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April 12, 2006
A fans view based on the back catalogue of classic songs being a soundtrack to fans' lives.
Leunig
The group is on a roll with a great new album says Patrick Donovan in The Age. As Miranda Devine says they have 'preserved their music, their looks and their rock sensibilities for more than four decades, if not in aspic then in the gel that moulds their still shaggy rock hair.' Eternal youth?
What was offered in the concert's setlist was a nostalgia-hued night that prudently managed to ignore their career post-1980, apart from a few appearances by material from their album of last year, A Bigger Bang. The crowd got what they had come to receive --- a golden oldies set performed by the originators. If nostalgia sells corporate rock, then the performance needs to be good. It was great----- 'You can't beat these guys: their song catalogue, their muscianship, their experience, their production resources. Long may they live, for we'll never see their like again. '
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