Shot by Wes Alan Films at Lefty’s Music Hall, Brisbane QLD May 2021
Review by Good Call Live..
‘Before Champagne plays his last song, he invites anyone who wants to, to play his guitar after the show, saying quite truthfully that “if I can’t break it, no one will”. The end of his set is Same Enemy, another of my favourites, a song that lingers long after you’ve heard it as you mull over enigmatic lyrics - “We never feel a thing until we’ve felt it all / They’re tattooed in our skin and written across our wall… All I could ever be is flying past my front door / And it’s the same enemy trying to keep our hearts from wanting more”. Again, we hear more of the percussion beaten out on his guitar, this time gentler, and delicate melodic progression framing the lyrics. Just in case we weren’t impressed enough, at the end of the song, as it fades to two notes played over again, room and song suspended, Champagne continues to sustain the magic as he lifts the guitar over his head and places it on the ground, all the while still playing those two notes. It’s only once the guitar is silent that we can all take a breath’
15 окт 2024
