Tex Perkins

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Critic Consensus

Based on 24 concert reviews, the critic 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.

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Latest Release

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

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

Critic Concert Reviews

Backseat Mafia

September 23, 2023

Tex Perkins Man In Black, State Theatre Sydney 200923

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Scenestr (Australia)

December 9, 2020

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

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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

October 1, 2020

Tex Perkins and Jez Mead show the honeymoon ain't over yet

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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.

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The Guardian (UK)

August 24, 2017

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

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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.

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