Live Review: Sticky Fingers, Lyall Moloney, Luke Carlino

It is always a pleasure to go to The Gov for a show. And being there for Sticky Fingers second sold out Adelaide show for their Land Of Pleasure tour, it was no different. For the few gig goers that arrived early, the energy was already high and it wasn’t long until the predominately young crowd had filled out the venue.

Adelaide’s very own Luke Carlino was first support for the night, taking to the stage to show off his acoustic guitar and loop pedals. He worked his way between two microphones effortlessly and was always on point with his timing. The drawback some artist have with looping is that it takes time to incorporate each section or layer, but Carlino had way of turning this into a real build for each track and made for really interesting listening.

Lyall Moloney was surely a buddy to co-Sydney siders Sticky Fingers, rocking an 80’s style ski jacket, unzipped with no shirt, teamed with camo pants and a beanie. Moloney too was making use of loop pedals, however unlike Carlio was all electric guitar, and all about the reggae – mon'. It was pretty impossible not to groove to this guy and his infectious cheeky charisma was hyping the crowd up nicely and herding them to the front of the room pretty quick smart.

Sticky Fingers were possibly feeling a little worse for wear after backing the previous night’s show with a DJ set at Rocket Bar and it was slightly showing. To be fair, the sound levels could have been better with the back-up vocals and guitar getting a little lost at times – not that any of the fans cared.

Despite that, the crowd response was huge and one of the strongest fan bases to come by. If they weren’t jumping onto the stage or in the mosh pit - which was practically the entire floor - they were climbing onto anything they could to get a better view. From the moment the set started with title track Land Of Pleasure until the closing post encore call with How To Fly and Australia Street the energy was in full force.  Although Paddy was almost hidden under his sunglasses and bucket hat, he still managed to give of that rock star swag that seems to ooze from him and draw people to him.

The album does take some interesting turns and is a bit of genre masher, but it completely works as did it on stage. At the rate these guys are going, it would be no surprise at all to see them become one Australia’s biggest and best.