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"She wandered on stage, pushed her white locks out of her face, smiled reassuringly at the audience, and sat down with her guitar, flanked on one side by her percussionist, on the other by her lead guitarist. A sparse lineup, to be sure, but one that seemed to work from the very beginning. Her opening song, Closer, set a thoughtful, contemplative mood which was sustained for the duration of her short set – highlights, mostly, from her debut album.
 
Elliot showed that she can sing from the heart, tapping well-springs of emotion most of us have no idea how to express. She stared at the crowd through hooded eyes, facing it down, daring it to take note of what she had to say. It worked too. By the third song, Rivers of You, Elliot had the crowd enthralled. The one cover in the set, Red by Elbow, served only to demonstrate that Elliot's songs are capable of standing alongside the best. The highlight of the set came with Ashes, a song inspired, so Elliot said, by 9/11. It's somber tone and heartrending lyrics captured the surreal horror of dust and powder and cinders slowly descending from a bright September sky. One look at the audience and you could almost see those images we've all seen a thousand times passing through their mind's eyes.

Jude Elliot left us too soon, but I have no doubt we'll be hearing more of her. My one complaint is that in the crush to get out of The Gov at the end of the night I forgot to buy Elliot's CD. Oh well; it means I'll have to go see her again …."

review by Snapec, Faster Louder, November 2008


Jude Elliot and Carus

WEDNESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2010

REPUBLIC BAR, HOBART 9pm

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Jude is in the studio finishing her new studio album
"A Poem for Rose"
and is set to tour in conjunction with it's release towards the end of 2010.