The Underground Stage
“You know what it’s like when someone walks into a room, and without raising their voice becomes the loudest thing in the room? Yeah, Sketch Jets. Sonics.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157666810188157″]
“I missed Wartt Gunn supporting Wawawow recently, but they’re cut from the same barking cloth. As they barrel through a series of jagged and loopy tracks tonight, it’s clear they’re not travelling to the beat of any of your normal drums. This is future-garage – rough of edge, massive of pupil, and like the aliens […]
“Holy shit, Wayward’s is going absolutely bammo for Stumps – the crowdsurfing is endemic, and that thumping, rolling set of tunes, overlaid with the baritone madness is burning the doors down. Also, until you’ve heard Arctic Monkeys’ “When The Sun Goes Down” done by a deep-voiced man in Australia who looks like a geography teacher whose […]
“First time seeing SCK CHX, and the thing that hits you – runs up behind you and batters you round the back of the head with a great big brick – is the unceasing energy and fire that burns throughout. The songs clatter from wiry and angular to flat-out and foot on-the-floor to screaming up […]
“Skivvy Season start off like Flowertruck – sad jangly songs about long-distance relationships, with the single largest guitar pedal board I have ever seen – and end up meandering through some truly lovely songs, some as big as a barn, like Pro Vita channelling The Cure. Seriously – this is bloody gorgeous. And a bit […]
“Lachlan Body is super-relaxed and super-charming, the sort of sound to soothe a thousand angry souls and raise a wry smirk at the same time. Wit and tune, delivered with a jaunty wink.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157668590733718″]
“It’d be good to see Body Type again under any circumstances, but on the back of a freshly-signed deal, with a fistful of new ‘uns in the set, in a RAMMED Wayward’s show, it’s just about the finest pleasure around. And if that wasn’t good enough, those fearsomely good new records blister like a bad […]
“Bored Shorts are – quite simply – a bit magnificent. They sway endearingly between gears, delirious and giddy and dreamy and slack as a wet rope. A well-fired delight of a set. And how good is ‘Day And Age’?” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157666141461947″]
“First time – ridiculously – seeing The Lockhearts, and without a smidge of surprise they get busy blowing the doors out from note one. This is raw meat, backed with roaring tune, hairy and muscular and packed with several rows of teeth.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter [flickr_set id=”72157690081124420″]