Photo: Kristen Ashton

You Are Not Alone. Beat It. Billie Jean. As Facebook statuses worldwide changed to either commiserate the passing of a pop icon or make jokes about his controversial life, tonight’s bill respectively offers up three hastily figured out Michael Jackson covers. Adelaide’s effervescent pop rock act The Sundance Kids have more than enough indie sensibilities to be well at home on tonight’s bill. Lightning hasn’t struck twice for Perth four-piece End Of Fashion. After playing breakthrough hit O Yeah second up, crowd interest in the band noticeably plateaus; their high-energy Beat It cover the only exception to this. Evermore earn the distinction tonight of being the only band on the bill to attempt the solo of their MJ cover of choice, but only after playing their Truth Of The World: Welcome To The Show album from start to finish. Against a backdrop of hundreds of TV screens flashing in hypnotic cacophony, Evermore deviate from their established sound to explore the dirty basslines and pounding krautrock backbeats of the Truth Of The World. Forsaking the cornerstones of their charm, it’s apparent the crowd’s cheering is most uproarious when the Hume brothers return to the stage to play a short back catalogue encore.

TOM HERSEY

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