Concrete Playground

Nothing disappointing has ever come from a Sarah Blasko album. Her songs are sweet but never naive, and her propensity to write about personal battles with a voice as strong and frail as woven spiderwebs reveals something of her old-fashioned soul.

She sadly left our shores a few months back to launch her latest album, As Day Follows Night, in the UK and leap from England to France, Scotland, Sweden, Norway and back again. New environments lead to new inspirations, so new material is something to be certain of in this upcoming Australian tour. Her tweets confirm she's interested in revealing some new material, but we've been promised a performance scattered with the diamonds of her three-album repertoire.

And, considering she recently released a bonus disc of musical covers from Fame to The Sound of Music and admitted to shedding a tear or two through Billy Elliot (she saw the musical on Broadway), perhaps some show-tune styled numbers and elaborate costumes will round out the set?