- GIG REVIEW: Album Launch 19.1.11
- ...."The power of the two drummers lifted the whole thing off the stage over the next two pieces – ‘Lonely’ and ‘Disco Lights’ – melding into a funky skin and wood machine of irresistible force. Then O’Brien took it to a ‘different level’ – clearing the stage and working through the title track, ‘Highway Heart’ with only her guitar and the plaintive cello of Kate Adams beneath her voice. It was a good move and had a stunning effect – her remarkable voice framed by only the barest structure."...... [Read More...]
- Q n A with FRANKIE
- Bridie features in a full page Q n A with FRANKIE magazine issue 45. [Read More...]
- Highway Heart REVIEW
- “Roots, Blues and Rock n Roll songwriter Bridie O’Brien – for years now a bighearted fixture at festivals and rock venues around Australia – built her new album, Highway Heart with just two people. Recorded with polymath producer Syd Green at his Sanctuary Point studio, Mononest, O’Brien plays everything (guitars, lap steel and piano) but bass and drums which Green provides. It is testament to her talent (too weak a word for something this soulful) that Bridie O’Brien can howl 'Rock n Roll Outlaw’ and a few songs later sweetly croon her own ‘Country Song’ – In a genre that grows creatively narrower and narrower in a mistaken crusade for ‘honesty’ and ‘realness’, Highway Heart captures them both and finds time for musical adventure and daring originality. God bless the non-purists…” ~John Hardaker
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