Going to see The Necks perform is a leap of faith for audience members.
You can form a rough outline of what to expect – improvised post-jazz played by a three-piece combo of piano, contrabass and drums/percussion. There won’t be anything resembling conventional songcraft and there will be an absence of cliché.
Touring to promote the release of their twenty-first album Travel, they will be appearing around Australia in May and June.
The Necks in Brunswick
- 6:30pm, Tue 16 May, 2023
- Brunswick Ballroom
- GA tickets: $45+BF – this will be a fully seated show
- Tickets here
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Solo performers, as a trio, as a combination of any two members in duo mode – then put in environments like jazz clubs, bars, illustrious theatres and even a handful of arena performances when opening for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. No matter where they are, or in what context you place them, The Necks seem to just make sense.
The Necks are a renowned live act. Listening to their records (and they have a lot of them) isn’t comparable to being at one of the Sydney band’s live shows, which are communal experiences. Conventional popular music performances – where the audience knows the song structures, melodies and progressions in advance – can feel like exchanges between provider and consumer. The Necks inhabit a separate stratum entirely.
Tickets here.
