New War set the tone of the night early, with long winding sections, repeated upon end; hypnotic in many ways. Like a mantra, the instruments repeated themselves over and over. The singer was the anomaly in the quartet, taking the stage with a single crutch on his left arm, also deviating from repetition. His vocals half spoken, half screamed, but were executed to perfection. At times, he would then lower himself to his knees and use effects pedals to warp and bend the shouts into the microphone. This added chaos to the mix, strongly contrasting to the rigidity of the constant riffs repeated.

Like a lot of Australian bands that make their way around the country, and in particular the east coast, Qua are a band that have shown up on my radar, but have never seen live. Unfortunately I didn’t get to witness all that Qua had to offer - on my return they decided on playing their remix of a My Disco song live. As some would expect, My Disco songs are not short three to four minute commercial radio friendly songs, and Qua played the remix from start to finish. It seemed somewhat entertaining and amusing that the remix of the drums were played live on sampler pads for the entire song. The singer and main "knob fiddler" was in charge of the wavering pitch and various crescendos, alternating between mixing desk and guitar. By the time the ten or so minutes was over, the drummer was left sitting on the floor to regather his breath. It was entrancing to say the least.

Headliners for the evening My Disco, ventured north of the border, to launch their latest single ‘Young’. The song has a very monotonous bass line repeating itself for much of the song, hypnotic in its evenly spaced strides. As New War had set the tone earlier on in the evening, My Disco carried on the repetitions with the guitar and bass. The important part of the chemistry of the band is drummer Rohan Rebeiro, who keeps a very open drum beat present. Leaving the songs open to interpretation in the ears and minds of the listener, to either feel the urge to dance, or on a lesser note, tapping of feet and a nod of the head. With simple fills played over the drum kit to add variation every now and again keeping the song fresh. The beats were further emphasized by the straight bass playing by Liam Andrews never missing the beat. On guitar, Liam’s brother Ben has less of a beat orientated roll, and more keeping the progression going, albeit with continuous chord progressions. Ben Andrews would also be noted to be the more dynamic of the brothers moving around his third of the stage, with energy that is also slightly restrained at the same time.

The set seemed to go for a short amount of time, but with songs averaging over at least six minutes, songs are definitely not the correct measure to gauge a set time. After the repetitive sounds throughout the night it was back to the wilderness and the repetitive sounds of water dropping on corrugated iron.