Half Moon Run

With their latest album, this band have come back to those unmistakable melodies

They played groovy, heartland rock songs complete with guitar solos; alt-country numbers that featured slide guitars; atmospheric, slow spacey songs; noisy kraut songs and some wavy psych stuff. After one of their new songs, which was acoustic and cosmic in equal parts, a fan screamed, Yeehaw!

The audience was palpably teeming; shifting from foot to foot impatiently while standing shoulder to shoulder with a full house of Half Moon Run’s fans.

Half Moon Run; have always demonstrated their strengths as a live act. Onstage at The Triffid the group could do little to displace the fact. Returning to Australia for the first time since 2014, the quartet’s welcoming crowd teemed with excitement as the Canadian outfit took the stage.

I’m the type of person that feeds off the energy of the crowd, and so the idea of staying relatively stationary for the entirety of a concert makes me a little nauseous.

Half Moon RunRBC BluesfestReviewed WednesdayThe half moon that hung over the Canadian War Museum was the cherry on top of a glorious performance by Half Moon Run at RBC Ottawa Bluesfest on Wednesday.

Bergenfest, Bergen, Norway