Review – Joanne Shaw Taylor
Joanne Shaw Taylor loves guitar, and you can tell. Her influences include Jimi Hendrix and she’s played with BB King, and you can tell.
Category: Music
Review – Dimitra
With her twangy character-filled rock voice, Dimitra is an Australian answer to 90s Alanis Morissette and 70s Bonnie Tyler.
Review – Flanders and Swann
“Mud Mud Glorious Mud” and “Gnu” were freakin’ top of the pops between sixty and seventy years ago but they hold up well over time as completely ridiculous songs.
Review – Every Breath – The Music of Sting
The show is called Every Breath – The Music of Sting and I guess this led me down the garden path of false expectations. Those expectations being, songs of Sting in his life as the front man of The Police.
Review – The Ray Charles Experience
Melvin Brown provides The Ray Charles Experience with backing from a gutsy little band that rock the house down as they support the tap-dancing star through a couple of hours of non-stop entertainment
Review – Love in the Key of Britpop
This was absolutely nothing like I expected and the surprise was a great one. I absolutely love the writing of this piece.
Review – Suicide Songs for the Ukulele
You’d be forgiven for expecting a night of macabre ditties from a show named “Suicide Songs of the Ukelele”. Original songs of dark thoughts and personal pain, contrasted with the upbeat tinniness of a uke.
Review – Soursob Bob
Soursob Bob’s opening Fringe gig fell on a 38 degree day, and the venue – a quirky little space tucked underneath Suzie Wong’s Room – was swelteringly warm, but it mattered not as the performance delivered by Bob and violinist Emma Luker was even warmer.
Review – Elephant
Touring their second album: ‘L’, New South Welsh trio Elephant have brought their mammoth sound to the Ed Castle for the Fringe – and they are not messing around.
Review – 4 Decades of Dance with Driller
If you want a solid night of booty-shaking, at the bargain basement price of $13 a ticket, you can’t go past 4 Decaces of Dance.
Review – Taylor Made
A group of Adelaide musicians lead by Luke Thompson, play some of James Taylor’s (the original JT) most popular songs, chronologically listing details of his personal life and professional successes.
Review – Kim Churchill
He’ll make you want to take your clothes off. Kim Churchill is a beautiful man inside and out, and backs it up with some mighty good talent.
Review – Live and Let Die: A Night with James Bond
Make your way down to the quieter side of the city this weekend and join vocalists Grant Pearson and Jacqui Yeo along with three piece band the Secret Agents in an evening of aural and visual delight as they celebrate all things Bond, James Bond.
Review – Tears, Beers & Beautiful Girls: A Musical Survival Guide
At first glance it might seem that this pair would have no need for a survival guide to love, however there is a sincerity in their emotions throughout the performance which is really refreshing.
Review – WolfWolf
If you’re going to see this guy, which you totally should, I recommend getting a crowd together first. A big crowd. And make sure you have a bar nearby. And now you can properly enjoy the not-quite-deejay sounds of Wolfwolf as he mashes together all your favourite future funk tracks.
