ALAS I CANNOT SLEEP: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY AND A JETLAGGED LAURA MARLING’S FIRST AUSTRALIAN TOUR
As Laura Marling’s three-show solo tour of Australia, in March next year, inches closer, it’s a good time to go back, right back, to her first performances in this country. This review, from August 2008 – when she played three gigs in three days and probably left Australia not certain she’d even been here - features the English singer/songwriter backed by a drummer/singer whose other band did a few things soon after too. It also shows how even in a semi-addled state, the raw