Last night Australian band DMA’s took to the stage at the O2 Ritz, Manchester.
Consisting of front man Tommy O’Dell, Matt Mason and country singer Johnny Took, the band filled the venue and had the crowd singing along, creating mosh pits and dancing along to their anthems with ease.
As the trio came on stage, their style was hard not to notice. Tommy wore a DMA’s baseball cap paired with a Tommy Hilfiger shirt, cargo pants and gold chains around his neck whilst sipping beer which surprisingly enough wasn’t Fosters; whilst Matt wore a rugby shirt with a shredded baseball cap, reminiscent of an early noughties, working class England.
The band released their studio album ‘Hill’s End’ earlier this year and played plenty of tracks from the album, such as ‘Lay Down’, ‘ Too Soon’ and ‘Melbourne’.
The band have been likened to Oasis, and the clear Britpop and indie influences have helped the band gain popularity in Europe. The influences are blatant in tracks like ‘Timeless’ and ‘So We Know’. Despite this the band have their own style and each and every track on their album ‘Hill’s End’ is a track of its own, yet if somebody told you they were from Manchester and this was their homecoming gig, who would question it.
The set lasted around 1 hour 15 minutes – later on in to the set, most of the band left the stage leaving just Tommy and Johnny to take the pace down a little and play a couple of acoustic tracks. Of course they had to play the ever popular ‘Delete’ to which the crowd sang every word for the entirety of the song.
After this the whole band left the stage ready for the encore. Tommy was the ideal front man, egging the crowd on and launching his baseball cap into the crowd. Once Tommy O’Dell was done singing his last song, he dropped his mic and made a dramatic ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ exit off stage whilst the rest of the band continued to play the end of the track.
The ultimate conclusion after watching DMA’s live is that they are painfully underrated in terms of their musical talent and ability to create anthems, they are well deserving of the popularity they appear to be gaining across Europe and the US.
You can still buy tickets for the remainder of their UK shows here.
Listen to their live acoustic of ‘Step Up The Morphine’ below:
