The Underground Stage
“Garage Noise are just bags of fluff and happiness, playing like they mean it but with a grin on their faces. It’s all as rich and fun as a fresh doughnut, a sugary hoot that’s nonetheless got enough of a hard centre to snap off a tooth.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
In a week where Australia / Invasion Day and the Hottest100 meant a much lower number of releases (that happens every year), Big Scary’s latest track ‘Something To Remember’ was still an overwhelming favourite with the playlists I track who updated this week. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Big Scary 🥈Hiatus Kaiyote, DOBBY, Gold Fang 🥉Good […]
“Blake Cateris’ musical talent has never been in doubt but, as his set evolves, his ferocious hunger to learn stuff, to grow in odd directions, to wind around and up the walls looms larger. The musicality was always impressive, but anyone who can go from cats to Camus, or from disappointment to Duran Duran, is […]
“The Duke is (rightly and brilliantly) famed for live music at ear-ruining volume, so it’s a hard left tonight to hear the place set to ‘acoustic’ as opposed to ‘assault’. Raff Iacurto is also behind the night, and getting to hear this artist – better known for ten-minute aural barrages with the likes of Robot […]
“Veronica King’s smoky vocal swirls around in wisps, right up to the point it slaps you in the chops with sharp lyrics elbowing to the front just ahead of some truly lovely music. We’re told we’ll get tracks released this year – whether this is either the stripped-back version or the end product, it’ll be […]
“Dirty Mindsets’ latest is an irresistibly zippy jaunt, infectious and zany and careening all over the place. Free of the boring restraints of the sober and responsible, it’s a sugary, high-energy romp for anyone needing a fast jolt of the good stuff ⚡️”
“Lady Lazarus’ second track breaks its chain and tears off straight to the bar, in search of – in the words of Homer Simpson – both the cause of and solution to all life’s problems. Whichever is true here, it’s certainly producing a fearsome racket, which is definitely something worth drinking to 🍺”
“After a years-long break, Drunk Mums roar back out of the dark with a new track ahead of their fourth album, due in March. It may have been a minute, but their rowdy energy is still pushing the needle into the red, a raucous spirit stalking and stomping through the city’s night-time streets 🌜”
“Eilish Gilligan’s delicate, precise musicality wraps itself around and amongst an absolutely savage song, carrying itself with both the grace and the threat of a serpent with its fangs bared. In the final third, it lets the rage explode into a blur of electro-tinged fury, before gliding back into the shadows 🐍”