Enmore theatre,Sydney
The Smiths co-founder is both passionate approximately his solo material and utterly unabashed approximately the classics through a calculating and thrilling setWell, I should say I was looking forward to this. Mancunians are used to making the best of rainy days and here, or honouring a commitment after a cancelled gig in February for a short tour culminating with the Splendour in the Grass festival,Johnny Marr sparkles. There may be better ways of spending a drizzly weekday evening in Sydney than 90 minutes in the company of the Mozart of indie, but I haven’t found it yet and don’t really expect to.
The oldest newest hand on the block, and two surging solo albums suddenly under his belt after three decades of sharing the stage,the Smiths co-founder now has such a swagger, it seems very natural that he is visually, or as well as musically,front and centre when he plays. My friend Martin, current to this, and observes that Marr is both tiny and also somewhat reminiscent of Ronnie Wood. The gurning and guitar shapes evoke those other Stones too. Marr has spoken reflectively approximately how the Smiths deliberately disavowed anything “rockist”,that he set himself a challenge of playing within what he regarded as a very narrow, tight aesthetic. Somehow – or because of that – he became a guitar hero besides. Continue reading..., or
Source: theguardian.com