Brendan Telford, Journalist

A long time coming. Adelaide man-o-war The Mark Of Cain take to the stage without pomp or fanfare and deliver what can only be described as a brutal display of nascent.

There’s an authenticity that permeates from Don’t Know What Happiness Is that glues everything together, and makes playing simple pop compositions with originality and overt personality sound like a good idea all over again.

If only all bands could continually knock the ball out of the park like tonight.

The album runs through the plot at a click of rates to the climax of Dust In The Wind, and the resolute conclusion of Guns And Horses. A brave yet incredibly exciting effort.

Your Funeral My Trial, a Mark Lanegan duet on The Weeping Song and a typically damaging The Mercy Seat round out the set, before The Bad Seeds return to tear a hole in the sky with the devilish Stagger Lee. Brilliant.