Suicide Country Hour

Alternative country out of Meanjin, Brisbane, from a band who describe themselves as Queensland's most depressing mineral export. That tells you most of what you need to know about the tone. Suicide Country Hour write songs that go somewhere genuinely melodramatic and then puncture it between numbers with a fair bit of wisecracking. The two halves work on each other. You get the introspective material and the comedy in the same set, which makes for a more turbulent night than a straight country bill usually offers.