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"