The Underground Stage
“For an artist with such a deep reservoir of sad songs, Vetty Vials also does a *mean* line in jokes. Good job too – without the gags we’d be bawling like muppets the whole night long. A magical voice made by actual witches, soaring songs, interspersed with chuckling and daftness. Bloody perfect, right?” Gallery Learn […]
“Jethro Morris pours it all into the songs, love songs, pain songs, hangover songs – the works. Rich and soupy acoustic guitar, with a vocal that goes from wookie scream to something near-choral… it’s enough to happily drown in.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Luke Holmes – or Luke Holmeslice as he is now, apparently, known – plays a pack of Operation Ibis songs solo tonight, and behind the wrath of a full-band set there lie some genuinely lovely songs. Operation Ibis may often sound bloody furious, but sets like this remind you of the burning heart that sits […]
“Ebolagoldfish are *the* demonstration of why you need to call in actual experts to do the specific job you need doing. If you want perfectly executed, tuneful, archly smart punk rock done in a way that’ll leave your ankles incurably twitchy AND you want to hear the most accurate harmonies performed with both anger and […]
“Birthday Raven make the sort of noise that would likely kill your elderly relatives dead within seconds. Meanwhile, the messages inside the racket are the ones you hope your kids would take on board and use to shape the world ahead. It may be a fearsome disturbance in the airspace around you, but it’s really […]
“Papa Pilko & The Binrats welcome us into their den of iniquity with open arms, a place of dangerous and deviant thought, a haven for the curious and the deranged, for the uninhibited and the untethered. We know full well that somehow we’re going to wind up getting dirty – but we also just don’t […]
“Iain T. McKelvey & The Midnight Tangos’ western twang morphs into harsher edges, an easy ride with a hard landing. The fire may be crackling softly, but out in the shadows there be monsters.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“DAUX DIVE open this afternoon’s Evening Records shindig, light in numbers for such a rich sound, just the three of them making a sculptured and complex sound. A set of curious and intriguing beasties, odd goblins loose in a garden of delights.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“RVG have the strengths of experience and skill and instinct, all nous and knowledge and heft. Rippling with energy, it’s equal parts ferocity and restraint, straining on its leash and a half second from going for your throat.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram