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Tex Perkins & Matt Walker at Bird's Basement Jazz Club
Courtesy of Birds Basement | Posted on January 11, 2020
When
Fri, February 7, 2020
18:00
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Doors open at 6:00pm Show starts at 7:45pm
Supported by Davey Lane
Joe Chindamo, our February 2020 artist in residence will perform.
It's understandably difficult to pull together a coherent picture of a man whose career has taken in everything from the groundbreaking experimental punktonica of Sydney mid-80s noiseniks Thug to the lilting, dark country of his recent material with the Dark Horses.
From the hard edged pub rock of the Beasts Of Bourbon's, a snarling slice of filthy pub rock to the evocative soundscapes of The Cruel Sea, whose extraordinary 1991 single 'This Is Not The Way Home' placed Perkins' world-weary growl in a new musical context and heralded the emergence of an entirely original yet archetypically Australian sound....