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[::..latest blogs..::]
:: MAISIE, BUDDY J FRANCIS
and SAM PAGE; RICKY
ALBECK & THE BELAIR
LINE BAND (Single Launch)
w/ THE CONDOS and
MORTAL AMBITION
:: TUCKSHOP and
BRAVE MISTAKES; NIGHT
RITES and THE GENEVIEVES;
MODERN RELICS
(Single Launch) w/ THE MAX
HEADROOM; CARLA LIPPIS &
MONDO PSYCHO and BRIXX
:: SHODASHI, HEPÉ MATEH
and LIVE SLUG REACTION
:: SOYLENT GREEN,
WONDERWALLS JAM BAND
REVIVAL BAND and ADAM
PAGE; THUNDER SPEAKS
(Single Launch) w/ BREWER,
KILLING CENTRE, VERZANSKI,
NEW LIFE ODYSSEY and
MOUNTAIN SONGS
:: PIMPIN' HORUS
(Farewell Show) w/ TWITCH;
VELVET VOID, NORMAL
BEHAVIOUR and PELVIS
:: HALL OF FAME ::
:: 20TH CENTURY GRADUATES** :: ANNIE SIEGMANN :: ARTAX MISSION :: THE AVES :: AVIATOR LANE :: BASTARD SONS OF RUINATION :: THE BATTERY KIDS :: BEARDED GYPSY BAND* :: BOOSTER :: CENTRAL DELI BAND :: CHEER ADVISORY COUNCIL :: CIRCLE CLAN :: COERCE :: COOPS & THE BIRD :: CONCHILLIA :: DANVERS & GHOST KNIFE :: DEAD POPES OF THE VATICAN :: DELUSIONS OF GRANDMA :: DIRT PLAYGROUND :: DOUBLE HANDED* :: THE DUNES :: EGYPT :: ENCARTA / COLONEL KERNEL** :: FIRE! SANTA ROSA FIRE!*** :: FRIENDS :: GLASS SKIES :: GOD GOD DAMMIT DAMMIT* :: THE HONEY PIES** :: HORROR MY FRIEND* :: ISLE OF VISION :: JUNGLE CITY :: KAMIKAZE :: THE KEEPSAKES* :: THE KILLGIRLS*** :: KORAL & THE GOODBYE HORSES :: LADY STRANGELOVE** :: LEADER CHEETAH* :: LIKE LEAVES** :: LUMONICS* :: LYLA :: MAX SAVAGE & THE FALSE IDOLS*** :: MERE THEORY :: MORALS OF A MINOR* :: THE MOTIVE :: MR WEDNESDAY** :: NO THROUGH ROAD*** :: QUIET CHILD :: QUIET IN THE LAB! :: REALIST FEW :: RIDE INTO THE SUN** :: THE SEA THIEVES* :: THE SHINY BRIGHTS* :: SINCERELY, GRIZZLY*** :: SKELETONS :: SOFT WHITE MACHINE* :: SONS OF ZOKU :: SPARKSPITTER* :: SQUEAKER :: ST. MORRIS SINNERS :: STEERING BY STARS* :: SWIMMING :: TEA :: THE TIMBERS :: TONY FONT SHOW** :: TRACER :: THE TRANSATLANTICS** :: TWO SUNS :: TYGER TYGER* :: THE VILLENETTES* :: WEST THEBARTON BROTHEL PARTY :: WOLF & CUB** :: ZETA ::
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[::..festival blogs..::]
:: Fringe Festival 2012
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[::..b&w episodes..::]
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:: In Limbo - 1 | 2 |
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[::..special features..::]
:: ARTIST INDEX ::
