Live Review: Gyroscope, The Love Junkies

13 December 2014 | 12:24 pm | Mick Radojkovic

Celebrating 'Sound Shattering Sound' ten years after its release, Gyroscope's set is a rockin' hug from an old friend.

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How great is it when a three-piece band can jump on stage, blast through a half-hour set and blow the crowd away? That’s exactly what The Love Junkies did tonight. There is a recklessness about them, an exciting edge of danger that makes it hard to look away. They performed Oxymoron and it felt like we’d been slapped in the face. If you were half asleep, you were wide awake now. If you like your rock fast, fun and frenzied, check them out soon.
 
Ten years is a long time in rock. A band can go from obscurity to stardom and then disappear in the blink of an eye. West Australians Gyroscope have had a rollercoaster of a musical career including huge festival and support shows, smash-hit singles and unfortunate accidents. They burst onto the scene in 2004 with their début, Sound Shattering Sound, which we were celebrating tonight. We’ve missed them.
 
The sold-out crowd didn’t take long to warm up as they belted out the lyrics to Safe Forever and the infamous Doctor Doctor. There was a happy vibe in the venue at getting to hear an album that still feels fresh ten years on. Misery calms us all down a little but the sweat has little chance to dry as they move straight onto Get Down. Lead singer Daniel Sanders is in great vocal form and we get the feeling that he has missed being on stage. It’s an especially poignant return for guitarist Zoran Trivic, who broke both of his legs in a motorcycle accident just over two years ago.
 
The crowd pulsed and sweated throughout their self-proclaimed “longest-ever set” as they finished their début album and dove into  favourites Fast Girl (with a segue of Beds Are Burning), 1981 and Snakeskin. The crowd bleated for ‘one more song’ and the band granted their wish belting out a classic version of Nirvana’s Territorial Pissings. A fitting finale to a rocky, grungy set of music that we’ve missed. Welcome back, Gyroscope. Please stay!