TRUE RADICAL MIRACLE (VIC) (myspace)
STAG (tumblr)
PER PURPOSE (myspace)
CURED PINK (myspace)
DIE ON PLANES (blog)
1st JULY 2011 – BASEMENT 243 – 243 BRUNSWICK STREET, FORTITUDE VALLEY THE STEP INN (UPSTAIRS) – 186 BRUNSWICK ST, FORTITUDE VALLEY
8PM – $10 – 18+
I’m glad this isn’t at Basement 243 – I wouldn’t have liked to smell like piss for the rest of the night.
TEN10 FESTIVAL:
AXXONN+CLAIRE RENTON
HUNZ+JONAS MCQUIGGIN
ANONYMEYE+BRODIE ROCCA
LION ISLAND+JOYCE HO
INTERVAL+TIM LOVETT
JOEL STERN+SARAH BYRNE
THE SCRAPES+CHIH-HAN HSU
CURED PINK+TIMOTHY TATE
MAKE MORE+WEN SHI
SCRAPS+CHRIS ALLERY
24th JUNE 2011 – LIGHTSPACE – 30 LIGHT ST, FORTITUDE VALLEY
5PM – $20(PRE-SALE)/$25 (DOORS) – 18+
Big night, pairing local musicians with visual artists. See the website for more details.
Real Bad Music is a venue/squat/store/’eternal jam’ down on the Magic Mile, Moorooka. There’s been events happening there since, oh I’d say since 2009(?) but it’s got a lot more attention now and some people think it’s just popped out of nowhere. Undone Zine is a local… zine focused on good punk and rock’n'roll. There’s a massive line from what you’d believe. They’ve been putting a few parties/shows down at Real Bad; this is the third as such, now out in the car-park as opposed to the tiny shop. Free food, cheap beer, tapes/records/cd-rs and VHS/DVDs.
Foreign Stiffs is improvised, a loose & damaged mess and tonight featuring members from Cured Pink, Old Growth Cola, X-Wave, Unique Oil Free Air, xNoBBQx – sounding not unlike the more celebratory blown-out chaos that a few members are capable of when wandering with SSS & played with such staggering volume/pitch this here recording of mine is raw-as-fuck as I continually reached for the volume dial; speaker cones bend, contort, crack as feedback mounts, shouted vocals become incoherent noise and the horn clips out but the drums & 2x bass push the ‘two’ movements along steadily to a drawn-out closure with vox & sax dancing out front.
Full set download (24.40mins, 45.19mb – 256kbps, .mp3):
Foreign Stiffs – Live at Real Bad Music, 2nd of April 2011
A tape’s out on Breakdance the Dawn (b.d.t.d 118. foreign stiffs – ‘sweat it out’ c20/cdr).
Unique Beautiful Flowers is a label headed by Adam (Heart Flew) and this was an ill-fated fundraiser for the recently-born idea. The Boundary Hotel management shut down the show half-way through what would have been a massive festival of great local acts. I missed a few bands that had played because the batteries were dying but here’s what I could get anyway:
Teen Sex
Teen Sex (Rohan (Kitten Party), Alrey Batol) was on second or third at around 4PM. Sadistically loud, Rohan’s amps were facing the other way and unfortunately I didn’t get much of it as I wanted but shit, the circuit bent gear came through fine fiiiine.
Full set bootleg:
Teen Sex – Unique Beautiful Flowers fundraiser. Boundary Hotel, 16/1/10
Disappointment Ray
Joel Stern (Sky Needle, Abject Leader) & Lloyd Barrett (Secret Killer of Names); foot-pump horn & laptop processed noise.
Full set bootleg:
Disappointment Ray – Unique Beautiful Flowers fundraiser. Boundary Hotel, 16/1/10
Science
Now called Psy Ants and a three-piece; this was back when they were a duo. The amp was trouble from the start and the set’s riddled entertaining frustration.
Full set bootleg:
Science – Unique Beautiful Flowers fundraiser. Boundary Hotel, 16/1/10
The Sulphur Lights
This recording came out really well, I thought. Local Cramps, Mummies etc obsessed kids, The Sulphur Lights.
Full set bootleg:
The Sulphur Lights – Unique Beautiful Flowers fundraiser. Boundary Hotel, 16/1/10
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I also captured Cured Pink‘s performance and the bootleg was posted here.
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Part of the series of bootlegs from the old, deleted blog.
Kitten Party
Rohan solo delay-drenched keyboard, also of Teen Sex. See also: Wardenburger. This was a fairly erratic project a while ago occasionally involving some harsh samples, screamy vocals but from what I’ve been witness to since then it’s been like this. I like that. KP played his first show in ages (months?) last week.
Full set bootleg:
Kitten Party – Marl Carx ‘Sits Obvious’ Album Launch. Cubbyhole (Rosies), 30/4/2010
Heart Flew Like An Arrow
Song-based Heart Flew! Joining Adam was Lewis – guitar (Old Growth Cola) and Nick – drums (Knee Chin).
