Tom Waits depicted the poor, the punks, the hobos and the lost. He could also write a love song to shatter Cupid’s bow. Stewart D’Arrietta covers this terrain of tenderness to terror and all the pathos in between. He has a long relationship with the music, and an affinity deeper than most having developed the hit show over two decades. One of the 10 best shows at Edinburgh Fringe according to the United Kingdom’s The Sunday Times, his characteristic gravel-voiced sensitivity brings out the shapes and shades of legendary songs such as Invitation to the Blues, Martha, and the wrenching Tom Traubert’s Blues.

Band Members include Philip Rex on double bass, Hugh Harvey on drums, Jonathan Skovron on guitar and vocal and keys by Stewart D’Arrietta.

This show is happening at Bird’s Basement in Melbourne Central Business District and Memo Music Hall in St Kilda. Please check the website when booking.