The Underground Stage
“Mini Skirt roar in like a damn train tonight, engines thundering enough to rupture eardrums and a pit fierce enough to generate heat for a thousand homes. If you can keep your body still enough among the writhing mayhem to keep your eyes on it all, you’ll end up stone blind. Driving, relentless, and chaotic […]
“Loose Lips might have a quality pedigree that shines brightly but, damn, are they having fun. Sharp as a freshly-filed fang, the songs slice and swish through air, garage-tinged but ultimately fuelled by pure bloody fun and good times. Immediate and infectious, it’s not worth the effort to try and resist.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“There’ll probably come a day when a total tommy track isn’t the best thing you’ll hear all week. Not today.”
“ Caroline & Claude are at their twitchy best here, roiling and edgy pop sawing its way through the noise of the world, existentially weary but manically wired all at the same time”
“ As daft as six brushes but as adorable as a bag of kittens, Hard-Ons keep this train on its rails but only barely – a wild and dreamy ride of grinning, arm-waving fun.”
“ Full of remarkable possibility and sparkling optimism, this is a carnival of musical pleasures, every inch full of magic, every nook a riot of noise and colour and fun.”
“Tempestuous and thundering, Chimers’ latest is a bruised sky and the threat of a storm, looming ahead and above like impending doom”
“It’s hard to overstate the level of joy that explodes out of Late November’s set. This is – from start to finish – one of the very best times I’ve had watching a show. It’s face-wrenchingly good fun, and it leaves you bouncing so hard there are dents in both the ceiling and the floor. […]
“FVNERAL’s deceptively gentle songs have always hidden their fangs and spikes, but tonight they’re a bit more visible than usual. If you’ve ever listened to – or burst into wailing, uncontrollable tears to – a track of theirs, you’ll know they don’t need any more emotional weight, but tonight the whole thing lands with added […]