Halloween Party 31-10-09.

Playing at parties beats regular gigs. Simple science. This is especially true when said party is a halloween dress up party with Astral Travel, Taco Leg and Wind Waker playing. I was gonna wear a costume but I didn't have time/cbf'ed to make one so I made the joke that I would've gone as Nikola Tesla but I couldn't get funding for my costume. Nobody got it, bad joke. AT went as The Ferals, pre-FeralTV. I had suggested WW go as the Triforce's, wish we had. We were gonna play outside but realised it would be better to play in the lounge room near the hellish black cave tunnel of death/hallway to front door (this party had it all, strange decorations, poison green punch and 3 different versions of the monster mash). Wind Waker played and I can't be bothered to even try talking up my own band so I won't. Astral Travel played/slayed a radical set, first semi public appearance for them in a while/waaaay too long, full of new rippin' tunes about brickin' people on fixies. Amber's request for a circle pit/circle leg was met and it was brutal. Taco Leg set up for the slaughter and played one of their best shows, the pit got so XXXBRUTAL that I spent it holding Clancey's amp from getting smashed into the fireplace. That pretty much sums it up.

Radical party = Epic win.

N.B. Photo's taken by Clancey Williams, Andrew Murray, Pelham Vaughan and Tanya De Souza-Meally.

Wind Waker @ Halloween Party 31-10-09.

Wind Waker playing at Halloween Party 31-10-09.

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Astral Travel @ Halloween Party 31-10-09.

Astral Travel playing at Halloween party 31-10-09.

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Taco Leg @ Halloween Party 31-10-09.

Taco Leg playing at a halloween party 31-11-09.

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Hyde Park Hotel 22-11-09.

I went to the Hydey to see some bands and discuss who was the better bass player Tina Weymouth or Fred Smith? (Fred Smith). Solar Barge, Pex, The Velveteens, Craig McElhinney and Frozen Ocean played. I missed Frozen Ocean because I had to leave and figured the Velveteens to be a waste of time, I was half right. I think I had photos for this but lost them, shit.

Solar Barge is another project for Lyndon Blue aka Ra (guitarstick) and in the live format features Mr Serious himself Ringham aka Set (synthwizardry and gobletdrumpad). Solar Barge perform "the soundtrack to Ra and his friends' journey through the heavens and the underworld in perfect stereo sound". And they do it very well, if a little charmingly rusty at times. Also they wear masks. Next time less lighting please, sonic voyage need dark space.
Following this hawaiian feast was "Pex the Astonishing", whose hypnotic one man guitarama pleased the ears of all present, especially the very young and very blotto lady who "dirty-danced" Mr Pex during one of his numbers. This was a few songs after a couple, friends of the drunk girl, started making out in some sort of desperate bid for attention. They won, everyone in the room laughed.
I missed The Velveteens but this is what Lyndon said about them:

"There are many words you could give to the Velvetines’ pandemonium that ensued, and I’m going to go with “fucking hilarious” for starters: here we had a group of youths sloshed, smashed, plastered, tanked, pissed, polluted, sauced and just generally not doing very well that they struggled to plug in their guitars let alone execute a coherent musical performance. They stumbled and swore their way through the next half hour or so, with public displays of affection, coin slots big enough for godzilla’s pennies, guitars swung like cricket bats - at times, the rhythm section maintained some solid smooth grooves, but generally the effect was that of an ape swallowing your shoegaze collection and shitting it out backwards. It was classic rock and roll: a bunch of inebriated lunatics too far gone to play and much too far gone to care."

Craig McElhinney followed this spectacle in fine form, as always. His sets seem to flow out effortlessly out of his long pale hands and through the air in beautiful waves, like a black and white wacky-inflatible arms man in slow motion and tuned to C. Better to listen than read, ok?


NB Solar Barge set coming soon, delay caused by megaupload

Solar Barge @ Hydey 22-10-09.

Solar Barge playing a Bargetastic set at the Hyde Park Hotel 22-10-09.

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Pex @ Hydey 22-10-09.

