I HEART HIROSHIMA AT GOSSIP! 19-12-09

I HEART HIROSHIMA





I Heart Hiroshima play at the old Depot space (299 Brunswick St.) as part of new club night GOSSIP!. One of their last shows before an extended hiatus.

THEE OH SEES / LOOMER / SULPHUR LIGHTS AT THE CLUBHOUSE 17-12-09

THEE OH SEES





I've been listening to and thinking about this band a lot lately, they play with the kind of honest passion I'm always searching for in music. Everything about the band is almost too perfect to the point you start freaking out at how perfect Thee Oh Sees are. Inspiring.


LOOMER



Myspace.


SULPHUR LIGHTS





Myspace.


SLUG GUTS pulled out due to injury.

SKY NEEDLE AT GASWORKS 6-12-09.

Sky Needle is a band consisting of Joel Stern, Alex Cuffe and Ross Manning. They play self made "unstruments" and describe their sound as 'a couple of steps up from banging rocks together in a cave and a couple of steps down from modern music.' This show was for the launch of their 7" 'Time Hammer' and for what it's worth, I highly recommend it.

The location was at the abandoned Gasworks in Newstead, described by someone as 'Steel Henge' which is pretty accurate. Very surreal show, this band rules. More info at Independant Exhibitions.

BLANK REALM IN HAMILTON 5-12-09

Blank Realm perform at an art opening in Hamilton. They played as an accompaniment to some Brisbane Super 8 short films from the 80's, was cool. Everett True and Matt Earle (xNoBBQx) also performed.

LOOMER AT RIC'S 4-12-09

Worst camera angle ever. Ric's sucks.

Loomer on Myspace.

SCRAPS LIVE AT BOOK NOOK 4-08-09

This footage is from a show back in August at Book Nook in West End. Scraps is Laura Hill and she's written some of the best damn pop songs this country has heard, mate. Add her on Myspace.

ASSASSINS 88 / KITCHEN'S FLOOR AT REAL BAD MUSIC FESTIVAL 28-11-09

Canberra's Assassins 88 play Brisbane for the very first time. Totally great band that mix the Lightning Bolt aesthetic with 60's pop sensibilities. They have just released an album "Go Go Second Chance Virgin" which can be downloaded for free at Dream Damage.

Real Bad Music Festival was a 3 day event held at an abandoned sex shop in Moorooka, "The Magic Mile".

ASSASSINS 88





KITCHEN'S FLOOR



Bill Speight on Drums. Myspace.

SLUG GUTS / ABJECT LEADER / GREY DATURAS / PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS / LIGHTNING BOLT AT THE HI-FI BAR 22-11-09

Best lineup of the year unfortunately on a Sunday night with the majority of people on the tail end of a wasted weekend. All of that was forgotten when Lightning Bolt blew everything the fuck away. Goddamnit.

SLUG GUTS





Slug Guts closed their set with a cover of Primitive Calculators' "Pumping Ugly Muscle" joined by Stuart Grant on vocals.

ABJECT LEADER



"Abject Leader is a 16mm films duo that performs live expanded cinema peices which emphasise the analogue, the handmade, the photo-chemical and the acoustical." Their Website.

GREY DATURAS



Grey Daturas' last ever show in Brisbane on their final tour.

PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS



LIGHTNING BOLT





The crowd almost imploded into the band, totally great. Big thanks to Sally Golding for filming them for me. Lightning Bolt's website.

WHITE COP / SECRET BIRDS AT THE CLUBHOUSE, EMPIRE HOTEL 12-11-09

Secret Bird's final show in Brisbane and also the launch of their album "Asleep on the Dragon". Slug Guts and Manic Eyes also played.

WHITE COP:





Filmed by Glen Schenau. I owe him a beer.

SECRET BIRDS:

REPAIRS AT EL JOYERO, NORTHCOTE 7-11-09

El Joyero is a shop front in Northcote that has only started putting on shows in the last few months. Super Star, Kitchen's Floor and Ghosts of Television also played this night but my video camera couldn't handle it.

REPAIRS:

ACID CASUALTY / WASTED TRUTH/ T.X.X AT NIHILISTIC ORBS #2, EMPRESS HOTEL 6-11-09

Nihilistic Orbs #2 = fun times in Melbourne. Kitchen's Floor also played.

T.X.X



T.X.X (Features members of Repairs and Splitfoot) were very rad.

ACID CASUALTY:





Acid Casualty are three brutal babe slayin' dudes shredding their way to the top. Hide your girlfriend and check them out.

WASTED TRUTH:



RIFF REPETITION MAKES ME SMILE.

CHROME DOME / PETS WITH PETS / THE OOGA BOOGAS AT THE TOTE 5-11-09

Ditchling and Bleach also played but I missed them.

