In a week which, more or less, marks both her birthday and the 10th anniversary of her first – and so far only – tour of Australia, you could see Aimee Mann appearing in Wind Back Wednesday as a giant hint to her that a return is overdue. As this Sydney show, hot on the heels on an almost as good Brisbane performance (yes, I saw her twice and only regret not making it to Melbourne), makes clear, she is just goddamn fabulous. That is all. AIMEE MANN Enmore Theatre, September 4

AIMEE MANN Mental Illness (SuperEgo) The great English folk singer, Shirley Collins, described her style of singing as one averse to over-decoration and dramatising, where “there is huge compassion there, but very little sentimentality”. There’s a lot of Aimee Mann in that description. A generation younger, a pop artist rather than folk, and an ocean and full continental distance from Collins, Mann is an acute observer of human relationships. But more specifically she is a pe