The Underground Stage
“Las Vagueness is the midpoint between The Wedding Present and Eeyore. Bundles and bundles of trebly jangle, of sharp wit and intelligent, observant songwriting, all mashed in with drooping eyelids and slumped shoulders. It’s really rather wonderful.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“Solo Career is not here to make you dance, sing along, jump around, or jump up, or jump up, or even get down. Solo Career is here to make you *think*. This set is damn near incomprehensible at first, it is literally the opposite of instant. But as it drones and cranks and twinkles and […]
“Steve Smyth is – and open your mind wide here – the absolute dead-centre between Frightened Rabbit, Nina Simone, BB King, and Chewbacca. It’s like being the first to experience the unexplored depths of the ocean floor. Wild, unexpected, alien, and so much more eye-widening than anything you’re used to. Just. Fucking. Wow.” Facebook | […]
“Easy Street are deceptively easy – “Waves” is insistent and urgent and nagging. They are at their best though when they get country-tinged, and it all comes together like a perfect lens flare off the windscreen of that one car on the highway, the only sign of life for a hundred miles in any direction.”
“The first time I heard Georgia June they had raucous tune by the ton. Tonight, they have matured – like a wine – into the tastiest, poppiest, most magnificent piece of wonder. These are BIG songs, built for both dancing and knocking down buildings. What a set.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“Tropical Strength have made a decision – or were born – to out-weird you, all your mates, and all your mates favourite bands. They imbibe copious amounts of Doors, Ride, Divine Comedy and then spit out an oddball hairball of rambling, floating, rumbling, gushing, soaring lunacy, dilated pupils made song.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“If you’ve ever been swimming in the same water as a shark, Bullshirt will be a familiar sensation. There’s a shape in the distance. Adrenalin kicks in. Then your heart’s pounding like a fucked clock and the only thing you can think of is “TEETH”. Really, really sharp ones.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“Robert Irish is over in town from the US to play us – for the first time – songs from his upcoming album. This ain’t no showcase though, this is a family thing, friends and spouses and buddies and all sorts. This is as intimate a gig, on every level, as I’ve seen. And when […]
“Devotional might be quiet and slow, but that doesn’t make them quiet or slow, it makes them dangerous and cinematic. Every song swoops like a pan shot across the prairie, and there’s a consistent threat of impending doom. Atmosphere so thick it could only be cut with the crack of a six-shooter.” Facebook | Instagram