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Clay J Gladstone @ Vic On The Park, 15th Mar

“Clay J Gladstone are on the precipice of dropping new tracks, so you’d expect some excitement in the set, right? This is Clay J Gladstone though, so their set would be pushing heart attack levels of excitement and mania on any given night. So it is here, blistering pace and soaring tune delivered with impeccable […]

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Clay J Gladstone @ The Burdekin, 27th Nov

Show Notes “After much technical jiggery-pokery involving a busted lead, and – I swear – some actual magic tricks, Clay J Gladstone don’t so much start their set as detonate. Five months of delayed-gig frustration pelts the room, a shockwave of monstrously well-honed songs delivered with ferocious energy and boundless joy.” Gallery Learn More Facebook […]

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Clay J Gladstone – Balance

A Clay J Gladstone track always seems to have more ideas than the average song can hold, and their latest once again strains at its bounds, pulling at the seams holding it together. Teeth clenched and veins bulging, ‘Balance’ hulks out of its clothes, ragged and wild-eyed, coloured in outside of its lines.  

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Clay J Gladstone @ Frankie’s, 17th Apr

“Thanks to the virus, Clay J Gladstone aren’t totally used to playing to crowds on their feet – but it’s not them that need the practise, it’s us. When a band like this gets this up in your face with songs as wild and untethered as these, it’s time to relearn how to lose it, […]

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Clay J Gladstone @ Crowbar Sydney, 18th Feb

“I’m trying really hard to avoid connecting Clay J Gladstone’s onstage stab vests to their sharp, finely honed sound, but it’s impossible. Sorry. Anyway, look – Clay J Gladstone are a Labrador-Doberman cross of a band, delighted with everything but poised to rip your neck open. If you’re built for it, this lot are near […]

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Clay J Gladstone – Sorry

Sill only a relatively few beats into their existence, Clay J Gladstone’s latest propels them forward harder and faster than even on their fearsome 2020 releases. Capturing the best bits of Violent Soho’s imperious guitars and sinewy basslines, and melding it with the wild eyes and unhinged abandon of Fangz, this is the sort of […]

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Clay J Gladstone @ Frankie’s, 1st Nov

“Clay J Gladstone pull off this magic trick of sounding really cross all the time but making you smile while they go about it. This set is *furious*, but it’s uplifting and vigourous fun all at the same time, which really ain’t easy. Big hairy balls of joy mashed into a pile of irritation and […]