LIVE WIRE – Sydney Live Music Guide Jan 19th

This Thursday 19th January you can get a face full of revolutionary rap as Immortal Technique, the loudest and angriest protest voice in music since Zach De La Rocha of Rage Against The Machine, performs at the Metro Theatre. He’s the voice of conscience and dissent in an unjust world and he’s visiting Australia for the first time. He’s supported by Akir and Poison Pen. That night the Basement is hosting a real treat. The Cambodian Space Project are a rock & roll group from Phnom Penh, Cambodia that delivers upbeat guitar pop Khmer music. The high energy group is fronted by the talented and vivacious female singer Srey Thy and it’s bound to be an unforgettable night. Riotous San Franciscan garage rock group Thee Oh Sees will be at the Annandale Hotel and this night promises to be a raucous affair. Their clanging drums and trashy guitar mayhem is the perfect backdrop to the punk vox of charismatic band leader John Dwyer. This is not a foot tapping, head nodding show. This is the real deal. This show will get rowdy. On Friday 20th January tear-jerking duet Kort are playing at the City Recital Hall Angel Place as part of the Sydney Festival and they’ll be showcasing tunes from their album Invariable Heartache. The album is a collection of old 1960s folk-country songs of love lost and fulfilled from the Chart Records label that band member Cortney Tidwell’s grandfather used to run. Bring a handkerchief to this one. On Saturday 21st January UK goth punk legends The Damned are making a return to our shores to recreate some of the punk mayhem which saw them touted as a pioneer of punk rock along with the Sex Pistols and The Clash. Not only are The Damned seen as being as influential as the aforementioned groups in the UK punk movement their preference for fast tempos is also said to have inspired the west-coast hardcore punk movement in the U.S. They’re playing at the Metro Theatre. At the Vanguard you can catch Melbourne country/blues group Toots Toots Toots. This quintet – which often swells up to as much as a nine piece when they decide to include a horn section – produces a swinging, swaggering jumble of guitar twang, galloping snare shuffles, moody horn lines and rough as guts vocals. They’re supported by The Maladies and Roland K Smith. Upstairs at The Beresford you can see soulful electronic duo Sietta play a headline show. After signing to beheamoth Sydney hip-hop label Elefant Tracks the Darwinian duo have been hitting the road hard and spreading their revolutionary blend of hip-hop, soul and R&B so get along there if you wanna catch a good thing in the making.