Foundry 616, February 3 8/10 Here we were, stepping into the TARDIS and whooshing back three decades to a time when Australia’s most incendiary musician recorded his only album (aided by three brilliant colleagues), appropriately called Fire. Saxophonist Mark Simmonds died in 2020, the pandemic preventing any musical celebration of…
Category: Concert Reviews – Archive
Lazy Bones Lounge, December 14 7/10 The opening Creeper was so delicate that you listened with the same nervousness you watch a child juggle a porcelain plate. Penned, like all Waveteller’s material, by bassist Michael Mear, Creeper exemplified the project’s fondness for exploiting space and dynamics. The often intricate interaction…
The Baroque Room, November 21 7/10 The shapeshifting composer Kurt Weill went from jobbing pianist to become, in partnership with Berthold Brecht, the toast of the Weimar Republic. Having fled the horrors of Nazism, he slotted firstly into Paris, and then into American popular song via musicals and film, influenced…