The Curtin band room was near to empty in the early evening hours of Saturday night. Bar a fan or two, the main gig goers were nowhere to be seen, I imagine trying to some how hang on to the last whiffs of summer so graciously given last Saturday.

It was to this climate that Streetlight began to play. Streetlight fell prey to an early time slot on a glorious Melbourne evening but the band played to the 10 pair of ears as if they were 1000 with the lead singer making love to the microphone stand while dancing with a tambourine. Their performance was as tight as their jeans and entertaining enough to draw focus away from the lack of audience.

Streetlight is a WA band, that have a mainstream rock sound which though entertaining left you desiring more from such a well established band. The band, however, have been being receiving major kudos industry wide being one of the bands in Triple J’s Unearthed and receiving air time on Nova. This gig was to give audiences a little taste of their EP to come which will be released in early October. As part of their giving nature the band whored their Sapphires demo like candy at a fairground, to the faithful few that attended the gig.

Streetlight were followed by SubAudible Hum and according to the crowd in flux meant one of three things either 1) the weather must have dropped a few degrees 2) this band had a strong Melbourne following or 3) the band has an extremely large family, either way the curtain band room seemed to slowly fill. SubAudible Hum presented their loyal crowd with an early 90’s rock tunes which were enhanced by an amazing piano electronic sound. SubAudible Hum is a Melbourne based band that has been together since 2003 and have a spectrum of songs that took one couple from head banging to smooching in the duration of the gig. The SubAudible Hum are worth braving the cold for but will not be playing Melbourne for a while concentrating instead on writing new material or using that as a loose cover to do what we all will be doing watching old DVD’s and drinking hot chocolate at home.

The last band was Transnational are in the grand scheme of things are a relatively new band forming in 2007. The band have already made a splash in the highly competitive Melbourne music scene wowing the crowd with their first gig at Cherry they became like chocolate to an obese human – something that couldn’t be put down.

Transnational presented a wall of sound and in parts teased the audience with heavy rock through their 60’s psychedelic tunes. The lead singer’s voice eerily echoed Elliot Smith and the piano player impressively plays the tambourine in conjunction with the keyboard which could be attributed more to her talent than the fact that she was the only member of the band that was A) female and B) multi tasking.

The band have a look that make them seem like they are the 2009 version of the Fonz but this overwhelming sense of cool is dispelled by the dad jokes chucked to the audience as interludes between songs. Transnational where worthy headliners for the night, dispelling the cold and offering up free ear candy in CD form.