Black Arm Band should be big

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Backed by strings, horns and piano, before a backdrop of often poignant film images, a wealth of Aboriginal talent sound-tracked contemporary Aboriginal life - and revealed the other side of the Lucky Country.

Here were national treasures such as bluesman Archie Roach and his wife, the deep-voiced Ruby Hunter, singer/songwriter Joey Geia, rockreggae icon Bart Willoughby and honorary blackfella Shane Howard reprising his 1982 hit Solid Rock - Aboriginal Australia's first mainstream political anthem. And didgeridoo player Mark Atkins, circular-breathing the sound of the oldest culture on earth.

Here was new, vital talent: Dan Sultan, bashing a tambourine and leaping from growl to falsetto, and Shellie Morris, singing up the stolen generation on the glorious Swept Away.

Traditionally-painted lawman Gapanbulu Yunupingu - dancing and clapping sticks on a cover of Yothu Yindi's Treaty - underlined the spirit of reconciliation in this creative outpouring.

As Australia's Motown - and its conscience - The Black Arm Band should soon be very big indeed.

Lift Festival: The Black Arm Band
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
The South Bank Centre,Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX