Tonight at Amplifier was the first of two back-to-back Perth dates over the weekend for Bluejuice and The Paper Scissors’ (TPS) Less Talk More Problems tour. With a reputation for putting on a rather boisterous live show, Bluejuice would be headlining the show, with TPS before them, Harlequin League opening and Oz’s favourite indie professor PHDJ spinning at the after-party.

With a typical smattering of scenesters and hipsters, Sydney four-piece The Paper Scissors strolled on stage with a deserved confidence resulting from their quality debut, Less Talk More Paper Scissors. Mashing rock, pop, punk and funk, TPS continually pit drums and guitars against each other with mostly very good results. Kicking things off with a low-key entry, as expected the boys lead off with tracks from their first LP, with Picture n’ See sounding particularly good.

The boys must not have done the traditional pre-show sacrificing of a groupie to the rock gods, as at pretty much the same time vocalist-guitarist Jai Payne snapped a guitar string, the drummer broke a stick. After a quick replenishing of guitar stocks thanks to Bluejuice, TPS launched into fan-favourite and Japanese underground train route Yamanote Line. Sing-a-longs followed as the crowd really started to pack on to the Amps d-floor and got the atmosphere pumping. Things really started to heat up when a saxophone was brought out and some Latin rhythms notified the crowd that it was dance o’clock. To round off a nicely rowdy set, the lads brought out Jerry from Bluejuice for some keyboard action to fill out biggest single We Don’t Walk. With the crowd singing all the ‘whoaohayohs’ with gusto, it was a great way to finish out a great set.

With a reputation proceeding them, the lads from the ‘juice were going to have to really get the party started early – which they certainly did. With dual front men Jake Stone and Stav Yiannoukas complimenting each other perfectly, cheeky smiles and flashing pearly whites were in abundance. Punters couldn’t help but turn any frowns upside down. Roaring straight into tracks from their Australian Music Prize nominated debut of last year Problems, their blend of funk, hip hop and everything else immediately had everyone in the house nodding along with pleasure. No sooner had they finished their second song when Jai from TPS returned for some more instrumental action, this time on the bass drum rather than the guitar. The boys kept the set lively and upbeat with even a little Rage Against The Machine impression on Motorcycle Accident.

Jake is definitely the joker of the two vocalists. Stalking the stage like a smiling, stoned and hungry Cheshire cat, he is difficult to take your eyes off. Stav on the other hand seems to be the deeper one of the pairing, the thinker if you will. He intently stares out into the crowd with deep, dark, piercing eyes and has a haircut that seemed to be a fair bit shorter on one side than the other; maybe it was just a funny angle. Jake high, Stav low. They go together like chips and gravy and must be a lot of the reason the bluejuice stocks have been going through the roof recently.

The band launched into older single Unemployed, which still seemed to be fresh in punters minds even though it was a couple of years ago when it was on high rotation on national tastemaker Triple J. After a quick beverage regurgitation and stage dive from Jake, it was time for crowd favourite and number 11 on the Hottest 100, Vitriol. The crowd was loving the show and the dancefloor was moving and shaking it like they just didn’t care. Finishing off with some quality MCing from the frontmen and a little De La Soul style “Put your fingers up if ya feel good” crowd interaction; nobody could have left feeling disappointed after such a fun-filled and entertaining show.