16 ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY APRIL 11 2019 Stephen Cummings: A farewell to an alternative icon

STEPHEN Cummings, long Cummings said he thought “It’s going to be a really in- hailed as one of Australia’s he ought to come back to Dar- teresting musical experience, I greatest ever songwriters, will win one last time “for the heck hope,” he said. grace the stage for his last ever of it”. “I’ll be playing a mixture of show in Darwin this weekend. “I once made a film clip in everything I’ve done over the Cummings plays The Rails Darwin — I feel like I last 40 years — there’ll be in Parap this Saturday night should’ve been there more,” he some really rocking tunes during what will be his final said. mixed in with some incredibly tour, with the inimitable lyri- “But for the price it costs to sad songs.” cist set to give the audience a fly to Darwin I can probably rousing send-off after a career get to America.” Stephen Cummings spanning five decades and 20 For that reason, Cummings When: Saturday, April 13 7pm studio . said the show is going to be Where: Darwin Railway Club Cummings will share with worth the journey for both per- Tickets: stickytickets.com.au the crowd his two latest releas- former and punters. es. One is a sample of his life’s work — a box set anthology of 50 songs titled A Life is a Life. The other is his latest , Prisoner of Love. Stephen Cummings will Rising to fame as front man perform at the Darwin of ’70s new wave band The Railway Club Sports, Cummings came to prominence with a number of hits including the classic, ‘?’. Cummings then forged an acclaimed solo career with al- bums such as Senso, Lovetown and A New Kind of Blue — the latter of which won an ARIA for Best Adult Contemporary. His eighth album, Falling Swinger, was included in Aus- tralian Rolling Stone’s list of ‘100 essential Australian al- bums’.

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