Category: Concert Reviews

January 28, 2017 / Concert Reviews - Archive

1967: Music in the Key of Yes

Concert Hall, January 17 7.5/10 The 1967 referendum was merely a start, but it remains loaded with symbolism. Now, as its fiftieth anniversary approaches and the mood for further change – even a treaty – is in the air, this performance exuded a healthy optimism as it celebrated in song…

January 26, 2017 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Circuit des Yeux

St Stephen’s Uniting Church, January 15 Reviewed by John Shand 6/10 St Stephen’s Church exemplifies Inter-War Gothic architecture, and the push-you-back-in-your-seat reaction to Hayley Fohr’s songs was that they, too, were darkly, ornately Gothic. Indeed if Trump starts a war the new material that she concentrated on here may even…

January 22, 2017 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Long String Instrument

Sydney Town Hall, January 13 7/10 Our ears are cunningly designed to detect a sound’s source. Perhaps the greatest wonder of Ellen Fullman’s long string instrument (LSI) – so called because of its 25-metres length – is that it fooled the ears. The vibrating strings were too long to have…