Full set bootleg:
Heart Flew Like An Arrow – Marl Carx ‘Sits Obvious’ Album Launch. Cubbyhole (Rosies), 30/4/2010
Cured Pink
Very special set this night: I’d never seen somebody throw their guitar into the roof before, particularly at a super-strict (tight?) shit hole like Rosie’s. This was great! Reel-to-reel loop backdrop with feedback’d guitar and incomprehensible vocals, wandering into the audience later to throw himself & guitar around. These days CP is adding more to this, includes chains, a reanimated bass guitar, steel beams, sheets, and hell, lighting fires. We need this.
Full set bootleg:
Cured Pink – Marl Carx ‘Sits Obvious’ Album Launch. Cubbyhole (Rosies), 30/4/2010
Knee Chin
Features cool dudes from Psy Ants, I Am Not A Nihilist/Scruples, various collaborations.
Full set bootleg:
Knee Chin – Marl Carx ‘Sits Obvious’ Album Launch. Cubbyhole (Rosies), 30/4/2010
Marl Carx
Last ever show from Marl Carx! Also the launch of their Sits Obvious album. MC was a real fun band, consisting of Michaela – drums (Dregsy) and Glen – guitar (Per Purpose, ex-Kitchen’s Floor), they played anywhere and everywhere but the houseshow sets were the best: Everyone would get involved which often resulted in rolled ankles & being wrapped up in Glen’s guitar lead. There was a rarely-played off-shoot band too, Tribal Police, which included Kitten Party and some other dude (sorry) and that band sounded like music time in the special-Ed unit. They played with pots, pans, hoses, dishes, bottles. Marl Carx produced two other CDs, self-recorded and mostly just given out to friends, anyone interested. My favorite performance was their third-last, at a houseshow, they did a dual-drum-no-vocal-mic set with three drums between the two of them and building feedback from the amps behind. Just under 10 minutes, one song and walk out of the room. It was wildest show of the night, looking over the shoulder of Bong Village (a local, hydro-influenced Foot Village tribute from Trapdoor Tapes), and totally unexpected from that of the usual guitar/drums set-up (DNA etc), then came the second-last at the squat show with monotone dual vox. Something was happening but by then the energy diminished and then it was killed. A few months, maybe even just under a year from that squat show this Last Ever show was put on. This night saw them with Harry (Loomer) on bass duties and some audience members climbing up the P.A. stands, surfing, into the band’s space. I had to stand right back to record it, unfortunately, wouldn’t have minded to have lost some skin again.
Full set bootleg:
Marl Carx – Marl Carx ‘Sits Obvious’ Album Launch. Cubbyhole (Rosies), 30/4/2010
**I’m re-posting a few bootlegs from the old, deleted blog
ASPS (VIC)
OMEN (VIC)
CURED PINK (MySpace)
FEATHERS (DUO) (Blog)
27th DECEMBER 2010 – PADDINGTON (MESSAGE BANDS FOR ADDRESS)
6PM – FREE – AA + BYO
ASPS is Andrea from Chrome Dome (VIC) solo, Omen is Hannah (Gutters, Acid Casualty) (VIC) solo.
CITY IN THE CITY #4:
BREMEN TOWN MUSICIAN (Solo) (MySpace)
CRAFT BANDITS (MySpace)
CURED PINK (MySpace)
STAG (Blog)
WARDEN BURGER
GERALD KEANEY & THE GERALD KEANEYS (MySpace)
MR AND MRS. WOOLF
UNIQUE OIL FREE AIR (MySpace)
23RD DECEMBER 2010 – BRISBANE CITY SQUAT (MESSAGE BANDS FOR EXACT LOCATION)
7PM – FREE – AA + BYO
BREMEN TOWN MUSICIAN (Solo) (MySpace)
CRAFT BANDITS (MySpace)
CURED PINK (MySpace)
AUCHENFLOWER RED LIGHT DISTRICT
WARDEN BURGER
GERALD KEANEY & THE GERALD KEANEYS (MySpace)
MR AND MRS. WOOLF
UNIQUE OIL FREE AIR (MySpace)
9th DECEMBER 2010 – BRISBANE CITY
8PM – FREE – AA + BYO
Contact aus_noise for more details.
DEADSHITS FESTIVAL:
BLANK REALM (LP LAUNCH) (MySpace)
ABSOLUTE BOYS (VIC – 12″ SINGLE LAUNCH) (Blog)
BITCH PREFECT (SA) (MySpace)
YOUNG ROMANTIX (VIC) (MySpace)
TEEN AX (SYD) (MySpace)
THE DEADNOTES feat. EVERETT TRUE (MySpace)
CURED PINK (MySpace)
5th NOVEMBER 2010 – WOODLAND BAR – CONISTON LANE, FORTITUDE VALLEY
7PM – $10 – 18+