Okkervil River
Forum Theatre
Friday 14 October 2011
Forum TheatreFriday 14 October 2011
Okkervil River
154 Flinders Street
Melbourne 3000
Australia
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Melbourne 3000
Australia
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Tel: +61-(0)3-9299 9700
Web: www.marrinertheatres.com.au
The poster kids of high concept alt-country, Texan six-piece Okkervil River can also lay claim to being amongst the most critically lauded indie bands of the past decade.
This Austin-based outfit combine rambunctious country underpinnings with flecks of drunkenly melancholic rock, but their musical sorties often range into surprisingly lyrical and complex territories. Touring on the back of their sixth studio album, I Am Very Far, a magisterial assortment of paeans to the difficulties of being alive, Okkervil River return to Australia in typically raucous fashion, proving to be exuberant in loneliness and exultant in defeat.
Melbourne-based folk balladeers Roller One form the perfect aside to Okkervil River’s singular brand of boisterous gloom. Wielding guitar, piano and double bass, and featuring frontman Fergus McAlpin’s startlingly intimate voice, Roller One sing simple songs of things lost and love forgotten. Sparsely composed and precise, these are soft and bittersweet hymns to the occasional beauty of the sorrowful moment.
This Austin-based outfit combine rambunctious country underpinnings with flecks of drunkenly melancholic rock, but their musical sorties often range into surprisingly lyrical and complex territories. Touring on the back of their sixth studio album, I Am Very Far, a magisterial assortment of paeans to the difficulties of being alive, Okkervil River return to Australia in typically raucous fashion, proving to be exuberant in loneliness and exultant in defeat.
Melbourne-based folk balladeers Roller One form the perfect aside to Okkervil River’s singular brand of boisterous gloom. Wielding guitar, piano and double bass, and featuring frontman Fergus McAlpin’s startlingly intimate voice, Roller One sing simple songs of things lost and love forgotten. Sparsely composed and precise, these are soft and bittersweet hymns to the occasional beauty of the sorrowful moment.
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