If there is a Melbourne sound, a sound that permeates the sticky carpeted beer barns of the inner suburbs, its the sound championed by teen rock n roll soldiers Persecution Blues. The band, featuring Joe O'Mahony, Julian Galgano and brothers Jimi and Elmo Trapani have followed the simple rule; play as many shows as you can and get good. Smashing out as many as three sets a week throughout Melbournes inner North, including their home base at the venerable Tote Hotel band room. Its fitting that the band should choose that Abbotsford shrine to the dirtiest of riffs as a proving ground, it is in fact the place where the bands heroes and namesakes The Powder Monkeys slayed crowds on the regular and became the stuff of Melbourne rock n roll folk law. The resulting document Downright Dirty is a 12 track, whiteknuckled ride through the front bars and back-alley load ins of Melbourne. A dirty dozen built on filthy riffs, saturated gain and the youthful celebration of all that is good about Australian pub rock.