The Underground Stage
“There are only three people in Failsafe but it sounds like a building collapsing on your head. The bass rumbles like an earthquake, the guitars slice with a jagged savagery, and the drums are played with what comes off like a serious grudge against the kit, which gets a wonderful but fearsome beating all set […]
“Retail Therapy are all paranoid theatre, roaring but gentle, solid but twisted, and always right up there in your face. As loud as a bomb going off – with as much glitter as shrapnel – it’s a set that merely cements them that bit further as one of very best bands to barrel into the […]
“Should Be Sweet smash it hard into the pavement, heavy and explosive. While the heftier, slower parts encourage banging of heads and spraining of necks, it’s the faster moments that cause the most damage, kinetic effects through melodic velocity.” Gallery Listen
“Amends’ songs fit with the clear blue sky they play under this afternoon but, although it’s all expansive and glorious, there’s always – always – trouble brewing on the horizon somewhere. The tension and the tunes are on full-volume display today, a(nother) set to emphasise just how impressively this band delivers mood, story, and song.” […]
“The Lonesomes are fearsomely loud, an explosive smash and grab inside your head that leaves you floundering in the rubble. Tightly concussive but landing in unpredictable waves, it’s shock and awe delivered with surgical violence.” Gallery Listen
“L.A.R.M can’t help but ripple with energy and fizz, heads bursting clear of the surface of the lo-fi eggpunk sea they clearly enjoy swimming in. Electrically-charged and wired to the gills, the manic and tiny bloopiness is paired with some ferociously large songs, breaching and crashing like crazed whales.” Gallery Listen
“Physical Copy’s relentless, merciless rhythms pound and pound and pound at you until you simply collapse under the weight of their hectic psyche. There’s no point resisting it – you might arrive as sober as a High Court judge, but by the end you’re as high as a lost balloon.” Gallery Listen
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“Antenna burn like a flare, all heat and light and sparks. The rhythms don’t so much pound as they incite, the guitar roars like a train in a tunnel, and then there’s Shogun’s vocal, which scampers up and down the scales like a squirrel through the trees. It’s enough to burn the retinas out of […]