Live Review: Luca Brasi, Tiny Moving Parts, Eliza & The Delusionals

The first guitar strums from Queensland rockers Eliza & The Delusionals ring out turning the wandering crowd's heads immediately.

As the crowd moves at pace toward the barrier, thumping dance rock is accompanied by the soaring vocals of quirky and colourful frontwoman Eliza Klatt. Rocking pink hair and a matching jacket, Klatt and her band provide the early arrivers with sugar sweet alt-rock melodies. "I'll be anything/I'll be anyone" is sung with a fierce passion and fiery energy that really makes you question the perceived lack of female diversity in this scene — the talent is here, staring us right in the face. Finishing with latest single Half Empty Girl, and a handful of new fans, they've sure left us roaring and ready for more.

"Send applause to your heartstrings" fires at high volume, full-force from the stage, startling us all as three-piece pop-punk outfit Tiny Moving Parts crash onto the stage. Hailing all the way from Benson, Minnesota, it's clear that they have a lot of supporters tonight as songs Headache and Birdhouse have the crowd jumping in unison and moshing their hearts out to each and every beat. You can physically see the music and energy pulsating through singer Dylan Mattheisen's body as he shakes, jumps and thrashes across the stage and interacts with the crowd. We see our first crowd surfers of the night.

A slow pluck of the guitar slowly builds to a crashing wall of noise as Luca Brasi's Tyler Richardson greets us with a bellowed, "What the fuck is up Melbourne?!" It's the final night of their tour and what better way to celebrate than with a sold-out Croxton crowd? Things get rowdy quickly — at Let It Slip and The In-Between we already have a crowd surfer doing a shoey mid-surf as the crowd below thrash him from side to side. Urging the crowd to take care of each other, Richardson is cautious of the crowd getting out of hand - which seems likely when you've got such a raw, emotive and rough sound coming from such a high energy band. Lead guitarist Thomas Busby cheers a drink with drummer Danny Flood before Got To Give. It's a crazed, chaotic and sweaty atmosphere as crowd surfers pull each other down and come close to hitting the roof during Clothes I Slept In and Aeroplane.

There's a calm before the storm as members leave for the awkward encore break before returning for Collisions and it's humbling to see groups of mates hold each other in swaying hugs. Despite an overwhelming chant for "Gravy", in reference to the band's 2016 Paul Kelly cover, Anything Near Conviction closes the night on a whirlwind high of thrashing, crashing, smiles and sore throats.