Angie Hart with Kristy London and Dave McCormack
In these days of high fuel, food and Casio watch prices, $20 bucks doesn’t buy you much. But there is a place where you can catch some of Brisbane and Australia’s up and coming musicians for next to nothing. That place is The Troubadour, where last Friday we caught two Australian music legends and an amazing newcomer.
First on the bill was a relatively unknown Brisbane songstress named Kristy London. When I saw her name on the bill the day before the gig I checked out her MySpace page. Wow. I’m so surprised I have never heard any of her music as her voice is absolutely superb, not to mention that the ‘folkindiepop’ genre of music is very popular at the moment. It’s not hard to imagine the track “You Said” (free download) as the backing track for a perfume commercial. Anyhow, she was brilliant live. Everything you hear on the EP is what you’ll hear at her show.
While waiting for Dave McCormack to start, super cute Kristy bumped into TinTin and they had a little chat. A bit later, J-Rod also had a lengthy conversation with her and her bandmate Pete Jones. Really good people and they are both headed to London for a year or so. All of us here really wish them the best of luck and hope they breakthrough the ultra-tough London music scene.
Your last chance to see this amazing talent in Brisbane for a long while is this Wednesday, the 30th July as part of the Brisbane Festival. Oh, did I mention it’s free?
On to ex Custard, ex The Polariods front man, Dave McCormack. Maybe it was TinTins constant rubbishing, but there isn’t a lot to write about this part of the night. He opened with 3 or 4 new tracks which no-one really got into. He finished up with “The Truth About Love“, “I Wanna Execute Your Ex-Boyfriend” and the song we all love him for “Girls Like That“. The older tracks were crowd pleasers. To our amazement, a fair portion of the sold out crowd left after his set. That didn’t make much sense.
However, there is no doubt who the star of the night was. Angie Hart, the voice behind the Aria Award winning, platinum selling Frente!. Firstly, words can not do her voice justice. Trust me I tried for almost 20 minutes. You need to head over to her MySpace page right now and listen to every track.
I’ll wait.
See!? She opened with a track off her solo album Grounded Bird, then a track from the last Frente EP (which I can’t find anywhere). The set closed with her version of “Bizarre Love Triangle” and then Dave joined her back on stage to cover “Only You” by Yazoo. They cleared the stage but Angie returned after a short encore chant and ‘asked’ what she should sing, to which TinTin and I both shouted “PICTURES OF YOUUUUUUU!”. I like to think we were heard as she quickly obliged! The perfect way to close an outstanding set.
We love you Angie. Please come back soon!
Picture of You by Angie Hart, used in the brilliant TAC road safety campaign.
WARNING: saaaaad!