Music

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

Ricky Martin/Delta Goodrem Brisbane Entertainment Centre 28.04.2015 With Townsville behind him, Ricky Martin hit Brisbane for the big city debut of his One World 2015 tour. And – wow –

John Farnham/Olivia Newton-John Brisbane Entertainment Centre 14.04.2015 If you’ve seen a great show there’s always one particular moment that stays with you. This show had several. Before we start with

Rod Stewart/James Reyne 07.04.2015 Brisbane Entertainment Centre This is a show of two halves. Rod Stewart is the big name on the marquee. James Reyne is the ‘support’ act. Reyne

Kylie Minogue Brisbane Entertainment Centre 21.03.15 By the time Giorgio Moroder walked to his wheels of steel,  the dance floor at the foot of stage was packed. The video screens

ROXETTE Brisbane Entertainment Centre Feb 10 2015 Three years (almost) to the day since Roxette hit our shores in what was clearly a celebration beyond all others and here we

The Eagles Brisbane Entertainment Centre 10.03.2015 It’s their third trip to Australia since ‘hell froze over’ in the mid-90’s. This time around the Eagles are presenting their History of the

Drake Brisbane Entertainment Centre  05.03.2015 Australian audiences have been made to wait 6 long years for Drake’s maiden voyage down under. It’s not a great deal of time in what

The Veronicas. Sanctified Tour. Brisbane City Hall.  Sat 21st Feb, 2015. Tonight the Veronicas rocked Brisbane City Hall on the final show of their Australian Sanctified tour. Seven years between

One Direction, Suncorp Stadium 11.02.2015 Two weeks ago this writer spotted a One Direction annual in the aisles of a discount bookstore and assumed the bubble has burst. They’d been

LAMB The Tivoli. 10.02.2015 WAITING In line at the box office for tonight’s LAMB gig, three immaculately groomed young men discuss how they are really looking forward to tonight’s performance

  Darren Middleton and Guy Pearce. Cremorne Theatre QPAC. Brisbane. 12.02.2015 When I first saw that Guy Pearce and Darren Middleton were playing shows together,  I was immediately intrigued. The

Guy Sebastian Madness Tour- Sat 14th Feb BEC.   The Brisbane Entertainment Centre was in intimate mode for Guy Sebastian’s stop on his Madness tour. A cross section of kids and teenagers,

John Legend 08.12.2014   Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. By Craig L Thomson Sometimes you get a venue that perfectly fits an artist. Tonight, John Legend and the Brisbane Convention

Tori Amos November 21st QPAC. Words:  Craig L Thomson. Tonight at QPAC The Lion King is playing in the Lyric theatre whilst Tori Amos is playing in the Concert Hall.

Joe Satriani The Tivoli  04.11.14 A capacity crowd of mainly men, and the occasional dutiful wife or girlfriend, swells the Tivoli tonight to hear some guitar playing from Joe Satriani. From

The Church Further/Deeper Tour The Old Museum-Brisbane, Saturday 1 November 2014. Mingling amongst the crowd outside the Old Museum, the topic of conversation falls to what will be on tonight’s

Robbie Williams 23.09.2014 Brisbane Entertainment Centre Robbie Williams Swings Both Ways! I gasped as I read the headline, but then again weren’t we all kind of expecting it? Kind of like

Justin Timberlake: 20/20 Experience Tour 26.09.2014 Brisbane Entertainment Centre Justin Timberlake returned to Brisbane at the top of his game. Playing two nights at the Entertainment Centre: this was a

Queen with Adam Lambert Brisbane Entertainment Centre 01.09.2014 Pomp, circumstance and a heavy dose of seventies style jamming were in abundance as Queen lit up the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Playing

Lady Gaga made her Australian debut in Brisbane only a few short years ago (five in fact), opening for the Pussycat Dolls. The Dolls were on the way out and

Bob Dylan Brisbane Convention Centre 26.08.2014 The bard himself performed in Brisbane on Monday night to around 2,500 paying customers. In the last quarter of a century Dylan has played

Flash back to 1997. I’ve most likely got an Adidas twin set on, Kenan and Kel are most likely on the television, I’m most likely drinking Ribena and the only