Miscreants, Christopher Hawkes follows two brothers into a precarious adulthood that is charged with wreckage, risk and volatility. Hawkes has said that, for him, The Miscreants is about ‘a longing for...