Recensione - Public House - Future (English version)
Not long ago, I came across some videos from the Binic Folk Blues Festival , which takes place in the small French town of Binic-Étables-sur-Mer, in Brittany. My attention was caught by a video of an Australian band with an unfamiliar name: Public House . The hypnotic bass lines and powerful drumming—even before a single guitar riff kicked in—immediately grabbed my attention, and when the close-up of the singer’s face appeared, everything instantly felt familiar. It was Wolfgang Buckley of Stiff Richards, one of the most powerful bands to emerge recently on the Aussie rock scene. To find out more, I immediately headed over to their Bandcamp page, and it was love at first listen. The PUBLIC HOUSE project was born in 2024, also in the town of Rye, from an idea by Wolfgang Buckley and guitarist J ames McClurg , who—along with Brett Middleton (bass) and Eric Johnston (drums)—began recording homemade demos that were soon taken to stages in Melbourne and the surrounding area, event...