Reviews of Music Performances http://hdl.handle.net/2328/32 2013-05-24T03:22:24Z 2013-05-24T03:22:24Z Bramwell, Murray Ross http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8245 2013-05-13T01:29:58Z 2004-12-10T00:00:00Z

Title: History Repeats After All. "The Finn Brothers". Entertainment Centre [review] Authors: Bramwell, Murray Ross Abstract: There is a sense of full circle here. Who said our beginnings never know our Enz? Neil and Tim Finn are touring a new album, ripe with harmony and turbid with memory. On stage at the Ent Centre, the flickering home movie of squinting kids on the front porch in Teasdale Street, Te Awamutu sets an expectation, but it is certainly not nostalgia. The Finns have a lot of history and, in middle age, they are starting to sift through it.

2004-12-10T00:00:00Z Bramwell, Murray Ross http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8243 2013-05-13T01:29:50Z 2004-09-28T00:00:00Z

Title: Goat Leg Soup. "Muse". Thebarton Theatre [Review] Authors: Bramwell, Murray Ross Abstract: It is only eight months since we saw UK band Muse at Big Day Out, but now they are back with more fans and a lot more fanfare. Their stocks have risen with the release of their latest album, Absolution, a recent tour with The Cure, and their steady determination to prevail. There have been comparisons - with Radiohead, for instance, and the latter end of Britpop - but increasingly, Muse is taking inspiration from such brazen exhumations of the flamboyant as The Darkness and the We-Will-Rock-You community singalongs of the Queen revival.

2004-09-28T00:00:00Z Bramwell, Murray Ross http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8240 2013-05-13T01:29:51Z 2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

Title: Getting the Band Back Together. "Cream at the Royal Albert Hall, London" [review] Authors: Bramwell, Murray Ross Abstract: When it was first announced in the English press that the 1960s cult group Cream was reforming for four nights at the Royal Albert Hall there was an outpouring, you might say, of dairy metaphors. Would they be as fresh as they were thirty seven years ago? Would the old enmities between members sour the occasion? Would they blend, or remain somehow colloidal? Would they prove to be long life, or go to powder?

2005-05-27T00:00:00Z Bramwell, Murray Ross http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8236 2013-05-13T01:28:47Z 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Kelly Rides With New Gang. "Paul Kelly". Her Majesty's Theatre [review] Authors: Bramwell, Murray Ross Abstract: I like Paul Kelly to stay the same and tend to get tetchy when he changes things around, especially when he tinkers with his band line-up. I couldn’t see why he had to shoot the Messengers or why he would hire hotshot American guitarist Randy Jacobs. Was the Professor Ratbaggy project just a scratch band, and what about that bluegrass Smoke thing ? And, these days, what is he doing with his nephew Dan and where are Hadley and Haymes, his bass and keyboard henchmen ? Clearly, if it was up to me, Paul Kelly would still be back at the year dot.

2004-06-01T00:00:00Z