It's been dead quiet around here the last 2 months. I guess I've been on a break or I'm just lazy or poor or something. Here's some recent music videos from some of the best bands Australia has to offer right now (in my fucked opinion). All are worth my time and maybe yours too.
NAKED ON THE VAGUE - Clock of 12's
From "Twelve Dark Noons" EP on Sacred Bones Records.
Directed by Jacqueline Castel.
Shot by Jacqueline Castel, Caleb Braaten, & Matthew Hopkins.
WOOLLEN KITS - Maths
Official video for the A-side of the upcoming RIP Society 7", Maths/Out Of Town. Out June 20.
BED WETTIN' BAD BOYS - Nobody Else
Video by Angela Bermuda - silvervideo.tumblr.com
Nobody Else 7" out June 20 on R.I.P Society Records.
THE TWERPS - Black Eyes
Filmed by Johann Rashid and James Eisen.
Edited by Johann Rashid.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
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.
NAKED ON THE VAGUE
Apparently this is a new NOTV song!! Unrecorded as of yet so check it out.
Monday, August 2, 2010
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.
Friday, August 28, 2009
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