Newcastle's Alps and Bare Grillz have spent a couple of weeks on tour in support of the new Alps album 'Alps of New South Wails'. Brisbane was their last show. Good dudes, fun times.
BARE GRILLZ
ALPS
Thanks to Luke for lending me his camera.
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
ALPS MUSIC VIDEOS
I'm really liking these two new videos/songs from Newcastle's Alps. They're off the soon to be released fourth album 'Alps of New South Wails'. It's definitely some of his best work so far and I have high hopes it's gonna be a hit.
I'd also like to say a massive thankyou to everyone who has donated money towards a new video camera, it means a lot. Beers on me when I get everything sorted out.
Friday, December 10, 2010
LOOKIN' BACK ON 2010
2010 has been a pretty special year for music around these parts. Here are some of my favourite performances I've filmed over the last 12 months. It's worth noting that a lot of the venues that this stuff is from have closed down (The Hangar, Cubby Hole) or are about to close down (Burst City). Keep supporting these bands/venues etc. stupid rant etc.
Grab a six pack of your favourite brew then lets look back on 2010, eh?
DUD PILLS - Cubby Hole (June 5)
Only about 20 people came to this show, and a lot of people seemed to have the attitude of 'meh' towards this depressingly underrated Adelaide band. Not me though, Dud Pills fucking owned.
CIRCLE PIT - Cosmo's Rock Lounge (October 1)
Not many people came to this show either, and considering it was a fundraiser to help Circle Pit tour the USA, well bloody hell. Circle Pit played an awesome fuck off set.
ROYAL HEADACHE - The Annandale Hotel (October 3)
The RIP Society Records Success Summit was the most epic show I've seen this year. Frontman Shogun was apparently on the tail end of a brutal 3 day bender, and whatever was going through his head at the time definitely added to this performance.
FABULOUS DIAMONDS - Burst City (September 3)
Brisbane absorbs the swinging pendulum of nihilistic glory from inner city Melbourne hypnotists Fabulous Diamonds. That there is the lamest metaphoric sentence you have ever wrote Matt but I will keep it here where no one but you will read it.
NAKED ON THE VAGUE - Burst City (July 30)
NOTV hadn't played in Brisbane since 2006, way too long considering how many people love them here. They had just released their already legendary album 'Heaps of Nothing' and things were good. Damn good.
SUPER WILD HORSES - The Hangar (July 17)
'Fifteen', the debut album from Super Wild Horses has been a big favourite at my place, it always gets a play when we're all hanging out on the stoop. This video was from their first show in Brisbane, and it was a very decent set. I think I bought a pie from 7/11 on the walk home.
CHROME DOME - Burst City (April 23)
Every time Chrome Dome appear in my life I know a few more years are going to get cut off of my life expectancy but it's always worth it as I would probably waste those years anyway. Chrome Dome + Burst City was a perfect match.
BOOMGATES - Repressed Records (October 2)
I mostly like bands that have a passionate dedication to getting wasted and live on the edge of death but sometimes you just want one of those other kinds of bands that promote the almost unthinkable idea of optimism. Filming Boomgates at Repressed Records was a great pleasure.
BLANK REALM - Burst City (September 3)
A massive year for Blank Realm, and no doubt they will be filling stadiums by the end of 2011. I was completely trashed at this show and I think they were too, hell I think everybody was. Burst City.
MEAT THUMP - Alloneword (September 12)
Members of White Cop / cult zine writer form a new band in the shitty outer burbs of Brisbane, lug their shit into a shitty Fortitude Valley venue to play a shitty show on a shitty Sunday afternoon to a bunch of shitty people and the result? total transcendence of said shittiness. Meat Thump's shit is pure and this live debut was nothing short of brilliance.
WHORES - The Annandale Hotel (October 3)
It's hard to write about Whores, they're a band that just make sense to me. I filmed a few of their sets this year and they were all great but this show was perfect.
ABSOLUTE BOYS - Cubby Hole (June 19)
Absolute Boys make me wish I actually spent time trying to learn music, at least enough so that I could 'funk it out' or whatever you kids do. Their first time in Brisbane, and the first time I realised my camera had a motion sensor thing that seemed specifically designed to bring the head nods.
ALPS - Newcastle house show (April 16)
Alps put on a guitar and played a solid set of noisy folk tunes on a Newcastle patio. Reminds me that it's sometimes good to get out of Brisbane. Actually it's always good to get out of Brisbane.
SKY NEEDLE - Burst City (July 18)
Sky Needle sound like a band that prehistoric humans from thousands and thousands of years ago would have created if they had been visited by aliens, harnessed the awesome power of electricity and then invented a foot pump related musical instrument to annoy the moon. This afternoon set at Burst City was great.
