Live Review: Stereophonics, Atlas Genius

Adelaide's alt.rock duo, Atlas Genius, started off proceedings for the slowly building crowd at the Enmore Theatre, looking very comfortable on stage and visibly excited to be playing such an iconic venue. Tracks from their debut album, When It Was Now, including If So and hit single Trojans filled the room with colourful jangly guitar riffs while singer Keith Jeffery smiled cheekily at the fun of it all.

The heavily British-skewed crowd, packed in like sardines, screamed like kids when Welsh rockers Stereophonics swaggered onto the stage, looking as cool as they always have with their trademark black leather jackets and impressive quiffs of hair. Even new drummer, Jamie Morrison, has an uncanny resemblance to the late, great Stuart Cable.

Now with eight studio albums under their belt, the question wasn't will they play any of the classics, but which of the big hits they were going to treat the crowd to. Early classic Local Boy In The Photograph went down a treat with everyone singing along to every word before more recent hit, Superman, let guitarist Adam Zindani show off his epic noodling skills.

After a quick, honest admission from singer Kelly Jones that the band had gotten trashed the night before, they continued with new tracks Graffiti On The Train and the rocking We Share The Same Sun, showing little signs of their hangovers.

More great hits followed including the catchy Pick A Part That's New and Mr Writer, which received a funked up new ending. Violins And Tambourines from their latest album was played with the band facing away from the crowd under atmospheric blue lighting, creating a moody and dramatic effect.

The enigmatic and pumped-up crowd continued to sing and sway with great enthusiasm as the band rattled off more hits including Maybe Tomorrow, Just Looking and Have A Nice Day before wrapping up their epic 20-song set with the rocking The Bartender And The Thief.

After a short break, the foursome was back on stage with the crowd-pleasing A Thousand Trees, Traffic and wrapped things up with the epic Dakota. Another excellent gig and great to see the boys are still rocking out as good as ever.