Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Princess Theatre, 8 Annerley Rd, 4102 Brisbane Directions
Sat 25.07.2026 19:00
Eddy Current Suppression Ring formed in the back room of a vinyl pressing plant in Highett, and the circumstances of that origin tell you everything you need to know. Since 2003, the Melbourne four-piece have built one of the most devoted cult followings in Australian music on a raw, high-voltage sound that draws from garage rock, post-punk and proto-punk without ever softening at the edges. They play when they feel like it. They record fast. Nothing is polished.
Their 2008 album Primary Colours, cut in a single day, won the Australian Music Prize and brought their urgent, economical style to a wider audience while the band remained resolutely independent. Brendan Suppression's speak-sing delivery rides over wiry guitars and a locked-in rhythm section: the result is music that sounds like it was made in the room, because it was.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring play The Princess Theatre for Open Season. For anyone who has ever stood in a room and felt a band truly mean it.
Open Season is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland's Strategic Partnerships Fund, and by the Australian Government through the Office for the Arts Revive Live program.
Performers
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Eddy Current Suppression Ring is a Melbourne-based Australian rock group which has risen to prominence in 2008.
The band formed in 2003 when several band members started jamming at the Christmas party at a vinyl pressing plant where they worked. They encouraged now-lead singer Brendan Suppression (real name Brendan Huntly) to ad-lib into a tape recorder. The subsequent tape prompted the band’s first recording, which produced a 7-inch single with A-side Get Up Morning.
The band's name derived from members recalling another employee at the pressing plant stating he had to fix the eddy current suppression ring - a copper ring around a transformer which subdues eddy currents.
The band's sound is said to have been influenced by bands such as The Troggs, The Standells, X and The Pagans. Reference has also been made to the band’s Australian delivery, both vocally and musically.
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Open Season Brisbane
Open Season is a curated program of music and arts events in Brisbane during winter.
