Andy Hazel, Journalist

Dallas and this gig make a strong case for The Native Cats being one of the most interesting and strikingly original bands in the country, though it’s highly unlikely they’d give a shit about any sort of assessment like that.

Closing with the rousing 14 and encoring with Brand New Song, it’s the energy and bravado they bring to the standard rock chord progressions they spin through that so impresses, and still leaves the sense that the best is yet to come.

Who knew there were this many ways to be simultaneously dapper and sexual?

Three bands with a theme, captured at exactly the right time; tonight is a gig for the time capsule.

Songwriters David Scarr and Tim Steers are perfect foils for each other and when Cynthia Sear’s voice joins, it’s rare bliss.

For a band’s first headline show south of the equator to be this good, it’s easy to see that fame beckons.