It’s a fine piece of irony that the pivotal album which started the genre of studio-produced progam rock music should make such a first-class opening half to a live concert.
And when the second half comprises “arguably the greatest rock band ever’s” most ambitious work, aided by the greatest producer and arranger, then the odds against pulling it off lengthen considerably.
None of this stood in the way of Spiritworks and Tim Woods’ presentation of Sgt Peppers and Abbey Road Back 2 Back featuring a superband of six frontmen and an array of some of the best working musicians on Australia’s pop scene.
Add the perfect venue in the State Theatre with its mixture of the quirky with the kitsch, and such a lovely audience, most of whom lived through the years of Beatlemania, and you have a cracking night of nostalgic indulgence
The scene was set with sitar and tabla, accompanied by clouds of incense. These musicians would come back later for their one big number of the night, George Harrison’s Within You Without You, sung superbly by Mark Seymour of Hunters and Collectors fame.
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