The Underground Stage
“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 [flickr_set id=”72157704821610042″]
“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 […]
“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 [flickr_set id=”72157706564274181″]
“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.”