CHROME DOME:





Chrome Dome are great. Their Negative Vibes EP rules, if you don't already have it, get it.

PETS WITH PETS:



I'd strangely never heard of these guys before but Neu! is one of my favourite bands and they pull off the krautrock thing really well, enjoyed it a lot.

THE OOGA BOOGAS:





The Ooga Boogas were really fun. Apologies for the excess zooming, was drunk.

THE SCRAPES / THE SEIZURES AT DISEMBRAINING MACHINE #4 1-11-09

Disembraining Machine's final show for the year. 6Majik9, Voss Bender and Tidy Kid also played but I arrived late and ran out of film. EXCUSES.

THE SCRAPES:





THE SEIZURES:

HEART FLEW LIKE AN ARROW AT THE HANGAR 31-10-09

Halloween inspires a completely demented set from the Adam Roger's led collaborative Heart Flew like an Arrow.





"I want to die at an intersection Live before an audience I want to live life in a trance I don't ever want to come back again"

DEADNOTES / BLANK REALM / KITCHEN'S FLOOR AT THE TROUBADOUR 21-10-09

Brisbane shows how dead it can be on a Wednesday night with a poorly attended yet awesome lineup at The Troubadour. I have to apologise to Michael Beach who headlined this show, I ran out of film but he was really good and worth checking out.

BLANK REALM:





Blank Realm are universally regarded as one of the best bands in Australia. For this show their bass player, LUKE SPENCER, was in India for some psychadelic reason so they played as a 3-piece performing mostly new material and yet still came out with the goods.

DEADNOTES:



This was a really great under-appreciated set from The Deadnotes, one of Brisbane's most captivating bands.

KITCHEN'S FLOOR:



Everett True wrote about this show which can be found on his blog .

WHITE COP

I thought it was worth posting another video of the White Cop show from The Step Inn 25-09-09 as the repercussions from this show have resulted in a lifetime ban from that venue including the patronage of it's members. Punk rock.

116 LATROBE TCE. HOUSESHOW 26-09-09

ROYAL HEADACHE:



BED WETTIN' BAD BOYS:



Brisbane lets loose for Sydney bands Royal Headache and Bed Wettin' Bad Boys. Blank Realm also put on an awesome show. Good time had by all. Thankyou to Sarah Spencer for filming Royal Headache.

CURED PINK RADIO AT THE ZOO 24-09-09

Cured Pink Radio play to an enthusiastic sold out crowd at the Zoo.

WHITE COP AT THE STEP INN 25-09-09

WHITE COP:



"Bask in the ooze, baby. A shitty, pissy stew of lysergic ineptitude and all that pure shit, pure sleaze, pure faggot drunk noise. Primordial oooooozzze. Old people are so dumb, your so boring. Your so pretty. Cut me. Make me feel good. Gimme bennies. Gimme danger. Get on stage and blow every member of the band. Hate WHITE COP."

PINK REASON / SLUG GUTS / FABULOUS DIAMONDS / BLANK REALM AT THE STEP INN 10-09-09

The lineup was mindblowing, I haven't looked forward to a show as much as this one for a long time. Pink Reason was the best thing I've seen in ages. Great fucking band mate.

PINK REASON:



SLUG GUTS:



FABULOUS DIAMONDS:



BLANK REALM:

HARDGRAVE RD. HOUSESHOW 4-09-09

POLYFOX AND THE UNION OF THE MOST GHOSTS:



Polyfox (Nicholas French) makes sad people just that little bit happier, this set was joined by Zac from Whyte Lightning on bass.

SCRAPS:



Scraps is the best songwriter in Australia. This performance was amazing, watch it.

GERALD KEANEY AND THE GERALD KEANEYS:



PURE ENTERTAINMENT.

MINXX

This was filmed by the Trapdoor Tapes guys when they were still kids, it's from January 2006 which is pretty far away in terms of modern time. It was in a half-house in Annerley where I learnt how to drink red wine. Great video.

DISEMBRAINING MACHINE

DISEMBRAINING MACHINE happens on the last Sunday of every month at Alchemix Studios in Woolloongabba (Brisbane) and it rules.

THE DEADNOTES (With Everett True):



YOUT DEM:



HARPY CHOIR:

LOCKSMITH GALLERY 16-08-09

KITCHEN'S FLOOR:



KF filmed by Nic De Jong. Thankyou.



BLANK REALM



I've seen Blank Realm play dozens of times and they're always great but this was greater or something. Guest starred Harriet Hudson (Good God, Downtown) on guitar.

FAMILY JEWELS



Nic struggled with his gear for most of the set but it still worked out.

REDFERN HOUSESHOW 15-08-09

ROYAL HEADACHE



Best afternoon ever.

MAGGOTVILLE 15-08-09

NAKED ON THE VAGUE



WASTED TRUTH



ALPS OF NSW