Concourse Theatre, July 15
A year on, and who’d have thought we’d be back reviewing live streams rather than flesh-and-blood concerts? The row of empty seats just visible in the foreground at Chatswood Concourse carried something of the gloom of a hat on a coffin. Were there any silver lining, it was that in the intervening year the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall series has come along to hoist production values above most of last year’s streaming efforts. The sound was exceptionally clear (if slightly brittle) and the vision good.
It’s hard to imagine a more apt band to capture the prevailing sombre mood than Elysian Fields, especially when concentrating on material from its