As the book The 100 Best Australian Albums highlighted, “The Angels can lay claim to being Australia’s longest-lasting band.” And when you’ve been around since 1974 and had 13 classic albums, the hardest part of any gig is compiling a set list. It’s a problem that’s now been solved. Welcome to…Brewster Brothers Electric – Playing The Angels rarities.
“We’re not badging these shows as ‘The Angels’,” John Brewster explains. “But we are doing Angels songs … the ones that we don’t normally play.”
So, what’s the story? Well, the Brewster Brothers just love to play – it’s what they’ve been doing for the past five decades. So, while Dave Gleeson is off touring with the Jets, John and Rick have decided to take the opportunity to perform some of the songs they’ve been itching to play. It’s a gift for Angels fans – songs they’ve been hoping to see live for years. Now, we might be calling them “rarities”, but these are songs that other bands would base their entire set around. We’re talking tracks such as Save Me, Invisible Man, When The Time Comes, Talk The Talk, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Small Price To Pay, Don’t Waste My Time, Moving On, Night Attack, Nations Are Falling, City Out Of Control, Broken Windows.
No wonder the legendary American critic David Fricke called The Angels “a guaranteed great time anywhere”.
The tour follows the release of the acclaimed documentary The Angels: Kickin’ Down The Door, which had its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival. Directed by Madeleine Parry, who made the Emmy-winning Hannah Gadsby: Nanette, the film tells the tale of the band That “revolutionised Aussie music”. And to celebrate this ground-breaking tour, the guys are launching a brand-new 4-track EP called Lives Of Grace, featuring the tracks – ‘Night Attack’, a 2023 new recording of the title track from The Angels’ 1981 album, along with ‘Lives Of Grace,’ ‘Moving On’ and ‘Small Price To Pay’.
We had a chance to sit down with John Brewster to talk about The Brewster Brothers: Electric as the band prepares to tour the east coast with classic songs from The Angels in tow plus we get into some history of The Angels including meeting Doc Neeson for the first time, early successes, Symphony Of Angels and much more.
Check out the full interview
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uly5vNUdtrg
Listen to Podcast version: https://spoti.fi/3KiSax1
Get tickets here: https://theangels.com.au/gigs
