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August 05, 2005

Paul Kelly – For the Record

Filed under: Archive,Music

2005

In Adelaide for the Foggy Highway Bluegrass Tour, Paul Kelly talks to Murray Bramwell about recent projects.

The A-Z Solo Concerts

They were the opposite of a retrospective for me. I had to do some shows in the Spiegeltent in Melbourne last December and I wanted to do something special. It was always going to be mainly solo. I had one of those middle-of-the-night ideas – four nights, a hundred songs, A-Z with no repeats. Then I realised,  God, …

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August 01, 2005

Paul Kelly – Q and A

Filed under: Archive,Music

2005

On the present band The Stormwater Boys

There are a lot of old connections in this band. Jim Fisher who plays mandolin comes from Perth and he and Ian Simpson, the banjo player are in the Sensitive New Age Cowpersons. All these Perth connections weave in and out of my life. I went to WA in late 1975 with my cousin. We were going to work in the mines but I got involved in the music scene there and …

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July 22, 2005

Crime and Penitence

2005

Frozen
by Bryony Lavery
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Space, Festival Centre
6 July. Until 23 July, 2005

Murray Bramwell

Whenever we wonder about the nature of human nature we invariably turn to criminal behaviour, especially that of predatory serial killers, for speculation and explanation. Are such crimes, especially against children, proof of the existence of evil, or are they manifestations of derangement and illness ? And how do our judicial processes – and our personal moral reckonings …

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July 08, 2005

Cold comfort after difficult journey

7 July, 2005
Murray Bramwell

Frozen
by Bryony Lavery

State Theatre Company of South Australia.
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre.
6 July. Tickets $ 16.70 – $ 49.
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 23 July, 2005

Are terrible crimes, such as those of serial killers, a proof of evil or an extreme aberration ? And how, judicially and personally, do we deal with such events ? How do we reconcile outrage with a need to understand and, even, to forgive …

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Cabaret Funnies – Fond and Furious

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

iBob
Bob Downe

We Don’t have Husbands
The Kransky Sisters

The Big Con
Max Gillies and Eddie Perfect

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2005
Festival Centre

Murray Bramwell

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, in part, arose from the need to separate from the avalanche of stand-up comedy that dominates the Fringe. However, there has been no shortage of funny business in the Festival Centre recently in a program that has included the CNNNN jokers, Sandman and Flacco, Wil Anderson – and Bob Downe.…

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July 01, 2005

Horse Opera

Midnite
An Opera created by Raffaele Marcellino
and Doug McLeod based on the novel by Randolph Stow

Windmill Productions and OzOpera in association
with State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse
5 July. 2005

Murray Bramwell

Randolph Stow’s zany bushranger story, Midnite, is a very likely choice for a theatre work for children. Along with his quirky companions – Khat the talking Siamese pussycat, Major the cockatoo and Red Ned his trusty steed – Midnite (spelt that way , …

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June 13, 2005

Top drawer program

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

12 June
Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2005

Cabaret

Murray Bramwell

I Protest!
Robyn Archer, Paul Grabowsky and the Agitators
Space Theatre,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
10 June

Paul Kelly A-Z
10 June
Space Theatre
Until 15 June. Bookings BASS 131 246
Tickets $ 42 – $ 50

Australia’s Leading Ladies
Festival Theatre,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
11 June.

It must be a portent that Adelaide’s drought broke the same day that the fifth Cabaret Festival opened. It is clear that this annual fixture …

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June 02, 2005

Hammerklaviers of the Gods

Filed under: Archive,Music

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Thebarton Theatre
18 May

Murray Bramwell

I last saw Nick Cave perform in 1994. It was the time of Let Love In and a slew of songs of almost impossible density and menace. Loverman, Red Right Hand and (I found her on a night of fire and noise ) the fanged and tangled, jingle jangle of Do You Love Me ? – surely, one of the scariest questions ever posed in recent popular music. …

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May 27, 2005

Getting the Band Back Together

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Cream
Royal Albert Hall, London
5 May

Murray Bramwell

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 they were thirty seven years ago ? Would the old enmities between members sour the occasion ? Would they blend, or remain somehow colloidal ? Would they prove to be …

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May 13, 2005

Stepping Up at the Bakehouse

One Small Step
by Heather Nimmo

Bakehouse Theatre
Angas Street
28 May, 2005

Murray Bramwell

It is often said that if the shoe fits we have to wear it – or is it the bed we have lie in ? At any rate, in Heather Nimmo’s good-natured monodrama, One Small Step, the central character, Regina, a machinist in a footwear factory is ready to give everything the boot. A live-wire sheila with two children – teenager Sinbad and pre-schooler Angel …

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