The Underground Stage
“Dial Denial pour every bit of energy they have into this set, out of breath from the first song and progressing ever closer to bodily collapse. The songs stay strong throughout though, big and bulky alt-rock – it might sound too heavy to escape gravity, but it still manages to soar.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe […]
“Michelle Sutton plays a short but exquisitely well-crafted set this afternoon. Performed with bags of joy alongside searing honesty, it’s an echo of Georgia Maq’s blank verse, touching and immediately relatable.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. Updated all the time.
“Georgia Mulligan may be playing all-new material tonight, but there’s always been something ancient and primal to her songs, and this whole set still has that patina of old wisdom. It creaks with the weight on its shoulders but is never oppressive, taking the darkness of night and turning it into song.” Facebook | Instagram
“Bonniesongs gives us songs about Frankenstein’s monster, about a love of olive oil, and about learning to fly by doing the breaststroke in bed. Amid the whimsy though, these songs not only have a high-tensile core of skittering guitar lines and antique bursts of banjo, that voice is guaranteed to blow you over the back […]
Amends burst in with an absolute riot of a track, the jauntiest and most harmony-est song you’re likely to swagger down the street to in a long while. Rich and happy and stubborn and defiant, this is enough to put one last bit of oomph into the weariest of shoulders. Amends are joined on this […]
“Beryl beam in tonight from outer space, intergalactic distances and supernova explosions transmitted into song. It’s may not be rocket science, but it takes us all to new worlds.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. Updated all the time.
“We get the Boysnlove solo experience tonight, and while we might mourn the loss of the full-band oomph, we still celebrate the rich and dense core of these lovely, smartly-written songs. Vocal and guitar tones play off each other, but it’s those fantastic melodic hooks that get under your skin. Quieter than the full band, […]
“Rees Lucia plays solo tonight and there’s the sense of leaves and fields and a fresh breeze in the room. The guitar is only lightly encouraged to make sound, while that voice is released into the room like a bird from a cage, by turns soaring and flitting around our heads. These songs are hard […]
“No amount of technical gremlins can prevent Start Your Own Cult’s set from tearing the doors off its hinges. Turbo-charged from their previous incarnation (which was already pretty swift), these songs are just humungous, giant slabs of synapse-firing android punk, menacing and welcoming all at the same time. Ladies and gents, we have liftoff.” Facebook […]