The Underground Stage
“If anyone’s ever taught Purple Disturbance about the existence of brakes, they weren’t paying attention. Instead, they focussed their time on figuring out how to sound like C.O.F.F.I.N fronted by a demented Mick Jagger. A set that takes no prisoners, let alone it’s foot off the gas, or a breath. Wonderfully, wonderfully feral.” Gallery Listen
“A Purple Disturbance show is basically like plugging your head straight into the mains, a collapse of all normal thought, replaced with primal screaming and high-voltage fun. It’s fizzing chaos from note one to close but it’s also near-mathematical in its precision, a scalpel as much as a sledgehammer. A jolt and a joy, a […]
“Purple Disturbance are a spectacular, as well as being spectacular. I have seen precious few bands give it quite as many beans, sound quite as hefty and serrated and magnificently bonkers, or sweat with such abandon so early in the set. It’s a twitch in the neck and a spasm deep in the soul, primal […]
“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 […]