IMMORTAL WARLORD / BIRTH GLOW

I think Adelaide is fast becoming my favourite city for music in Australia. I never would have imagined writing that sentence a few months ago when I knew shit all about the place but the city has some really great bands. Here's two that are currently residing in Adelaide and their respective music videos.


IMMORTAL WARLORD



ANOTHER project from Liam and Pat, the prolific guys who brought you Bitch Prefect, Dud Pills and many more awesome bands. Immortal Warlord is their foray into the realm of psychadelic pop and damn can they pull it off. This video/song is dreamy lysergic bliss at it's most euphoric and any brutally intense nightmarish acid freakouts are very far away from here.

Check out Pat's youtube video channel, he's the guy who makes the videos and it's a damn fine body of work.


BIRTH GLOW



I played a show with Birth Glow about 3 years ago and I can barely remember it because I was pretty messed up at the time but they had this song about Batman that I heard way too many times (Suburban Revolution compilation CDR, anyone still got a copy that isn't scratched to death?) and it screwed up my idea of the band. Watching this video blows away any doubt I had - It's really incredible and as soon as I can I'm getting a copy of their album to make up for lost time. The video is from a few years ago but I just found out about it recently so if you haven't seen this and you like things that are awesome, check it out.

DUD PILLS

Dud Pills are an off shoot of Bitch Prefect and this is almost as good as the band they sprouted from. This is a new music video from them and it rules. Stop reading my shittily vague writing and watch the video.

TERRIBLE TRUTHS / BATRIDER AT FORMAT FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT 27-02-10

Opening night of Format Festival in a neat art gallery. Good night, good times.

TERRIBLE TRUTHS



This was Terrible Truths first show but you wouldn't realise that given how awesome they were. Kind of sounds like Diamond Sea and Love Of Diagrams in places but it's unique enough for this band to stand alone. Really liked this.


BATRIDER





You'll be hard pressed finding a band more drenched in painfully raw emotion than Batrider. You could feel the hurt and sorrow pouring out of the speakers and damnit, I felt like giving them a hug. Very moving performance.

BITCH PREFECT / HIT THE JACKPOT AT SUPERMILD 26-02-10

I spent the last week and a bit on tour and had the privilege of playing with a lot of great bands. First show was in Adelaide at Supermild, a small dark club with insane drunk bar staff.

BITCH PREFECT





I've already tried to describe Bitch Prefect before, perfect simple pop music etc. I found myself really really excited to see them play and wasn't disappointed. Almost every song sent shivers down my stupid spine and that's a beautiful thing.


HIT THE JACKPOT



Hit The Jackpot are like Adelaide music royalty. They've been playing for years and are respected for being a decent band and good people. I last saw them play in Brisbane at a generator show in 2006 which ruled but I didn't have a video camera back then. This was a very minimal set and I sure do like my minimal.

BITCH PREFECT / WHORES MUSIC VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE

It's Monday and Monday sucks so I thought I'd post some awesome music videos made by two of my favourite Australian bands at the moment.

BITCH PREFECT





Bitch Prefect are from Adelaide and play really nice simple pop music - Think the Clean, Velvet Underground, a bit of Half/Japanese and mix it up with the retardation that growing up in a small city town in Australia would do to you. They make music videos for pretty much every one of their songs and you can watch more here. I did an interview with them for Negative Guest List zine which should be out in the next issue.


WHORES



Whores are from Sydney and were here in Brisbane a few weeks ago. This video is really really cool, a completely psychotic nightmare that reminds me of my horrible, horrible childhood.


Sorry dad, just kidding.