by David Robinson | Mar 8, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
Speakers’ Corner Stage, WOMADelaide, Sat Mar 7 A crowd gently gathers around the Speakers’ Corner stage. It’s early in the WOMADelaide day, and many are still recovering from their Friday night exertions. To warm applause, Emma Swift & Robyn Hitchcock are...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 7, 2015 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Fri Feb 6 The Searchers’ concert was always going to be a walk down memory lane. First formed in 1959 and responsible for a half dozen or so mega hits in the sixties, The Searchers are still performing to packed houses around the world 55 years...
by Michael Coghlan | Jan 18, 2015 | Interviews, Music
by Michael Coghlan. It’s been fifty years since Love Potion No. 9 stormed up the hit parades (remember them?) in the US and Australia. It was one of a string of hits that made The Searchers a household name in the ‘60s. Fifty years on and these boys from Liverpool are...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 17, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Rick Bragg (A&U Canongate) 2014, 498pp, RRP $32.99 Journalist, author and academic Bragg’s formidable tome about Lewis (or ‘Jerry Lee’, but never ‘Jerry’ and especially never ‘Jerry Lewis’) and his life story is written like a steamy, Southern-fried novel, and...
by Catherine Blanch | Sep 17, 2014 | Interviews, Music, Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. During the ‘60s and the political turmoil, Australian troops were sent to fight alongside the Americans in the Vietnam War. The nights in the jungle were hot and stormy; boys were forced to be men; no one was saved from fear; letters of love and...