Band: Duffy with support from Andy Bull
Venue: Sydney Opera House - Concert Hall
Date: 26th March 2009
Reviewed By: Espylyn
I was highly excited to head into the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House, an Aussie icon, and somewhere I've never seen live music before. Lots of people dress up for the occasion and I'm sure it's like this most of the time. We enter and take our seats (70's decor inside which is actually 'in' again) and take in the music of Andy Bull. I think my friends and I spent most of the set wondering if we were watching a guy or girl (sorry Andy) but seriously from where we sat, back in row O) this person looked like a bloke but sung like a girl, and even spoke like a girl. A local talent who is just as excited about being at the opera house as I am gave a lovely performance of vocals and keys. Last cover was Electric Feel, the MGMT tune. So during the break we google'd and discovered we were watching a bloke! woah, one out of three were correct. We decided to head outside and check out the lovely bay views and here I discovered the opera house has bathroom tiles all over it, rather hilarious I thought!
Packed house which is all geared up to watch the Welsh singer who has taken some of the world by storm, she has been noted as the new Dusty Springfield and likened to Amy Winehouse (not in the drug sense!). Out Duffy comes singing my favourite song, Rockferry, and with gracious stage presence she swings the microphone like she owns the room and she is wearing a little black dress tonight which is her fashion norm. A pint sized rock star who displays a huge talent on stage. Initially the sound appears too strong for the venue but that thought didn't last too long. This chick can seriously belt out a decent note. After two songs the dress is off and underneath is short shorts and top. Duffy sings Serious then Warwick Avenue and is joined by two backing vocals who look like twins themselves!
Syrup and Honey is just Duffy and guitar which fills the room with mystic motion, then Stepping Stone (with some cheesy moves by the backing singers) . A few cover songs throughout the set but its her own music that fills the room with happiness tonight. Delayed Devotion brings out some crooners and Mercy has many up in their seats pumped by this energy driven song. Encore already and back for a few more songs of the less pumped variety. Distant Dreamer is the song for Duffy to end on tonight and we take away with us a night to remember, a special night at a special (white tiled) palace.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Green grass, no mud, simply Golden
Band: Golden Plains Music Festival
Venue: Meredith Ampitheatre
Date: 9th and 10th March 2009
Reviewed By: Espylyn
Ah Golden Plains, come one, come all. No bottles, no dogs and no dickheads. It doesn't get much easier than that. Two car loads of us entered the site within minutes and found a cool possie on Highway to Hell path (turned out to be not so cool due to chairs being stolen - usually unheard of at Meredith), tents up and sorted it was time to get the beers ready in the mini esky's and head down to the ampitheatre. A sold out crowd as per usual, and it was good to see the Nolan's checking out the vibe too. A wander around and then it was time to plonk ourselves on the grass, yes green grass which was strange at first - ahh how I've missed it. The time felt like about 5pm cos we got there early but it was only 2pm! So.... lots of hilarity amongst the crowd (and us), funky costumes, silly costumes and many people in animal costumes (found out later that a facebook site called golden plains open range zoo is the reason behind all the animal costumes!). Mogwai were fantastic giving us a stellar instrumental performance, and Black Machines were great too (anyone got a flipper?). As someone in our group said, they are like Judith Durnam with Wolfmother! I was disapointed with Of Montreal, not as good as what I'd read about. You Am I topped the bill tonight, less crazy than usual but Tim Rogers in a green suit with a large bow tie (yuk!) gave the crowd what they came for - a jolly good time. A late night and a cosy warm tent before a sleep in and then time for upsie's to check out more bands around lunchtime. Two egg sandwiches later we saw Bridezilla who I find are always a great watch then Pivot who were a cruisy instrumental group, Old Crow Medicine Man had that hill billy kicking feel about them, definately got the crowd warming up! Time for more walkies and good ole hare krisna food - go the snack plate! Then it was time for more bands including The Church who have still got it and the crowd seemed very pumped for this set, The Drones and highlight of the night was Gary Numan, fantastic set, fantastic voice. As a volunteer it was my shift of midnight till 4am to work where, as crowd carer, with a monkey, we wandered around campsites making sure all was okay, and with looking at ping pong tables, pool tables and bars, all was okay in golden plains land.
Venue: Meredith Ampitheatre
Date: 9th and 10th March 2009
Reviewed By: Espylyn
Ah Golden Plains, come one, come all. No bottles, no dogs and no dickheads. It doesn't get much easier than that. Two car loads of us entered the site within minutes and found a cool possie on Highway to Hell path (turned out to be not so cool due to chairs being stolen - usually unheard of at Meredith), tents up and sorted it was time to get the beers ready in the mini esky's and head down to the ampitheatre. A sold out crowd as per usual, and it was good to see the Nolan's checking out the vibe too. A wander around and then it was time to plonk ourselves on the grass, yes green grass which was strange at first - ahh how I've missed it. The time felt like about 5pm cos we got there early but it was only 2pm! So.... lots of hilarity amongst the crowd (and us), funky costumes, silly costumes and many people in animal costumes (found out later that a facebook site called golden plains open range zoo is the reason behind all the animal costumes!). Mogwai were fantastic giving us a stellar instrumental performance, and Black Machines were great too (anyone got a flipper?). As someone in our group said, they are like Judith Durnam with Wolfmother! I was disapointed with Of Montreal, not as good as what I'd read about. You Am I topped the bill tonight, less crazy than usual but Tim Rogers in a green suit with a large bow tie (yuk!) gave the crowd what they came for - a jolly good time. A late night and a cosy warm tent before a sleep in and then time for upsie's to check out more bands around lunchtime. Two egg sandwiches later we saw Bridezilla who I find are always a great watch then Pivot who were a cruisy instrumental group, Old Crow Medicine Man had that hill billy kicking feel about them, definately got the crowd warming up! Time for more walkies and good ole hare krisna food - go the snack plate! Then it was time for more bands including The Church who have still got it and the crowd seemed very pumped for this set, The Drones and highlight of the night was Gary Numan, fantastic set, fantastic voice. As a volunteer it was my shift of midnight till 4am to work where, as crowd carer, with a monkey, we wandered around campsites making sure all was okay, and with looking at ping pong tables, pool tables and bars, all was okay in golden plains land.
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