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The Smith Street Band’s debut album, 2011’s No One Gets Lost Anymore, was the sound of a band that had found their feet. Greeted with accolades, Beat Magazine wrote “happily one of the best Aussie albums in recent memory” and Triple J’s Stu Harvey added “The Smith Street band need to be heard”. Website Bombshellzine took it even further, voting it THE best album of the year. The band’s incessant gigging following their debut album’s release hints at The Smith Street Band’s desire to reach as many people as possible. A feat not entirely impossible given the immediate accessibility of their memorable folk/punk/rock sound.
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There was also an ever-growing list of international support slots the band were handpicked for: some through musical admiration, others through lyrical – many through both. Already this year The Smith Street Band has shared the stage with the pensive Frank Turner (UK) provocative Fucked Up (CAN) and poetic La Dispute (USA), never once out of place. The Smith Street Band is incapable of standing still, and perhaps, of growing up. Both endearing qualities in inspired punk rock upstarts. As Wil sings on I Want Friends, “I’m gonna do all of the things I said I’d do when I was a kid. Exist between the margins not between the lines. Getting my hands dirty, not living life romanticized” “Wagner has an obvious talent for creating earnest, intelligent punk rock songs about love, drugs, family and everything in between. They will be supported by Shit Present and The Bennies.
is needed now More than ever
7.30pm, £12.
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