Music

Live: Reunion World Tour Brisbane: Riverstage 15.11.17 by Julian Lehnert Live is one of those band names that is just perfect for wordplay. When the band split in 2009 as a […]

MARVEL UP LATE Comic book aficionados, and fans of super heroes on the big screen, are well aware of the joys that Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe, the exhibition currently running

Jimmy Webb Brisbane Powerhouse 24.06.17 A capacity house turned up to see Jimmy Webb on the first night of his current Australian tour. One of the grand masters of twentieth

Adele The Gabba 04.03.2016 Not since Jeff Thomson opened the bowling from the Vulture Street end in 1975  has an entire city been so unified in events at the Gabba.

Who wouldn’t want to spend Valentine’s Day with Bruce Springsteen? This week, the citadel of rock and roll has temporarily relocated to Brisbane, Australia. The last time Bruce and the

BEN FOLDS and yMUSIC QPAC Concert Hall (Brisbane) 18.08.2016 Ben Folds knows that one of the secrets to creating new music, while maintaining your audience, and possibly expanding it, is

Glen Hansard QPAC 18.10.16 “Yeah, It’s a mighty long way down rock and roll/from the Liverpool Docks to the Hollywood Bowl”. Mott The Hoople sang that line on ‘All The

Of course the ‘Queen’ was late. Madonna’s tardiness has become the subtext of her Australian Rebel Heart tour. When this reviewer heard that fan club members had stood in the

ELTON JOHN BEC 08.12.2015 By his own recollection, this is Elton John’s seventeenth tour to Australia. He’s been coming here ever since he made it big in the 1970’s. Back

TAYLOR SWIFT Suncorp Stadium 05.12.2015 Taylor Swift is the undisputed global Queen of Pop. Tonight she played to 50 000 paying customers at Suncorp Stadium. The last time she played

AC/DC QSAC 12.11.2015 AC/DC are back on their Rock or Bust Tour and, again, they’re playing to big numbers all over the country. Tonight, the first of two show at

Fleetwood Mac Brisbane Entertainment Centre 10.11.2015 Wow – the expectation that hung in the air of the Brisbane Entertainment Centre was palpable. Sure, Fleetwood Mac have played Australia in semi-recent

Neil Diamond BEC 03.11.15 There’s no doubting Neil Diamond’s stature at the upper echelon of great songwriters and performers. This writer has been watching Diamond bring his mix of top

Robbie Williams Brisbane Entertainment Centre September 17. We live in an age when the word “brilliant” tends to be so overused that it loses any cache or true meaning. 41-year-old

William Shatner 11.09.2015 QPAC William Shatner began his current Australian tour playing to a full house in Brisbane. Dubbed Shatner’s World … We Just Live In It, the show sees

A State of Grace: The Music of Tim and Jeff Buckley QPAC 25.09.2015 You’d have to have balls of steel to produce a concert these days. Let’s face it, there’s

Two years ago Libby Munro set QTC alight with her part in David Ives’ Venus In Fur. ‘Set alight’ isn’t some naff metaphor. Literally, if the actress had turned it

AMERICA Jupiters 16.05.2015 America at Jupiters on the Gold Coast! You don’t get much more “Vegas on the GC” than that. The show room, which is very plush, is packed

SPANDAU BALLET BEC 13.05.2015 Spandau Ballet made their first, post-heyday return, to Australia about five years ago in the company of Tears For Fears. Then, the pairing made for a

Colin Hay 15.05.2015 Tivoli Ever since Men At Work drew stumps frontman Colin Hay steadily been building a solo career. When MAW were massive, with #1’s galore here and on

BACKSTREET’S BACK. “I need you to act like you’re 15 years old again tonight. Can you do it?” yelled Nick Carter. Let’s go back in time. Shall we? For anyone