The Underground Stage
“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 [flickr_set id=”72157678126518928″]
“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 [flickr_set […]
“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
“I didn’t do any “best of” lists last year but if I had, Georgia Mulligan would have been standing clear at the pinnacle. That howl manages to be so loud it could shatter bone, but the effect seems so quiet as to make a cemetery look like a disco. These are amazing songs, beautifully done, […]
“Fait Accompli’s set is not a set you watch, it’s a set you are drawn into, like there’s a black hole of superdense music on the stage and every last one of us is happily doomed to be drawn, inexorably, into it. As per physics, we then all explode and light up the whole damn […]
“I’m a massive fan of keeping things simple. The Cherry Dolls keep things simple – hilariously large and rollicking riffs, rhythm born from a thunderstorm, and the sort of razor-edge that makes you think a brawl’s about to kick off. I’m a massive fan of The Cherry Dolls.” Facebook | Instagram [flickr_set id=”72157688671009963″]