The Underground Stage
“Cat Heaven – related to Mere Women, who are awesome – deliver a blistering set full of both murderous precision and giddy abandon. This songs drive and fuel and spur you on, but with a pulsating brain behind it that’s impossible to ignore. When they get told to turn the guitars down by the sound […]
“Pinch Hitter have an impeccable pedigree in Dave Drayton and Nick van Breda, and it is such a joy to hear them live again after a break, and that there are new songs and a new LP coming. Both the delicacy and strength that these two are capable of conjuring never fails to move me.”
“Andrew Samuel is launching a single, but – if we’re honest with each other – every song’s got enough meat on its bones here. Every note is rich and red and chewy, an extra bar of warmth as winter approaches. Lovely, lovely, stuff.” Facebook | Instagram
“Elizabeth Fader and those amazing songs have been short-circuiting my brain since I first heard her at the beginning of 2018. Fizz, blurt, parp, bang – if anything, it’s getting worse. I think I might have an aneurysm if she gets any better. There are worse ways to go than to a soundtrack like this.”
“Goodside are a balm for your damaged and bile-soaked souls. This set swoops between the touch of a worried friend and the savage wit of a nemesis, casual meeting calculated. This is superbly crafted stuff, and it glistens like a knife in a dark alley.” Facebook | Instagram
“1000mods are in from Greece (the actual Greece!) and have brought with them the reason that Greece used to rule the known world – venomous, hard-bastard, stoner rock. It sounds like the decline & fall of every empire.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“The Ugly Kings bring it, rough and downbeat. This is raw like vegetables but tough like raw meat, bloody and mean and right up in your face.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“The Black Armada are made of dense elements, tone and rhythm and yell. This is excellent, hard and heavy, the soundtrack to the stomping that everyone deserves at some point in their life.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“Creek are in Sydney for the first time (I think), and have brought with them all the widdly and loud and danceable bits of big rock that you just can’t but help love. Idiotically talented in the instrument department, and a shitload of fun too.” Facebook | Instagram