Bitter Sweet Kicks LANEWAY MUSIC Madness and Mad. This Australian band from Melbourne are one of the few that hail from the south side (St Kilda) and as Lynyrd Skynyrd said in their response to Neil Young's track "ALABAMA" the south will rise again. Let me say too that I am so sick of some of the lame fuckers on the north side of Melbourne playing piss weak ALT country this is melbourne the home of HOSS and the POWDER MONKEYS and some one needs to call out its not Nashville the suburbs called Northcote The Bitter Sweet Kicks are crazy nuts mad live on stage . They truly remind me of the live shows in melbourne from 1977 to 1980 (yep I was around) and they can really fucking back it up with the music. BSK truly combine great 77 punk rock blues music with a true rock n roll show.  Raw explosive power. Nihilistic lead singer Jack Kicks  has a maniac attitude to throwing his body around on stage he reminds me  sometimes  of  Henry Rollins and Iggy Pop . The bands tight