Peter Maddern

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RAW: Volcano Cloud – Virgin On A Customer PR Debacle

Bottom line, Virgin and the other airlines just don’t care. You are number to be tolerated, Basil Fawlty style, until it make sense to stuff you around for their own gain.

RAW: Gay Marriage – Qld Conf Adds Pressure To Gillard

There seems to be an underlying fear that the more socially acceptable you make homosexuality, the more homosexuals there will be.

RAW: Cabaret Festival – Josie In The Bathhouse – 2.5K

Men in towels. There really are worse sights to see on a freezing Adelaide winter Friday night. 2.5K

RAW: Cabaret Fringe – A Night of Dangerous Liasons, The Prom – 4K

A celebration of powerful femininity. 4K

RAW: Cabaret Festival – Freeway – The Chet Baker Journey – 4K

This is top flight cabaret, not without risk to present a tribute in such a mirrored way for both Draxl and McNelis but both succeed admirably.

RAW: Cabaret Fringe – Comedy Hypnosis – Higher Ground – 3K

A unique and amusing experience for the audience too, this is an evening out well worth the admission price. 3K

RAW: Cabaret Festival – Chita Rivera’s My Broadway

Ms Rivera exudes a vibrancy and happiness while performing which it is absolutely impossible not to enjoy. Dressed simply but elegantly in a flattering red dress with matching, sparkly shoes, Chita lit up the stage as she shimmied, kicked and spun her way through her set. 4K

RAW: Cabaret Festival – Leo Sayer – 4.5K

The little Englishman, now happily resident in Sydney, was in great form on the first of four nights at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. 4.5K

RAW: The Wyrd Sisters – Bakehouse – Til 25th June – 3.5K

For a nice take on the rotten world we live in, with all our cunning vanities and other assorted failings, Wyrd Sisters makes for an enjoyable evening by a fine and (mostly) young cast. 3.5K

RAW: Soundwave Interview – Young Guns

The Young Guns are a band who have enjoyed a rare fast track to success and I spoke to frontman Gustav about his band.