'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Tom Hersey, Journalist

Features / Music
Staying Above Ground
"It’s a wake-up call, and a pretty sad day for the Aussie scene as far as we’re concerned, they were a pretty big part of that scene, and they did great things for it, so it’s sad to see a band like that finish up."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Municipal Waste, Malakyte, The Scam
The Hi-Fi becomes a sea of hair as heads thrash back and forth and stage divers dive, flip and crash land into the first few rows, especially as the band hit The Art Of Partying material.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Wil Wagner, We Set Sail, Paddy McHugh, Virginia Sook
Wagner is a luminescent talent in the current milieu of Australian alt.rock and if you missed his show tonight, you should do yourself a favour and catch The Smith Street Band the next time they roll through town.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Thy Art Is Murder, Cattle Decapitation, Aversions Crown, King Parrot, Disentomb
It’s clear that these guys have earned their headlining slot, but it would still be nice if Cat Decap got their act together and came back some time soon for their own shows.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Robotosaurus, Totally Unicorn, El Alamein, Dirty Charlie
Hopefully they won’t bow out before a proper goodbye tour. And if they do, people better show up.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Rob Zombie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
If you can suspend all good sense, Rob Zombie has once again delivered a triumph.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Martha Wainwright, Brighter Later
In fact, Wainwright holds the crowd’s attention from the moment she steps on stage to the moment she bids farewell, and then everybody’s off to bed. After all, there are chores and IKEA trips for early tomorrow morning.
Features / Music
Passion Project
“What you hear on an Eluveitie record is what you get on at an Eluveitie show."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Tenacious D, Sasquatch, Damien Power
There’s such a fantastic potential to put on a stand-up comedy show, but instead the D try to put on a rock show, and it fails to be as killer as it should be. Though even that can’t stop the diehard fans from having a great time.
Features / Music
Goin' Steady
“Sure, it’s frustrating that people didn’t see the band as ‘legitimate’ or whatever even though we’d been around and had paid our dues, but it helped our drive more than it frustrated us."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Bronx, DZ Deathrays, Spitfireliar
Behind all of The Bronx’s hardcore stage antics and neck tattoos lurks the soul of an incredibly potent garage rock band.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Om, Ghost Notes, Andrew Tuttle
Feeling the vibrations from Cisneros’ bass is like sitting in a massage chair.
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