John Shand Posts

November 6, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

The Basement, October 25 How many members of a group should be alive and present for the use of the band’s name to be valid? The Mills Brothers, for instance, performed here with one Brother and three rope-ins. Seriously. As it turns 50 Canned Heat has two almost original members…

November 4, 2015 / Album Reviews - Archive
November 2, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot, October 27 Sound and colour, the arts’ great abstractions, are inextricably linked. Even the terminology overlaps, including tone, chromaticism, brightness, darkness and composition. As Jim Moginie (of Midnight Oil fame) told us in prefacing this album launch, Schoenberg wanted to be an artist and Kandinsky a musician. Countless musicians…