Billy Cart at Essendon Bowls Club | Valley Sounds

Billy Cart is unstuck in time. The Naarm five-piece tunnel through decades of underground music and emerge with something both familiar and entirely their own. Their sound carries the urgency of DIY punk, the jagged edges of post-punk, and the loose, instinctual energy of a band that refuses to overthink itself. Billy Raffin, Dale Mamo, Gianni Daniele Castro, Jamie Kemp, and Xanthea O’Connor write songs like overheard conversations from parallel universes—disjointed yet intentional, full of dry humor and restless momentum. Their music isn’t clean, nor is it meant to be. It’s a collage of frayed melodies and intersecting ideas, stitched together with raw nerve and instinct.