Sydney’s local music scene got you down? Sitting at home bemoaning the potential axing of yet another pub venue? Well we’ve got just the thing to jolt you out of your apathetic slumber!
As ever, Sydney’s dark underground music scene beckons to those who simply cannot survive without live music. Come April 9th, we’re aiming some of the country’s loudest and most intense psychedelic, stoner and doom bands at yo head – and it all goes down at Dirty Shirlows; one of the more prominent semi-legal warehouse venues in the Marrickville area.
April 9 – Dirty Shirlows Warehouse
Looking Glass (ACT)
Space Bong (SA)
Adrift for Days
Shellfin (QLD)
Mother Mars
Entry $15. Doors 8pm. All ages. BYOB/BYOJ.April 10 – Black Wire Records
Space Bong (SA)
Battle Pope
Rat Bag
Unknown to God
Entry $5. Doors 3pm. All ages. BYOB/BYOJ.
Canberraian trio Looking Glass hark straight back to the days of Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath – a time where substance-fuelled rock gods seemed to tower above the general populace, with a guitar-wielding ability (and an appetite for hallucinogens) that seemed to far surpass what was attainable for a mere mortal. This is classic, high-energy, high-volume stoner rock laced with psychedelic leads, thundering bass and effects-drenched acid vocals. Simply awe inspiring.
Then comes Space Bong – South Australia’s downtuned denizens of drone and a band that has produced some of the loudest and most incredible live experiences I have been privy too. Their brand of droning, nihilistic sludge is trance-inducing. We can guarantee you will have heard nothing quite like it. To round out the night we have psychedelic drone/fuzz outfit Adrift for Days, Brisbane stoner-rockers Shellfin and local stoner blues standouts Mother Mars.
Since this is a warehouse venue, the night will be BYOB, BYOJ and all ages. The sound system at Dirty Shirlows is certainly nothing to scoff at – so bring your earplugs, your squares and your brooding misanthropy down for an evening of vibration, fuzz and drone. Entry is $15 and the show will run from 8pm til late.
Dirty Shirlows is a 5 minute walk from Sydenham station, and can be found at 32 Shirlow Street, Marrickville. The Facebook event can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145425935517354
