The Underground Stage
“Blake Williams’ sharp two-piece setup rings like a bell in this room, giving razor-edged songs room and height to swing and swoop around. Always a pleasure to see, but tonight it’s extra levels on all levels.” Gallery Listen
“Bugg Music’s wide-smiling punk is pointy and angular, dancing its head off and poking you in the kidneys. It’s the best flavour of bubblegum coupled with the spiciest of peppers, a joy and a burn, a blast in both fun and temperature.” Gallery Listen
“The Moids are paint thinner and barbed wire, braces and bristles, but are cut through with an immense vein of good times. It’s snotty and spiked, sure, but while you walk away bruised, you go with a bloody great big grin to boot.” Gallery Listen THE MOIDS DEMOS by The Moids
“domesticated incels’ pyrotechnic noise is built around the most unnecessary of instruments, seven-string guitars and slap bass. Somehow – somehow! – it works like a bloody charm, angry and giddily mad, rattling and bubbling and biting your ankles, a vicious little goblin of a set designed to draw blood and leave marks.” Gallery Listen
“GVSHER are all sharp edges, finely-honed angles and glinting corners. It’s precise and it shines like the edge of an axe, a smartly-constructed set that loses its temper, regains its self-control, then stabs you in the face anyway. It squalls and it soothes and it soars and I am now murderously impatient for every one […]
“Little Girl Likes Her Brain barrel off the walls with jagged Distillers-flavoured punk, roaring and melodic and with granite-solid heft. There might be humour and wit in there too for a bit of sugar but make no mistake, it’s squaring up for a knock-down, drag-out ruck of the first order.” Gallery Listen
“Maxine Wild takes their fearsome musical skill and applies it to some equally fearsome experimental racket. There are flashes of Velvets in the more laconic moments, but the abiding memory is of electronic mischief paired with impressive bass or guitar chops swooping over and around it. Something that few people would ever come up with, […]
“Charli Lucas’ set of epically big pop also carries a rich vein of fuck-you within it, a settling of scores as well as a celebration of dancing and joy. The added spiciness is just one of the many, many things that elevates this into next-level pop – absolute bangers, dancefloor killers, and raised middle fingers. […]
“xiao xiao roll in with a focus on art and leave with the place in rubble, a set that builds, relemtlessly and furiously, from sharp-edged precision to finish in wild and untethered mayhem. Creative and mischievous, tough and imperious, it’s a full blast of gloriously clever noise.” Gallery Listen