Tex Perkins live in concert.
ON TOUR

Tex Perkins

25
critic concert reviews
folk

How good are they LIVE?

Live Rating  

76
%
Based on 
25
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Critics Consensus

Based on 25 concert reviews, the critics consensus is that Tex Perkins is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. Tex Perkins concert reviews describe live shows and performances as authentic, raucous, masterful, dramatic, and intense.

How long are their concerts?

How long are Tex Perkins concerts? Tex Perkins concerts usually last two hours.

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Artist Info

Genre
folk
Origin
Darwin, Australia (12/28/1964)
Bio
Tex Perkins (real name Greg Perkins) is an iconic Australian singer-songwriter, who is widely known for fronting popular surf / roots band, The Cruel Sea, and legendary swamp / blues band, the Beasts of Bourbon.
Has Performed With
Tex, Don and Charlie, Don and Charlie, Dark Horses, Band of Gold
Artist Website

Critic Concert Reviews

Backseat Mafia

February 22, 2025
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Tex Perkins & The Beasts Deliver a Raw, Unrelenting Lesson in Rock Manning Bar, Sydney 22.02.2025

Backseat Mafia

September 23, 2023
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Tex Perkins Man In Black, State Theatre Sydney 200923

Scenestr (Australia)

December 9, 2020
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On a humid and warm Friday night (4 December), an eager crowd gathered outside the glass door entry to Kings Beach Tavern.

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

October 1, 2020
60
%
Tex Perkins and Jez Mead show the honeymoon ain't over yet

The Music (Australia)

March 17, 2018
%
Even his Texness admits it: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm crook," but he adds a reasonable proviso, "but luckily this is music that suits being crook.

The Guardian (UK)

August 24, 2017
80
%
Their new album is only their third in 24 years but you wouldn’t know it from their show.

The Music (Australia)

August 23, 2017
%
Instead, tonight's chill vibe was essential and masterful - a harping back to the pre-rock times of country and blues and music that doesn't need 45 pedals and nob to 11 to make it hit you in the guts.

Past critic reviews published in

The Music (Australia), The Music (Australia), The AU Review (Australia), The AU Review (Australia), The AU Review (Australia) and more

Image Credit

Eva Rinaldi [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons

Latest Release

Danger Has Been Kind (feat. Matt Walker) - Single (23 July 2021)