SCIENCE - Brisbane house show (January 26)
A show from the beginning of the year, Science (later they changed their name to Psy Ants and became a 3 piece and still haven't released anything and haven't played in awhile) playing in a lounge room in Paddington, down the road from my house. Cops came and shut the whole party down soon after this set.
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That's it for 2010. Thanks to everyone for taking an interest in this blog. I haven't updated much lately as a large amount of beer was spilt on my laptop a month ago and you'd think that shit would be easy enough to fix but no.
Grab a six pack of your favourite brew then lets look back on 2010, eh?
DUD PILLS - Cubby Hole (June 5)
Only about 20 people came to this show, and a lot of people seemed to have the attitude of 'meh' towards this depressingly underrated Adelaide band. Not me though, Dud Pills fucking owned.
CIRCLE PIT - Cosmo's Rock Lounge (October 1)
Not many people came to this show either, and considering it was a fundraiser to help Circle Pit tour the USA, well bloody hell. Circle Pit played an awesome fuck off set.
ROYAL HEADACHE - The Annandale Hotel (October 3)
The RIP Society Records Success Summit was the most epic show I've seen this year. Frontman Shogun was apparently on the tail end of a brutal 3 day bender, and whatever was going through his head at the time definitely added to this performance.
FABULOUS DIAMONDS - Burst City (September 3)
Brisbane absorbs the swinging pendulum of nihilistic glory from inner city Melbourne hypnotists Fabulous Diamonds. That there is the lamest metaphoric sentence you have ever wrote Matt but I will keep it here where no one but you will read it.
NAKED ON THE VAGUE - Burst City (July 30)
NOTV hadn't played in Brisbane since 2006, way too long considering how many people love them here. They had just released their already legendary album 'Heaps of Nothing' and things were good. Damn good.
SUPER WILD HORSES - The Hangar (July 17)
'Fifteen', the debut album from Super Wild Horses has been a big favourite at my place, it always gets a play when we're all hanging out on the stoop. This video was from their first show in Brisbane, and it was a very decent set. I think I bought a pie from 7/11 on the walk home.
CHROME DOME - Burst City (April 23)
Every time Chrome Dome appear in my life I know a few more years are going to get cut off of my life expectancy but it's always worth it as I would probably waste those years anyway. Chrome Dome + Burst City was a perfect match.
BOOMGATES - Repressed Records (October 2)
I mostly like bands that have a passionate dedication to getting wasted and live on the edge of death but sometimes you just want one of those other kinds of bands that promote the almost unthinkable idea of optimism. Filming Boomgates at Repressed Records was a great pleasure.
BLANK REALM - Burst City (September 3)
A massive year for Blank Realm, and no doubt they will be filling stadiums by the end of 2011. I was completely trashed at this show and I think they were too, hell I think everybody was. Burst City.
MEAT THUMP - Alloneword (September 12)
Members of White Cop / cult zine writer form a new band in the shitty outer burbs of Brisbane, lug their shit into a shitty Fortitude Valley venue to play a shitty show on a shitty Sunday afternoon to a bunch of shitty people and the result? total transcendence of said shittiness. Meat Thump's shit is pure and this live debut was nothing short of brilliance.
WHORES - The Annandale Hotel (October 3)
It's hard to write about Whores, they're a band that just make sense to me. I filmed a few of their sets this year and they were all great but this show was perfect.
ABSOLUTE BOYS - Cubby Hole (June 19)
Absolute Boys make me wish I actually spent time trying to learn music, at least enough so that I could 'funk it out' or whatever you kids do. Their first time in Brisbane, and the first time I realised my camera had a motion sensor thing that seemed specifically designed to bring the head nods.
ALPS - Newcastle house show (April 16)
Alps put on a guitar and played a solid set of noisy folk tunes on a Newcastle patio. Reminds me that it's sometimes good to get out of Brisbane. Actually it's always good to get out of Brisbane.
SKY NEEDLE - Burst City (July 18)
Sky Needle sound like a band that prehistoric humans from thousands and thousands of years ago would have created if they had been visited by aliens, harnessed the awesome power of electricity and then invented a foot pump related musical instrument to annoy the moon. This afternoon set at Burst City was great.
SCIENCE - Brisbane house show (January 26)
A show from the beginning of the year, Science (later they changed their name to Psy Ants and became a 3 piece and still haven't released anything and haven't played in awhile) playing in a lounge room in Paddington, down the road from my house. Cops came and shut the whole party down soon after this set.
