The Underground Stage
“Tiarnie skate that dangerous, fine-as-silk line between bedroom DIY cool and massive-room talent. They clearly know their way round songwriting and instruments, and know how to work a room of any size – but at no point do you get the sense they’re not singing directly and only to you. The sort of top shelf […]
“The Impressionists drop an entire set of all the wonkiest bits of Strokes and Arctic Monkeys, but manage to drench it in an Australian summer. Lo-fi but uplifting, sunny but pouring with rain, skinny as a rake but big enough to fill a room to bursting.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157711096439121″]
“Chinese Takeaway are so polished they make your best, shiniest shoes look like they’ve been smashed with hammers and bricks. There are some truly lovely notes in here, soaring high set-pieces and swooping moments to soothe the soul. Grand, poised, fun.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157711085438907″]
“Naughty Boys just get better every time. From flat-out snotbags, their set now flails even more madly than the singer – from Pist Idiots-level bogey-punk to something approaching a Bad Dreems / Preatures crossover. Oh, and the bits that go fucking mental, obviously. Never less than right on the red line.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set […]
“Charlotte & The Harlots don’t so much play a set as lay down a truckload of bricks and then smash you in the face with them, one by one, to the soundtrack of the widdliest guitar solo ever. It is absolutely as excellent as that sounds.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157710946613432″]
“Charlotte & The Harlots don’t so much play a set as lay down a truckload of bricks and then smash you in the face with them, one by one, to the soundtrack of the widdliest guitar solo ever. It is absolutely as excellent as that sounds.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157710946613432″]
“I saw Hockey Dad thrashing about a thousand years ago at the Q Bar. I just saw Mimi The Desert Pearl and it’s exactly the same flavour of crazy. You know when there’s a hurricane warning? This lot are coming to fuck up your house.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157710946045706″]
“So, I was two songs in and going to make a very clever comparison between Sal & The Mandas and Joan Jett, and then they went and blew it by doing a Joan Jett song. Shit. Still, the rest of it also sounds like Julia Why?, so this band clearly fucking rule. Not enough people […]
“FiKa feel like the first beer after a long day, full of cheer and brimming with possibility, but with a lingering sense of being hacked off at many, many things. Some days, this is exactly what you need, right?” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157710946020636″]