Best entertainers in Glenelg

Glenelg gets the whole Adelaide list at the end of the tram line: the reviewed ten at the top are city acts, the tram from the city runs to Moseley Square in about half an hour and a band's van does Anzac Highway in less, so the distance on the cards is a formality. Cover bands, duos, wedding bands, singers, soloists and party bands make up the pool, in roughly that order. The catch with Glenelg is never the act; it's Jetty Road in summer, when the foreshore is full, the parking is gone by lunchtime and a five-piece trying to unload at six on a Saturday is fighting the whole of Adelaide for a kerb.

Most Glenelg functions are indoors, which surprises people who picture the jetty. The foreshore has more function rooms and hotel spaces per block than anywhere else on the coast, and those rooms mostly come with a house sound system, a stage of some kind and a manager who knows the noise limit. Tell the act which room, and whether they're plugging into the venue's gear or bringing their own, because that changes the quote more than the beach does. A ceremony on the sand by the jetty is a separate job with a battery rig and a council permit, and the acts here have done plenty of them; a reception up at the marina on the Patawalonga is a different address again, so give both.