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 | Jul 7, 2021 | Live Music
[MUSIC/Pop ~ AUS] by Ian Bell Ahhh the 1980s! For a long time the Eighties was referred to as the ‘decade that taste forgot’. The images of stone washed denim, massive hair, pirate shirts and ‘serious’ music fans in the ‘90s and ‘00s, scoffed at the hyper-pop, synth...
by Ian Bell | Apr 29, 2021 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ AUS] The Bridgeway Hotel, Sat 17 Apr, 2021. Back in what some might call ‘the day’ The Bridgeway was the place for bands to play. In the ‘70s and ‘80s everybody from Motorhead to Real Life played there. Tonight’s show is completely sold out and the line to...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 22, 2016 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Thebarton Theatre, Thu 21 Jul. The latest in a long, profitable and shamelessly joy-inducing list of ‘nostalgia circuit’ package tours, this particular gaggle of 80s pop stars hit the Thebby to the rabid delight of devoted fans, many of whom turned up in satin pants,...
