Live Review: Zeahorse

It's been an exciting year so far for post-post rock band Zeahorse, playing alongside The Mark Of Cain in March and more recently a support slot for Jello Biafra's (of Dead Kennedys fame) side project The Guantanamo School Of Medicine. In addition they recently signed with music label Hub (Dappled Cities, Winter People) and to top those achievements off, they have a new album coming out mid-year. To celebrate the pending release, the quartet, who originally hail from Hornsby, planned their second single launch for the track, Career, on the tiny stage of Enmore's Green Room, to a packed and rather enthusiastic crowd, which was a cross-section of older/younger people, to give you an idea of the types that a Zeahorse show draws. The band's 'it's just got to be heavy' – a few parts Fugazi, some bits Melvins attitude and impossibly low octave drone music approach (thanks to that one-two bass and baritone guitar combo, not to mention a very underrated drummer) was very much a raw affair due in no small part to the lack of a proper PA or sound guy, but that seems to be their modus operandi and damn them if they would choose to have it any other way. A number of years on the live circuit has lent them the accumulated self-assurance the band displayed and in a number of tracks, including their latest single, Career, from the coming album, and the very impressive Tugboat. Without any supports, things were all over too quickly, however, the always stoked front-guy Morgan Anthony, clearly appreciative of the local support, along with the rest of the band looked pretty hungry to get out and about on tour.