Cover Image: Kev “Bob Evans” Mitchell leads Jebediah through a high-energy set celebrating 30 Odyears at Rosemount Hotel. Photo: De Williams.

Jebediah, Rosemount Hotel
31 October 2025

What do you do when you’ve got too many songs to fit in one set? You spread it across two nights of solid gold, that’s what!

Bringing their 30 Odyears tour to Rosemount Hotel for two big showcases of hits and memories, Jebediah celebrated three decades plus since forming and winning the National Campus Band Competition on WA’s behalf in Lismore in 1995. They’ve been doing us proud ever since. 

Not just a throwback to 1997 debut album Slightly Odway (as the tour’s name possibly suggested), they went back even further to deep cuts and songs rarely heard since their earliest days gigging in the pubs and clubs of Perth. 

It didn’t take long for frontman Kev “Bob Evans” Mitchell (who hasn’t aged a day) to remind us of two previous incarnations of Rosemount Hotel they’d played where the stage was in different corners of the room—ample proof it was the perfect venue for this occasion.

Kicking off memorably with Smiler from 1996 EP Twitch, Jebs soon had the room bouncing along to fan fave Benedict. The first of seven songs from Slightly Odway, it made way for the night’s other most-represented record, 1999’s Of Someday Shambles. Animalturned up the heat once again, and the sold out room was heaving three songs in.

From there things got interesting. Songs such as Weekend Away and You (a Teflon B-side) can be found in various forms on the Slightly Odway (30^th Anniversary Edition), but likely haven’t been played in Perth since the glory days of Planet Nightclub and the Grosvenor.

The chemistry of four band members who have been there from the beginning made these tracks all the more believable. Interspersed with favourites from Military Strongmen and Please Leave, to She’s Like a Comet and Nothing Lasts Forever, it was Puckdefender and Star Machine that felt particularly huge towards the end of the main set.

Yes, there were a few classics missing , and here’s hoping Teflon, Ferris Wheel, Tracksuit, Feet Touch the Ground and Yesterday When I Was Brave were in Saturday night’s set. If you cared enough you were there both nights anyway, right?

What was undeniable was how banging the four song-finale was. Storming back onstage after the briefest of encores with Leaving Home, Fall Down and a huge singalong to Harpoon, they had us pogoing, waving our arms and shouting the lyrics back at them. It left the single that really kicked things off for Jebs on triple j, Jerks of Attention, to close the set in a full circle of celebratory vibes.

Earlier, another WA act with a penchant for emo vibes, New Nausea opened the night. It’s been a while since stunning debut album Fountain of Struth and with a new single Snow Globe out the next day, they used the opportunity to showcase songs from long awaited sophomore LP Music for Frogs (out February 2026).

There’s been a few lineup changes, too. Along with the addition of a dancing frog doing the “frog stomp” on stage, it was good to see frontman Albert Pritchard reunited with Shit Narnia bandmate Sam Atkin, who’s long been one of Perth’s most underrated guitarists. It didn’t stop old faves like Bright Bloody Blue making an appearance, and one senses with two albums to pick from they’ll be an absolute weapon on stages both here and as far as the eye can see.