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Live Gallery – The Damned w/ Neptune Power Federation, The Metro Sydney, 080623
Hailing from the UK, legendary punk band The Damned hit the stage of The Metro Theatre in Sydney last week. To the delight of loyal fans, Dave Vanian took to the stage with the current line up which includes original members Captain Sensible and Monty Oxymoron, Paul Gray and newcomer drummer Will Taylor. Ably supported …
Live Review & Gallery – The Meanies, Frenzal Rhomb, Canine, Nunchukka Superfly, LoJetz, The Hot Ness, Drifters Wharf and Crowbar 2-3 June 2023
Punk fans were treated to a huge couple of gigs last weekend as Oz punk legends The Meanies swanned into town, bringing with them a suitcase full of other punk favourites along with plenty of attitude and swagger. Friday night saw them support Frenzal Rhomb at Drifters Wharf as part of Frenzal’s national tour in …
Live Review and Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival – Bitumen, In The Hanging Garden, 10.06.2023
The marvelous thing about Dark Mofo is the opportunity to witness bands you normally wouldn’t know about or have experienced before. While I had to miss Drab Majesty due to a timetable clash, I witnessed the powerful performance of the support, Melbourne-based band Bitumen (who have a few Tasmanians as constituent ingredients). Powered along with …
Track: We Set Sail are departing and their penultimate offering is a beautiful and passionate ‘Broken Umbrella’. Out through False Peak Records.
We Set Sail are a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia and if there is any certainty in life, it’s that good things don’t last for ever. We Set Sail have announced their final departure into the Queensland sunset and ‘Broken Umbrella’ is their penultimate release before anchors up, with their …
Premiere: Judgment is made – Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits unveils ‘For The Term Of My Natural Life’, the visceral and haunting title track to new album.
We are overjoyed at being able to bring you exclusively the new single ‘For The Term Of My Natural Life’ from Matt Malone and the Holy Sprits. Hailing from country Victoria, the song encapsulates a wild and bleak weary world that came from the cruel oppression and banditry of a Victorian era and the remote …
Track: According to Greta Stanley, ‘It’s Cool To Be In Love’ – a dreamy anthemic blast of rock pop goodness out through Double Drummer.
One of our favourites here at Backseat Mafia, the enormously talented Greta Stanley returns to the scene with a thoroughly energetic new single that seems to herald a new direction. ‘It’s Cool To Be In Love’ dials up the pace and the energy and delivers a sonic punch with an anthemic chorus more dramatic than …
Premiere: Go to a special place with folkloric rock of The Elsewheres and their new single ‘Run Away With Me’, with launch date announced.
We are very pleased to premiere the new track ‘Run Away From Me’ from Melbourne folk rock outfit The Elsewheres. Coasting on layered instruments fringed by delicious horns and sparkling acoustic guitars, the barbed wire-coated vocals are soaked in whiskey and regret as they tell a tale of heady love trysts and passionate desire. With …
Live Review Plus Gallery: The Church, Odeon Theatre, Hobart 03.06.2023
It was rather apt that The Church should mark their first gig in Hobart for more than twenty years one week ahead of the ritual bacchanalia that is Dark Mofo. A perfect time for sonic absolution before the descent into the wicked ways of Hobart’s famed winter festival. And what a performance it was. The …
Track: ‘Hurt Me Harder’ – Jacob Fitzgerald unveils a masochistic urge with his sparkling, vivacious new single, ahead of tour.
Jacob Fitzgerald has an ability to craft heartfelt indie pop anthems that sparkle and shimmer with vivacity. His new single, ‘Hurt Me Harder’ is no exception: a bright bouncy track with a cyclic riff that has a thread of deep yearning throughout, aided by Fitzgerald’s velvet tonsils. A saxophone burst adds a lounge room burnish …
News: Teenage Dads unveil new single ‘Speedracer’ on announcement of expansive Australian and New Zealand tour
Teenage Dads, currently touring UK, Ireland & Europe,have unveiled a science fiction-inspired new single ‘Speedracer’, and the announcement of a huge 30-stop national headline tour across Australia & New Zealand over August – September of this year, playing to their biggest venues to date. ‘Speedracer’ is a louche, funky track that seems to be imbued …