CURED PINK / PSY ANTS / FANGS OF / DIE ON PLANES AT BURST CITY 29-08-10

Back to Burst City... definitely the best place to spend a Sunday afternoon in Brisbane. $5 entry, 4 bands, what a good deal. For this show I tried something new and used a better video camera (courtesy Adam Rogers of Heart Flew fame), featuring widescreen, night mode etc. It's bloody nice is what it is, enjoy the difference.


CURED PINK





Opening with nothing more than a few heartfelt screams which then developed into tape machine perversions and some brutal floor thrusting, Cured Pink shows us why he's one of the best solo experimental noise performance artists in Australia.


PSY ANTS



Once again, here is the ALMIGHTY Psy Ants. Reliable as ever, they battle through technical problems and deliver the brutal.


FANGS OF...





Melbourne's Fangs Of... A TV Evangelist were very decent. Brutal post punk with enough imagination in the songs and structures to keep it engaging for the whole set, something a lot of similar bands don't do (for me anyway). Awesome.


DIE ON PLANES





I love it when I see a band I haven't seen before and they take me by complete surprise. Die On Planes came across as total dumbarse stoner doom and I mean that in the best possible way. I could watch/listen to this shit for days on end.

CLAG RETROSPECTIVE

So... not many updates this month. I've been busy putting together the Eternal Soundcheck screening night (Get ya tickets here!) but I've been meaning to post these awesome Clag videos for a little while now.

Clag were a Brisbane band from the early 90's - really great and pure lo-fi pop music. Members of Clag went on to play in heaps of bands - Beaches, Minimum Chips, Panel of Judges, Custard etc.


CLAG



This video was filmed in 1993 at their house in Red Hill (the suburb over from mine, lovin' the local history). This song is an ode/anthem to that very sharehouse (I think).


Also here's footage of Clag performing at the 1992 4ZZZ Market Day:




You can download some of their recorded work here.

LOOSE GRIP / GRAVEL SAMWIDGE AT BURST CITY 14-08-10

A Benefit show to help raise funds for Burst City to keep going, a damn good cause. Only 3 bands, Slug Guts played last and it was the best set I've witnessed from them, I was completely lost in that blurry moment and was unable to film it.


LOOSE GRIP



The first time Loose Grip have played in months (featuring weirdly enough, me on bass). Coast punk with pride saving their last beers from descending flesh.

Filmed by Esther Lilley.


GRAVEL SAMWIDGE



I turned 3 in 1989 and I guess I wasn't paying much attention because I cannot remember Gravel Samwidge forming that very year. It's now 2010 and just like my mental capacity is much the same as it was back then (eat, cry, sleep, repeat) Gravel Samwidge 21 years later on are still playing their own brand of dignified weirdo outsider rock. They played a long, uncompromising set of Gravel Samwidge hits old and new.

THE FIRST YEAR

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"Over the past 12 months the Eternal Soundcheck blog has emerged as a key source of video documentation for the Brisbane and Australian musical underground. Conceived and operated by Kitchen's Floor member Matt Kennedy, Eternal Soundcheck celebrates the energy, anarchy, creativity and community of contemporary DIY music. In celebration of it's 1st birthday, Eternal Soundcheck will present a special 'best of' screening featuring the most memorable performances and footage by a host of incredible groups including Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Royal Headache, Sky Needle, Blank Realm, Everett True, Scraps, Slug Guts and many more ... " - Joel Stern, OtherFilm


ALSO FEATURING - CHROME DOME / DRUNK ELK / BITCH PREFECT / PER PURPOSE / ABSOLUTE BOYS / NAKED ON THE VAGUE / TURNPIKE / BATRIDER / THE STABS / WASTED TRUTH / ASSASSINS 88 / WHITE COP / DUD PILLS AND MORE.

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY KNEE CHIN & GERALD KEANEY AND THE GERALD KEANEYS.



TRIBAL THEATRE. 346 GEORGE ST. BRISBANE.

THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 8PM BYO. $8 THROUGH OZTIX.



SUPPORTED BY OTHERFILM, BEDROOM SUCK, THE OUTPOST & BATS MAGAZINE.

NAKED ON THE VAGUE AT GREGORY TCE. HOUSE SHOW 31-07-10

Short notice house show in Spring Hill and NOTV's second show in Brisbane following Burst City. Weather was cloudly with some rain, kind of cold but not freezing. XXXX Gold. Harry's Fine Foods. Goodbye July.


NAKED ON THE VAGUE




Apparently this is a new NOTV song!! Unrecorded as of yet so check it out.

SLUG GUTS / NAKED ON THE VAGUE AT BURST CITY 30-07-10

A brutal night at Burst City for the Brisbane launch of NOTV's excellent new album 'Heaps of Nothing'. Not one sober face could be seen amongst the bloody vomit drenched dirge. There were no survivors.


NAKED ON THE VAGUE



Brisbane finally gets to see NOTV in all it's relatively new 4-piece glory, having last been here an unforgivable 3 and a half years ago (!!!!). nah I forgive them. NOTV rule.


SLUG GUTS



This was a highly anticipated show from Slug Guts, who haven't played at all this year besides a recent tour of Japan. New members, singer swappin' and a whole new set of songs equated to a pretty darn exciting set.