Live Review: Luca Brasi, Pianos Become The Teeth, Maddy Jane, Speech Patterns

Right on the outskirts of the Brisbane CBD, crowds of live music enthusiasts with excited faces begin to pack out ex-aircraft hangar and now live music venue The Triffid to begin the craziness of the weekend. The big concert venue, hosting hundreds, is ready to get crazy for a taste of Tasmanian punk rockers Luca Brasi on their Australian tour.

Opening the show to a fairly packed-out venue is none other than Hobart's Speech Patterns. While the crowd seem fairly relaxed and stagnant, it becomes pretty easy to spot a few people dancing around or headbanging in the front rows. 

As Speech Patterns close their set, people begin rushing in to catch a glimpse of Tasmania's favourite frontperson, Maddy Jane. Pulling off an insanely vibrant and crowd-pleasing set, Jane gives a huge shout-out to local Brisbane band WAAX while delving right into a set any and every diehard WAAX fan would go thirst for. After shredding her track Drown It Out, it becomes impossible to find anyone who isn't going wild. Jane certainly knows how to put on a great show!

Next on the Luca Brasi line-up, Baltimore rockers Pianos Become The Teeth take the stage to deliver a beautifully relaxed set, showing that the crowd is truly theirs to own. While they don't communicate with the crowd an awful lot, frontman Kyle Durfey makes his way around the stage with graceful movements, consistently getting the fans psyched as they lead their set into the night.

Finally, as the crowd begins to pour out chant upon chant for everyone's Tassie favourites to take the stage, Luca Brasi arrive on stage accompanied by thunderous applause. Opening with Aeroplane, it's impossible not to get caught within the crippling moshpit.

In a crazy spectacle of bright lights, sweaty circle pits, crowd surfers plus beautifully synchronised guitar riffs and drum crashes, Luca Brasi rip into recently released track Got To Give, with patrons doing their very best to go as wild as they possibly can. Shredding out tracks Anything Near Conviction and Say It Back, it becomes impossible to find anyone not screaming the lyrics into each other's faces.

As the night draws to a close, there are chants for one more song. But finally, to everyone's surprise, Violent Soho's own James Tidswell jumps up on stage to rip into a guitar solo. With the crowd going crazy at their fave Mansfield boy shredding it, James reintroduces Luca Brasi as return to the stage. Going crazy with an additional song, Luca Brasi call Jane back out on stage to help close the night with crowd favourite Count Me Out. After a divine spectacle of roaring lyrics and an insane chorus, the crowd leaves the venue as a grand collective of mateship. What a wild night.