Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

January 6, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Foundry 616, December 17 8/10 One moment the wave-like, arpeggiated piano melodies are the stuff of dreams – or ambient minimalism, for the more pragmatic. The next moment the rhythm-section gate-crashes the reverie so violently that what’s being played seems not just a different piece, but a different idiom. As…

December 30, 2020 / Concert Reviews - Archive

They dance through verse after verse, putting flesh on the despairing bones of his songs. Nancy, Suzanne and the rest could form an Old Testament litany of Leonard Cohen’s loves. But they were never notches on a gun, rock’n’roll style. Each was adored for who she was; the warmth and…

December 23, 2020 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, December 5 7/10 Ninety years ago the anguished voice and stinging slide guitar of rural blues were like aural shock treatment. In the 21st century you restore that raw primality by unleashing the brutal power of Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst behind the drums. Whether in the Oils or…