About
Trist & Hodge is a musical duo for hire in Safety Beach, VIC.
Two Mornington Peninsula musicians with more than thirty years of live work between them. Simon Trist covers acoustic and lead electric guitar, banjo and ukulele alongside vocals, and has held residencies at venues around Portsea, St Andrews, Red Hill and Mornington. Brad Hodgkinson is a national touring drummer and percussionist who sings as well, with setups that scale to the room. The duo brings its own LD Systems PA and a light show. And the volume moves with the night: laid back and low in the background early, then loud enough to fill a dance floor when people are ready for it. Their catalogue reaches back through the fifties and sixties into blues, classic rock, folk and current covers.
The show
Early in the evening the duo stay laid back and keep the volume where a table can still hold a conversation. Then it climbs. As the room fills the set gets more energetic, and by the back half it is loud, busy and aimed squarely at getting people dancing. That spread is the reason to book them: the same two players handle the background stretch and the party stretch, and you are not organising a handover partway through the night.
