The Set presents a house party in full swing, but can it move out from under the shadow of 1990s nostalgia its predecessor inspires?
Discussing the legendary morning music show Recovery is, for Australians of a certain age, an insight into what it must have been like to be a boomer talking about Woodstock or Sunbury: remember when Dylan Lewis interviewed Hanson in the hotel pool? Remember when Midnight Oil played Advance Australia Fair in the middle of a stage invasion? Remember all the times mum said you should find a nice boy “like Leigh from Recovery”?
For many years, pining 30- and 40-somethings have wondered if lightning might strike twice, so when the ABC this year poured cold water on the notion of a revival, few would have assumed their refusal to give in to nostalgia was due to the fact that the network was cooking up a new live music show: The Set, heralded by more than one outlet as “the new Recovery”.
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