The Underground Stage
“There’s no way round it, Teenage Joans face headwinds tonight, all physical health struggles and technical goblins – but y’know what? Literally not one person here cares. It’s a Sunday night in Sydney, and the front row has been impenetrable since doors. The music? Sure – the older stuff is still as electric as ever, […]
“Towns’ business is giant pop songs made for people who love giant punk songs – and business is good. All the fun you’d ever need in a set, delivered with pace and noisy, wild-eyed enthusiasm.” Gallery Listen
“Bukowski make a muscular splash opening tonight’s show, heft and roar and bounce from the opening notes, nothing held in reserve. Enormous melodies made from bright emotion, delivered like a punch to the throat.” Gallery Listen
“Father’s Favourite shimmy and strut, threaten and pose, all the classics smashed into a box and rattled around and let loose like angry wasps. There’s menace and joy and arched-eyebrow poise in equal measure, an adrenaline jolt in a killer outfit.” Gallery
“Ant Gallery push art out into the world with joy, a happy smash of clever, literate music that never takes itself too seriously. Bags and bags of fun, with enough intellectual echo to keep you pondering it all the way home.” Gallery Listen
“The Astrovan add layers of arty brains to some well-trodden Australian indie ground, trumpets and keys playing silly buggers over familiar twang and melody. You kind of think you know where they’re going right up until they elbow you clear off the path into the wilder grass.” Gallery Listen
“Second Guess are at their best when they lose their minds, but the added layer of smarts gives it heft in unexpected areas. When it’s thinking hard, you can feel the gears moving but when it lets go, it’s explosive and wild.” Gallery Listen
“Casual Affair’s rich and bluesy set is feelgood and fabulous, a generous smear of chocolate on top of an already-sugary cake. Enough to make your teeth tingle.” Gallery
“Retail Therapy shake both hair and walls, physically mobile and shudderingly noisy. Shoegaze and goth and punk and sheer primal noise are the trampoline on which this voice bounces, like a giddy and unhinged monkey – one second a delight, the next a piercing high note to tear the wallpaper down. A band that really […]