:: !!! :: THE 1NE :: 20TH CENTURY GRADUATES :: 20TH CENTURY GRADUATES (DUET) :: 200 MOTELS :: 4 KINGS LOUD :: 4 VOICE :: 67 SPECIAL :: THE 7.4.5. :: 78 SAAB :: A.B. ORIGINAL :: A.D.K.O.B. :: A FILM FOR THE FUTURE :: A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS :: A RED DAWN :: A YOUNG MAN DRESSED AS A GORILLA DRESSED AS AN OLD MAN SITS ROCKING IN A ROCKING CHAIR FOR FIFTY-SIX MINUTES AND THEN LEAVES :: AAARRR! ALL ABOARD FOR PIRATEY VARIETY :: AARON THOMAS :: AARON THOMAS & THE HUMAN PATTERNS :: AARON THOMAS TRIO :: ABBEY HOWLETT :: ABBEY HOWLETT & THE GOLDEN REALM :: ABLACKWELL :: ABOLISHED :: ABRASKA :: ACID MOUNTAIN :: ACID WOLF :: ACROSS THE ATLAS :: ADALITA :: ADAM GEOFFREY COLE :: THE ADAM HIGGS FIELD SUPERCOLLIDER :: ADAM PAGE :: ADELAIDE'S PIPE GUY :: ADNAAN BARAKY :: ADRIAN BELEW :: ADRIAN DEUTSCH :: AFFAIRS OF MEN :: AFI :: AFTER THE FALL :: AGAPANTHER :: AIDAN J JONES :: AIRBOURNE :: ALANA JAGT :: ALANA JAGT & THE MONOTREMES :: ALARM BIRDS & THE SEA THIEVES :: ALBANY AVENUE :: ALDOUS HARDING :: ALEKSIAH :: ALEX K :: ALEX K & THE SPUTNIK SWEETHEARTS :: ALEXANDER BLACK :: ALIAS & THE JAMS :: ALISON COPPE :: ALISON COPPE & THE JANES :: ALITHIA :: ALL FLIGHT CREW ARE DEAD :: ALL MADE OF RUBIES :: ALL NIGHT GIRLS :: ALMA KALORAMA :: ALNITAK KID :: ALPEN :: ALPHA BETA FOX :: ALPHA STREET :: ALPHABETTE :: ALPINE :: ALREADY GONE :: ALRIGHT PSYCHO :: ALT. :: ALUKA :: AMBUSH MARKETING :: THE AMCATS :: AMENDS :: AMUNDSENS FLAG :: AMY SHARK :: ANCIENT DESIGN :: ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS :: ANDREW HIGGS & THE SAND CASTLE HARUM :: ANDREW MCCUBBIN feat. MELINDA KAY :: ANDREW P. STREET :: ANDY BULL :: ANDY ROBERTS :: ANGEL & THE BADMAN :: ANGEL EYES :: ANGEL OLSEN :: ANGELIK :: ANGELS OF GUNG-HO :: ANGIE HART :: ANIMAL SHADOWS :: ANIMAL TRAPS :: ANNIE BASS :: ANNIE OK :: ANNIE SIEGMANN :: ANNY DUFF :: ANTHONY ANT :: ANTHONY WIGNALL :: ANTI PSYCH :: ANTONY OF THE FUTURE :: ANTY! :: ANYA ANASTASIA :: ANYA ANASTASIA & THE BIRD WIZDOM CABARET :: ANYA MCNICOL-WINDRAM :: THE APE :: APHELION :: APPARITION :: APPOMATTOX RUN :: THE AQUARIAN MYSTERIES :: ARAKEYE :: THE ARCADE FIRE :: ARCHERS :: ARCHIE :: ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI :: ARE YOU DRINKING COMFORTABLY? :: ARGUS & THE LIAR :: ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI :: ARIES :: ARIES FLOW :: ARIS SPEED :: ARLO COOK :: ARMITAGE SHANKS :: ARMOUR FOU :: ARRAY :: ART OF ESCAPE :: THE ART OF FLYING KITES :: ARTAX MISSION :: AS THE PENNY DROPS :: THE ASTEROID BELT :: ASTRO ELEVATOR :: THE ATLANTIC STREET BAND :: ATLASIS & AMICA :: ATTILA MY HONEY :: ATOMIC SISTER :: ATTONBITUS :: ATTONBITUS (SOLO) :: AUBERON DANCE ACADEMY :: AUDIUM :: THE AUDREYS :: AUGUSTE :: AURA FORM :: AURORA :: THE AUTHENTIC REPLICAS :: AUXILLA :: AVANT GARDENERS :: THE AVES :: AVIATOR LANE :: AWKWARD LOVE TRIANGLE :: AXE & THE IVORY :: BABES ARE WOLVES :: BABY CANDY :: BABY MO :: BABYLON BURNING :: BABYTEETH :: BACHELOR OF ARTS :: BACHELORETTE :: THE BACKYARDERS :: BACKSEAT ROMEOS :: BAD//DREEMS :: BAD LUCK CABARET :: BADBADNOTGOOD :: BADLAND CARAVAN :: THE BAIT FRIDGE :: BAKER BOY :: THE BAKER SUITE :: THE BAKER'S DIGEST :: BAKEWELL STREET :: BALL PARK MUSIC :: BANG! BANG! AIDS! :: BANJO JACKSON :: BANJO WEATHERALD :: BANOFFEE :: BARCODE :: THE BARON :: BARON VON DOODIE :: THE BARONS OF TANG :: BART'S NIGHTMARE :: BASEBALL :: THE BASKERVILLES :: A BASKET OF MAMMOTHS :: BASTARD SONS OF RUINATION :: BASTY & FRIENDS :: BASTY H :: BAT FOR LASHES :: BATHAWK :: BATPISS :: BATRIDER :: THE BATTERY KIDS :: BATTLEHOUNDS :: BATTLE POPE :: BATTLES :: BEACH HOUSE :: BEACH LEECH :: BEANIE MY FRIEND :: BEAR THE MAMMOTH :: BEARDED GYPSY BAND :: THE BEARDS :: THE BEASTIE BOYS :: THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT :: BEC STEVENS :: BECCY ZAHO :: BED WETTER :: BEDHEAD :: THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER & HIS AWKWARDSTRA :: BEE PREFECT :: THE BEERBELLY BUSKERS :: BEFORE THE AFTERMATH :: THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS :: BELITTLE LEAGUE :: THE BELLE CURVE :: THE BELLRAYS :: BELOVED ELK :: BEN GEL & THE BONEYARD SAINTS :: BEN ELY'S RADIO 5 :: BEN REVI :: BEN REVI ALL-STAR REVIVAL BAND :: BEND :: BERMUDA BAY :: BETTY AIRS :: BIG BAD BARRY & THE DEAD SETS :: BIG DADDY'S DISCOTHEQUE :: BIG RICHARD INSECT :: BIG ROMANCE :: BIG SCARY :: BIG SKY THEORY :: BIG SLOE :: BIG TOWN :: BIG YAWN :: BIKE WRECK :: BILLIE EILISH :: BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR :: BILLY BOB'S BBQ JAM BAND :: BING GOES TO MONACO :: BINKY & THE BUNG MICS :: THE BIRD :: BIRD DETECTIVE :: BIRD WIZDOM :: BIRDS ARE SPIES :: BIRTHGLOW :: BIT BY BATS :: BITCH PREFECT :: BITCHSPAWN :: THE BITTER DARLINGS :: BITTER SWEET KICKS :: BJORK :: THE BLACK AND WHITE :: BLACK CHROME :: BLACK CORAL :: THE BLACK DOVES :: BLACK GOLD :: THE BLACK HEART DEATH CULT :: BLACK KNIGHT :: BLACK LIPS :: BLACK STONE FROM THE SUN :: BLACKCHORDS :: BLACKPENNY :: BLAKE SABAN 3 :: BLAST RHOMBUS :: THE BLEEDING FLARES :: BLEEDING KNEES CLUB :: THESE BLESSED BONES :: THE BLIND HERD :: BLISTERED PALMS :: BLOOMING :: BLOOD PLASTIC :: BLOOD SUCKING FREAKS :: BLOODHOUNDS ON MY TRAIL :: BLOODSTONE VILLAINS :: BLOW UP BETTY :: BLUE LUCY :: BLUE LUNACY :: BLUE SKY HOLIDAY :: THE