Bamodi @ The Rosemount Hotel 17-11-2010.

Bamodi playing first show in new McGrath-Bairstow-Hooper lineup at The Rosemount Hotel 17th November 2010. Thanks to Pex and Kenta for bringing Mekare Kare over and putting on such a great gig.

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Mekare Kare @ The Rosemount Hotel 17-11-2010

Japanese duo Mekare Kare playing their first Australian show at The Rosemount Hotel 17th November 2010. Awesome band, top blokes.


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208 Halloween Party

On Halloween last month Astral Travel and Wind Waker staged a fundraiser at 208 for a proposed split 12". This was Wind Waker's 35th and final show . I/we decided to end the band after getting tired of pushing shit uphill for 3 years.

It was a great night for one and all with something for everybody: bands, dj's, an awsesome and successful cake stall, Thomas Rowe's amazing dance party MC skills and no police interference.

Bad Houses dressed as The Ex-Presidents and played first, they were good if a little shakey, more gigs will fix this. Mental Powers began their set with slow Europe-ian chants before ripping through their Japan paced hits. It was gnarly, lots of bleeps. In case you haven't already you should buy the new MP cd Stuffed Alive.
Astral Travel in Young Ones get up made everyone stand up for a set lacking in thrash metal but overflowing with epiphanic pop(?) which ended with a brut version of The Misfits' "She" sung by both Amber and Ruby, which they swear they'll never play again. You can almost hear Amy this time. I think they were a bit pissed though. Wind Waker played last and pretty poorly I'll admit which is pretty disappointing. Clancey did not bring her guitar so I had to borrow one for her, which I'm not sure she tuned, she also brought her digitalfxenhancedmarshallSS amp instead of her Ampeg Reverbrocket, god knows why. I guess she decided that since this was the last gig it didn't matter how good or bad she sounded and played. Also Louis was crunk and I had some amp troubles. All in all nt bRvt@l eNff.

The Split LP has been delayed a little but will be finished sooner than later. I promise.
On the good news front the AT side is almost finished and sounds sick. On the bad news front: the WW side was recorded in early October and will be entirely rerecorded mid December, I had a problem with my audio workstation and accidently deleted EVERYTHING. A total bummer but not quite the end of the world.

P.S. I stole all photos from Facebook.

P.S.S. The AT and WW sets were filmed by Ben, Kenta and friends for a possible DVD release.

Bad Houses @ AT/WW Fundraiser 208 Halloween 2010.

Bad Houses playing at the AT/WW Fundraiser at 208 on Halloween 2010.

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Mental Powers @ AT/WW Fundraiser 208 Halloween 2010

Mental Powers playing at the AT/WW Split LP Fundraiser show at 208 on Halloween 2010. Featuring Zoidberg on drums, David Byrne on guitar/magic percussion, Larry David on keys/vocals and Pink Blob on guitar/keys.

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Astral Travel @ 208's Halloween 2010.

Astral Travel/The Young Ones playing the AT/WW Split LP fundraiser show at 208 on Halloween 2010. Featuring a rippertops cover of The Misfits classic "She".

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                  Ben Stewart's Recording

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Wind Waker @ 208 31-10-2010

Wind Waker playing their final show at 208 on Halloween 2010. Featuring Industrial Accident on drums, Anton LaVey on bass and problematic bitch on guitar and vocals. This set was recorded on Ben Stewart's audio recorder by Tristan Fidler, who fiddled with the volume throughout.

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