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.

SWAMPLORDS / LOOSE GRIP AT ROSIES 12-02-10

Rosies in the heart of the Brisbane CBD is the new haunt for the Clubhouse nights. It's a better place than the Empire bar, it's dark, dirty and rock n roll. This was the 2nd week of business.

SWAMPLORDS



Swamplords bring the psych rock, don't expect no Blank Realm but it aint bad at all. I think this is their last or second last show with the current lineup so that means something.


LOOSE GRIP



Barely legal drinking age punk band Loose Grip cover the seminal Offspring classic "Cool to Hate" which is of course from their glorious 1996 masterpiece genius opus 'Ixnay on the Hombre'.

Do ya like to compare stuff you raging stoner? Check out the original right here (from their brilliantly realised and sprawlingly epic 1997 VHS release 'Americana').