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That's it for 2010. Thanks to everyone for taking an interest in this blog. I haven't updated much lately as a large amount of beer was spilt on my laptop a month ago and you'd think that shit would be easy enough to fix but no.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
THE FIGHTING LEAGUE / ASSASSINS 88 / ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES / KITCHEN'S FLOOR AT THE PHOENIX 18-04-10
Canberra on a Sunday night. My expectations were low because we went there in 2008 only to find out our show had been booked but not promoted. There was literally noone there so we didn't play and it was pouring rain and freezing and we spent the night at a random guy's house in his housemate's beds who he said 'may or may not be coming home' that night. At the time I was like 'fuck Canberra, this place is shit' but that was then and this is now. I met heaps of great people and the show was awesome and totally worthwhile. Canberra, we are cool.
THE FIGHTING LEAGUE
I had never really checked out these guys before except for an obligatory glance at their myspace and was nicely surprised by what was a very entertaining show. A+ for showmanship.
ASSASSINS 88
A set with less emphasis on the 'heavy' than their Brisbane shows in November, Assassins 88 switch the bass for guitar and the noise for melody. Suited perfectly in this venue, totally underrated as they're one of the best bands around.
ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES
A very solid set from Alps who revisits some old favourites.
KITCHEN'S FLOOR
Filmed by Lachlan from Assassins 88 on his own camera. Thanks Lachlan.
THE FIGHTING LEAGUE
I had never really checked out these guys before except for an obligatory glance at their myspace and was nicely surprised by what was a very entertaining show. A+ for showmanship.
ASSASSINS 88
A set with less emphasis on the 'heavy' than their Brisbane shows in November, Assassins 88 switch the bass for guitar and the noise for melody. Suited perfectly in this venue, totally underrated as they're one of the best bands around.
ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES
A very solid set from Alps who revisits some old favourites.
KITCHEN'S FLOOR
Filmed by Lachlan from Assassins 88 on his own camera. Thanks Lachlan.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
BARE GRILLZ / ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES / WHORES AT NEWCASTLE HOUSE SHOW 16-04-10
Eternal Soundcheck finds itself on a suburban Newcastle patio on a Friday night faced with a killer line up of bands from Sydney (Whores, None Music), Brisbane (Kitchen's Floor - no footage) and Newcastle (Alps, Bare Grillz). I'm pretty sure most people left this with a brutal hangover and the vague memory of having a good time.
BARE GRILLZ
Local residents Bare Grillz perform for the very first time and despite the treble on the guitar amp cutting through my squishy edible brain like an epidural into the spine, they were really enjoyable. The last song ruled and was the best but I didn't film that one so this last sentence you're reading don't have nothing useful for you.
ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES
An international world first australian exclusive - Alps playing guitar! and it sounds good, I'm liking this direction a lot. First 10 seconds of video are highly unprofessional, sorry gang.
NONE MUSIC
A new project from Sydney's Nic De Jong (Ghosts of Television, NOTV), None Music is really good quality noise. He played in grim darkness so I've added some cosmic brightness effects.
WHORES
By this time everyone was smasheddddd, mannn. This communal inebriation suited the doomed apocalyptic swamp punk of Whores nicely and resulted in a generalised exodus into the dark unreturnable abyss.
BARE GRILLZ
Local residents Bare Grillz perform for the very first time and despite the treble on the guitar amp cutting through my squishy edible brain like an epidural into the spine, they were really enjoyable. The last song ruled and was the best but I didn't film that one so this last sentence you're reading don't have nothing useful for you.
ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES
An international world first australian exclusive - Alps playing guitar! and it sounds good, I'm liking this direction a lot. First 10 seconds of video are highly unprofessional, sorry gang.
NONE MUSIC
A new project from Sydney's Nic De Jong (Ghosts of Television, NOTV), None Music is really good quality noise. He played in grim darkness so I've added some cosmic brightness effects.
WHORES
By this time everyone was smasheddddd, mannn. This communal inebriation suited the doomed apocalyptic swamp punk of Whores nicely and resulted in a generalised exodus into the dark unreturnable abyss.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
ALPS / TIGER SAW / CASTANETS AT THE TROUBADOUR 2-01-10
It's been awhile since I've been to such an awkwardly laid back show where everybody sits cross legged on the ground politely clapping at the end of each mellowed out song and everything is nice but you're drunk, alone and surrounded by sickeningly cute couples which you react to by buying another $6 beer you can't really afford and heckle the local support band like a mean spirited jerk (Sorry Oh Ye Denver Birds). Despite being a drunk retard, it turned out to be an okay night.
ALPS OF NSW
I always enjoy an Alps show and it was good to see him play to a decent sized attentive crowd (in contrast to other shows I've seen in the past). Good set. Alps on Myspace.
TIGER SAW
I'd never heard of or seen this guy before but apparently he lives in a share house with the amazing EAT SKULL, I might have that wrong but if it's true that's pretty neat. Alps also provided vocals/keys on some songs. Tiger Saw on Myspace.
CASTANETS
Never heard of this guy either but it was pretty good, seemed genuine enough. Castanets on Myspace.
Friday, August 28, 2009
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