West Thebarton @ UC Hub

UCX welcomes students back to campus with our Semester 2, 2022 O-Week celebrations! Catch Sesame Girl and Crocodylus supporting West Thebarton at UC Hub on Thursday 28th July. Special discounts for UC students.

West Thebarton are a seven-headed rock hydra from Adelaide, South Australia, yet another example of the resurgence of artists from the Southern Hemisphere. Look past Lorde, Flume and stare hard at Tame Impala, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Royal Headache, The Chats, Gang of Youths and a list twenty times the length supported by great radio stations and a greater pride. There is nothing in the water, it’s all just pouring into your ears.

West Thebarton (say West Theb-arton) are an amalgam of Adelaide-based, national touring bands – a super group of stature headed by The Rev, the gravel-voiced soul brother who, somehow, writes super catchy choruses about suicide, unrequited love and pure fucking loathing.

They had a revolving door of players which slammed shut in 2017 when Caitlin Thomas took the drum stool and Adelaide’s magnificent seven set about the task of turning their locally heralded gigs into something much, much bigger. That chaotic stage show transfixed the industry resulting in five labels chasing the band around Australia waving cheque-books like it was the 1990’s.

Deal done with Domestic La La, the band unleashed their debut album DIFFERENT BEINGS BEING DIFFERENT in May 2018, on the back of huge radio play and national support tours, they headed up their own sold out album tour with festival appearances in Europe including Reading, Leeds and Pukklepop and debut dates in India, returning to their beloved South Australia in time to be nominated for an ARIA for best rock record and winning Best Band, People’s Choice, Best Song and Best Release at the South Australia Music Awards.

Then? Everyone’s lives ground to a standstill. Recording the second, forthcoming, album became a little more challenging, dodging between border closures the band flat out ignored the main conversation of the year, wrote apart, stuck together and now, now the view’s amazing.

Reviews for DIFFERENT BEINGS BEING DIFFERENT

AU Review – top 5 album of the year “An absolute rip-snorter of a record” (Kerrang! KKKK)

“If Different Beings Being Different doesn’t etch its way into the echelon of Australian classics, this country has no goddam hope” (Guitar, AU)

“Energetic, fuzzy.. rock music that ropes together the scuzzy garage antics of their European predecessors” (Modern Vinyl, US)

“You just have to see this band live” (triple j radio)