25 Oct 2019
Hatchie: Live @ Jive + BAD//DREEMS DJ SET + Gauci ~ Live Review
Oh sportsball, why do you so often get in the way of me getting to gigs? Tonight’s fiasco involved a snail’s pace crawl on sort of the right route before a…
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13 Oct 2019
Melbourne Ska Orchestra @ The Gov: Easy Skankers ~ Live Review
There’s a decent-sized crowd at The Gov from quite early on tonight. There are very few tables set out on the upper level, an indicator that ticket sales for…
27 Sept 2019
Big Country: Steeltown Comes To Town ~ Live Review
David Bowie’s The Laughing Gnome is the song chosen to welcome one of Scotland’s finest, Big Country, onto the Gov stage. There must be a story to that. After a…
25 Sept 2019
From The Jam: Sell Out! ~ Live Review
After performing memorable concerts in 2008 and 2016, From The Jam celebrate their third visit to Adelaide with a full house at The Gov. Sell-outs have been…
22 Sept 2019
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox Welcome to the Twenties 2.0 Tour ~ Live Review
Postmodern Jukebox began in Scott Bradlee’s basement – he had a vision for arranging popular contemporary songs to make them sound as though they were from the…
16 Sept 2019
Ed Kuepper: The Way He Makes Us Feel ~ Live Review
Ed Kuepper is back on tour, and tonight it is Adelaide’s turn to experience the latest iteration of the great man’s music. Kuepper’s gigs always offer something…
19 Aug 2019
Riding The Nightmare: Wednesday 13 Walks Through The Necrophaze ~ Interview.
“American shock rockers Wednesday 13 prepare to unleash their latest album Necrophaze to their horror-stricken fans. Produced by Michael Spreitzer of…
2 Aug 2019
Russell Copelin: Living The Life Of The One Man Frontier Band… A Voice From Alaska ~ Blog #2
What can I say? The sun is high and circling, the gigs are back to back, and there is a 20,000+ acre fire burning on the next hill over from my seven-acre…
1 Aug 2019
The Doors Alive: Absolutely! ~ Live Review
It’s a sold-out show at The Gov tonight, where the masses have assembled to get as close as they can to a live performance from the late, lamented Doors. The…
26 July 2019
London Calling: Yes I Was There Too! ~ Live Review
As the cinematic theme from The Magnificent Seven fades, the four musicians from Bristol that comprise the ersatz Clash walk out onto the stage. ‘Joe’ asks the…
8 July 2019
Stars @ The Gov: Iconic Never Grows Old ~ Live Review
Back in the caveman days of the 1970s, Australia was an isolated market. There was no internet or satellite TV and music magazines took three months to get here…
7 July 2019
The Tea Party @ HQ: Leading Us All Into Temptation ~ Live Review
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…