by Adrian Miller | Feb 17, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ ADELAIDE FRINGE PREMIERE ~ AUS] The Jade, Fri 16 Feb, 2024. As The Jade begins to fill it is clear that there will be more than the eight people Charles Jenkins feared would be the total audience. (Did he bring enough merch?) To begin with it is just him on...
by Adrian Miller | Mar 7, 2022 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2022, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
[CABARET/Music ~ SA] The Jade, Sun 6 Mar. The Fat Man Of Love is Harry van Venetie, who is on stage looking more like Groucho Marx than Tom Waits, which is appropriate because he likes to keep the jokes coming, along with the theatrics that are also a part of Tom...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 6, 2022 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2022, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
[CABARET/Music ~ AUS] The Garage International @ Adelaide Town Hall, Sat 5 Mar. Tom Waits’ trademarks were a rasping vocal style from somewhere deep down in the bowels of the soul, semi-spoken rambling narratives put to music detailing the life of the down and out, a...
by Catherine Blanch | Jun 17, 2019 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[WORLD PREMIERE ~ AUS ~ IF YOU LOVE… A CURVE BALL] The Famous Spiegeltent, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 16 Jun. Within the intimate walls of The Famous Spiegeltent on a brisk Sunday evening at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the stage fills with a collective of...
by Janine Spearpoint | Feb 18, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2019, Burlesque, Cabaret, Reviews
Gluttony – Wonderland Spiegeltent, Sat 16 Feb. [CABARET/BURLESQUE ~ VIC] Hosted by Tash York, she introduces after hours, anything goes, nothing’s too weird, naked or WTF. Accompanied by a five piece jazz band, Tash sings an impressive complement of songs while the...