An afternoon BBQ show that happened at my place the day after the first Deadshits Festival. Everyone drank away their hangovers, hung out on the stoop and ate meat. At the moment I'm making a documentary on the Deadshits Festival so I won't put footage from that up just yet.
And as always, great live recordings of this show and others can be found at Turnitupto10.
BITCH PREFECT
Pat from Bitch Prefect made the first video here from his own footage of the day, mixed with audio recorded by Turnitupto10. Like all his other videos, it's awesome viewing. The second is just ya usual shakey cam footage from me (but the tune is great).
YOUNG ROMANTIX
Melbourne's Young Romantix - awesome crazy guys. Totally gothed out synth punk. Features Pat from Bitch Prefect on drums for this tune.
MEAT THUMP
More quality sounds from Brisbane representatives of the day Meat Thump.
Deadshits Festival is a new festival series I'm helping put together with Bedroom Suck Records and The Outpost. I don't normally use this blog to plug my shit but hell, I want this to do well. We're getting some of the best damn interstate bands of today to come play Brisbane and depending on how the first Deadshits goes (and the second one which is happening in January - TBA), this could be a long running awesome thing. If you're in Brisbane on November 5th and you're a fan of this stuff, come and support it.
Tickets are only $10 and available online through OZTIX and also at The Outpost, Rockinghorse Records etc.
MEET THE BANDS.
BLANK REALM
Blank Realm are launching a brand new LP 'Deja What?' at the show, it's an awesome record. Mastered by Mikey Young and features hit after hit after bloody hit.
ABSOLUTE BOYS
This video is from the first Absolute Boys Brisbane show in June. I don't dance but they made me come close and considering how dead I am inside, that is an epic feat.
BITCH PREFECT
Adelaide's Bitch Prefect are one of the best pop bands in the country right now, effortlessly summing up life as a twenty-something broke sharehouse idiot (speaking for myself here). They've got the hits (Bad Decisions, Marilyn Monroe) but these two music videos are some of their lesser heard gems.
YOUNG ROMANTIX
YOUNG ROMANTIX is Melbourne icon Shaun South (frontman of CHROME DOME). Shaun also ran the Summer Winds Festivals, which happened every year in Sydney and Melbourne from 2006 through to 2010 and were an inspiration for Deadshits. Young Romantix last played Brisbane in 2007, it was at Ric's and they played for about 3 minutes before being physically removed from the stage by security, thrown out and banned for life. It still holds up as one of the best performances I have ever seen.
TEEN AX
I don't know too much about Teen Ax except that they're 2 guys from Sydney and they play brutal noise. The track on their myspace is pretty awesome.
DEADNOTES WITH EVERETT TRUE
The Deadnotes have been playing together for almost a decade, combining pop simplicity with improvisational approaches to their live performances ETC. ETC. man I hate trying to define bands with words, it's freaking lame. Deadnotes aren't lame though, they're awesome and with Everett True aka The Legend! once again joining them, it's gonna be cool.
CURED PINK
CURED PINK IS A ONE MAN NOISE MACHINE MIXING PRIMORDIAL URGES WITH THE BENEFITS OF ELECTRICITY AND AMPLIFICATION, MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO TRANSCEND THE CONFINES OF SOCIAL RESTRICTION AND RETURN US BACK TO THE NATURALLY UNINHIBITED STATE OF EARLY MAN. CAPS LOCK.
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.
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.
