Live Review: JEFF The Brotherhood, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Gooch Palms & Bloods

Local girls and guy Bloods opened to not even a modest crowd and their looseness was saved by their ear for a neat throw-down tune. Having spent a good time on the local live scene, the band chose to try a few new tracks to supplement the usual garage/punk/surf/other songs that drew applause from what was eventually a modest crowd. The Gooch Palms made the merry trip from Newcastle to perform as part of their showing at the Lilypad (BDO) the following day. The duo's theatrics didn't overshadow the fact that like the band before them, they have a keen ear for an old-fashioned pop hook, even if it was messed up in tattoos, the peanut-butter solution and nudity. The King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard boys' relentless seven-piece ensemble, now working with a much more sizeable audience, straight away made use of the space to give some flex to their take on rock, blues, shoe-gaze and psych, along with heaps of hair and stovepipes, which was again met with an enthusiastic response.

Returning from Nashville, Tennessee and showing their years on the road have certainly weathered them, JEFF The Brotherhood spent the first tenth of the set fixing a guitar string – obviously the roadies hired knew nothing about re-stringing and forgot to bring the spare three-string axe for Jake, one half of the blues/psych/stoner rock duo. Looking like they finished the rider early, and despite the technical glitches early on, the show was memorable thanks to some apt playing and some shiny new tracks which seem to have taken a leaf out of the Dead Meadow bible because at times, particularly with the more recent songs they played, parallels could be drawn. Overall, a good warm-up for the BDO.