Ruari Currin
Ruari Currin is the voice behind the burn outs. On top of DJing at your local dive bar and playing bass in pub-punk 4-piece The FckUps, he’s the hoon driving you home each Thursday from 5pm on PBS’ Fang It! with a high-octane, ultimate getaway-car mixtape featuring everything from The Cramps to The Chemical Brothers, alongside the best in local punk and beyond. Ruari has hosted Fang It! for over 20 years, and the show has a cult following of PBS listeners, members even get a special bumper sticker if they sign up to the show during Radio Festival. Fang It! tears through garage rock, punk, indie and electronic beats at breakneck speed, delivering a weekly soundtrack for night owls, road trippers and anyone who likes their music turned up loud.
Frenzee
Apollonia, Nikos and Adonis, schooled and skilled in the ways of the old, these siblings share a kinetic bond that is erupting in real time and their band is called Frenzee.
They are Occam’s Razor, hair trigger tight, pulverizingly mean and lean. Born in Melbourne, raised and based on Crete, Frenzee embody the antipodean riffing of AC/DC, The Hard Ons and The Angels but with a heavy dose of their childhood loves Bikini Kill, Motorhead, The Prodigy and Rage Against The Machine. Frenzee aren’t the sum of some list of influences however. No other band has the ties to a discipline and skillset like these siblings and yet it does not stifle the dynamic intensity of the band. It just makes Frenzee insanely consistent. The weight is immense. Apollonia paces in the sonic cell between the wall of Adonis’ guitar and the battery of Nikos rhythmical onslaught. It’s synchronicity and devoid of artifice. Just big raw power. No, not power. Something more honed and refined and terrifying. Pressure. So much pressure. The maximum pressure any one person can put on a string, a snare, a room, a community or a system. Welcome to the pressure age.
Orbrose
Orbrose is a four-piece feast of canned beef, cooked over magic heat, consisting of Ambrose Kenny-Smith (King Gizzard, The Murlocs) and O.R.B (Organic Rock Band).
Having met on the streets of Geelong as kids, they’ve been manifesting this project ever since they first crossed paths at 12 years old.
Over a weekend in April 2026, they finally got the long-awaited jam together — and these songs naturally fell out. A little snapshot of what it was like growing up in Geelong in the 2000s, channelled through a slightly-delic love of boogie and rhythm & blues.
Live, Orbrose brings that same spontaneous energy to the stage — a loose, groove-heavy set of boogie, rhythm & blues and garage rock, with plenty of room for the songs to stretch, bend and take on a life of their own.
The Prize
Since forming in 2021, The Prize has established itself as one of Australia’s premier rock and roll outfits. After releasing a handful of acclaimed EP’s and refining their signature sound, they quickly found themselves sharing stages throughout Australia with legendary groups like Pavement, Sunnyboys, The Stems and Guitar Wolf before being invited on EU/UK tours in support of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard in 2023 and The Chats in 2024. Their unique blend of rock and roll, punk, power-pop has earned them notice the world over and cemented them domestically and internationally as a premium live act with the tunes to back it up.
The Prize released their highly anticipated debut album ‘In The Red’ in September 2025 to great acclaim via Anti Fade Records in Australia, Goner Records in the USA and Drunken Sailor in Europe. Now condensed into a four piece line-up featuring drummer Nadine Muller, sharing lead vocals with guitarist Carey Paterson, Caleb Stoddart on bass and Ethan Stahl on lead guitar, the band is about to embark on their first ever headline tour in Europe this October.
For fans of Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Pretenders, Blondie, Rolling Stones, Flamin’ Groovies, Tom Petty, Dwight Twilley, Phil Seymour, The Toms, The Nerves, and of course the Ramones. True fans of punk, classic rock, power pop and new wave will not want to miss an opportunity to see one of the best rock and roll bands going in 2026.
Tongue Dissolver
Tongue Dissolver are a rave punk trio from Naarm, layering chants of liberation atop piles of bass and drums – “Tongue Dissolver are guerilla operators, waging asymmetrical combat against the usual expectations of the scene… they are that once-in-a-while act that completely cuts through the saturation.
