This month’s high gigs function descendants of Australian music royalty, maybe the world’s most irresistible pop star and a genius from Fremantle who’ll blow you away if he reins in his excesses.
King Stingray
October 6-7, Manning Bar
Descended from greatness: Indigenous Australian rockers King Stingray.Credit score:
If it labored for a younger, proficient Indigenous hip-hop artist like Baker Boy, why wouldn’t it for a younger, proficient Indigenous rock band?
This can be what King Stingray had been asking themselves once they began making music collectively in north-east Arnhem Land in 2020, singing in a mixture of English and Yolngu Matha and incorporating didgeridoos.
If the songs and power on this 12 months’s eponymous debut album are something to go by, they need to be unbelievable stay. They’ve every thing from jangly indie-pop that reminds you of early Sleepy Jackson (Lupa) and moody Midnight Oil-esque post-punk (Malk Mirri Wayin) to groove-driven jams resembling Milkumana that recall Yothu Yindi.
That final one won’t shock, given two of the band have a father and an uncle from the good Australian collective. However it’s possible you’ll not count on them to be this good.
Katie and Tyrone Noonan
October 8, Enmore Theatre
Siblings Tyrone and Katie Noonan will play fashionable Australian traditional album Polyserena, by their former band George, in celebration of its twentieth anniversary.Credit score:
Nationwide treasure Katie Noonan shaped her first band, altish pop-rockers George, with brother Tyrone and several other of their buddies within the mid-90s, however it took them till 2002 to launch their debut album Polyserena. It was definitely worth the wait, reaching double-platinum standing in Australia by the tip of that 12 months and having fun with deserved, monumental acclaim. The album stays a contemporary Australian traditional.
The unique members of George reunited to play Polyserena in its entirety of their native Brisbane final 12 months. Nonetheless, presumably day jobs or another annoying purpose have stopped all of them from turning up for this tour. As a substitute, we get the Noonan siblings with a brand new line-up together with, simply to make anybody who remembers George tearing aside the Metro in 2002 really feel actually previous, Katie’s son Dexter Hurren on drums.
Bruno Mars
October 14-15, Allianz Stadium
The person who can do no incorrect: Bruno Mars.Credit score:
Most just lately seen casually dominating this 12 months’s Grammys together with his Anderson .Paak collaboration Silk Sonic and having owned previous ceremonies each solo (2018) and with different collabs (the inescapable Uptown Funk with Mark Ronson in 2016), Bruno Mars can seemingly do no incorrect.
The Hawaiian R&B-pop titan is a rare singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and dancer, skills you’ll seemingly get to witness at this present.
He has by no means upset any crowd I’ve seen him carry out to, blowing away all comers at each his first Australian tour in 2011 and his most up-to-date one in 2018. You’ll be able to nearly already add these, Mars’ greatest Australian gigs but, to the gathering.
The Darkness
October 16, Enmore Theatre
Nonetheless new and weird: The Darkness (Justin Hawkins second from left).Credit score:
I’m not the primary individual to have sooner or later dismissed glamorous Brit rockers The Darkness as a novelty act. However, as singer Justin Hawkins has himself identified, novelty doesn’t essentially have a destructive connotation. The dictionary definition of the phrase is “something that’s new or uncommon” and if that’s how The Darkness come off after greater than 20 years, that’s one thing to be happy with.
Hearken to their music over time and also you’ll discover the band have all the time discovered their approach round a storming riff and a witty lyric, made all of the extra interesting by Hawkins’ extravagant vocal vary.
They put an emphasis on enjoyable stay, too. I’ll always remember their 2005 present on the Gaelic Membership in Surry Hills, which climaxed with a shirtless Hawkins taking part in a guitar solo on the shoulders of a roadie strolling by means of the gang.
Tame Impala
October 20, Qudos Financial institution Area
Discover the candy spot: Tame Impala fundamental man Kevin Parker.Credit score:
Regardless of being Australia’s most celebrated rock export of latest years, Tame Impala haven’t all the time been completely satisfying in live performance.
Perhaps it comes with the territory: Kevin Parker’s solo challenge, delivered to life on stage with a bunch of his Fremantle buddies, dives deep into psychedelic rock, with all its indulgences.
Certain, Parker can pump out crowd-pleasing bangers resembling Elephant and The Much less I Know the Higher, however he appears at his happiest when he’s experimenting and pushing the boundaries of his formidable manufacturing expertise.
Nonetheless, it’s all about stability. When Parker tames his excesses and manages to seek out the candy spot between what makes him and his bandmates joyful, and what will get everybody else within the room excited, Tame Impala are sensational.
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