Review: CD
(with bonus DVD)
Mark Trevorrow: "It’s About Time"
(2004 ABC Music / Universal)
Review 29th
March 2004, By John Frame for Queer Radio on 4ZZZ fm102.1
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"It's About Time" is a fun CD – rich in entertainment value
and spiked with an adequate dose of humour - but
also with unquestionable quality in both performance and
production. Representative of the cabaret shows Mark has been staging
for the last year or more, the CD also reflects his enthusiastic
penchant for Frank Sinatra, the performer. The bonus DVD includes full film clips for every song on
the CD - with much of the footage based on vintage Trevorrow
family Super 8's. An added feature is a documentary on the making
of the album and insightful comments regarding each song - with Mark speaking
often from the perspective of an openly gay performer. Mark has also chosen a very gay-friendly song-list for his first
true “Mark Trevorrow” album (e.g. "Rainbow
Connection", "Rikki Don't Lose That
Number", "Mad About The Boy"). He does, however, duet
with Bob Downe in “The Beat Goes On” – the Sonny
Bono penned song that gave Mark’s group “The Globos”
an Australian Top 40 hit in 1983, and he has a great time with Paul Capsis doing a vibrant tango version of "You're
Moving Out Today" (with Paul in full Maria Callas mode). Regarding the Noel Coward cover “Mad About The Boy”: Mark says it’s
especially interesting for an openly gay man such as himself to perform. Noel
Coward wrote that song for the 1932 revue “Words And Music” and it was
originally intended for a woman to sing. Yul Brynner famously mimed it, in drag, in a
homophobia-challenging scene from the 1969 Peter Sellers film "The Magic
Christian", but Mark Trevorrow's version is
passionate, sly and decidedly male to male. |
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