The Underground Stage
“The Sleepyheads’ songs are all iron fists in velvet gloves, nerdy kids with black belts. It comes off adorable on its face, but it spends a lot of time absolutely losing its bloody temper – it all starts off shy and hesitant but by the end you’ve got a black eye and lost a shoe. […]
“Superdose Gangway’s set takes the normal self-seriousness of post-hardcore and adds some much-needed humour. The band themselves are clearly having a whale of a time and it adds a shine and humanity to the songs that can end going missing for so many of their peers. The fact that the songs themselves are built like […]
“Amends have a new album out later in the year, and when new material sneaks into the set, you can hear the difference. Tonight we get just one, right at the end, but it comes with a subtle gear change up into higher revs, and the band are visibly more turbo-charged. Don’t get me wrong, […]
“There’s always so much going on in a Sweetie set, it’s hard to keep pace. The songwriting is so sharp and densely packed with detail it’s easy to miss that it’s also built to bamboozle you with joy and dancing at the same time. It’s a lot to process. The lungs are left empty and […]
“Cammy Cautious & The Wrestlers’ set rips and tears and saws its way through a bazillion songs in short order, each a jagged little gem of ragged noise and frenzy. Enough to lose yourself in, enough to not notice the blood being drawn.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Misso drive and thud like a fist pounding on a table, relentless and rattling the glassware. The banging and clattering is matched by a super-charged sense of joy in the playing though, and it adds dangerous voltage, crackle and spit added to rumble and thump.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“The Riot’s ‘Happy Tears’ EP collects the full scope of the project, the oxymoron of the title reflecting its extensive spectrum. Its twists and turns through hip-hop, EDM, punk, and avant-garde noise experiment, it’s by turns beautiful, bruising, and bonkers. One of the more interesting, danceable, challenging, just plain raw acts of recent years 🔥”
“Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers return with their fangs bared and with sharper weapons drawn. As up in your face as ever, but with greater menace, this is as glorious and fearsome a track as they’ve released to date, capable of drawing blood with the lightest touch to the skin 🔪”
“Neighbourhood Void are in the zone right now, barrelling through a fertile creative patch that’s producing one shiny guitar gem after another. Their latest is chock full of modern existential dread and anxiety, a little monster of a track, bouncing wildly in the dark 👹”