Severed Heads & The Reels & DJ Stephen Mallinder

Overview

I can’t believe the Severed Heads are playing Sydney Festival’s Becks Bar. It’s mental. How did that even happen? I'm sure that somewhere deep within the bowels of the Sydney Festival H.Q. there’s an acid casualty candy-raver giggling hysterically into their Hello Kitty backpack.

Most people would remember Sydney based Severed Heads from their seriously terrifying single Dead Eyes Opened. It featured on Triple J’s Hottest 100 back in 1994. It was their only commercial “hit”, but they’d already been using lo-fi analog computers and loops to make uncompromising and extraordinary electronica since 1979. 

They broke up in 2008 and now they’ve reformed, John Farnam style, just for this one gig. Supporting them are another awesome 80’s band, The Reels, who’s song Quasimodo's Dream was voted by APRA as one of the Ten Greatest Australian Songs of All Time. Just like Dead Eyes Opened, that song also gives me the willies. Prepare yourself for a spooky night. 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6_IGjTUA0