Friday night is the best night for live music and getting to see my favourite Australian singer songwriter at an intimate venue like Ruby's was hard to pass by. A group of friends and I arrived just as the support band Cats are Black got on stage. The band has only been together for 2 months and the singer, Matty Woo, is the tour manager for The Beautiful Girls. They were quite enjoyable as background music for about half an hour but when they got to their last song they had my full attention. For a new band to have even one song as good as "The Beaver Trail Leads to the Country" shows a lot of promise, especially with Matty Woo's voice hitting notes rarely heard since Jeff Buckley died.
Mat McHugh and the Black Bird opened the set with the first single from
Seperatista!, "Darling This Scene Must End" which was the first of about six in a row from his fantastic debut album. The whole band sounded great and featured the drummer from the Beautiful Girls, Bruce Braybrooke. The venue was perfectly suited to the laid back tunes and it was a shame the crowd didn't come to life until the band played some songs from The Beautiful Girls repertoire. Starting with "Dela" he got the crowd singing along to "Let's Take the Long Way Home", "Periscopes" which began with Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble", "Freedom Part 2" and an extended jam version of "Music" which lead into a funky version "Ring the Alarm". As there was no backstage area, Mat announced that they would stay on stage rather than head off for encore and finished with "The Bottle" and my highlight of the night "La Mar". All in all it was a faultless set, getting to hear some classics mixed with some new songs made for a perfect gig. I hope this band will play some more shows around Melbourne and make another album, they did play a new song so the may do so.
Friday night is the best night for live music and getting to see my favourite Australian singer songwriter at an intimate venue like Ruby's was hard to pass by. A group of friends and I arrived just as the support band Cats are Black got on stage. The band has only been together for 2 months and the singer, Matty Woo, is the tour manager for The Beautiful Girls. They were quite enjoyable as background music for about half an hour but when they got to their last song they had my full attention. For a new band to have even one song as good as "The Beaver Trail Leads to the Country" shows a lot of promise, especially with Matty Woo's voice hitting notes rarely heard since Jeff Buckley died.
Mat McHugh and the Black Bird opened the set with the first single from Seperatista!, "Darling This Scene Must End" which was the first of about six in a row from his fantastic debut album. The whole band sounded great and featured the drummer from the Beautiful Girls, Bruce Braybrooke. The venue was perfectly suited to the laid back tunes and it was a shame the crowd didn't come to life until the band played some songs from The Beautiful Girls repertoire. Starting with "Dela" he got the crowd singing along to "Let's Take the Long Way Home", "Periscopes" which began with Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble", "Freedom Part 2" and an extended jam version of "Music" which lead into a funky version "Ring the Alarm". As there was no backstage area, Mat announced that they would stay on stage rather than head off for encore and finished with "The Bottle" and my highlight of the night "La Mar". All in all it was a faultless set, getting to hear some classics mixed with some new songs made for a perfect gig. I hope this band will play some more shows around Melbourne and make another album, they did play a new song so the may do so.
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