The Underground Stage
“Ultra Vires drive and pound and hammer their way through sludgy terrain, every beat a stomp, every note a blow. No, it’s not easy – but no-one ever said it was going to be.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Sun Room’s first ever Sydney show brings all the sunshine from their home in Southern California and leaves blisters on the skin as they barrel through a 20+ strong setlist of surfy, juddering twang and roar. Glittering like the sun on a wave, but still as grubby as a waxed kerb – if there’s a […]
“Radio Free Alice are unusual, as in not the usual sort of thing you hear on a stage. That plaintive vocal stutters and jabs, dancing around spikier rhythms and guitars, a glorious, flailing mess of both emotion and strength. There’s no sense they’re trying to please anyone but themselves – in a world where everyone’s […]
“Yb. and this stunning band happily – and seemingly casually – drop a set of gigantic proportions, bounding through the tall grass like a spring lamb, enough to melt the hardest of hearts. The skill on its own would be enough, but it’s the sheer *range* that astonishes – bars are spit, high notes are […]
“GAZAL’s got sharp edges wrapped in soft pop, a dark core lit with high wattage. The large-scale instrumentation makes you forget that there’s fizzing energy and anger lurking all around.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“THOM plays uptempo pop with a sad side and hammering rhythms, bags of swagger with a tear on its cheek. The kind of party that’s full of broken hearts, but on the mend and dancing it all away.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Shu-Nagua’s metal theatre threatens the same costumed joke over and over, but delivers a bunch more. Insane stage outfits normally have an inversely proportionate relationship to musical imagination – but here we get a ton of clever and heavy songwriting to go with the batshit wardrobe. What a rare treat.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | […]
“DEDPAN are settling into their aggro stride, a relatively new project with a towering swagger and a fearsome uppercut. It might be all bared teeth and knuckle dusters, but you still end up wanting to get closer and closer until you’re bloody and raw.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Aria Nova start off spooky and stabby but swerve into all sorts of mad directions, getting to near-operatic heights before closing with grubby mayhem. Quite the journey, worth every step.” Gallery Learn More Instagram