The light show was ridiculously good they even manage to fade out a song beautifully with the whole band. I feel like I’m watching a boy band/ barbershop/ rock band ( though they’re no Royal Blood, which I’m still recovering from) and it is just blissful. When they play ‘Good Morning Judge’, Rick regales us with the recollection of when Graham played the judge in the film clip, dressed up as an old man, with grey hair… cue sideways glance and audience irony appreciation moment. Founding member Graham Gouldman (on bass, mostly), drummer Paul Burgess (who joined for the first tour in 1973) and lead guitarist Rick Fenn (joining in 1976) churn out their musical art and anecdotal sense of humour – spoken and unspoken – swapping instruments and banter, with ‘Art For Art’s Sake’, ‘Life Is A Minestrone’ and ‘The Dean And I’. Although there were enough instruments on stage to suggest a ten-piece ensemble, five players are on stage perfectly executing these nostalgic song-nuggets in real time. 10cc kick off with one of their early releases, ‘The Wall St Shuffle’. Purposefully, he brought two covers with him to please the already-willing crowd: a reinvention of Sonny Bono’s track ‘Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)’, originally released by Cher, and finishing with John Denver classic ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’, cleverly positioning the music history lesson at 1971 the year prior to 10cc’s conception. Almost distracting me from the curiousness of his insistence to always stomp on the ‘one’.
His song ‘My Sweet Carolina’ was a stand-out piece, really emphasising his vocal skill. Local alt-country troubadour Jason Ayres opened the show at Perth’s Astor Theatre (9 May) with his stomp box, vocal-harmony pedal and originals.
A 10cc show is a fabulous feast of musicality, history and fairytales, from three of the lads that lived it and two fitting comrades.
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