Water Temple @ Charles st 17-02-2012

Epic brutal shredding.

Water Temple ruining a party at Charles st, 17th February 2012. The lady next door complained about the volume 3 songs in, apparently she liked it though.

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Bongtroopers @ Charles st 17-02-2012

Bongtroopers playing at a party at Charles st, 17th February 2012. First show for this sick sick sick hot teen combo. Nick Odell smashes, Steve S thunders and Nick Allbrook wails, what more could you want?

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Magic Window - WAAPA Sessions

Here is a special treat for everyone, an unreleased recording going all the way back to 2008. This is the only studio recording of the long forgotten but classic Perth band Magic Window, which starred Amber Gempton on bass/vocals, Tim Loughman on guitar/drums and James on drums/keys/vocals, It's Tim playing drums when James is playing keys and James at the kit when Tim's playing guitar. Like most good Perth bands they realised very little of their potential in their brief time together (about a dozen gigs or so and 2 recordings*). This band started just after I met the three members, most of my friends and my girlfriend so I guess they hold some sort of nostalgia for me or something like it. As far as I'm aware these recordings were going to be released as an LP on Meupe but the WAAPA student James had lined up to do the recordings did a really shitty job, they got someone else to come in and mix them again but they did a pretty poor job too and then James moved away, the band was no more and the album was forgotten. It's a great shame no one involved thought to keep the master files as this could be a great album if it had a decent mix. Bummer.

Magic Window - WAAPA Sessions 2008

Since Magic Window broke up, Tim and Amber have continued playing in a number of other great bands including Astral Travel, Golden Staph and Bermuda and James has continued acting.

*The other recording of Magic Window was a mono live recording of the band at 208, released by my arch-nemesis Camryn Rothenbury on his then label Farmer Frontier, it was a split live cd-r with the even shorter lived Penetrating Stairs (Alex Glazov, Clare Wohlnick and Rohan Extortion). I will probably put that one up too someday.

Clean Living @ Dada Records 17-12-2011

Photo by Darren Mok

Clean Living playing their final show at the Dada Records Xmas show 17th of December 2011.

This gig was a launch for two records, the Sarry/Drowning Horse split live cd recorded at Dada's 2 months before and "Batman Smells" a 16 track christmas compilation of great songs from great bands, both records were the brainchildren of Ben Stewart and both deserve your money. Recording from Ben Stewart.

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smRts @ Dada Records 17-12-2011

Photo by Darren Mok

Westralian instrumental combo smRts playing at Dada Records. Look at Matt, look at his guitar, yeah. The tall man on the right in this photo is Predrag Delibasic, he contributed the best song on the xmas comp. Recording from Ben Stewart.

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Frozen Ocean @ Dada Records 17-12-2011

Photo by Darren Mok

Mad cuntz Frozen Ocean at Dada Records. They contributed a whole bunch of songs to "Batman Smells" and they are all good, end of story.

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Gulls @ Dada Records 17-12-2011

Photo by Darren Mok

Westralian two piece Gulls playing at Dada Records. The man on the right in this photo is Matt Aitken, he just hosted the best NYE party I've ever been to. I stole my friends bike and rode off into the distance only to return home on foot at 5:30 and woke with no memory of the incident. I will never take acid and dexies together again.

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Mental Powers @ Dada Records 17-12-2011

Photo by Darren Mok

Mental Powers playing in linear mode at Dada Records. Look at that attractive man in the blue shirt, his name is Lewis Waters and Ladies, he's taken. This set reminds me of a band I've seen a few times but actually good.

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Golden Staph @ Dada Records 17-12-2011

Photo by Darren Mok

Newly and very briefly reunited Golden Staph playing their first show in 17 months at Dada Records with Ruby Jeppe (Astral Travel/HXMeth) subbing for Clare Wohlnick on keys. They played two shows that day, the other is here.

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Allbrook Avery @ Dada Records 17-12-2011

Photo by Darren Mok

Allbrook Avery playing at Dada Records. This is a fairly different lineup compared to the last time I saw the band way back sometime ago. Recording from Ben Stewart. This one goes out to the french girls on the internet.

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Surf Rabbits @ 208 17-12-2011

Poster by Jamie Doohan.

New band Surf Rabbits playing their first show at 208 17th of December 2011. I know nothing about the band.

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Water Temple @ 208 17-12-2011

Water Temple thrashing out the hits like a hit machine at 208. Water Temple just recorded some songs at Real to Reel at perth traino.

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Golden Staph @ 208 17-12-2011

Photo by Casey Ayres.

Photo by Darren Mok

Golden Staph playing their second show of the day at 208. Launching their s/t LP which I recorded a long time ago and was released by RIP Society. The Staph also played a set at Real2Reel a week later which was sick. Hopefully the band will play some more shows someday but Onton (who now lives in Berlin) has a krewl nu-band called Diät and Pat (who lives in melbong) now plays in School of Radiant Living who are also sick.

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Helta Skelta @ 208 17-12-2011

I don't have any photos of the gig but here's one of Pat in his natural habitat by Casey Ayres.

Helta Skelta playing at 208 17th of December 2011. This would be followed by Suffer's set but my lift was leaving early, bummer. All in all these were probably the two best local gigs of the year.

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smRts @ Mojos 25-11-2011

smRts drummer Chris Cobilis seen here "in action"

Five headed beast-dog outfit smRts ripping Fremantle a new one at Mojos 25th November 2011.

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Astral Travel/Wind Waker Split LP

Infamous Astral Travel & Wind Waker split album, recorded in 2010 but never released, now here for your listening pleasure and so people stop asking me about it.

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Banana Head @ Seizan 02-11-2011

Goaty Tapes CEO Zully aka Banana Head playing at Seizan Karaoke Bar 2nd of November 2011.

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ps Just to clarify, I saw NO desert bar. WTF MURRAY???

Taco Leg @ Seizan 02-11-2011

The almighty Taco Leg playing at Seizan Karaoke Bar 2nd of November 2011. Still early in the live life of the TL Mk II, this set also features super kewl d//d Wil H(Water Temple/Bamodi) on the first 2 songs, both of which are from the Pauline Manson cassette launched on the night.

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Predrag Delibasic @ The Bird 04-10-2011

The one, the only Predrag Delibasic playing at The Bird 4th of October 2011.

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Enjoy.