by Matt Saunders | Jun 18, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 16 Jun. Live music is unique in that it can be experienced in many contexts, often governed by genre and intended audience, and those contexts dictate the experience of seeing a singer-songwriter: there’s the...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
David Cavanagh (Faber) 2015, 620pp, RRP $45.00 The cover of Cavanagh’s formidable tome comes with fond raves about beloved DJ, radio broadcaster, journalist and all-round-good-egg John Peel (1939 – 2004) from Jack White, Johnny Marr, Elvis Costello, Elton John,...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Stanley Donwood (Faber) 2014, 172pp, RRP $39.99 Artist Donwood (best-known for designing album covers for Radiohead including OK Computer, which is why Thom Yorke offers the amusing promotional quote on the back cover) here offers a selection of often awfully dark and...