Tag: Andy McLean
Brian Wilson @ Enmore Theatre, Friday November 5
BRIAN WILSON
One of the unwritten rules of Murphy’s Law is that every time a Beach Boy comes to town, there is a deluge of torrential rain. When Mike Love performed with Sydney Symphony recently, there was a storm of epic proportions. Tonight Love’s estranged cousin and former bandmate, Brian Wilson, has also attracted the wrath [...]
Posted: November 22nd, 2010 under Brag 388 (November 15), Live Reviews, Music, New.
Tags: Andy McLean, Brian Wilson, The Brag
Little Red, Sparkadia, Kimbra @ The Metro Theatre, Friday October 8
LITTLE RED, SPARKADIA, KIMBRA
Tonight’s bill was just made for a Friday – three bands determined to make you shake your body from weekday drudgery into weekend celebration.
Appropriately (given tonight’s headliners), Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Kimbra shimmies onto stage wearing a little red dress and a little red smile. And a big, BIG voice. Using a loop [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2010 under Brag 384 (October 18), Live Reviews, Music, New.
Tags: Andy McLean, Kimbra, Little Red, Sparkadia, The Brag
Live Review: The Lovetones @ Oxford Art Factory, Thursday September 23
THE LOVETONES
“Oh damn you Rock N Roll Stardom – you are a fickle mistress! Again and again you dash the careers of talented bands onto the rocks of anonymity – merely because the members were born in the wrong decade? Curse you Rock N Roll Stardom! You are a heartless beast!” Tonight was a night [...]
Posted: October 11th, 2010 under Brag 382 (October 4), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Andy McLean, The Brag, The Lovetones
Album Review: The Charlatans – Who We Touch
The Charlatans
Who We Touch
Shock Records
***
This is not the finest album that The Charlatans have produced in their 21 year career; it’s not even in the top five. But it does tick many of the same boxes as their best work. The Madchester survivors still use a hammond organ better than anyone (just as they [...]
Posted: October 11th, 2010 under Album Reviews, Brag 382 (October 4), Music.
Tags: Andy McLean, The Brag, The Charlatans
Album Review: Brian Wilson – Reimagines Gershwin
Brian Wilson
Reimagines Gershwin
Disney Pearl
****
This album is the unlikely meeting of two musical minds from different eras. First we have the spectacularly gifted, spectacularly erratic Brian Wilson, the Beach Boy who almost single-handedly invented surf pop and the legendary Pet Sounds in the 1960s. Second we have the late, great composer George Gershwin, who spliced [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2010 under Album Reviews, Brag 380 (September 20), Music.
Tags: Andy McLean, Brian Wilson, The Brag