Augie March’s Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) show is a home-town Gatorade-and-oranges stop on their ‘lap of luxury’, a national tour that has taken in velvet-lined theatres in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and, as singer–songwriter Glenn Richards wryly put it during their set, Bendigo. The MRC was purportedly designed to resemble a piece of polystyrene packaging, the idea being that the ephemeral cultural artefacts propagated within would be nurtured and protected by the white wedges and footings of the exterior. The venue’s 1000-seat Elisabeth Murdoch Hall is based on the classic ‘shoe-box’ of Vienna’s Musikvereinssaal, the shape that is said to be most conducive to acoustic perfection.