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“T.Wilds’ set is a balm, a salve for the wounded. Gentle and calm for the most part, it still skitters around like a newly-freed bird – just as you want to wrap it all up in bandages and cotton wool, it’s busy healing your own broken pieces.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Radio Free Alice open up their residency at The Duke with a regal set of guitar-y jewels, Strokes and Smiths and Bloc Parties colliding into a mass of rock-ribbed, danceable fun. Sharp and arty, delivered in stabbing thrusts.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Dumbhead’s slow pace and restrained groove is hypnotic, a swirl of oddball sounds that drag you down to infinite depths. It’s the sound of both a terrible nightmare and a glorious dream happening all at the same time, and it’s bloody hard to snap out of.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
flowerkid returned with a new EP, ‘LET IT BE ENOUGH’, tracks from which got scattered all over the best new music playlists in Australia, putting him at the top of the pile this week. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇flowerkid 🥈Hockey Dad 🥉ENOLA Hockey Dad’s latest, ‘Still Have Room’ was barely a smidge behind though with […]
“Julia Why? lurk in the shadows, but as a haven, not a trap. Swirls of shoegaze and squalls of noise define the set, but while it often sounds like imminent peril, the songs are a place of safety – like home, a warm place in the dark.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Hotel evoke and stimulate, mood as much as music. Sinister themes flicker around the venue like sparks off a fire, a 35mm film made of dreamy images that come back to haunt you in the dark.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Second Idol give no quarter, fixed in place and refusing to give an inch. Relentless and uncompromising even in its calmer moments, when it really lets go it’d take heavy chains to keep you on the ground.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Muscle Mary dare you to flinch, a barrage of heavy blows, one after the other. As cathartic as it is aggressive, it takes you higher while always threatening put you flat on your arse.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Princess Unit open today’s launch of the Manifesto zine with wide-eyed mania, their set scorching and unflinching but never losing its glittering sense of humour. Smiling all the while, it’ll cheerfully take your face off.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok