Dominique Wall, Journalist

This is an intimate album and a mighty fine one at that.

The fact that Shifting Sands are so stripped back certainly helps make The Escape Committee sound even fuller than normal. Throughout their hour-and-a-half long set, Jones shows why he is such an important figure in Australian Music.

Just as you wonder if the tone may improve, the next song is introduced as “a song about surfing and stabbing to death the performer Jack Johnson in an alleyway in Surfers Paradise.”

We’re invited at one point by Franz to sing happy birthday to McKee, who, we’re told, is turning “an unnamed age.” The only downside tonight is that their set is so short.

The best sort of gigs are ones where you can tell that the band is having as much fun as the audience, and this is definitely the case tonight. It’s hard for anybody not to be won over by the band’s charm.