Ed Kuepper - Sydney - September 21 2023

Let’s start by acknowledging the band members who brought so much of the night’s magnificent sound to these Ed Kuepper classics: Peter Oxley on bass, Alister Spence on keyboards, Mark Dawson on drums and Eamon Dillworth on brass. I’ve seen Ed with a band before (The Saints and The Aints!) and I’ve been to numerous solo shows, but this was the first time I got to experience live those wonderful early songs as they’d been recorded. It was in fact the first live band experience of Ed Kuepper’s solo material since 2009. The tour coincided with the remastering of “Electrical Storm” (1985) and “Honey Steel’s Gold” (1991) and as such most of the night’s 12 songs came from those two albums. It was a difficult choice deciding what I’d take home with me but I finally settled on these five songs:
King of Vice (00:10)
Electrical Storm (12:27 )
Rainy Night (22:41)
All of These Things (29:38)
Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You (37:45)
I’d love to see Ed touring with this band again after the remastering of some of his other albums but I’m not going to hold my breath. Ed doesn't like to stand still for very long. Once one project has been completed, he moves onto something else. Still, wouldn’t it be great to see “Everybody’s Got To”, “Today Wonder” or “Frontierland” (to name just a couple) given the same live treatment.