Hot Mulligan’s Brisbane show at Fortitude Music Hall on Saturday night felt less like a gig and more like a room full of inside jokes that somehow everyone understood.
It was loud, messy in the right ways, and constantly on the edge of falling apart, that’s exactly where this band thrives.
Tades runs the room
Frontman Nathan ‘Tades’ Sanville didn’t just perform, he steered the whole night, between songs, he kept the crowd moving with offhand jokes, weird tangents, and constant shoutouts.
He made a point of backing the openers, urging the room to give it up for Saturdays At Your Place and Forests, which landed, it didn’t feel like lip service either, it felt like a band still tied to the grind.
Then he flipped the energy:
At one point, he told the pit to start booing the balcony, naturally, they did (loudly), which was met by middle finger salutes in return.
Shoeys, but make it awkward
Sanville also called out the crowd for a very specific cultural crime, according to him, Australians have been letting Americans carry the weight when it comes to shoeys.
That didn’t last long.
Within minutes, people were standing up, shoes in hand, proving the point wrong in the most funny way possible, it was kind of gross and triumphant all at the same time. Hats off to those who stood up, and to those who provided them with the beers.
A shirt, a crowd, and a bit
The band leaned hard into the ridiculous side of things, Tades clocked that guitarist Ryan ‘Spicy’ Malicsi had missed the memo, the rest of the band were in white, Ryan showed up in black.
Cue the callout, not long after, someone in the crowd offered up a white shirt, Ryan took it and threw it on, problem solved. It was a fun time!
A little political
There was a quick political moment, “It’s pretty embarrassing to be an American right now” Hot Mulligan did have a suggestion for how to deal with America’s’s war hungry billionaires.
The songs still hit
For all the messing around, the music didn’t take a back seat, the crowd sang along to pretty much everything, turning tracks like ‘Shhhh! Golf Is On’, ‘Drink Milk and Run’ and ‘BCKYRD’ into full room moments.
It’s the kind of reaction you don’t fake, these songs have sunk in.
Setlist ‘Hot Mulligan’ – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane (April 25th, 2026)
- How Do You Know It’s Not Armadillo Shells?
- Drink Milk and Run
- Shhhh! Golf Is On
- Fly Move (The Whole Time)
- Shouldn’t Have a Leg Hole but I Do
- It’s a Family Movie She Hates Her Dad
- It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here
- And a Big Load
- Gans Media Retro Games
- Prototheme
- I Don’t Think It’s the Right Time for Emojis
- Bon Jonah
- This Makes Me Yummy
- Monica Lewinskibidi
- Featuring Mark Hoppus
- John ‘The Rock’ Cena, Can You Smell What the Undertaker
- Cream of Wheat of Feet Naw Cream of
- And I Smoke
- Green Squirrel in Pretty Bad Shape
- Let Me See Your Mounts
- Stickers of Brian
- BCKYRD
- Equip Sunglasses
What’s next
The tour isn’t done yet, Hot Mulligan hits Adelaide (April 27th) and Perth on Wednesday (April 29th) are still to go, and if Brisbane is anything to go by, they’re about to get the same mix of fun and connection, do yourself a favour and check them out.
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