Photo: Justin Edwards

Lending significant amounts of her laid back charm to the solo stage is the Love Outside Andromeda songstress Sianna Lee who opens the night with a mix of fresh and familiar tunes for the early birds seated comfortably on The Globe’s plush carpet. As groups of people file in quietly, Sianna strums and sings away in her uniquely solemn register, a combination of sweet and dark tones, the highlight of which is a difficult rendition of the recent Marianne Faithful/Damon Albarn collaboration Last Song. Responding to a call from the audience, she attempts an unrehearsed version of Love Outside Andromeda’s Boxcutter, Baby before finishing with an almost autobiographical track called India Was Once My Name.

Replacing The Butcher Birds at the last minute are the cacophonous Z Rays, whose fuzz-filled tunes struggle to impress the discerning crowd who remain seated despite the elevated levels of rock in the air. With a dedicated vintage keyboardist/floor tom drummer, their brand of psychedelic rock delivers little more than novelty tonight.

Launching their second album The Shiralee to a still seated, however welcoming audience are Sydney rockers theredsunband who choose a building set-list and start with the soothing tones of Got No Money. Building momentum gradually, we’re treated to the three-way harmonies of Sleep Forever before the up-tempo Like an Arrow steps up the pace with it’s swinging choruses. They continue with the tempo jump in Heartbreaker, which combined with an epic The Shiralee introduces some of their later material. Judging the audience well, Sarah and Lizzie treat their loyal fans to an old favourite in Devil Song, from Peapod, which gets a number of people up off the floor before they return to new territory in finishing with the gloriously off-time track The Eagle. 

JAMES STAFFORD

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