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  • Gig Review – Roomtone Live! With Time Out Corner Kids + Forget Me Not + Deep Beep + The Terror Adaptors

    Gig Review – Roomtone Live! With Time Out Corner Kids + Forget Me Not + Deep Beep + The Terror Adaptors

    Four5Nine Bar, Saturday March 28, 2026

    Drawing on their production background, Dale Nelson and Jacob Borgward created Roomtone, a platform spotlighting local music and emerging artists. The team hit a new milestone with the first live show at Four5Nine. Not just a gig but a celebration of the fast-growing scene around them, and yes, someone drank from a shoe.

    The men of the moment took to the stage – first for MC duties and then with their band Time Out Corner Kids. The first band to appear on the online program, they were relishing the occasion – bouncing around the stage and getting the crowd chanting.

    Sharing vocal and guitar duties, they powered through the emo-influenced set while getting everyone in the spirit of the occasion by threatening a shoey finale. With hints of post-blink-punk, the band were tight and mixed it up with big riffage and lighter numbers. There was a 12-string ballad full of sweet harmonies, and a drink out of a sweaty, post-set sneaker (yes, he did it).

    Now for the other bands who have graced the Roomtone lenses, and first up was Forget Me Not. Getting the crowd dancing and girls to the front (always a good sign), Luke Chandler and his band brought youth and indie-pop magic to the crowded room.

    Locked tight with chiming guitars, the band showed plenty of charisma and memorable tunes to match. It’s a winning formula with lyrics like “kiss me like the last time”, and a sound somewhere between R.E.M., Placebo, and The Wombats.

    Deep Beep, fresh off the release of their second album Soft Honk, opened with Diesel & Meth and wowed immediately. The songs are sonic journeys, intersected by big riffs and melodies. Even the bar guy was enjoying the wall of sound coming from the 5-piece.

    Atlantiss with two ss’s (what) was the set closer that brought the house down, and pretty sure it’s not about the sunken city but the abandoned theme park in the northern suburbs of Perth. Prove me wrong!

    The Terror Adaptors (or pterodactyls if you ask Dale) got headline duties and were full of heavy riffing energy as the crowd got rowdier.

    Playing a fine mix of post-rock and hints of everyone from Iron Maiden to Faith No More and System of a Down, they weren’t afraid to go weird with Beach Party on Uranus and plenty of other songs about aliens (at least one was about a demon). They even threw in an encore for the moshing crowd and smashed out Silverchair’s The Door for a huge finish.

    Dale and Jacob came back up and had a list of people to thank longer than Meryl at the Oscars. They threw out more merch (thought it was a tiny shirt, was a tote bag) and looked every bit like a team who’d just pulled off something special with Roomtone Live!

  • Album Review – Deep Beep: Soft Honk (2026)

    Album Review – Deep Beep: Soft Honk (2026)

    The Beeps are Deep

    Rating: 4 out of 5.

    Soft Honk is the latest from Perth/Boorloo space-psych rockers Deep Beep. Their second offering is developed, epic, and full of god-like riffage. The beeps go deep.

    The 5-track album is a step up in performance and production from the moment the chugging guitars enter in Diesel & Meth. The soundscape builds as the mix introduces each instrument, none overworking but all constructing something. It has Floyd feels, but vocalist Matt Rudas has enough Perth twang to make it local, and the vibrato guitar hits are inspired in both position and tone. Listen for the bap bap vocal breakdown in the middle. This is the Deep, so the song is soaring by the end. It sounds enormous.

    If you want good balance – add something catchier after the epic intro. You’ll Never Be My Baby is a good choice. It’s a post-rock pop song (sorry), not far from what Interpol were doing in the noughties, but proggier. The guitar lead line following the introductory “babys” is gorgeous. Cam Sims and Rudas’ guitar work – they got melody too, these lads.

    Atlantiss is another level again, out of the depths of the ocean where prog was born. The super heavy riff that repeats throughout the song is one of the best moments on the record, getting a little bit middle period muse-y. Super catchy and the airwaves agree, with the tune getting plenty of radio play. It’s a real journey.

    The epic-ness is well and truly underway by the middle, but the biggest is yet to come. For the true epic we must turn to Tell it to the Mountain. It’s about mountains (or one mountain) and runs the longest at nine and a half minutes. Don’t get the wrong idea, it’s not all prog parading, the song also has a hell of a singalong chorus – “take all your troubles, go and tell it to the mountain”. It’s another high point of the record and showcases the dynamics of the rhythm section, Josh Watkins’ drums ebbing and flowing until the ending explodes.

    Braden’s Lament brings the journey to a close in a descent into sample and noise jamming madness. The secret-song like track summarises the band up well actually. A bit mad and not unwilling to play around. Not all serious-musicianmanship progressive rock, this is a bit different. It seems a reasonable summary of Deep Beep, given how much fun the album is. The name says it all.

    Soft Honk was recorded at Rada Studios.

    Deep Beep play live this Saturday night at Four5Nine Bar.

    The band: Jerome Kennedy – Bass, Matt Rudas – vocals/guitar, Cam Sims – guitar, Andy Bartlett – Keys, Josh Watkins – drums.

    Album One: Mind the Brain (2023)