The Underground Stage
“The joy of punk isn’t in the anger, it’s in the joy – The Owen Guns are joyously, giddily, hilariously angry at pretty much everything, and it’s a bloody pleasure to behold. The sort of brutal fun you don’t realise you’ve had until you wake up in the emergency room, laughing like a goon.” Facebook […]
“Kontrasto bring the protein to the barbecue, the stuff that’ll fill you up and knock you out. An absolute festival of heft from start to finish, heavy and hearty and full of heat.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. Updated all the […]
“Linear leave nothing in the locker room. I’m not even certain they know a locker room exists. Few bands bring this level of utter commitment to the stage, to live music, and to making a fucking *massive* racket. If you can keep up, it’s so worth it.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage […]
“Moot make their point the same way that a piece of sandpaper wrapped around a brick does, with very little subtlety but maximum effectiveness. A set that doesn’t just the get blood pumping, but leaves it all over the floor.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very […]
“Aberration bring a smorgasboard of loud and hairy goodies tonight, veering between sharper-edged punk and blunt-force metal. Most bands will obsessively try and write the same record ten times, this lot seems to want to play the ten most manic guitar songs ever written instead, and the set’s the better for it. Guitar fun in […]
“Look, it’s not complicated, Greatest Hits are made of all the happiest, bounciest, head-noddingest moments of your life to date. They know it, we know it. In fact, there had better be no-one in this room who doesn’t know it or there may be a row.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Subscribe to The Underground […]
“Noodle House actually don’t noodle all that much. This is a good thing. Instead, they bring some serious sixties beat to the party, and (if we’re honest) make it a party. If your hips don’t involuntarily twitch to this set, then for real – you’ve got a condition.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground […]
“Megafauna bring a picnic basket of delightful treats to the stage. Many bands just feel the need to make a point, to hammer something into the side of your head by force – this lot bring the nice things we’re not usually good enough to have and make their case through kindness, not trauma. By […]
“So good to see Forest Hall again, it’s been too long. Despite the time & distance, it all comes flooding back – the urgent instrumentals, the soaring song, and the occasionally fearsome noise. As grand as a stately home and as hard as a nail, all at the same time.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to […]