The Underground Stage
“Tyrants break about nineteen strings in about three minutes, but it’s to their credit that it takes nothing away from a set full of vim and vigour. The fun shines through regardless – a mark of quality, right there.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Drift have such core strength in their sound, a sheer wall of tempered song that batters and bruises as much as it draws you in. Big, big stuff, with overwhelming mass the preferred weapon over speed.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Del-Slackers sneer their way through a snotty delight of a set, late at night and feeling every inch of it. The perfect soundtrack to every bad decision you ever made, with the added bonus of making your peace with it.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“Down For Tomorrow are the critical release valve for *those* types of days, the blowing off of steam, the venting, the purge that makes you feel clean again. Crystal clear, sharp like the edge of fresh paper, and precisely as explosive as you need to blow both the cobwebs away *and* the bloody doors off. […]
“Supahoney offer tightly plotted thrillers full of hard syncopation and cerebral lines that require your brain and attention. Once you’ve latched on it’s got you, and you can just let go completely.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Sammy Honeysett plays major songs in minor keys tonight, uplifting and rich but cut through with melancholy. It twangs and it soars, but it leaves you both misty-eyed and utterly delighted. Just what all music should do, basically.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“Georgia June take deliberate steps in crafting their songs, and every note tonight is well-placed and perfectly situated. It’s irresistible, exquisitely planned so we end up moving and feeling and dancing along in time. It’s their show, we’re just swimming in it.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“Tuppaware Party have always been inventive but tonight’s set is more urgent and insistent, and shifts us from art appreciation to dancefloor giddiness. Sharply dressed, and intelligent to boot.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“Hayley Mary – the not-at-all secret guest tonight- brings exactly the fierce strength we expect but which still floors us all the same. That acrobatic voice and songwriting muscle tears through the place like a a freshly stoned blade – you know it’s coming but it still knocks you sideways and backwards, and it spills […]