The iconic Corner Hotel tonight hosts an unofficial dedication night to classic Aussie rock. Bitch Diesel and Spiderbait, hailing from two different eras, both mimic the sound of a defiant time in Australian music history. The four girls of Bitch Diesel drown the stage and crowd in a textbook kind of hardcore - but somewhat glam­-rock'n'roll and it's the kind of raw rock that even a few technical difficulties can't interrupt.

Then Spiderbait take the stage. "We're going to take it back to 1996," says vocalist and drummer, Mark Maher (affectionately known as Kram). This tour has been dubbed the Ivy & The Big Apples tour as the shows see the band playing this album in its entirety and theirs is a classic pop-rock sound hasn't gone out of style. Chest Hair begins on the album back in the day, as it does now, with its guttural guitar riff, the work of Damian 'Whitt' Whitty.

Still one of the band's strong suits is their ability to say so much with so little. Despite the changes to rock styles as the years have gone by, Spiderbait's iconic melody and track-heavy work still resonates with audiences of all ages. Jasper sneaks up on the audience, but highlights the trio's immaculate timing. The song subtly slows to a pause before crashing back in - a classic headbanger. For the band's hit Goin' Off, which has never been heard live before, Maher sneaks out from behind the drums and picks up an acoustic guitar, again perfectly transitioning from hardcore '90s punk to their classic, smooth indie-pop.

Then that all-too-familiar riff starts to build (and it's a song everyone knows, passed through the generations since its conception in 1977). The lyrics to Black Betty bounce back to the band from an eager crowd taken back to their youth for a night. Although there is this same nostalgic feeling behind every song, we hear some songs off the Ivy & The Big Apples album that have never been played live before today; Janet English, Whitt and Kram make the old feel new again.

The trio close the night with Old Man Sam and it's the final nod to what the night is really about. "This is Melbourne rock'n'roll to us," Kram says. And what could be more rock'n'roll than a 45-minute encore in a sweaty moshpit in a pub in Richmond?