On Sunday afternoon, Australian sensation Matt Corby performed his second show in the United States for a crowd of no more than 40 people in the backyard of a Brentwood home.
The intimate gathering brought together people from all over the world for the sole purpose of attendees lending their ears to 2007’s Australian Idol runner up and singer-songwriting heartthrob, Matt Corby.
Opening for the Secret Garden Show, which has been 21-year-old Corby’s tour for the last several months in Australia, was Juliet Piper and Robert Kelly. Both singer-songwriters lead into Corby’s performance perfectly.
With the entirety of the crowd spread out on a lawn surrounded by lemon trees and garden boxes, Corby was front and center and not a word was uttered when he began strumming his guitar with no introduction necessary.
Up until the sprinklers began to go off and the show was hilariously interrupted, Corby mesmerized his fans starting off his set with “Big Eyes”, as song that explains a love lost. Sounding like a soulful Bon Iver meshed in heaven with Mumford and Sons, Corby’s unique sound captures the audience immediately.
Following the introductory track, Corby performed “Letters”, post making the disclaimer that he wrote the song when he was 17 and at the time that he wrote it he was very naïve. In spite of being a song written by a teenager, the audience responded with jaws dropped and camera phones held high recording each and every note.
The next song Corby performed he expressed was named “Untitled” and was a song about a 17-page letter that an ex-girlfriend had given to him after a break-up that he let burn in a fire after reading just one page. Depressing lyrically or not the song put the audience in a trance with the magic of a loop pedal and a mastery of reverberation.
As the Los Angeles air began to cool and the sun began to dim, Corby went into the final half of his breathtaking performance.
The audience, slightly damped from the aforementioned sprinkler incident, huddled closer together remaining in silence as Corby soared into the title song off of his “My False – EP”. After wooing the audience with his more than perfect pitch, “My False” carried off into mesmerizing guitar riffs that transferred into “Winter”, the title track of his “Transition To Colour – EP”.
Corby closed the show with his cover of the Black Keys “Lonely Boy” followed by his newest single “Brother” off of latest EP “Into the Flame”.
The show ended in a split second of silence followed by cheering of every single person in the yard. Corby left every single person in the crowd in awe and amazement of his talent.
After a conversation with the artist himself he expressed how exhausted he was from jet lag after coming to America just a few days prior and already playing at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles a couple nights before. He said, “I am shaking from how tired I am” after playing a complete set on top of feeling slightly ill.
Corby, already an Aussie sensation, is no doubt going to be a music in no time the United States just around the corner.
