22Dec/080
you can’t open your presents until you’ve been
20/12/08
Darren Hanlon
St Stephens, Newtown
Support dude for this churchbound Christmas show was a mountain of a dude called Oliver Mann, who had a remarkable, resonant, sonorous voice that needed a much better showcase than rumbling over his very shitty acoustic guitar hacking. Hanlon did a cute enough set with an appropriately informal vibe, but hours of waiting on hard wooden pews underscored why I haven’t been to a church on purpose in a good fourteen years or so.
