<p><span><span>- Australian heavy music is a strange beast, it seems to go through popular phases every twenty years or so. Since grabbing the world by the balls in the 1970s via <strong>AC/DC</strong> and the diverse highs of the 1990s with grunge and metal both being extremely popular genres, it has been bubbling away in the background and now raises its fiery head through The Neptune Power Federation, on their fourth album, <em>Le Demon de L’Amour</em>.</span></span></p>

- Half a century ago, Abiodun Oyewole and his group The Last Poets invented gangsta rap. Their rapid-fire street corner poetry sounded like the patter of machine guns, and so did their lyrics. Abiodun’s most famous poem When The Revolution Comes called for blood to run down the streets of Harlem, and for guns and rifles to take the place of poems and essays.

<p><span><span><span>- You could forgive a band for being a little gun-shy at this point. With socials full of gig posters from the last couple of years with </span><em>CANCELLED </em><span>painted across them in big red letters, it’s really hard to believe it when they promise we’re ‘past the peak’ - how many times can you be suckered into trying again? Still, like new buds opening to what might be another frosty, false Spring, here we go again.