Nambour is again proving to be the Sunshine Coast’s epicentre of underground music with US punk rock band Dark Thoughts (pictured) headlining an up-coming show at Black Box Theatre.
The band from Philadelphia, who has been kicking it for 10 years, serve up a Ramones-esque quality with turbocharged melodies, and an epic on-stage vitality to match.
Dark Thoughts will join local acts The Unknowns, Work? and Electric Prawns 2 (pictured below) at the theatre on August 30.
Local street-wear business Anti Vision is behind the event’s promotion, and is part of a greater push to bring the suburb back to its glory days, where it was once known as the Coast’s capital of music.
Aaron Borg, of Bad Habit Records, on Howard Street, is another business committed to bringing bigger acts to Nambour.
His shop front’s garage door is painted (pictured) with Anti Vision’s upcoming show.
Aaron says lower socio-economic areas such as Nambour often become incubators for emerging talent, because there’s more opportunity for creativity and skill to be born out of diversity and more liberal ways of living.
“It’s because the more working class and underprivileged populations allow things to incubate and flourish more than in other areas, where an overbearing conservatism stifles creativity,” Aaron says.
“In these areas, musicians are steered in the direction of making older and more mainstream audiences comfortable.
“It’s also where they straight-up call the police, Council or neighbourhood body to shut anything down anything that is outside of those parameters.”
Thankfully, Black Box Theatre is within Council’s Special Entertainment Precinct (SEP), meaning it’s a lot harder to shut down loud music in the area.
Catch some underground music in Nambour with Dark Thoughts, The Unknowns, Work? and Electric Prawns 2, at the “Old Ambo”, on August 30.
Cost is $30 or $35 on the door. Tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com.
More about Dark Thoughts:
Living in Philly and working 12-hour days in the early 2010s, meant minimum wage customer-service jobs and barely scraping by, and playing pun and hardcore shows to remember why it’s worth being alive.
Dark Thoughts live in the urgency of reality, but their “Ramones-core”, three-chord punk tunes have hope in everything great that exists outside of a crushingly oppressive hamster-wheel.
You forget about fighting to get another meal in the romance of all things good – meaning being in love and punk music, of course!
Dark Thoughts entered the US hardcore-punk scene as a pop-punk band, rubbing shoulders with its counterparts such as The Marked Men, Sheer Mag, The Cowboys, Dirty Fences, Nancy and Radioactivity.
They play with the tough guys, but break through their hard exterior with an earnest emotional expression that makes you feel good while you get to mosh hard and have a straight-up raging time!
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