The Underground Stage
“There are few bands both as belligerent and delicate as Johnny Hunter. The set pounds, hammers, and thumps like an avalanche, but it’s theatre and it’s art, it’s fractured and it’s anxious. You get stomped bloody, but you come out smarter. Magnificent.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“The Sweaty Bettys are precisely one track deep on Spotify but have a set of such well-crafted, sharp-witted guitar crackers it both makes you wish they had more and makes you a bit terrified of what else they’re capable of. Walking in the same direction as Camp Cope used to but carving their own path, […]
“Magic Machine bring oodles of noodles, grooves and moves that burrow deep and stay there. Garage and psyche flavouring with swirls of colour poured all over it.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Rich like a tapestry, Amends weave an absurdly high thread-count into their latest, all dark imagery and thrumming melancholy. A song for outsiders, it looks past the fire’s warmth to the shadows beyond 🔥”
“The third Clowns track to escape from its cage before September’s ‘Endless’ LP drops, it’s another relentless barrage of rage doused in irresistibly fizzing song. A moshpit-melting instant classic 🫠”
“A dizzy mix of post-punk, folk, and indie, The Belair Lip Bombs’ latest is a whirligig of both boot-stomping heft and gleamy-eyed whimsy. Glorious 🤩”
“Shuffling misfit country soundtracks this delightful flight of fancy, an oddball ode to cockatoos in particular, but also to all the things in life we’d miss if they were gone 🦜”
“Bringing Frenzal Rhomb’s Jay Whalley along for the ride, The Decline’s mischevious skate punk is, as ever, a balm for the grazes on the shins of your soul 🛹”
“Yours Truly soar like hawks on an updraft tonight, wheeling and swooping and occasionally snatching up small prey for food. The grace and the poise are what catches your eye, but it’s the claws in the back of your neck that you remember.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok