The Underground Stage
“Jesse Curnow’s set starts, continues, and ends the same way – full-bore and committed, with not a damn thing left in the dressing room. The country twangs, the high pop melodies, the relentless spine-shaking rhythms… it’s all just at a constant throughout. You pair that energy with songs that soar around the room like newly-freed […]
“Garage Noise lean towards grunge and pop punk, but they never end up over their skis, sticking instead to dark guitars playing sunny pop songs. There’s a ton of light and shade in this set, a sense they know just how much to apply accelererator or brake. That’s a hard trick to pull off, but […]
“Meaco may have a backstory in EDM but there’s little more pleasurable in life than seeing someone take a hard left and doing whatever the hell they want instead. In this case, it’s a full band made of absurd musical chops across the stage, jazzy in tone but rich and danceably pop at its core. […]
“If you live in Sydney, waiting to see a Raging Hormones show is a bit like waiting for Santa – you’re not totally certain that something this good is possible, but by crikey it just makes your day when it lands. This is a set to light up the sky and make you believe in […]
“So anyway, I’ve not seen Raised As Wolves in a while but catching the set again is like seeing your best friend for the first time in ages, with the jumping and the screaming and the arm waving and the general lack of dignity. Few things fire up the synapses in the way that these […]
“Final Girls leave nothing in the dressing room – it all ends up splayed out on the field, spent and broken. At times it’s fearsome, but overall this is a set of explosive joy, occasionally brutal but always ruthlessly danceable. They deserve your attention.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
“Goon Gremlins may be playing late tonight but it’s well worth staying up for. This is A-grade guitar band wizardry, magical tone and song that sits somewhere between Camp Cope and your favourite other stuff. Confident, ringing melodies backed up by muscular rhythms are one thing, but a clear-thinking mind at work underneath it all […]
“Fewer things make me happier than a Royal Chant set. It’s the control and the lack of it, the joy in all of the sound and the fury in some of the sentiment, it’s the shoulder-shaking buzz and fuzz. Whatever – it’s always the purest pleasure.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Ultra’s set rolls like crashing waves, great big walls of sound landing on the shore of the front row and beyond. Rich and dense and dark like deep waters, there’s much here to deal with, and much to love.” Gallery Learn More Instagram