About
Max Jacobsen is a singer for hire in Sydney, NSW.
Songs that have earned their keep. Max Jacobsen sings and plays acoustic guitar around Sydney, leaning on The Beatles, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, Sting, Bryan Adams and Coldplay, along with standards like Somewhere Over the Rainbow, What a Wonderful World and When A Man Loves A Woman. He's a New Zealand music award winner with a long performing history, and he's just as happy holding the room's attention as sitting quietly under the conversation. Tell him which one you need. The rig is deliberately small, runs on battery power, and still sounds far bigger than the space it takes up. He'll plug in where there's power, mostly as insurance.
The show
Max has been performing for years and holds a New Zealand music award, and the useful part is that he's genuinely comfortable either way. Some nights the act should be the centre of the room. Other nights it should disappear into the background so people can hear each other talk. He can do both, and he'd rather you told him which one you're after than have him guess on the night.
On the day
The rig is deliberately compact and doesn't eat into your floor plan, but the sound coming out of it is a lot bigger than the footprint suggests. It runs on battery, so a spot with no socket still works. He'd rather plug in where power exists, purely as a backup. So point him at a power point if there's one going, and don't worry if there isn't.