Pex playing one man auto destructo guitar loop machinations at the Hyde Park Hotel 22-10-09. Photo by Michael Howard, stolen from Pex's facebook profile.

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Craig McElhinney @ Hydey 22-10-2009.

Here's Craig McNickleSkinny playing at the Hyde Park Hotel 22-10-09.
Photo by Traianos Pakioufakis.

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Ambassador from Everywhere 18 @ Scitech

I just missed Kynan Tan, from the information I gathered from friends he did a bunch of stuff. It was weird wandering around Scitech at night and even weirder going into the smallish theatre room to watch Splendid Friends play on a tiny stage not big enough to fit all of their equipment. Lawrence English gave a short speech and walked into his zone behind a laptop and a harmonium and did his stuff. It was nice.

THE END.

Splendid Friends @ Scitech 16-10-09.

Splendid Friends playing at Ambassador from Everywhere 18 at Scitech.

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Lawrence English @ Scitech 16-10-09.

Lawrence English playing at Ambassador from Everywhere 18 at Scitech.

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Power Out @ Spectrum 09-10-09.

"Six local music acts perform without the aid of any electricity. This event will challenge the way musicians/audiences view performances of music in the 21st century.

The Power Out hopes to attract the local experimental music crowd as well as appreciators of local music."

This acoustic show presents certain problems for a bootlegger which you will understand by listening to the sets. Rabbit Island played first on the night in trio mode (Amber w/ regular sparring partner Leonie Lionheart on b. vox and d. beats with another girl I didn't recognise on b.vox and candle) and were very good although it was near impossible to hear much above the chitter chatter and even less possible to hear voice and guitar over drums. Taco Leg pulled out an entertaining set, Ringho had a drum kit composed of; double kick briefcase duct taped to the floor; smashed up cymbal; wood block for snare and three roto toms. Simon swapped the dano for a ukey and a red acoustic guitar. Andrew used a Shure brushomatic, belonging to Ruby Travel. needless to say it was a great set. After tacousticaleg left the floor Greg and co (Matt Wreck and Karen) set up shop. All strumming and harmonizing and such, it was good but too long ago for me to make with the details. I stayed just long enough to see These Shipwrecks play a very percussive and spirited set. Then I went home. THE END.

Rabbit Island @ Spectrum 09-10-09.

Rabbit Island playing acoustic set for Power Out show at Spectrum.

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Taco Leg @ Spectrum 09-10-09

Here's Taco Leg in Tacoustica mode for Power Out show at Spectrum.

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Ghost of 29 Megacycles @ Spectrum 09-10-09.

Ghost of 29 Megacycles in triocoustica mode for Power Out show at Spectrum.

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P.S. I think Ole Greg has a CD coming out soon.

Edit: Linkfuck fixed.

These Shipwrecks @ Spectrum 09-10-09.

These Shipwrecks in acoustic mode at Power Out show at Spectrum.

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Boom Fundraiser @ The Velvet Lounge 06-10-09.

boom are a collective that do stuff. On the 6th of October they had a fundraiser show at the Velvet Lounge. Bands played, Ben showed his mintox footage of stuff and It was too long ago for me to write much about it. I didn't manage to get any photos either but if anyone has any feel free to send them my way.

Wind Waker @ The Velvet Lounge 06-10-09.

Wind Waker playing at the Velvet Lounge for boom fundraiser.
Most of the recording was lost to the ages unfortunately.

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Cease @ The Velvet Lounge 06-10-09.

Here's Cease playing a stopstartstop set at the Velvet Lounge for the boom fundraiser.
They lost power early in their set and had to wait for angybarmanagerguy to fix it.
They came back kicking though and ripped through the rest of their set.

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Taco Leg @ Velvet Lounge 06-10-09

Here's a set of Taco Leg bringing the fury to the Velvet Lounge for the boom fundraiser.
Apparently the V. Lounge have been getting serial noise complaints from Mt Lawley douchebags/residents. What a pack of 'scrapes. SRSLY. Because of this problem T-Leg's set was cut short by angry bar manager guy. What a bummer.

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