Category: Reviews

Fringe frolics: week 1

Adelaide Fringe Reviews 2018 INDIGO’S PIANOLYMPICS – CHOIR OF MAN – DAVE AND MIKE DO CASH AND DYLAN – LORD OF THE STRINGS! RETURNS With a whole month of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, there are going to be heaps of reviews appearing here. My first experience of this year’s Fringe was Indigo’s Pianolympics at The

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Brissie bandrooms

Lefties Old Tyme Music Hall, Brisbane

Reminiscing the retro A trip to Brisbane  presented the opportunity to sample a couple of new (to me) live music venues: Leftie’s Old Time Music Hall and Sonny’s House of Blues. Leftie’s Old Time Music Hall, in the shadow of the Suncorps Stadium, is exactly as described- offering old time good times with its rum featured Mermaid Bar

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Window to the sky

The venue felt and looked like someone’s back yard. I think it was someone’s back yard. A makeshift bar offered such drinks as “chapange” and “charbonay.” A small stage area had been constructed and the sound system sounded “bespoke.” After a hot, hot day  when the mercury had been pushed to its limits, the trees stressed

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