RIP Rob Hurst. Saw him more times with The Backsliders than Midnight Oil. A drummer so good, I stopped watching the guitarist! Last time I saw him, at Byron Bay's Bluesfest in 2019 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFjR...

Some Music On This Day 2nd January From 2014 Tom Odell

Some Music On This Day 2nd January From 2012 Fleet Foxes As well as the great watching the rhythm section, the vocals, harmonies just exquisite!

Music on this day March 16th 2018 Friday at The Blue Mountains Music Festival, Katoomba Started with 10 String Symphony, bluegrass/americana, fiddles, banjo, harmonies. Great start to the festival

Music on this day March 16th 2019 Saturday at The Blue Mountains Music Festival. It was raining, a lot, so a day to pick a tent & stay there, rather than tent hop. Most of who I wanted to see were in the Big Top tent, so only missed a couple acts, I would have otherwise seen.....

Music on this day March 15th 2019 Friday at The Blue Mountains Music Festival Wallis Bird Irish singer songwriter, big voice, pounding guitar

Music on this day March 13th 2008 Buddy Guy at The Enmore Theatre, Sydney (a Byron Bay Bluesfest sideshow) First time seeing the Legend. It was awesome. Solos, jams. Great band. Keb Mo was on the bill as well & guested with Buddy on some tracks.

Music on this day March 12th Grizzly Bear at The Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House Haunting vocals, beautiful harmonies, great musicians

Music on this day March 11th 2015 Richard Thompson Electric Trio at City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney with the bonus of Richard Thompson solo as "opener" Great show at great venue. Nice to see & contrast the acoustic & electric Richard on the same night www.smh.com.au/entertainmen...

Music on this day March 10th 2013 Neil Young & Crazy Horse at The Entertainment Centre, Sydney. Unbelievably good show. Great musicianship, sensational jams, nice couple of solo acoustic songs mid set & I haven't yet founds words adequate enough to describe Walk Like A Giant, 23 minutes of epicness!

Music on this day Jan 29th (this one's a bit late, thought I'd seen the 2009 tour, which would have been March 8th, but it was the 2007 tour) 2007 Eric Clapton at The Entertainment Centre, Sydney Brilliant concert, Eric in the blues/roots mode. Short acoustic set in the middle & most importantly,...

Music on this day March 8th (ok, a day late) 2006 Richard Thompson at The Enmore Theatre, Sydney Could not take my eyes off his guitar. It was like his right hand plucking the strings was split into 2 halves, with each working independently. Mesmerizing. And so much sound from just one guitar

Music on this day March 7th 2020 Pat Metheny at The State Theatre, Sydney Playing with Antonio Sanchez on drums, Linda May Han Oh on bass & Gwilym Simcock on piano. Hard to describe, but it was brilliant, immersed in a kaleidoscope of sound John Shand's review in smh www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...

Music on this day March 6th 2007 Luka Bloom at The Enmore, Sydney. Brilliant. From starting with the Hunter's cover Throw Your Arms Around Me (He joked, thought he'd get it out of the way, to stop people calling out for it), beautiful versions of City Of Chicago, Lebanon......

Music on this day March 5th 2012 Bonnie Prince Billy at The Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House Will Oldham's slightly wavering, broken voice, perfect for these songs. Great harmonies, great musicians, great show. #musicsky

Music on this day March 4th 2013 Colin Hay solo at The Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House. This was the "Finding My Dance" Tour, so it was more of a show than a concert, with lots of stories. Most were very funny, so no problem with too much talking ruining a show. The music was beautiful. #musicsky

Music on this day 2010 Calexico at The Metro, Sydney Didn't know much about Calexico, but as like the genre indie/americano, went to see them. Really enjoyed. Quite a laid back, mellow set, nice vocals, harmonies, liked the guitars & the horn section added some nice touches.

Music on this day March 1st 2018 Live at The ICC Theatre, Darling Harbour, Sydney One of my favourite bands, so was looking forward to this. Sadly, this show was ruined by an awful sound mix, it was like they were playing a feed from a guitar amp through the PA. Vocals really hard to hear...

