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History Repeats After All. "The Finn Brothers". Entertainment Centre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-12-10)There is a sense of full circle here. Who said our beginnings never know our Enz? Neil and Tim Finn are touring a new album, ripe with harmony and turbid with memory. On stage at the Ent Centre, the flickering home movie ... -
Goat Leg Soup. "Muse". Thebarton Theatre [Review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-09-28)It is only eight months since we saw UK band Muse at Big Day Out, but now they are back with more fans and a lot more fanfare. Their stocks have risen with the release of their latest album, Absolution, a recent tour with ... -
Getting the Band Back Together. "Cream at the Royal Albert Hall, London" [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-05-27)When it was first announced in the English press that the 1960s cult group Cream was reforming for four nights at the Royal Albert Hall there was an outpouring, you might say, of dairy metaphors. Would they be as fresh as ... -
Kelly Rides With New Gang. "Paul Kelly". Her Majesty's Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-06)I like Paul Kelly to stay the same and tend to get tetchy when he changes things around, especially when he tinkers with his band line-up. I couldn’t see why he had to shoot the Messengers or why he would hire hotshot ... -
Jumping Joe Looks Sharp. "Joe Jackson (with Joe Camilleri and Bakelite Radio)". Thebarton Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-10)For the Thebarton show, Joe Camilleri and his fellow Bakelite Radio members, guitarist Claude Carranza and bass player Steve Starr, open the proceedings with an excellent set featuring all the Jo Jo moves from Poor Boy ... -
Running on Plenty. "Jackson Browne". Festival Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-05)Fourteen guitars - all in a row. The show is billed as solo acoustic but it looks like the set up for the Eagles. Jackson Browne admits it is “obnoxious” for one person to have quite so many instruments but, he confides, ... -
Audio with Pictures. "Music DVDs" [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-06)The arrival of the DVD has been rapid in Australia. We are well-known for our speedy take-up of new technology but the saturation of the market by the digital versatile disc has been particularly swift even by our standards. ... -
Remaining in Light. "David Byrne". Norwood Concert Hall [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-03-04)Talking Heads, as their name suggests, were very much a high concept band and, like other Seventies exponents of art pop such as Devo and Kraftwerk, their’s was a studied, highly theatrical persona. So it is not just ... -
Back to Beguinnings. "Roger McGuinn". Governor Hindmarsh [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-07)I first heard of Roger McGuinn when he was known as Jim. He was the serious young ectomorph in the houndstooth coat and little black lozenge spectacles on the cover of the first Byrds album. Foppish in their American Carnaby ... -
New Works for New Audiences. Recent Releases on CD. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2002-01)It has just been another outstanding year for Paul Kelly. He has released no less than four albums, each of them indicative of the rich variety of his gift. "…Nothing But a Dream" (EMI) is his latest studio work, full of ... -
A Revival by Any Other Name. Bonnie “Prince” Billy. Governor Hindmarsh. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-10-15)The last time I saw Bonnie “Prince” Billy was at the Tivoli at the beginning of 1998. He was trading under the name of Will Oldham then and, like Will Robinson, another of his aliases, he was a little lost in space. It was ... -
Opposites Attract. "The Dissociatives". Thebarton Theatre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-07)The link between Daniel Johns and dance mensch Paul Mac is both surprising and entirely likely - even if they are half a generation apart, and one comes from teenage grunge, and the other from the Very Cool end of the ... -
You Can (Still) Get Anything You Want …. Arlo Guthrie. Norwood Concert Hall. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-07)There is something irrepressibly good-natured about Arlo Guthrie and he’s been like that for forty years. Opening with "Chilling of the Evening", one of his earliest folk rock songs, he follows with a string band ditty ... -
Distant Light Shines Brightly. Alex Lloyd. Heaven II. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-12)The Heaven set strongly favours the new CD. The title track, Distant Light follows, with Felix Bloxsom’s choppy drum intro curving into those close vocal harmonies - it won’t be long, a Lennon McCartney mantra with ... -
Parallel Worlds. "Blondie". Thebarton Theatre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-09)Video may have killed some radio stars but it was the absolute making of Blondie. From their first appearance in 1977 at the height of the Punk and New Wave incursions, this New York pop band not only made their mark but ... -
Heart in the Highlands. Bob Dylan with Paul Kelly. Entertainment Centre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-04)This time he blew in from the West. Still on the Neverending Tour, and back in Australia - three years on, and sixth time round - Bob Dylan has turned his Sisyphean treadmill into a victory lap. -
Return Journey. Emmylou Harris with Buddy Miller and Kasey Chambers. Thebarton Theatre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-05)Emmylou Harris is surely one of the true Daughters of the American Revolution. And she has been at the centre of not just one, but several, musical insurrections. Teaming up with producer Daniel Lanois, she co-wrote new ... -
Go-Betweens Get Back Their Mojo. "The Go-Betweens". Governor Hindmarsh. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-07)The Go-Betweens are having a new golden age - not only with strong current material, but a lineup that is nimble, thrifty and as appealing as any around. ... Listen to the encores - The Clock, Spring Rain, Was There Anything ... -
Single Bill. Billy Bragg with Dave Graney Show. Norwood Concert Hall. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-11)The prospect of The Dave Graney Show on the same card as Billy Bragg made this event doubly appealing. But I am sorry to report Mr Graney ‘s opening set is a disappointment. On stage and nearing the end of his solo tour, ... -
Blind Faith Up Close and Personal. "The Blind Boys of Alabama". Governor Hindmarsh. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-05)In Adelaide for a second time are The Blind Boys of Alabama, the gospel singing group founded in 1939 and enjoying considerable chic since moving several years ago to Peter Gabriel’s Real Music label and collaborating with ...
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