PSI PHI and Tarcutta team up for a double-header Hammond bonanza of tonewheel-drenched prog, psych, post and space rock.
PSI PHI and Tarcutta are joining forces on Saturday December 13 at Cross Street Music Hall to bring you their different perspectives on the spectrum of progressive and psychadelic rock. The Hammond and Leslie sound defines both groups, albeit in completely different ways – you will be treated to its full growling, spitting, churning and screaming glory in the hands of these two bands. It’s going to be an excellent night of prog, space, psych and post rock in the cozy confines of Cross St. The drinks are cheap and the chairs are comfy – come settle in and prepare to be transported to the far reaches of the cosmos and back again.
Here’s a bit about your hosts:
PSI PHI
Drawing inspiration from the gatefold-era of 70s prog and psych rock hedonistic excess, PSI PHI is Sam Cope on Hammond & keys (Blue King Brown, The Badloves), Kumar Shome on guitar (The Punkawallas, Ajax Kwai), Will Hull-Brown on drums (The Cat Empire) and Ryan Monro on bass (The Cat Empire, The Meltdown). This supergroup boasts a burgeoning repertoire of originals, blended with some iconic and formidable covers. PSI PHI evoke the gods & monsters of the golden age of rock with virtuosity and intensity. Their new single with a-side “Freddie Hates Red Lights” and b-side “Future Gaze / Redshift” is out now on Bandcamp and full album coming early 2026.
TARCUTTA
Featuring Justin Wheelahan (Hammond), Justin Buckley (guitar, electric piano) and Pete Barrett (drums), Tarcutta are a Naarm-based instrumental trio who take a 1934 Model A Hammond to the outer reaches of space rock and bastard jazz, shaping textured, analogue-driven pieces that move in sensibility from Debussy to The Dirty Three, from Mogwai to Can and then back again in the twitch of a tone bar. Live performances are visceral sound baths, provoking audience reactions ranging from “Listening to ‘Afterburner’ and looking at the lights gave me flashbacks to taking ayahuasca in Mexico” and “I found it very emotionally manipulative,” to “I thought I was coming to see, like, a dad band but they were actual musicians.”
Their latest album Rain In Space was recently released independently and is out now on Bandcamp, vinyl, and streaming platforms.
