by Natasha Pearce | Jul 6, 2021 | Book, Interviews
[BOOK ~ AUS] by Natasha Pearce. With his debut novel, The Miscreants, Christopher Hawkes follows two brothers into a precarious adulthood that is charged with wreckage, risk and volatility. Hawkes has said that, for him, The Miscreants is about ‘a longing for...
by Ian Bell | Mar 9, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews, WOMADelaide 2021
[WORLD MUSIC ~ AUS] King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina, Mon 8 Mar. Midnight Oil and the First Nation Collaborators, The Teskey Brothers, Siberian Tiger. It occurred to me last night that I have been going to see Midnight Oil pretty consistently for four decades. They...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Mar 8, 2020 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2020, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Rock ~ SA PREMIERE ~ SA] Kelly’s Room at Clovercrest Hotel, Sat 8 Mar. T.REXoz kicked off the show with a faithful tribute to Marc Bolan and T.Rex, pioneers of the UK ‘70s Glam Rock movement. There was the wild permed hair, glam sequinned jackets, fluffy...
by Ian Bell | Mar 5, 2020 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2020, Interviews, Live Music
[MUSIC/Electronic ~ INT] by Ian Bell. Do you know what is weird? Interviewing somebody you have known for over thirty years. You have to keep getting back on topic when the temptation is to just shoot the breeze, talk about your kids and whatnot. I first met Simon...
by Luke Balzan | Jul 7, 2019 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/ROCK ~ CAN] HQ, Adelaide, Sun 30 Jun, 2019. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had the pleasure of seeing The Tea Party and/or Jeff Martin in one of his musical guises, but despite being very familiar with their live set, it’s always a thorough...