by Ian Bell | Mar 4, 2023 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ¬ AUS] Governor HIndmarsh Hotel, Fri 03 Mar, 2023 It’s been a good long while between albums by Tim Rogers & The Twin Set. What Rhymes With Cars & Girls came out in 1999 and this year the splendid Tines Of Stars Unfurled was rushed out a mere twenty...
by Ian Bell | Mar 3, 2023 | Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC] Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Wed 1 Mar, 2023. How is Teaches Of Peaches 20 years old (actually 23 years old)? That doesn’t seem right, or even possible! And yet here we are The 20thAnniversay tour of one of the most popular ‘alternative’ albums of the 2000s....
by Ian Bell | Mar 1, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2023, Comedy, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Comedy ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ UK] THE POPEYE, FEB 27, 2023 John Otway is not exactly a household name. I mean, he is in my house, but in general houses. Especially not in Australia. When I saw this show listed in the Fringe guide I initially thought “that’s...
by Ian Bell | Feb 27, 2023 | Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ UK] MARVEL STADIUM MELBOURNE, Sat 25 Feb, 2023. Tonight, the streets of Melbourne look like this weekend’s Pride celebrations were attended exclusively by multi-coloured chickens. The streets are strewn with multi-coloured feathers that have malted from the...
by Ian Bell | Feb 27, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2023, Cabaret, Comedy, Interviews, Live Music
[CABARET/Jazz ~ SA] by Ian Bell Adelaide’s Zooma Zooma is keeping the music of Louis Prima alive! Louis Prima was a super hep cat. Born in 1910 and by the time he was twenty the American Italian was playing New Orleans style jazz. In the 1930s he fronted a swing...
