Fridays are back at Cross Street with music of all shape and colour.
8.30pm Robbie Melville Quartet
The Robbie Melville Quartet is the latest project from the guitarist and composer, winner of the Instrumental Category of the 2018 International Song Competition. With the sympathetic rhythm section of bassist Tamara Murphy and drummer Maddison Carter, and featuring Zoe Knighton on cello, the quartet explore a juxtaposition of heavily structured arrangements with free spirited extemporisation, informed in equal measure by contemporary jazz and Norwegian folk, the sparse and playful writings of Richard Brautigan, the photography of Viktor Kolář, the film soundtracks of Mark Orton. Delicate, humourous, ethereal, intimate and quirky.
“While subtly evading expectations, Robbie Melville loads his music with a restrained melancholy conveying innocence rather than knowingness, the upshot being an unusual emotional ambiguity blending resignation and contentment”. - John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald
Beautifully recorded, Tangled Trails faithfully captures Melville as poet and storyteller, spinning sonic fictions - Des Cowley, Rhythms Magazine
9.30pm +F:rst Sunn+
After releasing their debut album earlier this year +F:rst Sunn+ return to their spiritual home to begin their next chapter together. It has become abundantly clear over the last couple of years of working together that this group of musicians are onto something special and recognising that these types of connections are rare and fleeting Stephen Hornby has wasted no time writing some new material that digs deeper into and expands on what this band can be. Come hear us premiere some new pieces as well as a couple of classics!
Stephen Hornby - Bass
Cheryl Durongpisitkul - Alto Saxophone
Andrew Saragossi - Tenor Saxophone
Tom Stewart-Toner - Guitar
Phil Collings - Drums
https://frstsunn.bandcamp.com/album/f-rst-sunn
https://youtu.be/qM9aPw5FP18?si=JT4CuCgEw7vHxBUJ
Doors at 8pm music 8.30pm
$20 full $10 concession Tix at the door or here