The Underground Stage
“Seeing Elizabeth Fader back on stage is as good as being able to stand up at gigs again. We are treated to a mix of old and new tonight, the full-band version of where this artist has been and is going. Every note is a treat – luxurious and beautifully-formed and sharp-edged but always *just* […]
“Angeles veer between the urgent and the arty, between intelligent explorations and insistent bangers. There’s pure art at the heart here, some properly smarty-pants songwriting and performances – it drills into the brain and elevates the heartrate.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian […]
“Sweetie continue to intrigue, a project in its youth yet with the quiet power and the understated intensity to grab hold and not let go. While we wait patiently for recorded material to eventually emerge there are still these shows – as occasionally dark and strange as life itself, but performed with joy and pleasure.”
“SoSo *finally* get to play their sold out headline show tonight. It’s like the umpteenth time they’ve had a sold out headliner but this is the first time it’s happened, and it’s totally worth waiting for. Blistering songs from the off, with many – M A N Y – excursions out into the crowd, and […]
“Deadshowws are urgent and tightly-wound, but seem delighted with that. There’s a menacing undertow that threatens to drag the unsuspecting out to sea, but it’s got such a massive grin on its face it’s hard not to dive right in regardless.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the […]
“Soda Simulator are only one single deep and formed in the teeth of the pandemic. Their sound is as squirrelly and off-kilter and as occasionally off its mind as the year that preceeded it, but stays constantly brimful of tune. One solidly good thing to came out of the year that was, and for sure […]
“Hope D playing solo is still like watching a full band. Insanely clever uses of loop pedals coupled with these magnificent songs, these niggly earworms that burrow right into the brain, and that eyebrow raising vocal skill in both song and flow… it’s a hell of a thing. This crowd is out of their seats […]
“It’s as dark as the inside of a cow for Chelsea Warner’s set due to a busted connection making literally all of Waywards’ stage lights die. This suits the set perfectly, neo-soul buttressed by a fabulous voice so smoky it should set off alarms, and songs so thick and sticky you’d need a rope and […]
Down For Tomorrow return with another slab of roiling, plaintive chuggery, breaking down the hard things in life to simple advice – “just be a good person”. A song as simple and as complicated as its message, the addition of a gloriously bonkers intermezzo – which sounds like you’ve accidentally skipped into an entirely different […]