The Underground Stage
“The Belair Lip Bombs’s glorious set rings like a struck bell tonight, bags and bags of inventive song and wicked times. Shy and retiring in posture but massive and life-affirming in effect, every song is pure delight. Plaintive vocals, pounding rhythms, spidery guitar lines, giddy bass runs… seriously, what the hell else do you need?” […]
“A Cammy Cautious & The Wrestlers set is never easy. This is built for impact not comfort, and is all the better for it.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Cool Jumper bring a bag full of young savagery, a jagged collection of saw-toothed racket to buzz through bone and skin. The sugar to help the surgery go down is in the tunes though, every one full of fizz and burr.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
Old Mervs have been on a tear now for nearly two years, with each release gaining both serious support and building more and more audience along the way. Last week saw them release their woozy track “Hey“, and the support certainly isn’t slipping – and their follower growth doesn’t look like it’s slowing at all […]
GAUCI’s latest “Brat” ticked the boxes for a ton of playlisters this week, scoring spots on a whopping 40% of the playlists I track, getting nods from lists run by Spotify, Triple J, FBi Radio, The Guardian and Pilerats among others. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇GAUCI 🥈Teenage Dads, The Terrys 🥉Last Dinosaurs, Haiku Hands, Old […]
“If I’m reading this right, and I like to think I am, Courtesy Bus – tonight’s openers at The Duke – are only on their *third* ever gig. By God does it sound like more though. Gruff as a goat, this has instant ragged charm written all the way through it, roughneck in parts but […]
“Expensive Music Band sound like space, vast and floaty and full of mad aliens with pointy, electronic weapons. It bloops and whirls and feels like it’s taken a long time to get here, a distant signal from a galaxy far away.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“The Whole Wide World sound as expansive as their name, but still make it seem personal and close up. Stones-y tones and rhythms match tumbling keys and a rich vocal to make a Sunday set worthy of high praise.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Sadie’s shy shoegaze charms as much as it as it fizzes and fuzzes, quietly building until you realise it’s standing on your head.” Gallery Learn More Instagram