The Beasts of Bourbon are back in town and everyone should be saying their hallelujahs for this gracious injunction in our otherwise Beastless lives.

These are the hardcore rockers of the Australian music scene, they’ve been around since the mid to late eighties, they drink hard and play hard and unlike so many bands of that era which live on reminisce, they still keep on pumping out new tracks with all the venom of their early work.

Tex PErkins, by far one of Australia’s premier vocalists, is an unchanging beacon that leads the rest of this somewhat more aged appearing monster of a band on to greatness. The Gov was a superb venue for an older crowd of people who simply wanted to rock out, and the boys did not fail to deliver. Blending a few tracks off the new album, Little Creatures, with plenty of their classic tunes, we were treated with _Chase the Dragon, The Low Road, Driver Man, Dropout_and this reviewers favourite tune and surely the ultimate song to play to someone whos feeling a bit down in the dumps after finding their girlfriend or boyfriends been cheating on them, Hard for you.

Tex is indeed the god of blue singlets and his somewhat pissed assemblage are the hard men of rock and not for the faint hearted. A band of this calibre which has never tried to take commercial success and are simply there to play and dont really give a toss if you are engaged or not, summed up their attitude of their performance and perhaps their whole philosophy as they introduced another classic from the past, I dont give a fuck what you want, I want to get funky.

Charlie Owen and Spencer P. Jones are noisy rock gods in their own right, trading licks and perfectly complementing the inherent dirt and disrespectability embodied in Mr Perkins. To top it all off, the supports were better calibre than most headliners I’ve seen lately, with Indonesia’s The S.I.G.I.T. playing old school rock and roll better than Jet, and Children Collide though doing a somewhat circle jerk performance looking at nothing and shouting mainly unintelligible lyrics at the crowd, still pulled off some thumping bass grunge to impress the crowd. A top night from a headline band that need no props and don’t ask for accolades, you get what you see and if you dont like it, tough.