by Michael Coghlan | Jan 1, 2017 | Live Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Sat 31 Dec. Dusty Springfield was born into a strict Catholic family as Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien. She was considered a plump and plain redhead with enough musical talent to accompany her older brother at family show and tells. Mary,...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Jon Bream (Voyageur Press) 2015, 240pp, RRP $39.99 Bream’s beautiful tome attempts to encompass Dylan’s vast body of often variable work, from 1962’s Bob Dylan to 2015’s inexplicable Shadows In The Night, with each album entry introduced by a cool description written...
by Michael Coghlan | Aug 3, 2015 | Live Music, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Sun 2 Aug The Beatles changed the world, with a lot of help from their friends. And incredibly they did it all in just eight short years between 1962 and 1970. Rubber Soul (1965) and Revolver (1966) represented a departure into more sophisticated...