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Welcome to Billy Thorpe's last recorded performance. To call it bittersweet is an understatement. Honest, intimate, exhilarating, poignant, funny as hell; looking back, forward and sideways, it's 110 minutes of pure revelation. For Billy, this one-of solo show at The Basement in Sydney on Saturday, December 16, 2006, distilled his belated realisation that "playing old songs on an acoustic guitar" could capture the essence of his life's work – as well as providing a hushed reception for stunning, previously unheard material. For his incredibly fortunate audience – and that now includes us – it's a timely insight, through story and song, into one of the most gifted, committed and remarkable performers to stride through this half century of rock 'n' roll. When Billy was convinced to record for the Liberation Blue Acoustic Series, he wrote to them, saying "this will mark my first Australian solo release in 30 years and my first ever acoustic recording. It's important for many reasons that it's not good but great" and that was Billy to a T.