LIVE: Luca Brasi – Perth | Boorloo, 5 June 2026

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LIVE: Luca Brasi – Perth | Boorloo, 5 June 2026
Milk Bar, Perth, Western Australia
Review & photography by De Williams

Milk Bar was the perfect sweatbox for Luca Brasi: cramped, sticky, and just the right amount of messy for a band that knows exactly how to turn a room into a group therapy session with distortion pedals.

They were meant to play The Astor. The Astor fell through. They seemed very pissed about it, and the night’s unofficial slogan became simply: “FUCK THE ASTOR.”

Perth’s About Yesterday opened to the usual half-room waiting game before Secret World came out and hit the crowd like a caffeine IV drip. They could have easily headlined. Half the room was clearly there for them, and with links to SPEED, Trophy Eyes and Downside, they knew exactly how to work it. They gave a proper nod to Perth’s huge hardcore scene and then tore through a set that felt bigger than the room. Living Less popped off hard, with Everywhere Now also landing as a clear crowd favourite.

By the time Luca Brasi walked on, Milk Bar was heaving.

This tour marks ten years of If This Is All We’re Going To Be, the record that helped turn Luca Brasi into one of Australian punk’s most dependable emotional detonators. They sounded tight, loud and weirdly tender all at once. Aeroplane, Say It Back, This Selfish Love, Drop Out and Overwhelmed/Ill Prepared all landed hard, with the crowd shouting every chorus back like they were trying to claw their own youth out of the air.

Tyler Richardson was in full deadpan goblin mode, giving everyone shit, including himself. There was talk of sauce on food disqualifying you as a “real fucking guy,” some flat white nonsense, and a shirtless drummer making me break my “no photos after the third song” rule for one more shot. He did try to put his shirt back on, but the crowd wouldn’t have it.

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The emotional centre arrived with For Hazzy, Richardson’s acoustic song for his son. The room actually went quiet, which is about as rare as a respectful mosh pit. There probably would have been a riot if they didn’t play their Triple J Like A Version cover, How To Make Gravy.

By the end, Luca Brasi had turned Milk Bar into a loud, affectionate, slightly feral family reunion.