Pictured: Portugal. The Man.

South Africa's Seether performed to an almost full-house at Sydney's Metro Theatre on February 5, 2012; supported by Brisbane's Numbers Radio.

Numbers Radio put their trained talents to fine use on the Metro stage and surely won some new fans with their own brand of driving rock. All three members are clearly excellent musicians, playing tight and appearing to have a good time.

Got to give it to the boys in The Bronx. While they are across town opening for Soundgarden, I'm at The Metro waiting for The Vasco Era, who in the past have not impressed me much. The plus side is, my only clash at Thursday's Big Day Out has now been solved and I'm looking forward to some Mariachi music soon enough.

There are some genres that will never die. They are the genres that paved the way for "Rock and Roll" as we know it today: Blues, Swing, Rockabilly, Jazz, Country and so on... and the reason we know it will never die is because not only do bands like Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - siblings from North London - exist, but they can pack out venues like the Metro in Sydney and have a thousand people dancing and singing along to every song.

Nick Lalak takes us on a visual journey of the aural adventure that Battles provided the Metro Theatre crowd, with support from Canyons and Pink Flod.

In the past few years (most of) Wu-Tang Clan have played two collective shows at the Enmore, and a handful of solo shows scattered around which seems to indicate that they boys really love Australia, and we love that such an iconic group are now frequent visitors to our shore.

While Niche Productions have become well-known in bringing some of the highest quality acts to Australia, their bigger ventures such as the short-lived Days Like This festival seemed largely unappreciated by the wider music community in Sydney, the reason seemed to have been a general lack of good taste by the majority.