The Underground Stage
“Lucid Hoops are just so honed, a sharp and glinting edged weapon of a band, tucked down the back of a boot but ready to slash any throat that tries yelling at them out of a car. It damces and roars and pirouettes and it jumps clean out of its skin. Inventive, ferocious, and not […]
“Teddy Rizzo have grown a singer and a bass player since I last saw them but their drum-and-guitar two-piece roots have served them well, an immoveable foundation for these wild and wailing songs. Every element of this set is built like a granite boulder, and it feels like it’s all landing on your head at […]
“Thee Cha Cha Cha’s take garage punk, reduce a three-piece band down into a two-piece (seriously, one of them plays both guitar and drums at the same time…) and then fold and spindle it into the most fun set you’ve heard in an age. So much musicianship is packed in here, and every song is […]
“The Owen Guns’ manic, boiling set may be designed to offend, but it has this strange effect of making you like them more and more. Every song is about something they hate with the power of a bazillion exploding stars – y’know, rapists, racists, politicians, nazis, punker-than-thou hipsters in Minor Threat shirts, the usual. They […]
“It’s easy to underestimate a band called The Warts but doing so would be a terrible, possibly fatal mistake. This is brain and brawn at work in terrible concert, notes of Black Francis’ obstinate weirdness over rich and hyper-intelligent guitar work. It pounds and soars and dives and cuts and thuds and burns the back […]
“Antibodies’ roughneck, dusty punk is all teeth and jagged edges, just enough pace to keep you wary but never out of control. It slices like a clawhammer, but you end up welcoming the blow with arms wide open.” Gallery Learn More Instagram