About
Leaps & Bounds is a tribute band for hire in Melbourne, VIC.
How to Make Gravy, To Her Door, Dumb Things, From Little Things Big Things Grow. Leaps & Bounds play Paul Kelly's songs true to the originals, and the crowd does most of the singing along without being asked. The set goes deep as well as familiar: Before Too Long, Darling It Hurts, From St Kilda To Kings Cross, Deeper Water, Pouring Petrol On A Burning Man. Kelly is a storyteller first, so the band treats the words as carefully as the riffs. Five piece. You'll need a PA and a stage that fits them.
Watch
The show
The crowd sings. That's the honest measure of a Paul Kelly tribute, and Leaps & Bounds get there without having to ask for it. To Her Door, Dumb Things, How to Make Gravy, the ones everyone knows the words to. What sets them apart is how carefully they stick to the originals, because Kelly is a storyteller first and the songs fall apart if the words get treated as filler. Expect singing along, and expect dancing.
On the day
You'll need a PA already in place at the venue, and a stage that comfortably fits five musicians. Worth measuring rather than eyeballing it, especially in a function room where the stage was built for a solo act. Beyond that there's nothing unusual to organise.
Song list
24 songs
Don’t Start Me Talking
Won’t You Come Around
Give In To My Love
Firewood And Candles
Sweet Guy
Your Little Sister
Before Too Long
Leaps And Bounds
I’ll Be Your Lover
Love Never Runs On Time
Careless
How To Make Gravy
From St Kilda To Kings Cross
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Beggar on the street of love
When will you fall for me
Alone with you tonight
To Her Door
Stories Of Me
Song From The Sixteenth Floor
Pouring Petrol On A Burning Man
Darling It Hurts
Dumb Things
Deeper Water
