Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

February 19, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, February 14 It is curious that the Moral Minority’s more stitched-up members have never tried to ban the tango. Perhaps their seething minds miss its implicit erotic charge, most obvious in the dance steps, but evident in the music, too: a constant collision of dark and light, loud…

February 11, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

The Basement, February 4 Among the many casualties of aging is the capacity for being surprised. From broken promises to broken records and from Mahler to Madonna one has seen and heard it all before. Perhaps the odd sunset and a straight-talking pollie may still do it, and in the…

February 1, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Sydney Festival, The Famous Spiegeltent, January 24 “I’m Rufino the Catalan Casanova,” says the man wearing the pinstripe moustache and rakish hat. “I’m not boasting,” he adds. “It’s just my name.” This would be the same Rufino who nearly drowned while making violent love in a dinghy during his time with…