Live review from Soundsplashing Underground (07-02-2025):
1. Sheep on the street
2. Meathogs
3. Billy Weston
4. Camel
5. Jungle Jive
6. Wethouse Road
7. Outro Jam #1 (encore)
Kieran – bass
Ethan – guitar
Will (temp. replacement) – drums
There’s a moment, early in The Red Garage’s set at SoundSplashing Underground, when it feels like the whole thing might skid sideways. The bass is having technical issues, the vocals are shaky, and you can almost see Chris B doing mental trauma‑math, remembering a previous “instrumental” band that weaponised out‑of‑tune singing. Then something subtle happens: the technical issues get fixed, the mics recede from the foreground, and the band remembers what they actually are—a psychedelic rock unit whose real language is texture, space, and the tension between repetition and drift.
The Red Garage are very loud, but the volume becomes part of the experience; I felt like I was inside the band and part of their performance. Kieran and Will can really lock together into a groove that somehow feels both lazy AND precise, while Ethan’s guitar playing spirals upwards in unpredictable ways. Kudos to Will, who slotted in so well despite being a temporary replacement.
The band’s strengths lie in how they occupy space, how they let sounds collide, smear, and bloom inside a loud but carefully shaped environment. At SoundSplashing Underground, the singing wasn’t a disaster, but the moments I remember all come from when no one was trying to sing and the music, finally, was allowed to speak for itself.
-Rosie Chan
Live review from Post-Halloween Rock Show:
1. Soundcheck jam
2. Meathogs
3. Roydon Dusk
4. Billy Weston
5. Pineapple Princess in the castle
6. Jungle Jive 365
7. Wethouse Road
This will be an even shorter review than my usual – brilliant! The band comprised a few teenagers, but their level of skill is way beyond what I would expect. Musically they describe themselves as “psychedelic rock” and psychedelic rock (or blues rock) the set was, in the finest tradition of Jimi Hendrix/the “Anything Goes” decade, with generous dose of distortion/wah and a big, filling rhythm section (wish the bass could be louder though). The entire set was pure music, with no lyrics in the songs at all – Blues is not an easy genre to play, you may be able to pull it off technically, but good blues is in the expression/feel and these guys totally nailed it (going back to the “wow, are they really only 19” part earlier).
Yeah, so if you’re into psychedelic/blues rock, definitely check them out!
– Hazel-Rah