Music on this day Feb 28th 2008 Santana at Acer Arena, Homebush, Sydney. First time seeing the Legend! Great show, lots of solos, improvs, percussion & the "pop" songs like Love Of My Life & Black Magic Woman. Natalie Pa'apa'a from opener Blue King Brown guested on a track (She looked terrified!)

Music on this day Feb 27th 2013 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at The Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, with members of The Sydney Symphony Orchestra & The Annandale Vocal Ensemble. Played Push The Sky Away in full, in order for the first half of the show. Haunting, beautiful.....

Music on this day Feb 24th 2009 A Robert Johnson Tribute Show at The Vanguard, Newtown, Sydney with Dom Turner, Ian Collard, Jeff Lang & Hat Fitz. Brilliant, as would be expected with that line up of Aussie musicians! vid Jeff Lang Hell Hound On My Tail www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqny...

Music on this day Feb 32rd 2010 Mick Fleetwood Blues Band at South's Juniors, Kingsford, Sydney As the label says, a Blues Band. Lead guitarist & vocalists (sorry can't remember his name), very good. Got a good, slightly side on view to see Mick play the drums. Some Fleetwood Mac songs, of course.

Music on this day Feb 21st 2009 Kaki King at The Basement, Sydney Brilliant guitarist, one of those where you can't take you eyes off the guitar. Described on Wiki as percussive with jazz overtones, & yes, that works.

Music on this day Feb 20th 2009 Five Peace Band (John McLaughlin & Chick Corea with Brian Blade, Christian McBride & Kenny Garrett) at The Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House. Stunningly spectacular, from delicate solos to the beautiful chaos of arguing instruments....

Music on this day Feb 19th 2013 Father John Misty at The Metro, Sydney A bit eccentric performance, but nice music, drawn to go see him because of his prior association with Fleet Foxes

Music on this day Feb 16th 2016 Dave Rawlings Machine at The Enmore Theate, Sydney, aka part 2 of the Gillian Welch & David Rawlings tour Down Under. They went up the coast as Gillian & Dave & came back down as Dave's Machine. This time with band, fiddle, bass, extra guitar & banjo.....

Music on this day Feb 15th 2011 Return To Forever at The Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House Going from sublime & delicate to a beautiful cascade of sound, a wonderful evening of music.

Music on this day Feb 13th 2015 Sting & Paul Simon at The Entertainment Centre, Sydney For me the highlight was Sting's version of the S&G song America. All the musos on stage were amazing....

Music on this day Feb 11th 2009 The Waifs at The Metro, Sydney Love this band, the music, Josh's guitar, Vicki's harmonica, the vocals, highlights were Sundirtwater & Tempation

Music on this day Feb 10th 2011 Local Natives at The Metro Theatre, Sydney A bit of electronic Americana (?is that a genre) Was impressed with the lead guy at times playing keys, drums & singing at the same time

Music on this day 9th 2012 Laura Marling at The Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House. Spellbinding, absolutely beautiful, vocals & guitar playing. Highlight was the new song, at the time untitled, Little Love Caster

Music on this day Feb 8th 2014 The National at The Sydney Opera House Forecourt Had a rail spot, which made it even more special (no head in way etc) Great show, good mix old & new songs including one none of us knew. Matt intense, puts everything into the performance....

Music on this day Feb 7th 2017 Bruce Springsteen at Qudos Bank Arena, Homebush, Sydney. 2nd time I'd seen Bruce, this is what I wrote at the time Bruce last night was fantastic. Highlights for me American Skin (41 Shots), Because The Night & Thunder Road, but all were great.....

Music on this day Feb 6th 2013 Ray Beadle & Jeff Martin at The Brass Monkey, Cronulla, Sydney Being a fan of both, couldn't miss this one. Ray's one of Aussie's finest guitarist with a blues bent, Jeff, also a fantastic guitarist with an amazing voice. Individual sets......

