The Underground Stage
“Patient Lounge are down from Queensland and bring with them a whole fleet of operatic rock freakouts. The widdly guitar is turned up to high, the bellow is redlining, and the train, she is off the rails. Classic, but also deeply bonkers. Great fun.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“White Bay have a beady eye and a calculated gaze. This is error-free ball – as precise as a hawk’s eye, as sharp as its claws, and as large and roaming as the mountain range it’s flying around in.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“NTL Landmarks have worked out that a twelve-string guitar makes you automatically sound like you know what you’re doing. The rest of it makes us all realise that big, agricultural, Smudge-ish tunes absolutely proves it. Like it’s been well-painted.” Facebook | Instagram
“Kitten Heel bring all the neck-snapping twitch and quicksand-y bloop of every 80s new wave band with them, along with some truly shoulder-shuddering songs. Needs a bigger room to fit it all in, it’s a big construction.” Facebook | Instagram
“Pallet sound like a fistfight at a dockyard. There’s no subtlety, just the wet thud of knuckle on bone, velocity meeting object. Meaty, mean, and meaning it – what excellent fun.” Facebook Days Since Accident by Pallet
“Mope City couldn’t be any more Scottish if they picked a fight with a cloud. This is a good thing. The name reflects perfectly, downer pop and clanging like the bells that signify your end. This is great stuff, weird and miserable but somehow deeply uplifting all at the same time.” Facebook News From Home […]
“Miners are channeling basically all of my favourite guitar bands into one tonight. The guitars ring and the rhythms roll like an eight-foot wave, it’s all the best bits of all my best nights. And it’s done without cracking a single smile, self-aware and solid as the side of a cliff. Grand, roiling stuff.” Facebook […]
“Bec Stevens has a serious case of easy-going muscle. Each time she ambles up to the mic, it’s then followed with heavy-duty tuneful blows to the head, delivered without an ounce of arrogance but a metric ton of skill and precision. A hard core with a soft centre, bloody and brilliant while you’re at it.”
“Watching Max Quinn and his very merry band play a show is like being invited to the best party ever and only being allowed to watch it through the windows. There are no – repeat *zero* – bands that have this much fun, have this much tune, and are this funny to boot. A fabulous […]