The Underground Stage
“Max Quinn – and I promised myself I wouldn’t cry – is retiring tonight, so we get one final shot at the wit and the irony and the eye-watering stories about dating, housing, and vomiting. Wholesome and friendly but with plenty of bite, I’m going to miss hearing these songs live – but it’s a […]
“Cry Club’s theatre of the absurdly wonderful is never less than a tour de force, Broadway for the weirdos. This is art for people like us to look up to while the rest of the world have their heads on the wrong way up.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Those Who Dream have been on my stereo for ages, so it’s a galactic pleasure to finally see them on a stage – which they promptly destroy with giant pop of the highest order, the White Stripes doing Swift. Bang!” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Cherish crash through the walls, the floor, and the ceiling, hardcore noise with a finely honed message of rage and justice. This is – precisely and aggressively – how anger unites.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“FVNERAL play their own Transgenre party tonight, bringing the sad into the celebration in a way that still leaves us lifted and buoyed. Handily one of my favourite bands of the year, while easily one of the hardest things to listen to. Magical.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“I always go into a Final Girls set expecting awesome and I’m never, ever, let down. The heady combination of wild rage and mad optimism is impossible to resist and it leaves the shoulders shaking, the ears ringing, and the soul soaring.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“We get enormous, giant, pounding stuff, layer upon layer of huge boulder-like song from Two Knives, like being under a landslide and not caring at all. While it smashes all before it, it’s still got a soft beating heart – and that’s what makes you stare at it, doe-eyed, while it mushes you to a […]
“KHAOS EMRLD’s musical background is pop-punk and the injection of that heritage into this blazing set of bleeping, roaring hyperpop mayhem is what gives it an extra push of chaotic fun. Hyperpunk? Whatever, it’s an off-the-rails, infectious blast.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Wolfjay is glorious. Hyperpop doesn’t do it justice, this just plain soars, live autotuned vocals over truly magnificent beats and pads, it’s enough to put a roar in the quietest of throats. Absolutely brilliant.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok