by Dave Bradley | Feb 19, 2016 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, G, 507 Mins The box of this sweet four DVD set suggests that that the Rolling Stones are one of the greatest rock bands of all time, and after watching more than 12 hours of them strutting their stuff onstage you’ll have to agree. The quartet of discs here are…...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon (Black Dog & Leventhal) 2015, 703pp, RRP $60.00 While there have been formidable books studying the prolific output of the great and oh-so-difficult Bob Dylan before (such as Dylan: Disc By Disc earlier this year),...
by Nikki Fort | Jun 19, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
ArtSpace, Thu 18 Jun Lionel Bart was an amazing composer. Unable to read or write music and never formally trained, he composed some of the most famous music of our time, including the hugely successful stage show Oliver! Phil Scott’s one-man show is packed full of...
by Dave Bradley | May 10, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Richard King (Faber & Faber) 2015, 252pp, RRP $35.00 King’s memoir of an early ‘90s time when he was a regular customer of indie record shop Revolver in Bristol and, later, an employee, seeks to evoke a whole recently-lost period before the internet and Amazon and...
by David Robinson | Apr 25, 2015 | Interviews, Music, Theatre
by David Robinson. As a founding member of one of Australia’s first supergroups, Athol Guy knows what it’s like to scale the heights of music industry success. The Seekers took their sound to the world, where it was accepted almost universally by the record-buying...