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THE NECKS
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What more can be said about the Necks? The trio of Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton and Tony Buck have a career spanning almost 4 decades and yet they are still able to surprise by being exactly who they are.
Informed by jazz but using a vocabulary that is unique to them, they have forged a singular path in the realm of improvised music. On record they are at turns meditative, menacing, sinuous and serpentine – as can be attested to on their 20+ albums. But it’s live that the most unpredictable elements of the Necks appear.
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A show with the Necks takes place across two sets of an undetermined length. Beginning without preconceptions the music swells organically, the three voices intertwining in a sonic play that is part conversation and part choir, all the while managing to eschew genre cliches and references. Night after night, never repeated, and yet never sounding like anything but The Necks. It’s a remarkable and revelatory journey and one which any fan of exploratory music must embark upon.
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THE NECKS
Melbourne: Melbourne Recital Centre; Thursday 29 January
Pre Sale Ticket Link (Code: Disquiet)
Brisbane: Brisbane Powerhouse; Friday 30 January
Presale Ticket Link
Byron Bay: Byron Theatre; Saturday 31 January
Presale Ticket Link
Canberra: The Street Theatre; Saturday 7 February
Presale Ticket Link (Code: Disquiet)
Barraga Bay: Four Winds; Sunday 8 February
Tickets on Sale December 17
Avoca: Avoca Beach Theatre; Sunday 22 February
Presale Ticket Link (Code: Topshelf)
Sydney: City Recital Hall; Thursday 26 February
Presale Ticket Link
Wollongong: Wollongong Town Hall; Friday 27 February
Presale Ticket Link (Code: Disquiet)
General Public Tickets
Go On Sale 10AM Thursday 16/10/2025
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About DISQUIET
On Disquiet, The Necks stretch their immersive, shape-shifting sound across three discs and more than three hours of labyrinthine, patient intensity. This is their twentieth studio recording and it marks the 39th year of the band’s existence.
Meticulously recorded and sculpted, the four extended pieces on Disquiet see Tony Buck, Chris Abrahams, and Lloyd Swanton pushing at the outer edges of their collective intuition, building and unraveling hypnotic structures with microscopic focus. Present is the usual arsenal of piano, double bass, and drums, and all the in-between of sounds undefined and sources obscured.
The music of The Necks has always carried a profound sense of shared responsibility –– between the players, of course, in their utter commitment to the improvisational –– but also between the work and its audience. With music so open, there are profound opportunities to choose: what to focus on, whether to focus at all, etc. Disquiet takes this further: there is no particular listening order prescribed. There is no “Disc 1, Disc 2, Disc 3.” The music itself seems to stretch time, and this presentation challenges ideas of sequencing. The Necks, one may argue, are a mode of discovery as much as they are a band.
Regarding the sound itself, The Necks’ signature restraint and textural depth remain, with subtle tonal shifts, evolving motifs, and roiling phases of keen and propulsive clatter, strains of subdued surprise and unmatched intentionality –– as ever, expansive and absorbing.
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Why start a music environment? The truth is I love music, I love writing, and I love life. I work with musicians every day, and I feel certain that I will be until they put me in the ground. I have been managing people in businesses of some sort for over thirty five years so along the way I have developed some “wisdom” from my regular and constant “observations”.
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