Review from the Music & Me. Blog: Rick Astley Live @ The Enmore Theatre

Check out this fantastic review & video on Rick's Sydney show @ the Enmore Theatre, 25th November from the Music & Me. blog by Matthew Hocter.

There are some awesome reviews of other live shows & albums as well!

Video: Rick Astley Hits Medley

Check out this Rick Astley Medley vidow, found by Mavi & posted on YouTube by Sexfactor17

 

Review: Fans melt once more for king of '80s cheese

A not very flattering review by a journo who attended Rick's Enmore Theatre, Sydney concert.

RICK ASTLEY
Enmore Theatre, November 25

Date published: Tuesday 27th November, 2012
From: The Sydney Morning Herald
Reviewed by George Palathingal

IF YOU'VE been wondering what '80s sensation Rick Astley has been doing for much of the past 25 years - and a packed Enmore Theatre on this night remarkably suggests many have - the answer became clear very quickly: he's been doing this.

Photo: Getty Images

Not just playing the hits (or, arguably, hit, in Never Gonna Give You Up) that made him enormous for what seemed like about 10 minutes in 1987 and throwing in occasionally familiar later material and covers to fill out the set. He has been playing them to crowds present to hear that song and maybe a couple of others (Together Forever, Cry for Help) and developing an engaging stage persona to deal with them.

Looking as though he hadn't aged a day in a quarter of a century, the 46-year-old Astley fired off one-liners and self-deprecating put downs before anyone else got the chance.


''Ladies, if you've got a handbag, put it on the bloody floor,'' he demanded, knowing certain songs belong on trashy nightclub dance floors in '80s Britain.

When a fan in the front row held up an old album sleeve to sign, he acknowledged its old picture, mid-song, with ''I've still got the wig''.

He even told us when it was a good time to go to the bar or toilet before playing a new or more obscure tune.

It was RSL-type entertainment, basically - as memorable for the amusing (and notably profane) banter between songs as the hits - performed by a man who, having spent the previous night in more familiar surrounds in Rooty Hill, acknowledged his gratitude at getting to do his thing in a proper gig venue.

Of course, the majority of the music pretty much defined ''disposable pop'', all faux-funk guitars, cheesy synths and Astley's foghorn croon, although there was a surprise when he took to the drum kit to proficiently play and sing AC/DC's Highway to Hell.

Then again, the evening was never about high-quality songwriting or spectacular musicianship - it was about taking you back in time and putting a smile on your face. And in that regard, Astley was never gonna let you down.

Review: Yvette's Rick Astley Canberra Concert Review

Check out this awesome review of Rick's Canberra  performance by Yvette from the Look What I Made blog!

Photos: RICK ASTLEY, Evan Theatre - Penrith Panthers 23 November 2012

Check out Rockchique Photography's photos from Rick's Even Theatre show @ the Penrith Panthers!


Photos: RICK ASTLEY, Evan Theatre - Penrith Panthers 23 November 2012 -
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