Music on this day Feb 3rd 2018 Colin Hay Band at The Enmore Theatre, Sydney Have seen Colin a few times, solo & with this Cuban inspired band. Always puts on a good show. As well as the great songs, tells some good stories. Yes, highlight was Down Under....

Music on this day 2010 Jeff Martin (of the Canadian band, The Tea Party) at The Brass Monkey, Cronulla, Sydney. In fine form, this guy's voice, gets me every time!!! Beautiful version of Oceans, the depth of feeling he can put into a song

RIP Marianne Faithfull. Glad I got to see her back in 2010 at The Sydney Opera House. Always preferred her "broken" voice to the original www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf0d...

Music on this day Jan 30th 2009 Jeff Beck at The Enmore Theatre, Sydney. Had to see the Legend, not disappointed. Also with Aussie Tal Wilkenfield on bass, other legend, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums & David Sancious on keys. Did amazing cover of A Day In The Life.

Music on this day Jan 29th 2009 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals at The Enmore, Sydney The wonderful vocals (& playing) of Ryan combined with the great musicianship of The Cardinals. Highlights New York New York, La Cienega, Oh My Sweet Caroline & the Oasis cover Wonderwall.

Music on this day 2009 Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova (The Swell Season), with Glen's band The Frames at The Sydney Opera House touring the success of the music from the movie Once. Beautiful music,vocals, harmonies. a bit tamed down from a full on Frames show (but that did sneak through at times)

Music on this day Jan 27th 2010 Medeski, Martin & Wood at The City Recital Hall, Angel Place as part of the Sydney Festival. Improv contemporary jazz as an over riding style, but with some bits of musical chaos thrown in, which was what I liked the most.

Music on this day Jan 26th 2013 The Waterboys "encore" at The Sydney Opera House. Wonderful seeing them again after The State gig 3 days before. This show more of their old hits, including Don't Bang The Drum, The Whole Of The Moon, The Pan Within, A Girl Called Johnny & a Prince cover, Purple Rain

Music on this day Jan 24th 2009 Neil Young & His Electric Band at The Entertainment Centre, Sydney. Hadn't really "got" Neil until I saw him live. Went to this to drag my brother along, who was a huge fan. Was fantastic. Been a Neil fan since.....

Music on this day Jan 23rd 2013 The Waterboys at The State Theatre Sydney (The Waterboys, that is, Mike Scott & whoever he's playing with, though Steve Wickham on fiddle & electric mandolin? has been a long time member) Had been listening to this band so long I still had/have some original vinyls...

Music on this day Jan 22nd 2017 pj Harvey at The ICC Theatre, Sydney Second of the double header after Nick Cave & TBS the night before Brilliant. More formal & choreographed, drums & percussion driving the music, the male harmonies of the band beautifully blended with pj's amazing vocals

Music on this day Jan 21 2017 Nick Cave & The Bad Seed at The ICC Theatre, Sydney What I wrote at the time Wow, just Wow! May have already seen best gig of the year. Sublime, extraordinary. Nick's vocals were best I've ever heard & Warren Ellis & the rest of The Bad Seeds in top form....

Music on this day Jan 20th 2011 Wire at Beck's Bar, Hyde Park Barracks as part of the Sydney Festival, New wave, rock, guitars. Main memory is of a bunch of guys clearing a circle & doing some very dangerous, slam dancing. I moved well away!

Music on this day Jan 19th 2010 The Decemberists at The Metro, Sydney Great band, great show. Indie rock band from America. Quirky lyrics, story songs. Insists on some audience participation, lucky far enough away, for that not to bother me! Threw in a Go Betweens cover

Music on this day Jan 18th 2013 David Byrne & St Vincent bought their collaboration "Love This Giant" out for the Sydney Festival at The State Theatre. What I wrote at the time.... Absolutely brilliant. Ensemble of 12 musicians (drums & Keyboards up the back) & 8 brass players & David & Annie....,

Music on this day Jan 17th 2012 Beth Orton at City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney as part of Sydney Festival. Haunting vocals, beautiful guitar. Great venue to see such music. Joined on some tunes by Sam Amidon