Perry Keyes

Saturday 05 December

Perry-Keyes

Renowned singer / songwriter Perry Keyes is returning to the Saucer stage this December. Raised in the inner-city working class suburb of Redfern, Keyes has released four critically acclaimed and award winning albums including the ABC Radio National Album of the Year whilst AMP short listed ‘The Last Ghost Train Home’,and then there’s the ARIA nominated ‘Johnny Ray’s Downtown’. Perry Keyes’ fourth album ‘Sunnyholt’ is both the largely untold, widescreen story of Sydney’s western suburbs diaspora and, more importantly, the personal tale of a family disintegrating under social and economic pressures. Keyes takes his audience into the eye of the storm in a show reminiscent in its muscular theatricality of a Tom Waits or Lou Reed concert. Supporting Perry on the night will be Bek-Jean Stewart. A MUST SEE!

In the ’60s and ’70s over 150,000 people were moved to western Sydney – to Green Valley near Liverpool and the satellite suburbs surrounding Blacktown and Campbelltown – Shalvey, Bidwill, St Marys, Blackett; Minto, Claymore, Airds and Macquarie Fields.

They were poor then – lacking in infrastructure and government support.
They are poor now – populations of young families surviving on the city’s fringe. Many initially came from the inner city suburbs of Redfern, Glebe, Alexandria and Waterloo as the “slums” were cleared for high rise and medium density housing.

Among those moved west were members of Keyes’ extended family – aunts, uncles and cousins. Many were promised jobs that never eventuated. Being on the dole became
a way to survive. Generational welfare became a way of life.

The consequences of that way of life have often proved brutal and unforgiving.

Sunnyholt is about songs delivered in a passionate manner from a compassionate perspective. They are songs that are telling without ever being didactic; heartbreaking without ever being sentimental.

Where Keyes’ second album, The Last Ghost Train Home left off, Sunnyholt continues, telling the journey of many, while focusing on a single family who fell through the cracks.

It is uncompromising, bruising and tender. And won’t be forgotten any time soon.

‘Perry is the real deal. Songs from the heart, from the Aussie street. He is a rare talent’ – Peter Garrett

‘Perry Keyes is a Sydney romantic who can see the battered beauty beneath the gloss’ – Sydney Morning Herald

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Tickets from $18 + bf
  • Ticket Pricing
  • event_seat
    Allocated Seating $27 + bf
  • Standing Room $18 + bf
  • At the Door $20
Doors Open 6pm (seats/dining), 8pm (standing)
Showtime(s):
8.40pm