
MUSIC REVIEW | Gotye and Kimbra overcome a bad venue to deliver a soaring show
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On April 4th, Gotye made his much-anticipated debut at Epic Nightclub. Yes, Epic; as his fans and hopeful concert-goers know, Gotye (real name Wouter “Wally” De Backer) sold out the Varsity Theater months ago only to head-scratchingly reschedule the date at Epic. Surely the move was dictated by capacity, but leaving the invitingly tattered-in-a-good-way couches of the Varsity behind for the glitz and tattered-but-not-in-a-good-way glamour of a downtown nightclub seemed to suggest that the stakes had been raised. Could Gotye, who had only just recently skyrocketed out of Australian indie obscurity straight to the most gratuitous of Top 40 stations, really hold his own at such a mainstream venue?