What a great night! The National Live Music Awards’ NSW event was a killer setup, with Georgia Mooney MC-ing the very best Open Mic night you’re ever likely to see.
I normally write separate pieces for each artist, but I figured it was better to put them all together here – partially because they all only did one song, but mostly because every single one of them were such amazing musicians and songwriters. They all came together like some sort of Voltron to form one big super-show across the night, so this one’s going to get one big super-roundup instead.
It was a *hell* of a thing to see them all in such rapid succession – a fitting tribute to live music from start to finish.
Imogen Clark
“Rich and strongly-timbered, with the tinge of a rust-red road”
Elizabeth Fader
“Songs like dry ice in a warm room, and where even the silences say something”
Sam Buckingham
“A massive personality shines through this complex songwriting that’s made to sound simple”
Alison Avron
“A song so full of heart it bursts off the stage and out of the room”
Alice Terry
“Rich and starry music, with a murderous glint in its eye”
James Daley
“Eye-wateringly good banjo. Seriously, what the hell else do you want?”
Bonniesongs
Delicate but powerful songwriting – solid as a rock but as light as a breeze”
Lisa Caruso
“Always the undercurrent of darkness thrumming underneath a beautiful sound”
Darcy Fox
“A wonderful sound that darts and flits around the room like someone lost a bird”
Milan Ring
“A blistering demonstration of musical skill, in voice and guitar and composition.”
Montaigne
“Even hidden behind a piano, devoid of all stage props or dancing, playing a never-before-heard song that she occasionally mis-plays, Montaigne remains one of the brightest stars in the musical firmament. Never less than jaw-dropping.”
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