Live Review: Tiny Little Houses, Eliza & The Delusionals, RAT!hammock

Opening up the proceedings are Melbourne indie youngsters RAT!hammock on their debut visit to Brisvegas. If ever there was an award for the 'Most Stoked' band, these boys would take the cake.

Their lead singer beams with excitement as they rip through tracks from their dreamy, indie rock catalogue. The bounce of Love You Til I Die sees crowds begin to multiply quickly as the dancefloor fills with a sea of swaying bodies and unfamiliar faces turned to fans.

Gold Coast's favourite faux-emo rock stars Eliza & The Delusionals are next to take the stage. While RAT!hammock were lacking in the emotional baggage that Tiny Little Houses make so sweet, Eliza & The Delusionals more than make up for it. With the energy of Paramore and the sugar sweet guitar pop sound of the likes of Ali Barter, the band see the crowd into a whirl with tracks such as Cigarette and Salt going off a hit.

As time grows closer to Tiny Little Houses hitting the stage, and The Brightside reaches peak levels of wet, the reality of this being a sold-out gig finally sets in as our shirts morph into a wet memory of what they used to be.

The opening lines of Idiot Proverbs set The Brightside alight with punters singing their hearts out. Before long the relatable lyrics of Entitled Generation see singalongs turn into warm embraces. While catastrophe strikes midway through, both issues with guitars and failing sound, this couldn't come close to putting a dampener on the palpable excitement in the room. Breaking up the onslaught of new material with a couple oldies such as Easy and You Tore Out My Heart keeps audiences testing their vocal capacity as the punters come together to sing of loves lost and found.

The real highlights of the set is the in-between song banter — often personal, often tongue-in-cheek — with each song introduction a great morsel to see into the world of songwriter and leading man Caleb Karvountzis. "This is a song about a girl who curved me for about a year," sees Caroline, another new track, off to a ripper start.

Nowhere, SA and Drag Me round out the moodier slow section of the set, before Short Hair kicks us back into a fist-punching frenzy. But with the end nigh for the set, punters' froth levels are peaking and there is only one way for Tiny Little Houses to satiate this: Garbage Bin.

As the opening drawl of one of the most relatable millennial songs in recent memory comes to life, the entire Brightside reaches pandemonium with every word being shouted back at Karvountzis louder and louder. But with excitement so high from Garbage Bin, walking off stage simply won't do as Tiny Little Houses are called back to a hungry crowd wanting "one more song".

Returning for a recreation of recent Like A Version ABBA cover SOS, as well as the infectious singalong of Team Player. Punters are well and truly satisfied, or maybe just an emotional wreck after the rollercoaster of emotions that was.