The Underground Stage
“Benji Mac and The Heart Attacks wrap layers of absurdity over classic garage and rock ‘n’ roll sounds, landing somewhere like The Who playing songs written by The KLF. It’s magnificently daft in places, and thoroughly self-aware throughout, but with its wild guitar and rhythms driving it all, it ends up being both familiar, alien, […]
“MORRIS roar like demons in the late-afternoon sun, frightening away the cobwebs of a lazy day and replacing them with fearsome guitars and ragged throats. Unforgiving, bloodily raw, and enough to rudely awaken even the very snooziest from their Sunday arvo nap.” Gallery Listen
“Seaside drive it to the line without distraction, their defining trait less a sound or a genre than a pounding sense of motion and theatre and feeling, a wonderful hammer to the nerves. It manages to both shy away and show off, an explosion of indoor voices amplified to ear-splitting levels. Glorious.” Gallery Listen
“BLOKBSTR pound you into the cement under your feet, an assault of beats and six-strings and wild-ass grins. As much of a sneering pogo as it is an irresistible head-nod, it’s precision chaos designed for wild times, electronic and analog, fearsome and funny in equal measures.” Gallery Listen