The Underground Stage
“A Battlesnake show can only ever be itself – un-improvable, un-repeatable, un-ignorable. It’s so over the top it’s like you’re looking at it from Google Maps, both a very good joke and a stunning set of songwriting and musicianship. High-voltage Judas Priest rock meets the theatrics of Spinal Tap’s ‘Stonehenge’ and the resulting car crash […]
“Purple Disturbance rip the concrete off the floor and the tiles off the roof from note one and give no quarter for the entire set. It’s a blistering, skin-tearing hurricane and it’s got more energy and rage and joy and explosive ka-fucking-BOOM in one broken finger than seven other bands do in their whole functional […]
“Terrificus are less a musical act than an exercise in deliberate mischief, home-made instruments and distortion and experimental oddballery. A single theatre of the absurd wouldn’t hold Terrificus, you’d need a street full of ballrooms, and even then they’d be standing on the roof, chucking rolls of toilet paper at you, as indeed they spend […]
“Nerdlinger’s new album is called ‘Growing Up Is Getting Old” but they don’t appear to be suffering much from the latter while utterly refusing to engage with the former. Fast and fun, tonight’s mix of old and new tracks is a blast of bright colour and fresh legs, giddily daft and brimming with sugar and […]
“Amends turn up the heat for this set, their louder and more agressive side baring its fangs and raising its fists throughout. It’s still as expansive and rich in story and song as ever, but it’s got its blood up tonight, and its out for yours.” Gallery Listen
“So I Says to Mabel treat us to current and future songs tonight, their ongoing mission – right there in the album title – to make punk great again. I’m not convinced punk was ever anything but pretty great, but for damn sure sets like this don’t make it worse, full as it is of […]
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