Music

IVAN BEAVIS finds Leonard Cohen on form at a rare live event.

SEVENTY-SIX minutes. That's approximately how long it takes a British audience to submit to the beat, lose their inhibition and shake some arse.

A WISE soul once pontificated that, while the entertainer gives people what they want, the artist gives people what they need.

LONG-time admirers of the music of US singer/songwriter Tom Pacheco waiting patiently for the release of his new studio album next spring should be more than satisfied with this latest release in the Bare Bones series.

THE amazing Modular records have taken over the Coronet and filled it with some of the most amazing dance and electro bands on the circuit. The label's Australian roots show - at least 99 per cent of the huge crowd is from Down Under.

MATT FANCY is captivated by a folk master who defies the usual beard-sporting and sandal-wearing clichés.

THE problem with going to a lot of gigs is that you get jaded watching the same types of bands go through the same types of routines.

ON hearing the opening track of In A Bad Mood, Easy To Say, you could be excused for thinking that this is Geraint Watkins impersonating his some-time collaborator Nick Lowe.

CHARLIE Pickett is an unsung hero of US southern roots rock.

FORMER Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hagar has had a successful career both inside and outside the band, but someone should advise the fifty-something rocker that it is time to hang up his lycra pants and retire to Sunset Strip.