The Datsuns live in concert.
ON TOUR

The Datsuns

34
critic concert reviews
metal

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

76
%
Based on 
34
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Critic Consensus

Based on 34 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Datsuns is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. The Datsuns concert reviews describe live shows and performances as glorious.

ON TOUR

Effenaar, Netherlands, Netherlands (March 14); Botanique, Brussels, Belgium (March 16); The Garage, London, United Kingdom (March 30)

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Latest Release

Ugly Leather (14 April 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
metal
Origin
Cambridge, New Zealand (2000 - present)
Bio
The Datsuns are a garage rock band from Cambridge, New Zealand. In 1995, while still at school, Dolf de Borst, Phil Buscke Somervell, and Matt Osment formed a band under the name Trinket.
Has Performed With
The Treatment

Critic Concert Reviews

The 13th Floor (New Zealand)

April 2, 2016
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The four members of The Datsuns in Wellington, Auckland, Stockholm, and London, and this was their first Auckland show since December 2014.

The Music (Australia)

December 7, 2014
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They certainly delivered on the rock front with the Amazonian Michelle Madden stalking the stage with charisma and gloriously over-the-top attitude.

musicOMH (UK)

February 19, 2013
60
%
Responses have ranged from 2004 called they want their music back to really sorry I’ve got to do a mix tape of songs by The Thrills for someone I met on Friendster and the especially stinging mate I was nine when that song came out.

The Upcoming (UK)

February 17, 2013
80
%
Dingwalls, London, UK

The AU Review (Australia)

December 19, 2012
%
And on Sunday’s Sabbath a sermon in rock and roll was given to a starved congregation by The Datsuns and The Treatment.

The Music (Australia)

December 16, 2012
%
The Annandale Hotel, Sydney, Australia

Consequence (USA)

July 25, 2009
%
The crowd awaiting the arrival of New Zealand garage rockers The Datsuns is a mixture of old and young simultaneously laid back and anxious.

Past critic reviews published in

Sound of Boston (USA), Maine Music News (USA), Dig Boston (USA), Aesthetic Magazine (Canada), PLAYBACK Stl (USA) and more

Image Credit

Ana Chaine [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons