My first serious musical addiction was Doo-Wop around age seven. Only You and The Great Pretender by the Platters. Runaround Sue by Dion and the Belmonts. One of the very greatest, most soulful artists I have heard. Voice as natural and clear as Sinatra, with just that right amount of grit in the velvet.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever formed in Melbourne in 2013. At the heart are three guitarist songwriters Fran Keaney, Tom Russo and Joe White. To complete the sound, they settled on Joe Russo bass, and Marcel Tussie drums. Three lads, sons of the Stone Roses and the Jesus and Mary Chain, were playing around, jamming in […]
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain is Morrissey’s 13th studio album since retiring the Smiths Air-Mobile. If you loved that band, you will not be disappointed.
Up Jumped the Devil, The Real Life Of Robert Johnson Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow, Chicago Review Press 2019 This is the book that many blues fans, musicians and musical scholars thought would never appear, but finally is in our hands 82 years after his death.
WOMAD. It was the last big event until who knows when? Rev Orange Peel reminisces for us.
Saint Patricks’ Day, we have foregone Corona for Guinness. What more to celebrate than a hot potato, in fact ten hot potatoes, a whole Hot Potatoes Band. They are a ten-piece New Orleans inspired horns and drums band from Sydney – one of the few live shows that have not cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions.
Amanda Palmer greeted her Hollywood Avondale audience with her ukelele and a song she wrote yesterday afternoon about New Zealand. From there it was a long strange trip (with an intermission!) for the Auckland stop of her There Will Be No Intermission tour. Rev Orange Peel reports back.
The air is electric with anticipation. The Great Hall is almost full but the crowd noise is not much more than a murmur, this is a listening audience tonight. When Pat Metheny strides onto the stage, trade mark shaggy mane of hair, he is carrying the Monster. This is the 42 string Manzer Pikasso, a […]
Auckland celebrated International Women’s Day with the Milk & Honey Festival at Silo Park, featuring 13 NZ artists. The Rev Orange Peel was there and files this review, plus a set of photos from Todd Buchanan.
“Tonight we are here to celebrate 1980, a special time for creativity in music.” These are Midge Ure’s words, just prior to starting into the Vienna album. Truer words were never spoken. Rev Orange Peel reports on last night’s celebration at The Powerstation.
