in concert

live @ Chapel off Chapel

In the searing heat of a Melbourne January evening the city’s biggest GLB&T community arts festival known as Midsumma Festival got underway in various parts of a town in a total summer meltdown. The festival has run for close to 20 years and has showcased the talents of many of the country’s most alternative artists across a myriad of mediums and genres. It was in this context that I was invited along to see Amarevois, a Melbourne based read more...

live @ kitten club

Tony Starr’s Kitten club is nestled in a tiny lane in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD and has played host to a whole subculture of Melbourne’s alternative musicians over the past few years. People come here to listen to something different and that was exactly what I was promised when I went along to see amarevois in November.Sidling up to the bar, the room was three quarter full when the band made there way from amongst the crowd itself to the stage. Amarevois on piano and vocals, Robert Bell on drums and Clint Quan on bass. read more...

live @ palais

The historic Palais theatre is deep in the heart of the Spa Country in Hepburn, about an hour out of Melbourne. During the Boite Singer’s Festival, I was lucky enough to see amarevois perform outdoor opera in an intimate setting, so when I spied her name on the list of so-called ‘local’ performers destined for the iconic theatre, I headed over to check it out. Snuggled somewhat uncomfortably between a young local heavy rock band and a much older local country legend read more...

live @ boite singer's festival

The Boite Singer’s Festival is a veritable feast of singers and musicians held in January across many venues in and around Daylesford, a popular tourist region about an hour out of Melbourne. One of the more intimate shows I got to see was Amarevois live in the Mediterranean courtyard of Kouklas’, the favoured coffee house in the main strip of Daylesford itself, run by the affable and slightly eccentric Greek, Jimmy Frangos. A humble chalkboard announced the bill, including the pick of the crop of the local poets and folk read more...

live @ aquarium

Driving to the gig on a splendid April evening. “…we’re just two lost souls swimmin’ in a fish bowl….year after year….” Pink Floyd gets me in the mood as I pull up to The Aquarium, Melbourne’s newest cabaret club for ‘alternative’ (read: ‘weirdo’!) musicians in the famous and groovy Brunswick Street strip. I am told that it’s Amarevois’ first ‘real show’, but  I find that a bit hard to believe, because there are 400 maniacs packed into see her, and there’s more lighting read more...

live@darkbeat

Christmas 2003. 2 a.m and hot as hell. Darkbeat, a special Xmas breakbeat night in a little laneway in the main Melbourne grid, plays host to something special. Over the past year or so, Scrambler’s seminal breakbeat track ‘Free’ featuring the beautiful vocals of Amarevois has been on every playlist across the globe for those in the know, and has received high praise from some of the biggest names in the business, such as Phil K, Simon Digweed and Sasha just to name a few. read more...

live@ the convent gallery

Being a bit of an ‘Early Music nerd, I copped my fair share of flack during high school, even from the classically inclined people, which numbered many in my prissy private school. But in recent times, some of those same people have cropped up at the odd Renaissance or Baroque concert here and there, much to my amusement. When I asked them about this, they claimed that they hadn’t intended on attending ‘Early Music’ (they made the talking marks as they said this), but had stumbled across read more...