I t’s Saturday night in August and I’m standing in a packed bandroom at Singing Bird Studios in Frankston, waiting for the return of Eddy Current Suppression Ring. It’s been a long wait. Apart from a couple of festival appearances in 2016, the beloved garage rock band’s last proper headline show was 2010.

But earlier this year, smoke signals: a secret set in a Prahran skate shop. A surprise single, Swimming Hole, and a new EP. A one-off at Melbourne’s The Night Cat that instantly sold out. Then the announcement of a free all-ages show at Federation Square on grand final eve, flanked by a couple of small gigs in Anglesea and Frankston. The chat groups go into overdrive.

View image in fullscreen Mikey Young at a packed out free gig at Federation Square in Melbourne. Photograph: Mair

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