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

Taylor Yates, Journalist

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Live Review: Taylor Swift, Vance Joy
"Swift starts with Welcome To New York and instantly we notice that there's something wrong with her voice."
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Live Review: Flight Facilities With Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, George Maple
"All the guest singers come on stage and dance along, glittering firework displays behind them - it's quite a magical experience."
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Live Review: The Preatures, Rolling Blackouts, The Creases
"After that they’re back to the Manfredi and Moffitt show and no one’s really that into it."
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Live Review: The Grates, Straight Arrows, Pleasure Symbols
"It almost looks like a joke, but it works."
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Live Review: Vallis Alps, Fortunes, Downtown DJs
"We wrote this EP about two years ago in a cabin in Seattle."
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Live Review: Best Coast, Totally Mild
"Bethany Cosentino's vocal performance is terribly flat and somewhat reminiscent of Avril Lavigne."
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Live Review: Of Monsters & Men, Vallis Alps
"It's a bit early in the set for [Mountain Song] (no one's hyped up enough yet)."
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Live Review: Tom West, Oscar Lush, Jon Mortimer
"Thanks for coming into this gloomy room on a sunny day. So I’m gonna play a few songs on my own, just ‘cause I wanna," Tom West says.
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Live Review: San Cisco, Crooked Colours, Methyl Ethyl
"We’re all so pumped for San Cisco by the time that Crooked Colours finish that a few of us start cheering-on the sound tech who’s running around stage"
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Live Review: Peace
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Live Review: Tully On Tully, Neighbourhood Youth, Big Winter
Tully On Tully leaves the room wanting more and are "raw and loaded with emotion".
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Live Review: The Delta Riggs, Harts, The Pretty Littles
"Everyone loses their shit and the clap-along near the end of the song could pass as a minor earthquake."
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