Grant Mortensen

Little Bushmen VS APO

Tue 15 Jul ’08, 11 comments

Sunday night was a cracker at the Auckland Town Hall as The Little Bushmen took on the might of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. I must say, that the "Orchestra sound" kicks ass and i would recomend to everyone regardless of musical taste to treat their ears to some beautiful sounding, organised chaos.
There was a good sized crowd, most of the seating was taken up and the "standing" crowd was respectable enough, although in my opinion i think the show was easier to appreciate when seated.
Having not attended any of the previous "Band VS Orchestra" type gigs over the last couple of months, but read alot of the reviews of the shows, i was wary of how the show would come off. I should not have worried both the Little Bushmen and the APO exceeded all of my expectations. The "drum off" was just unbelivable and the version of Nature of Man will stick with me for a long time yet, in fact i spent most of the gig with my mouth open in awe, waiting for what was gonna happen next.
As the show was being recorded i can only guess that we will soon see a DVD or live CD from the Little Bushmen, i enthusiastically recomend that you get out and get a copy of a creative and interesting, not to mention very entertaining musical recording. You won't be disappointed.