MIKELANGELO plays
CASH – CAVE – WAITS – COHEN
Mikelangelo steps up to the plate to interpret a quartet of classic albums that shaped his ears as a lad. Each album he has happily fallen asleep listening to over the years, thus they have worked their strange magic on his dreams and become pivotal influences on his songwriting.
Mikelangelo plays:
Johnny Cash’s
‘American Recordings’
and
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’
‘Your Funeral, My Trial’
at
THE VANGUARD SUN 24 NOV 8pm
42 King St. Newtown
http://www.thevanguard.com.au/shows/2013/11/24/cash–cave-performed-by-mikelango-/12027
Mikelangelo plays
Tom Waits’
‘Franks Wild Years’
and
Leonard Cohen’s
‘Songs of Love and Hate’
at
CAMELOT LOUNGE – THURS 28 NOV 8pm
19 Marrickville rd. Marrickville
http://camelotlounge.wordpress.com
Plus a one-off show with in the Blue Mountains with the Gentlemen!
Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen
THE CLARENDON
SAT 30 NOV 8pm
68 Lurline St. Katoomba
www.clarendonguesthouse.com.au
Its been a busy year for Mikelangelo, touring the UK, Europe and Australia with the Black Sea Gentlemen to rave reviews and taking home a swag of awards. He also recently received a ‘Best Male Artist’ nomination for The Age Music Victoria awards alongside Paul Kelly, Goyte and Archie Roach. Voting for the Age MV Awards closes Friday 15 Nov. Vote 1 Mikelangelo!
http://agemusicvictoriaawards.questionpro.com/
Mikelangelo first performed his Classic Albums series at Melbourne live music bastion The Old Bar and now he brings it to Sydney. Interpreting Tom Waits final album in his tranformational ‘trilogy’ from the 1980’s Mikelangelo explains:
“Franks Wild Years is Waits’ definitive album for me, not just for the musical and emotional breadth of the songs, but for the way they so beautifully fit together to tell the story of a young man with stars in his eyes, who jumps a train going through his wind swept hick town for the bright lights of New York city. The album chronicles Frank’s dreams of rising to fame and his eventual crashing fall into madness. This magnum opus was a musical theatre work by Tom Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan – I would have loved to see it!”
And of Cohen:
“I feel lucky to have come across him pretty much by accident as a young man. From the opening guitars and orchestration of Avalanche to the final ‘La la’s’ of Joan of Arc, I was lost deep in a dream listening to this album. These are such pretty lullabies İ almost didn’t notice how harrowing they are until years later. İ guess my world was full of fire and brimstone at 19, so this was the perfect album to soothe the savage beast”.
Interpreting the first album from Johnny Cash’s ‘American’ series that saw Rick Rubin guide the ailing star to one of the most amazing combacks in musical history, Mikelangelo says: “Hearing Johnny Cash with just his guitar for accompaniment, I felt like I was alone with him in the room. He’s sombre and profound one moment, playful and devil may care the next, and his rumbling voice never sounded so good. I’m a baritone too, so Cash’s low notes always make me feel right at home.”
And of Nick Cave:
“Your Funeral, My Trial was the first Bad Seeds album I ever bought. It had just come out, i was a teenager and when the needle hit the record, a whole new dark, theatrical world opened up before me. How could i resist leaping in? I’ve followed Nick ever since and love almost all of his albums, but this one still has the faded yet compelling allure of the first love”.