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June 16, 2003

Adelaide Cabaret

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

16/17 June, 2003
Murray Bramwell

All Het Up
Banquet Room
Adelaide Festival Centre
until 14 June

Hymne a Piaf
Caroline Nim
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre
until 15 June

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival still has a week to go and the newly refitted Festival Centre is jumping – as well it might hosting 400 artists and 152 performances over just seventeen nights. With a program including crooners, comics, smooth jazz exponents, a mind reader, even a techno-haka group, the Festival …

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June 01, 2003

Audio with Pictures

Filed under: Archive,Music

2003

Music DVDs reviewed by Murray Bramwell

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. Probably it is due to the fact that  DVD players, which cost upwards of seven hundred dollars three years ago, now cost less than a quarter of that now. And Dolby digital sound systems …

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Heart in the Highlands

Filed under: Archive,Music

Bob Dylan
with Paul Kelly

Entertainment Centre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

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. At least, that is the report of messengers, posting news of sightings and setlists on Bill Pagel’s Boblinks website. The intelligence has been promising since his European dates last year. England had …

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