Words by Patrick Staveley.

One of the most exciting things about a concert is the lead-up and anticipation waiting for the main act to enter the stage. The excitement is almost incomparable when it comes to the youth-dominant crowd at a Spacey Jane show.

A Thursday Winter’s night isn’t the most enticing night out in the city for a gig. Spacey Jane however is no ordinary band, with their live music presence holding a pulling power like no other. In the sweatiness of Luna Park’s Big Top, Sydney prepared to welcome back one of Australia’s hottest musical prospects to the stage for their first full show in the city in over a year and on the back of a successful string of shows in England and the Netherlands. The young and enthusiastic Teenage Dads opened the show with a bang before I Know Leopard kept the blood pumping through the venue – warming up the crowd as they await Spacey Jane.

Spacey Jane addressed the crowd and acknowledged that as a band they look different these days. They’re not wrong but in a good way. It’s often a sign of success when bands change their look up especially when they’re adapting to a new sound and new direction with fresh releases.

Despite the Covid lockdowns causing havoc the past couple of years, nothing has halted the Western Australian rockers for the past three years. After a highly successful debut album hit no.2 on the Australian charts and picked up several nominations and awards, the band have ridden the wave of their success to go one better with their new album ‘Here Comes Everybody’ topping the chart.

The look has changed, the songs are new and the band is larger in stature but in reality – the fans will tell you nothing has really changed after a show like this. The stage presence, the energy, the crowd engagement, the infectious joy, the ridiculously smooth and seamless performance all remains.

This was only the first night of a three-night takeover of Big Top by Spacey Jane which makes it hard to ponder how they keep the same level every gig. Start to finish it’s electric – the venue bouncing to the faster and high-energy tracks and swaying to some of the slower and more intimate tracks like the fan favourite ‘Booster Seat’ or the gorgeous new track ‘Pulling Through.’

A Spacey Jane gig is an ethereal experience which will leave you feeling as if you’re floating on a cloud throughout the whole show – a feeling you never want to go away before like every show, it ends eventually. Luckily for us we have a lot more Spacey Jane to come. If they’re bringing their show to a place near you, it’s an experience that can’t be missed.