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    Grace Cummings and Band
    Metro Social Club, Sydney
    Saturday, August 3 2024
    Photos: Sandra Kingston

    Grace Cummings is a once-in-generation Australian artist.

    It is two years since I first caught her at the Great Club in Marrickville in Sydney’s inner-west, with less than a hundred others on a cold Thursday night.

    It was a show by a remarkable artist with swagger and brutally heart wrenching songs that left us in awe.

    Accompanied by a band with attitude, she took her vocals from a whisper to paint-stripping level, leaving the hairs on your arms standing up.   

    Her remarkable album “Storm Queen” has been on my turntable regularly since, but her records don’t fully capture the live experience.