Coastal communities tend to be brilliant hotbeds for fringe-dwelling, free-thinking creative types, often fomenting active and tight-knight alternative scenes among those who gravitate towards the aesthetic and philosophy of genres such as punk, metal and hardcore. It makes sense, then, that the next new monthly live-music night to hit the NSW South Coast, Pitted, should be a celebration of all such headbang-friendly things.
As a press release explains, the evening is named in honour of both the local surfing and music communities, and will become the South Coast's only monthly heavy-music night once it gets under way with its inaugural festivities on Saturday, 25 April, when Segression take to the stage.
The monthly event will be held at Captains @ Mariners, in Batemans Bay — about four hours south of Sydney — and is intended as an affordable, regular celebration of the South Coast's demonstrable love for heavy tunes and getting together to have a good time.
From an industry and performers' perspective, Pitted is a perfect stop-off point for any tour, as — in true scene style — it's pretty loose about which night each month it's held, so it's not beholden to any stringent "second Tuesday every month!"-style commitments, meaning it's well placed to shift about to help accommodate touring schedules and other logistical restraints. Heck yeah!
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Tickets for the first Pitted event will go on sale this Wednesday, 4 March, via Oztix, and will only set you back a meagre $10+bf if you book in advance ($15 at the door).
Keep your eyes peeled for future announcements as Pitted returns to the South Coast each month; if you're in the area and a likely regular, swing the evening's Facebook page a Like, and see theGuide or The Music App for more details.
