Recording: Secret Wars

Artist: Secret Wars

Song: Four Humours

Recorded at The Horseshoe Tavern, September 6, 2019.

Secret Wars - Four Humours

Plenty veteran savvy and discipline in this quartet — no surprise given that three-quarters of this band were playing together in Parts Unknown back in the '90's. With wired-up tension ready to snap and Derek Westerholm's boy-with-the-perpetual-nervousness frontman tics you could pick your postpunk signifiers (I get a bit of Mission of Burma buzz from this one, for example) and know that the band has come by 'em honestly. There's heaps of local underground rock history represented in this group, and they wear it extremely well.

Recording: Karaoke

Artist: Karaoke

Song: Bombing in my City

Recorded at The Magpie Taproom (The Door of No Return Residency – week 1), July 4, 2012.

Karaoke - Bombing in my City

Full review to follow. Karaoke — whose practice does not conform to their name — led off the first instalment of Ghostlight's 'Door of No Return' residency.