Colbourne Ave, October 13 9/10 Music is nearly always dressed up in the tell-tale padded-shoulder clothes of this idiom or that, conforming to expectations and triumphantly embodying certain skills. Too often these clothes, conformity and skills are the music. Here, for once, was the heart, soul and feeling stripped naked.…
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Enmore Theatre, October 7 6.5/10 Were flamenco dance a mating ritual it would surely be the world’s most elaborate, seeing off an exotic bird or two. Here the dancers were Charo Espino and Angel Munoz, who each had their particular strengths. With Espino it was the arching shapes and jutting…
Foundry 616, October 10 8/10 Back in the halcyon 1970s and ’80s, before Donald Trump had been invented and when all was more or less well with the world, Sydney hosted one of the planet’s most thriving live music scenes; one that fostered a phenomenally successful music export industry. Exceptional…