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 […]
“Battlesnake go full concept on Alpha & Omega, veering to within touching distance of the lunacy levels of a Tenacious D or a Spinal Tap. As close to parody as it gets though, it never once lets go of a deep, obvious love of the source material that gives you permission to join right in. Epically mad, madly epic 🤘”
October was a HUGE month for the city more generally this year, with the inaugural version of SXSW Sydney blowing up on a million stages. It was a wild time too and so this month, I’ve included photos from every one of the fifty shows I caught across the week. To celebrate it being the […]
“Battlesnake‘s scenery-chewing (and climbing) loonery swarms the courtyard, turning what had been a calm and relaxing afternoon into a throbbing maelstrom filled with metal and goblins. Never anything short of eye-poppingly mad, it’s impossible to ignore, and is the best time you’ll ever have watching grown men wear sheets.“ Gallery
“Boo! Battlesnake emerge, sort of clothed and basically your mum’s worst nightmare, to drop the type of set you bloody wish you could. Hairy, lairy, scary, and absolutely made of electric mayhem, it’s exactly as fun as you’d think. The sort of band you just lose your damn brain to.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | […]