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

Tom Hersey, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Ghost BC - Infestissumam
Metal or not metal, Satanic or just a gimmick band, the music on Infestissumam is going to stick with you.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Norma Jean, Vanna, A Secret Death, Safe Hands, Hand Of The Architect
After a night of top-notch bands there’s little suspicion as to why these guys are headlining. Now they just need to not leave it so long to get back here.
Features / Music
Better Than Bublé
"It’s freedom from thinking about paying the bills and what’s happening at your day job."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Iggy & The Stooges - Ready To Die
On Ready To Die’s Job, when Pop sings of having a “job, but it don’t pay shit” you feel like telling him that he should wipe away his tears with the excess of loose skin hanging from his torso and arms.
Features / Music
New Lease On Life
"We grabbed hold of all the touring opportunities that were coming our way, and so far it’s been [going] really well."
Features / Music
Young Blood
"I often check out the young and up-and-coming bands because I believe that there’s something that gets lost in the older bands; the energy and the excitement."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: 28 Days, Evil Eddie, Es Three, Spitfireliar
I guess now we just wait around until One Dollar Short get off their arse to do an Eight Days Away tour.
Features / Music
Culture Shock
“It’s kind of progressive, some of the stuff is more progressive than Mania, yet very groovy, some of the stuff like Gravity X.”
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt - Dys/Closure
Dys/Closure is an excellent showcase of a dextrous band doing whatever the hell they feel like doing.
Features / Music
All About The Girls
"We like to smoke cigarettes and drink vodka and sleep with girls… Everything is about the girls in the end.”
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Dying Fetus, Putrid Pile, Defamer
Tonight is the best set the band’s ever played in Brisbane, and the crowd really seems to be appreciative of this fact.
Features / Music
Piecing It All Together
“I love taking something so real and transforming it into something that someone else thinks of as completely fake. Because I know the code, how to do the translation. And what makes this thing so complex is so simplistic.”