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Between the Buried and Me + The Omnific @ The Corner Hotel 29-02-20

Gallery, ReviewDitch This MagazineMarch 01, 2020gallery, live, melbourne, Odin Imaging, Nathan Goldsworthy, Review, Between the Buried and Me, The omnific, the corner hotel, corner hotel

words: Jennifer Rouse
photos: Nathan Goldsworthy @odin.imaging

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*“…It’s show’s like these that really demonstrate the impact a band can have over their audience.”*

Hitting the Australian East Coast with their 20th anniversary tour, Between The Buried And Me took Australian fans on a nostalgic emotional rollercoaster. BTBAM are well known for their touring stamina and genre gymnastics. Which has earned them a cult following over the last two decades. So, with only three shows in Australia it’s hard to say when we’ll see them on our shores again making this tour a must for fans.

In ‘a special evening engagement’ format they performed back-to-back sets of selected tracks from their impressive discography. Bringing along local Melbourne progressive band The Omnific for the ride.

Gracing an intimate Corner Hotel show for their final offering in Melbourne. It started in a blue-purple haze with ‘Astral Body' from the 2012 release ‘The Parallax II: Future Sequence.’

The crowd warmed into the first set almost immediately and sounded along to ‘The Coma Machine’ from Coma Ecliptic (2015) in full theatrics. The second set predominately featured tracks from ‘Automata II’ (2018). At this point fans were testing the band’s endurance with a negotiation for another full set, but found satisfaction with an encore of ‘Selkies: The Endless Obsession’ - Alaska (2005), along with ‘Viridian’ and ‘White Walls’ from Colors (2007).

It’s show’s like these that really demonstrate the impact a band can have over their audience. From pursuing lines over pre determined genre boundaries, it’s a hopeful display of creative endeavour amalgamating in multifaceted community hungry for more. Demonstrating that the pursuit is not a fruitless one.