The Underground Stage
“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 […]
MAY-A has this bit tonight where she – maybe honestly – says she worried that only five people were going to show up. For real, anyone who *didn’t* show up tonight needs their heads checked. This is an astonishing set – rich in song, crazy high in emotion, and just a wonderful demo of how […]
Kirsten Salty and her guitarist strip it all back tonight, right back to the bones of the songs. Deep in the heart of this is a voice you’d cheerfully die for, songs with depth you’d drown in with a smile on your face. Not just an insanely brilliant name – this is pop backed up […]
Lunatics On Pogosticks return after several years apart, and these former Unearthed High winners have grown up to learn some of the harder lessons life has to offer. Without so much as a trigger warning for suicidal thoughts and depression, this return to the fray doesn’t sugarcoat a thing right from the off, with stories […]
Neighbourhood Void go fully Territorial Pissings on their latest slab of high-energy twitching and speeding. Staying only just the right side of being in control, it barrels around like a chainsaw atttached to a whoopee cushion, hugely fun but covered in blood and trauma.