Over the past few months I've caught both Rebecca Barnard and Deborah Conway
at various gigs so when I saw they were doing a few gigs together, I just had
to catch one. As it turned out they're a great match: they're both more than
capable pop songwriters, they're impressive vocalists and they've got the
whole between-songs-banter thing all sussed out. The oddest thing about the
gig was the venue, Frankston Cultural Centre, a hefty 32km trek from home
to a rather formal auditorium complete with torch-bearing ushers and a stage
better suited to theatre productions than intimate singer/songwriter gigs.
Highlights included acoustic re-workings of the Do Re Mi hit "Man Overboard"
and Talking Heads' "Road To Nowhere", the latter complete with a capella intro. Unfortunately, the absence of her band meant Deborah could only give us an
acoustic version of "It's Only The Beginning" instead of the oh-so-funky dance
version I saw a couple of months ago.
Willy & Deborah
700 x 513 (26kb)
Rebecca, Willy & Deborah
800 x 520 (33kb)
Rebecca, Willy & Deborah
800 x 522 (30kb)
Deborah & Rebecca autograph stuff
673 x 700 (61kb)
