The Underground Stage
“Watching Birthday Raven is like picking a fight with a car crash in a temper, with the noise and the screaming and the inevitable headwounds. While they may be in a dangerous and constant huff, they’re also dead right – which makes getting your skull caved in a curiously pleasurable experience.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe […]
“We Are Not Robots are in three-piece mode tonight, and it’s a savage noise they conjure, serrated and threatening. It might sound like it’s going for your throat more than usual, but it’s as hard to escape as ever.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the […]
“Bugs drop sugar hit after sugar hit this afternoon, be it in the rush of the songs, or in the collective fun of watching bassist Jordan relegated to dispensing sweet treats to the crowd, replaced for a song by a preternaturally talented crowd member. Even though the songs are sometimes tinged with stories of sad […]
“Ninajirachi drops in for a DJ set this afternoon, and it’s of note because I understand almost none of it on a conscious level. I recognise there are deep parts of my brain that are lighting up like fireflies, and there may be something wrong with my shoulders. It’s brilliant fun, even if I’m clearly […]
“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 […]