The group’s name comes from a buzzword promoted by fitness trainers and doctors. Now, Gut Health is causing a buzz of their own beyond Melbourne’s music community, releasing two EPs and three singles in the last 15 months. After playing industry expos such as SXSW and Bigsound, Gut Health has now shared lineups with the likes of Kraftwerk, Mudhoney and Alex G.
As one might expect from such an eclectic purveyor of disorienting, bouncy post-punk, Gut Health’s origin is quite surprising. The concept for the band was first conceived in Melbourne around 2020-2021, partiallyinspired by the boredom of eight months of COVIDinduced lockdown in the most locked-down city on earth. Gut Health’s founding figures are their exuberant singer and front person, Athina
