Joan Sutherland theatre, Sydney Opera House
The ascendant musician channels the feeling of being isolated in a cavernous space in her livestreamed album launch
“I did think the first time I’d be here there would be a few more people in the crowd, but I’m imagining you all like an NRL match – cardboard cutouts.”
The Canowindra-born, Sydney-based singer-songwriter Gordi, AKA Sophie Payten, sits at a grand piano, talking straight at me. She is on the stage of the Sydney Opera House’s Joan Sutherland theatre; I am at home, in Melbourne. That quip, issued by Payten in a deep, resonant speaking voice not dissimilar to the soft-edged baritone she sings in, is received by myself and 200-odd others, all of us experiencing the ascendant musician’s auspicious album launch, her Opera House debut, in a decidedly inauspicious manner – via YouTube.
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