Live Review: SLAM Day: High Voltage, Electric & The Jaded Cats

This year, SLAM celebrations across Melbourne celebrate the third anniversary of Australia's largest cultural protest. The same week also recognises the 33^rd year since AC/DC frontman Bon Scott passed away. If any band is to symbolise the importance of celebrating and endorsing live Australian music in local venues, and the triumph of Australian music more generally, then it has to be AC/DC. Since the 1970s, the hard rock group have released 15 albums, and continued to tour. Fittingly, a tribute concert is held down AC/DC lane, at one of Melbourne's favoured sticky floor bars and live music institutions: Cherry Bar.

Coinciding with Melbourne's inaugural White Night, while a brightly lit Melbourne plays host to tens of thousands of ramblers, the dimly-lit Cherry bar hosts High Voltage with guests Electric (The Cult cover band) and all-round rock cover band The Jaded Cats.

Commencing with a vision of Peter Scott Morrison, the man on “lead wolf howling vocals”, from Electric affixing his wig in the ladies toilets prior to his on stage appearance, feels like a particularly unique and personal touch to the night of celebration. It is certainly a fly on the wall moment. The night proves to be both very rock and tremendously Melbourne and with AC/DC staples covered earnestly by The Jaded Cats, enthusiasm from punters increases steadily. Needless to say the Cherry Bar floor will be a little gluier as a result, no doubt an apt marker of this significant event.