Brisbane Festival show transforms South Bank into glamorous James Bond movie set

The Little Red Company are ready to thrill with plans to turn South Bank into a Bond movie music production called Skyfall at Brisbane Festival.

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The name is Bond, James Bond. And it’s Festival, Brisbane Festival. Our premier arts event is going all 007 this year with a killer show called Skyfall from The Little Red Company. Starring the Brisbane outfit’s leading lights, singers Naomi Price and Luke Kennedy, Skyfall, which takes its name from a Bond film starring Daniel Craig (with a theme song by Adele) will take over the South Bank Piazza from September 14-18 turning it into a glamorous Monte Carlo style casino and tickets go on sale Thursday at noon.

Backed by Little Red’s hot band and some of Brisbane’s best brass players the show will feature special guests and fresh arrangements of the iconic theme songs from the Bond movie franchise.

Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions' action adventure SKYFALL. Supplied by Sony Pictures Australia

Price and Kennedy will take us deep inside the world of espionage and glamour where the stakes are high and the martinis are dry – shaken, not stirred,

Price says she loves Bond themes and that many of them feature superstars such as Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Paul McCartney and Adele who won an Oscar for Skyfall.

“All the great Bond theme songs have similar attributes,” Price says. “Sweeping dynamic strings, a dangerous horn sound with a big brass section and lyrics that always tackle epic theme like love, desire, separation and betrayal. We don’t tend to have that elevated drama in popular music at the moment.

Naomi Price and Luke Kennedy will be shaken but not stirred in Skyfall at Brisbane Festival

“For me you can’t beat Goldfinger. There’s something about the chord progression in that song that makes me feel excited. It feels dangerous and sexy and makes my heart race. Shirley Bassey’s performance is phenomenal, although I’ll do my best.” Price says the show will “reposition females in Bond’s narrative, address outdated gender politics and shake up who sings what”.

The South Bank Piazza will feature cabaret seating for the show with concert lighting, sound systems and screens with all the glamour of the Bond world with stylish costumes and sets.

Brisbane Festival and South Bank Parklands present Skyfall, The Little Red Company, September 14-18, South Bank Piazza. Tickets ($45-$65) on sale from 12 Noon Thursday June 17 at brisbanefestival.com.au