The Go Set

The Go Set are a five-piece punk rock band which formed in 2002. A punk ethos runs through the band - so much so that one critic claimed The Go Set could be likened to imagining "the political sentiment and social conscience of Billy Bragg or early Midnight Oil whilst drinking copious amounts and jamming with The Pogues and AC/DC, in a sweaty pub gig on a Friday night". They cite influences such as The Pogues, Weddings Parties Anything, The Clash... more

The Go Set are a five-piece punk rock band which formed in 2002. A punk ethos runs through the band - so much so that one critic claimed The Go Set could be likened to imagining "the political sentiment and social conscience of Billy Bragg or early Midnight Oil whilst drinking copious amounts and jamming with The Pogues and AC/DC, in a sweaty pub gig on a Friday night". They cite influences such as The Pogues, Weddings Parties Anything, The Clash, and Radio Birdman, as the most influential groups in their music, and have a particularly Australian social and political emphasis within their lyrics. The social and political content of their songs, while appearing to support the Australian working class ethos, articulates the social tensions often found in Australian folk music. An underlying anti-authoritarian narrative embodies a paradoxical archetype in the Australian psyche, that actually serves to reinforces the larrikin as patriotic, thus following the traditional vein of songs such... less