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Author: Alex Kirk
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Second Idol @ Metro Social, 11th Feb
“Second Idol tell it straight, sing it hard, and play it at a serrated volume, indie rock done with unflinching intensity, both a blinding heat and a bright, deep cold. In an era of unconscionable compromises, it’s a dark pleasure to watch a band who refuse to bend a single inch.” Gallery Listen
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SUNDREAMER @ Metro Social, 11th Feb
“SUNDREAMER’s metalcore carries a dreamlike quality with it, not quite a nightmare but also a solid distance from a quiet night’s sleep. As loud as a lot of gongs, it’s lead-heavy at almost all points, but it’s the stranger moments of oddball imagination that swirl through and around it that’ll wake you up in a […]
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Sage @ Metro Social, 11th Feb
“Most of Sage’s set is played as a guitar & drums two-piece, which gives the harder-core moments their truly fearsome clarity. It’s too easy for a ripped-up vocal, when backed by four or five people playing as loudly as they can, to lose a lot of the message – here it is stunningly, frighteningly clear, […]
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Gigs In Sydney This Week | 11-15 Feb
Every week I pick out a bunch of interesting shows featuring emerging, DIY, and independent Australian artists. The full list of shows this week are below – those are the ones to get out to in the next few days. Don’t forget, there’s also a futuristic-y dashboard here that lets you look ahead if you […]
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Battlesnake @ Factory Theatre, 8th Feb
“A Battlesnake show can only ever be itself – un-improvable, un-repeatable, un-ignorable. It’s so over the top it’s like you’re looking at it from Google Maps, both a very good joke and a stunning set of songwriting and musicianship. High-voltage Judas Priest rock meets the theatrics of Spinal Tap’s ‘Stonehenge’ and the resulting car crash […]
“Purple Disturbance rip the concrete off the floor and the tiles off the roof from note one and give no quarter for the entire set. It’s a blistering, skin-tearing hurricane and it’s got more energy and rage and joy and explosive ka-fucking-BOOM in one broken finger than seven other bands do in their whole functional […]
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Terrificus @ Factory Theatre, 8th Feb
“Terrificus are less a musical act than an exercise in deliberate mischief, home-made instruments and distortion and experimental oddballery. A single theatre of the absurd wouldn’t hold Terrificus, you’d need a street full of ballrooms, and even then they’d be standing on the roof, chucking rolls of toilet paper at you, as indeed they spend […]
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Nerdlinger @ Dead Set, 6th Feb
“Nerdlinger’s new album is called ‘Growing Up Is Getting Old” but they don’t appear to be suffering much from the latter while utterly refusing to engage with the former. Fast and fun, tonight’s mix of old and new tracks is a blast of bright colour and fresh legs, giddily daft and brimming with sugar and […]