Kristy Wandmaker, Journalist

Ben Folds & The Sydney Symphony Orchestra impressed

Step-Panther mix the old and the new at Forresters.

Wil Wagner is brilliant, but it's Georgia Maq who makes us weep in Newtown.

Violent Soho rock hard (like they always do) in Sydney.

The love between the bands is genuine, with dedications to the biggest dreamers in Sydney thrown in amongst a torrent of piss-taking.

Musically they’re still treading the line between Carl Perkins and T Rex at Celtic Park, and it’s sweaty, sexy fun for all.

With a sparkle in his jibes and a brevity in his lyrics, he’s the sort of man that makes you want to chat, to dig a little more and to listen to him spin a yarn – schooled in Johnson, voice like Cocker and all over an Aussie bloke.