Ching Pei Khoo, Journalist

"They just had a great dinner at the NGV, Naoko says, but they are still hungry and want to share a favourite national obsession with us - 'delicious food!'"

"Had their backing band joined them, adding rich layers of brass and strings, it would definitely have hiked the ethereal factor up by a few dozen notches."

"Snarski firmly anchors us in Melbourne - speaking of walking down Degreaves Street and turning to find Lou Reed walking beside him before 'we both decided to get off this cloud'."

"The highlight of this all-too-brief evening is 'Moving', a song Belling wrote in the wake of a string of personal challenges."

"We say worst things to each other at rehearsals," Albare winks as an aside to the audience.

They are "the aural equivalent of liquid gold and silver coalescing into one new element".

"Tiersen urgently saws his violin to such dizzying, deafening climaxes that plumes of smoke literally billow above him..."

"[Belin] partly mimes a series of exaggerated gestures and swaggers like a dignified stray cat from the well-heeled cobblestones of Parisian streets."

"Certain scenes test our imagination of O'Connor as 19-year-old Brice."

"There are a couple of mild twists, plenty of macabre sight gags, devilishly witty lyrics and dialogue stuffed with black humour."