Nambour is proving to be the Sunshine Coast’s epicentre of underground music.

US punk-rock band Dark Thoughts (main picture) will headline an up-coming show at Black Box Theatre on August 30.

The band from Philadelphia have been kicking it for 10 years and serve up a Ramones-esque quality.

With turbocharged melodies, and an epic on-stage vitality, it’s bands like this that are making Nambour great again.

Dark Thoughts will join local acts The Unknowns, Work? and Electric Prawns 2.

Local street-wear business Anti Vision is behind the event’s promotion.

The clothing label is part of a greater push to bring Nambour back to its glory days.

A time when the suburb was once known as the Sunshine Coast Capital of Music.

Bad Habit Records Helping To Promote Music Scene

Aaron Borg, of Bad Habit Records on Howard Street, is another business committed to bringing bigger acts to the suburb.

His shopfront’s garage door is painted with Anti Vision’s upcoming show. Aaron says lower socio-economic areas such as Nambour often become incubators for emerging talent.

He says this is because there’s more opportunity for creativity and skill to be born out of diversity. And also from 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.”

Special Entertainment Precinct Means Less Noise Complaints

“It’s also where they straight-up call the police, Council or neighbourhood body to shut anything down that is outside of those parameters.”

Thankfully, Black Box Theatre is within Council’s Special Entertainment Precinct (SEP). It means 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.

US Rock Band Dark Thoughts In Nambour

Living in Philly and working 12-hour days in the early 2010s, meant minimum wage, customer-service jobs, and barely scraping by. But Dark Thoughts also had a lot of fun along the way. And plenty of hardcore shows to remember why it’s worth being alive. 

They 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 hardcore-punk scene as a pop-punk band. They rubbed shoulders with The Marked Men, Sheer Mag, The Cowboys, Dirty Fences, Nancy and Radioactivity.

But while they play with the tough guys, they break through their hard exterior with an earnest emotional expression that makes you feel incredible. And ones to mosh hard to and have a straight-up raging time.

Check out their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkthoughtsusapunkofficial/.