MARF LOTH (NSW)

STAG (blog)

OLD GROWTH COLA (bandcamp)

PINK MOUSE

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS

7th AUGUST 2011 – REAL BAD, MOOROOKA (BEHIND THE TRAIN STATION) MAGIC MILE

3PM – FREE – AA + BYO

I very much enjoy all the music that will be played at this concert. It’s at Real Bad, or the shop behind Moorooka train station. I’ve forgotten the address/doesn’t matter. Marf Loth from Sydney (originally Townsville), Pink Mouse is Melanie Simpson solo (Craft Bandits), and new act Girls Girls Girls (you should be on the edge of your seat).

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.

NEW PRIMITIVE:

HENRY MILLS

ALREY BATOL

WUKIR SURYADI & RULLY SHABAR

XINO

1st JUNE 2011 – MAAP REPUBLIC – 271 GREY ST, SOUTHBANK

7PM – FREE – AA

Xino is Katie (Stag, Brainbeau) solo circuit-bent electronics, Alrey (Teen Sex), Henry (Wardenburger) and Wukir & Rully from Senyawa (Indonesia, last show for them before inter-state dates). Curated by SPEC, this’ll be the first in a series of such events down in Southbank.

THEE MAGIC MILE CLUB #2:

PASTEL BLAZE (blog)

STAG (blog)

EXTRAFOXX (myspace)

THE ROYAL FAMILY

CANNON

19th MARCH 2011 – REAL BAD MUSIC – 1145 IPSWICH RD, MOOROOKA

5PM – FREE – AA + BYO

:::late inclusion, 29/1/11:::

HOLY BALM (MySpace)

ANGEL EYES

SAG

HUGE NUDES

30th JANUARY 2011 – BROWNING ST STUDIOS – 11 BROWNING ST, WEST END

7PM – $6 – AA + BYO

Huge Nudes is Luke W. from Blank Realm, solo. SAG is bizarro STAG.

EDIT: 5/1/2011: The gig has been moved to Alchemix Studios/The Tidy – 7pm start. 29a Logan Rd, Woolloongabba.

SATANIC LOVERS (GB) (MySpace)

STAG (Blog)

TEEN SEX (Blog)

GREG BORING

6th JANUARY 2011 – THE STEP INN (at the front bar) – FORTITUDE VALLEY

9PM – $5 – 18+

This one will be great! Admittedly I only just heard about Satanic Lovers from Berlin but I’m pretty fucking excited nonetheless – a solid line-up at one of the last few (good) bars in inner Brisbane/Zone 1. The Step Inn is reliable. Sometimes they even play a few good songs between sets (incredibly rare!). Check out the bootleg of Greg Boring’s first show a couple of weeks ago.

THE DECLINE OF MODERN CIVILISATION:

COMPANY FUCK (GB/BRIS) (Archive.org)

KEITH! PARTY (VIC) (MySpace)

STAG (Blog)

WTEM (MySpace)

8th JANUARY 2011 – STEP INN BAR, FORTITUDE VALLEY

8:30PM – $9 – 18+

POOL PARTY

FEAT.

STAG (Blog)

FEATHERS (Blog)

29th DECEMBER 2010 – ITHACA POOL, PADDINGTON

2PM – $$ENTRY TO POOL – AA

Greg Boring is a brand new outfit featuring Andrew (Cured Pink), Ian (6Majik9), Joel (Abject Leader) & Sarah Byrne. Extended bleached-out pop songs with rhythmic kr meandering – I hate that word – & bouncing around the dual vocals and the strings especially battling out to the side with the incessant kick relix in check. I think I was one of perhaps six or seven people who saw this performance, their first actually.

Greg Boring – Live at Why? Shit Life #2, Moorooka, 11th of December 2010 (51.06mb, .mp3 256kbit/s, 27.53mins)

E.A.T.R. is a six-piece featuring the Breakdance the Dawn contingent, Leif Gifford, Adam Park (Unique Oil Free Air). A lengthy, brooding loose piece today knitted together by that relentless drum machine & bass guitar and singled in on a wanderin’ blues print, guitars beaten & struck most notably the static buzz from Matt’s sounding like there’s a couple of wires missing there or rather the circuitry so demented from years of abuse. Unfortunately the mic’d autoharp and Sussman’s samples & acoustic guitar are low in this recording, both fed through relative tiny amps & facing the other way.

