The Underground Stage
âHoly shit, Waywardâs is going absolutely bammo for Stumps –Â the crowdsurfing is endemic, and that thumping, rolling set of tunes, overlaid with the baritone madness is burning the doors down. Also, until youâve heard Arctic Monkeysâ âWhen The Sun Goes Downâ done by a deep-voiced man in Australia who looks like a geography teacher whose […]
âFirst 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 […]
âSkivvy 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 […]
âLachlan 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.â Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157668590733718″]
âItâd be good to see Body Type again under any circumstances, but on the back of a freshly-signed deal, with a fistful of new âuns in the set, in a RAMMED Waywardâs show, itâs just about the finest pleasure around. And if that wasnât good enough, those fearsomely good new records blister like a bad […]
âBored 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 âDay And Ageâ?â Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157666141461947″]
âFirst 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.â Facebook | Instagram | Twitter [flickr_set id=”72157690081124420″]
âThe Ugly Kings are up from Melbourne tonight and have brought all their hometownâs leather clothing with them. This is tough, QOTSA territory, grunty and thick and tough as rope. It is both big and clever.â Facebook | Instagram | Twitter [flickr_set id=”72157690081073140″]
âFlickertail bring the damn rock. Itâs basically made of nothing but hair, and licks, and fills, and the sort of thing that would soundtrack your life if your life was made up of hanging out of a limosine sunroof on the Sunset Strip. THIS IS NOT A BAD THING.â Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157668005328548″]