by David Robinson | Dec 13, 2019 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC – UK] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Thu 12 Dec, 2019. The Gov’s main room is gently filling, mostly with middle-aged men. Tonight’s show is from the highly regarded outfit known as The Sex Pistols Experience, paying tribute to the band of similar...
by Michael Coghlan | Jun 22, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Wed 21 Jun. All a review of The Sound Of Falling Stars really needs to do is tell you that if you like popular music from the last 40 years then you must go and see it. Shows this good don’t come around very often – it simply excels in every...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 23, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Ian Lowey and Suzy Prince (Bloomsbury Academic) 2014, 272pp, RRP $59.99 Inspired by a series of lectures they delivered at Manchester’s Cornerhouse cinema and gallery in 2012, Lowey and Prince’s study of key youth and pop-cultural movements since the 1950s, and the...
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...