E.A.T.R. – Live at Why? Shit Life #2, Moorooka, 11th of December 2010 (58.32mb, .mp3 256kbit/s, 31.51mins)

This Imperial Can is Ian, solo, of 6Majik9, Fferro, Gerald Keaneys fame. Looped, layered voice, feedback loops, oscillating, processed through a couple of pedals & all-sorts. First song is a tension building exercise with a huge payoff throwing out the screams & floop jackhammer, the granted second is more freeform tracking a frightening abduction experience.

This Imperial Can – Live at Why? Shit Life #2, Moorooka, 11th of December 2010 (31.9mb, .mp3 256kbit/s, 17.25mins)

Stag is Julia (Gutters), Drea (Brutal Hate Mosh), Sarah Byrne, and Katie (Brainbeau). Everybody came inside for this performance, heat rose up significantly my shirt’s a sponge. Real fun white-hot summer music minus the shitty connotations. I removed just under 10 minutes of between-song banter so that’s why you’ll hear sudden cuts etc.

Stag – Live at Why? Shit Life #2, Moorooka, 11th of December 2010 (39.63mb, .mp3 256kbit/s, 21.38mins)

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

SHIT!LIFE! FESTIVAL #2:

STAG (Blog)

FFEHRO (MySpace)

E.A.R.T.

1/4 JAPANESE TEXAS

GREG BORING

SCRAPS (MySpace)

+ TBA

11th DECEMBER 2010 – (NEAR) DUTTON PARK CEMETERY – DUTTON PARK

1145 Ipswich Rd. Moorooka

3PM – FREE – AA + BYO

GIRL FIGHT:

STAG (blog)

PASTEL BLAZE (blog)

LOOSE GRIP (MySpace)

23rd OCTOBER 2010 – 4ZZZ CARPARK – 264 BARRY PDE., FORTITUDE VALLEY

2PM – FREE – AA + BYO

CHIHIRO BUTTERFLY (JP) (MySpace)

A. WALLACE (VIC) (MySpace)

STAG (blog)

THE SUBMARINERS

LEWIS+ENGLISH+GILLIES TRIO

25th JULY 2010 – Alchemix Studios (29 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba)

7PM – FREE – AA + BYO

Disembraining Machine

Southern Comfort are up from Sydney and are playing a few dates in Brisbane – including a support slot for Super Wild Horses’ album launch at the Hangar on Saturday. Here’s the other dates for their tour up here:

SOUTHERN COMFORT (MySpace)

STAG (Blog)

FEATHERS (MySpace)

15th July 2010 – House show (contact bands for details)

7PM – FREE – AA + BYO

I’ve got a bootleg of Stag right here.

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SOUTHERN COMFORT (MySpace)

THE SIPS (MySpace)

BLANK REALM (MySpace)

THE SEIZURES (MySpace)

16th July 2010 – Burst City – 69 Grey St, Southbank

8PM – $10 – AA + BYO

STAG

Stag is a local all-girl four-piece ‘noisy-pop’ act, supergroup all-sorts. Second ever show, first in an actual venue.

Download the full set recording here: http://www.mediafire.com/?b22yz2ghlyi

Hot cat-call-response punk sqwark with heavy emphasis on a simple rolling, stand-up-and-count drum beat in other words with a few Kleenex/Raincoats/Slits cards. Here tonight the bass guitar’s lead is fucked, the synth plays right over the top sometimes, the subtle & weird, wandering guitar which I had to really focus on… keeps everything interesting by creating messy, creased layers when it could very well have all been just another roadtrip down south if the gay neighbour found a house in Bali.

LORD CHEZWELL

Download the full set recording here: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmmdmfznm1t

AKA Chelsea from Breinbeau. On his lonesome, sampler and mixer in front of a standing, dancing crowd. A fully realised set obviously with pre-recorded material spliced up skateboarding material but there’s breaks sub-genre skipping everywhere with your descriptions found in warp mart – the difference here (and I’m finding a lot of hash resin) is that it’s pulled off right, the audience calling out for more & the volume up after every song, and he doesn’t overstay his welcome rather keeping to a short 20 minute set that seems to fly right by & before the crowd can finish clapping I’m outside listening back to the recording.

PASTEL BLAZE

Download the full set recording here: http://www.mediafire.com/?j5zyjzeyz1m

Melodic hardcore-punk rawk with a distinct ‘pub rock’ attitude (I guess). Short set, ten minutes.

Eternal Soundcheck, once again, has some footage of this night which includes a clip of Greg Charles (6Majik9, Blonde Cobra, etc) performing a super-rare solo set of which made me really sad, slumped down into a lounge. The best part was at the last song of the set where the guitar-lead or input was being very temperamental and random, fuzz-laden chords were then fed into the amp but he worked with it, and damn it went well.