RAW PRAWN - SOUND SUMMIT 1/10/2011

Raw Prawn are a great new band hailing from Sydney. Consists of members from Holy Balm, Whores, Circle Pit etc. This was the last song of their set at the Croatian Club in Newcastle for Sound Summit 2011. Some of the best stuff I've heard all year.

ETERNAL SOUNDCHECK: THE FIRST YEAR (2010)

My humble little film about Australian music, 'Eternal Soundcheck: The First Year' can now be watched in full on Youtube. It was originally shown in Brisbane in September last year, followed by Melbourne and Sydney screenings in January, and in New Zealand at Camp A Low Hum in February. Now you can watch it on your laptop while drunk in bed. I've divided it up into 7 parts. Enjoy.




Part 1
Hobart - Ivy St, Drunk Elk, The Native Cats
Adelaide - Bitch Prefect, Terrible Truths, Dud Pills




Part 2
Canberra - Assassins 88, The Fighting League
Newcastle - Alps




Part 3
Sydney - Royal Headache, Naked on the Vague, Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, Holy Balm, Whores, Southern Comfort




Part 4
Melbourne - Chrome Dome, Wasted Truth, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Stabs




Part 5
Brisbane - Blank Realm, Gerald Keaney & The Gerald Keaneys, Scraps, Science, The Seizures, Per Purpose, Extra Foxx, White Cop, Sexual Chocolate




Part 6
Brisbane - Slug Guts, Sky Needle, Cured Pink, Stag




Part 7
Brisbane - The Deadnotes with Everett True, Kitchen's Floor, Blank Realm

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.

BLANK REALM / SONGS / BARE GRILLZ AT THE CAMBRIDGE HOTEL 2-10-10

This show was part of the annual This Is Not Art / Sound Summit festival. I've never seen so many people at a show in Newcastle - the place was packed. Memories of this night for me are pretty much a blur, a lack of self restraint wiped me out early on and that's why video cameras rule.


BLANK REALM



Blank Realm playing some serious psych jams in Newcastle - hell yeah.


SONGS





One of the last shows Songs are playing with their current lineup. The first video is 'Something to Believe in' from their self-titled 2009 album and the second video is a brand new song. This footage was filmed by Kieran Lavering.


BARE GRILLZ



I was last in Newcastle in April and I played at Rob from Bare Grillz' house and it was the first time they had ever played in front of people I think, they were really sloppy and cool and hurt my ears but what was even better than that was returning to Newcastle 6 months later and watching them play a brutally confident set to a huge crowd of people going nuts over them. I love that shit.

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.