Isaak rocks Leeuwin
8th March 2009, 10:45 WST
Chris Isaac performs at Leeuwin Concert in Margaret River. Picture: Astrid Volzke
Classic rock and roll, high powered hillbilly and power ballads brought the house down when Chris Isaak and his band blasted on to the stage at Leeuwin Estate’s gum tree amphitheatre last night.
It was a high-amplitude performance that started without fanfare – Isaak simply walked on stage and launched into the first number – and ended with thunderous applause.
GALLERY: Leeuwin Concert
For nearly two hours, the 52-year-old Californian cavorted, crooned and wailed his way through a diverse play list, alternating note-perfect rock, his signature rockabilly sound and plaintiff acoustic weepies.
Baby boomers “moshed” at the front. The young and the glamorous swayed to the rhythms in couture ball gowns and the punters were in raptures. And everyone marvelled at perhaps the world’s only mirror-ball lounge suit, which Isaaks wore for the second set.
Not since the 2006 low point – Amici Forever’s risible cruise-ship cheesiness – has the Leeuwin concert audience been delivered such a full force evening of marvellous music, easy humour and extraordinary showmanship.
Read the full review in tomorrow’s edition of The West Australian.
ROBERT BROADFIELD
