THE CARAVAN MOVES ON!
By Brian Wise A Goodbye To The Caravan Club , Archie’s Creek Hotel, Sunday March 31, 2024 ‘The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on,’ Paul Keating once famously remarked and, after five years […]
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Elvis Costello: Rusty Never Sleeps!
By Brian Wise. Elvis Costello has returned to Australia for Bluesfest and sideshows but last year he released an album of songs he used to play as DP McManus with his friend Allan Mayes 50 […]
Rickie Lee Jones: Jazzing It Up (Touring This Week And Appearing At Bluesfest)
By Brian Wise. Last year when we spoke to Rickie Lee Jones about her beautiful Russ Titelman produced jazz album Pieces of Treasure she wasn’t feeling embraced by the larger jazz community. Festival and club […]
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Womadelaide – Hot Weather and Hotter Music!
Review by Chris Lambie. Photos by Rob Sferco. WOMADELAIDE 2024 – Botanic Park / Tainmuntilla, Adelaide, South Australia. March 8-11 WOMAD – A World of Music, Art and Dance. A world of sanctuary within our […]
Jim Moginie’s Memoir: The Silver River
Reviewed by Bernard Zuel. JIM MOGINIE The Silver River (Harper Collins) There are many things in this book, by Midnight Oil’s founding member/songwriter/guitarist, could be called, but one that does not and never was intended […]
Teenage Fanclub @ The Croxton, Saturday March 9, 2024
By Nick Corr. Images by Michael Mackenzie Great sold out show for Scotland’s Teenage Fanclub at The Croxton bandroom drawing heavily from their most recent albums. The current line-up of Teenage Fanclub features founding members […]
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Port Fairy Folk Festival 2024 – Tony Hillier’s Review
OCTOGENARIANS TO THE FORE AT PORT FAIRY Having performed in Cairns-based bands at Port Fairy Folk Festival on four occasions (once with Snake Gully and thrice with Kamerunga), senior Rhythms scribe TONY HILLIER returned to […]
Dave Hole Announces Dates In Victoria!
Dave Hole, Australia’s premier internationally successful bluesman and highly acclaimed slide guitar virtuoso, is playing a rare run of Victorian shows this month. Widely regarded as one of the all-time greats, Dave Hole’s playing is […]
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World Party’s Karl Wallinger R.I.P.
Karl Wallinger, Welsh-born frontman of World Party and former member of the Waterboys, died on Sunday, March 10, according to a statement from his publicist. No cause of death was announced. He was 66. Wallinger […]