To say Yacht Club DJs know how to rock a guilty pleasure is an understatement. The born and bred Ballarat duo Guy Chappell and Gaz Harrison may as well own the term. Before they’d started their Oddity Number Five tour, Gaz, the hairier face of the two, told Beat that guilty pleasures are a “bunch of bullshit”. “If you like it as a guilty pleasure then you genuinely like that music.” On Friday night they put the theory to the test and I for one am on board. Shit yeah, I love Mya’s Case of The Ex and I’m not ashamed of that at all.
The Prince Bandroom was already vibing when we arrived thanks to an energetic set by support act Remi. The Melbourne MC knows how to get a crowd started with sweet beats and pop culture references that are a little more on the subtle side. But things really kicked off when the self-described “super rad DJs” opened their set with the Wolf of Wall Street chest beat.
We may as well have been in a crowd of thousands in the wee hours of a festival. Imagine a mix of every song you never realised you wanted to hear, from the Grease theme to Toto’s Africa. Mix that with originals from their newly released EP No.1 and that’s a bloody good gig.
A girl in front of me was twerking so hard at one stage that she actually injured herself. Whoever you are, I sincerely hope you are OK. Apparently it’s a thing at their gigs – Gaz ended up with a bung ankle after their antics in Byron which he strategically gaffa taped back into place. I’m sure we are too young for these kind of injuries. But I’m also pretty sure that down the track when we’re old as fuck and we pull out a Yacht Club mix tape, we’ll all be nursing aching bones cause we’ll be up all night doing the same thing.
BY JESSICA HAMILTON
Photos by Kate Davis
Loved: Grinding with the stranger next to me.
Hated: Grinding with the stranger next to me.
Drank: Gin.
