The Underground Stage
“Blake Cateris’ songs are both sharply tooled and delivered, as rich in ideas as they are in melody. He leaves Oz soon for a European jaunt – our loss as always – but it was decent of him to leave us with a hint of the new stuff to come, a typically thoughtful song about […]
“Blake Cateris is an artist obsessed with the craft of it all. Every stroke of every strum, every note from his throat comes off like it’s been pored over, fine-tuned, and pondered deeply. It’s never weighed down though, even the tracks with heavier ideas are light and aerated, delicate and agile on their toes despite […]
“Blake Cateris’ musical talent has never been in doubt but, as his set evolves, his ferocious hunger to learn stuff, to grow in odd directions, to wind around and up the walls looms larger. The musicality was always impressive, but anyone who can go from cats to Camus, or from disappointment to Duran Duran, is […]
“Blake Cateris is built for sunshine, despite the darker thoughts running through his songs. For rarity value, there are few male voices that carry as far and cut as sharp as his – the new ones blare like sirens to watch it all carefully for the year ahead.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | […]
“Like the other tracks on Blake Cateris’ EP, this track is crammed with almost more thoughts than he can fit into his precisely-phrased syllables. Bulging with ideas throughout, its jaunty strut is well-paired with deep contemplation, a troubadour for nomads and thinkers 🤔”
“Reunited with a full-band track, Blake Cateris’ latest is jauntier than a pair of finger guns wearing a cocked hat. He may be overwhelmed by modern life, but it doesn’t seem to have stopped him writing end-of-the-night singalongs like this. Phew. 😌”
“Blake Cateris is a scalpel, a precision weapon – high notes are hit, chords are firmly planted, the melodies strut up and down the scales like they own the bloody place. Despite the unerring accuracy there’s still bags and bags of unbridled fizz and enthusiasm, scientific targeting smashing into artistic explosion. Turns out that’s just […]
“Blake Cateris has a razor-sharp voice and a surgically precise talent for songwriting, which – finally! – gets let loose in the wild tonight after far too long. Each song lands somewhere between Motley Crue and the Violent Femmes, and he’s got us all squarely on one of his many hooks tonight, line and sinker.”