BLUEBERRIES :: BLUEJUICE :: BLUSH :: BLUSH (SOLO) :: BLUSH RESPONSE :: BOB DOWNE :: BOB LOG III :: BODY HORROR :: BOHOEFFER :: THE BON SCOTTS :: BONG COFFIN :: BONOBO :: BOOBY TRAP :: A BOOGIE WIT DA HOODIE :: BOOMSKULLY :: BOOSTER :: THE BORDERLAND :: BORN LION :: BOS :: THE BOTANICALS :: THE BOTTLEROCKETS :: BOX ELDER :: THE BOX ROCKETS :: BOY YOUNG :: BRAVE MISTAKES :: BREE TRANTER :: BRENDAWG & THE DROID :: BRETT LITTLEFAIR :: BREWER :: THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE :: BRIANNA MAHONEY :: BRIARS :: BRIDGET FAHEY :: BRIDGET FAHEY & THE BONE RATTLERS :: BRILLIG :: BRIT TRUEACK :: BRITISH INDIA :: THE BRITISH ROBOTS :: THE BRITISH ROBOTS (DUO) :: BRIXX :: BROMHAM :: BRONZE CHARIOT :: BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE :: BROKERS :: THE BROTHERS GOON :: BROTHERSISTER :: THE BROUHAHA :: BRUNATEX :: BUCK IT :: BUDDY J FRANCIS :: BUFFALO BOYFRIEND :: THE BUMBLEBEEZ :: THE BUOYS :: BURAKA SOM SISTEMA :: BURIED FEATHER :: BURJON :: BURLESQUE BEAUTIES :: BURN THE ASHES :: BURNING BRIDGES :: THE BURNING SEA :: BURNING TOWER :: BURNSIDE MUMS :: BURNT FISH :: BUSHIDO :: BUSSEYS :: BUSTER FIDEZ :: BUTTERFLY SPINE :: BYE BYE MOUNTAIN :: BYSEA :: THE BYZANTINES :: C.H.O.P. ::CABBAGE & KINGS :: CABIN CULTS :: CABLE TIES :: CAGEFLY :: CAL WILLIAMS JR :: CALIFORNIA COUSIN :: CALLERDENIGHT :: CALLING ALL CARS :: CAM GOODALL :: CAMEROM MCTERNAN :: CAMP COPE :: CAN MASTER SMASH & MOTUS COLLECTIVE :: CANDIDA :: CANIDAE :: CANIS VULPES :: CAPTAIN CLEANOFF :: CAPTAIN HELLFIRE & THE WRETCHED BRETHREN :: THE CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY :: CAPTIVES :: CAR SEAT HEADREST :: CARL DOVER & 3 DEEP :: CARLA LIPPIS & THE MARTIAL HEARTS :: CARLA LIPPIS & MONDO PSYCHO :: CAROLINE REID :: THE CASIO BROTHERS :: CASKET CASE :: CASS McCOMBS :: CASSETTE KIDS :: CAT DOG BIRD :: CAT LUCKY :: CAT PARTY :: CAUSING HAMMOCK :: CELESTITE :: CENTAURZ :: CENTRAL DELI BAND :: CERES :: CESARE :: CHAMP :: CHANCERY LANE :: CHAPMAN STREET :: CHARLIE MONSOON :: CHASING GHOSTS :: CHASING LANA :: CHASING PHOENIX :: THE CHATS :: CHEER ADVISORY COUNCIL :: CHEESE WORLD :: CHELSEA LEE :: CHELSEA MANOR :: CHERRY GRIND :: THE CHEVRON WHORES :: CHÉRIE DE KLERK :: CHILD :: CHILDREN COLLIDE :: CHINA CRISIS :: CHINA ROSES :: CHINESE NEW YEAR :: CHRIS FINNEN :: CHRIST DISMEMBERED :: CHORAL GRIEF :: CHOOSING SIDES :: CHURCH MOMS :: CHVRCHES :: CIARAM GRANGER :: CIRCLE CLAN :: CIRCUS ARCADE :: THE CITRADELS :: CITRUS JAM :: THE CITY :: CITY CALM DOWN :: CITY FEET :: CITY RIOTS :: THE CLANGERS :: CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH :: THE CLASHING PUMPKINS :: CLAY J GLADSTONE :: CLIENT LIASON :: THE CLIQUE :: CLOUD CONTROL :: CLOUD NOTHINGS :: CLOVER :: THE CLOWNS OF DECADENCE :: CLUB LOCK :: CLUE TO KALO :: COBRA :: COCK :: C.O.F.F.I.N :: CODRA NEGRA :: COERCE :: COG :: THE COLD FIELD :: COLDWAVE :: COLLARBONES :: COLLIDE/ESCAPE :: COLLIDER :: COLONEL KERNEL :: COLORBLIND :: COLOURBLIND :: COLOURBLIND DUO :: COLOURISE :: COLTER :: COLUMBUS :: CONCHILLIA :: THE CONDOS :: THE CONFESSIONALS :: CONOR DEERY :: CONSOLE WARRIORS :: COOKIE BAKER :: COOKIE BAKER & HER SPECIAL SECRET SPELLS :: COOL JUMPER :: COOL JUMPER & TANTIVY FAIR :: COOPS & THE BIRD :: COPIOUS DRIBBLE :: CORPUS :: THE CORTEX SHIFT :: CORTEZ :: COSMIC FOSSIL :: COSMIC SHEPHERD :: COSMO BLACK :: COSMO THUNDERCAT :: COSMO THUNDERCAT (DUO) :: COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR :: COURTNEY BARNETT :: THE COURTNEY LOVES :: COVE STREET :: COY CARP :: CRACKWHORE :: THE CRAVES :: THE CRAYON FIELDS :: CREEPERS :: CROSSFIRE HURRICANE :: CRUSTY SUITCASE BAND :: THE CRYING GAME :: CRYSTAL IGNITE :: CUB SCOUTS :: CUB SPORT :: CULL - THE BAND :: CURIOUS PALMS :: CURSES :: CUT COPY :: CUT OFF YOUR HANDS :: THE DAINTY MORSELS :: THE DAIRY BROTHERS :: DAISY BUCHANAN :: DAIYE SPA :: DALLAS FRASCA :: DALLI :: DAMN ARMS :: DAMN TERRAN :: DAMNED MEN :: DAMO SUZUKI NETWORK :: DAN DEVLIN :: DAN GASKIN :: DANCE TIL YOU CAN'T SAY YEAH! :: DANDY BUZZKILLS :: THE DANGER DOLPHINS :: DANGER & PLASTIC :: DANGEROUS! :: DANIEL VARRICCHIO :: DANIELE VILELLA :: DANVERS :: DANVERS & GHOST KNIFE :: DAPPLED CITIES :: THE DARDANELLES :: DARK DAZE :: THE DARK LIGHTS :: DARTS OF PLEASURE :: DAS UBBERDUNG :: DAVE PHILLIPS :: DAVID BLUMBERG :: DAVID BLUMBERG & THE MARABY BAND :: DAY RAVIES :: DAYDREAM :: THE DAYLIGHT BRAVES :: DAYSWORTH FIGHTING :: THE DEAD BELLS :: DEAD END FRIENDS :: DEAD FRENCHMEN :: DEAD JOE :: DEAD POPES OF THE VATICAN :: THE DEAD REGULARS :: DEAD ROO :: DEADLY ARE THE NAKED :: DEAFAULT :: DEAN FOREVER :: DEAR PLASTIC :: DEATH BY CARROT :: DECOS :: DED//WESZ :: THE DEE MAJOR MYSTERY BAND :: DEEP SEA ARCADE :: THE DEER JOHNS :: DEERHUNTER :: DEJA :: DEJA ENTENDU :: DELIA OBST :: THE DELTA RIGGS :: DELUSIONS OF GRANDMA :: DENTAL JAMS & EZROH :: DESCRIBE ELIZA :: DESERT CROOKS :: DESTINEZIA :: A DEVIL AMONGST THE TAILORS :: DEVIL ELECTRIC :: THE DEVILROCK FOUR :: DEXTER JONES :: DIAMOND SINS :: DIAMOND SKIES :: DIANA SCALZI :: DICK DIVER :: DIE! DIE! DIE! :: DIESEL WITCH :: DIETER HORVAT :: DIETER HORVAT & THE $5 MYSTERY SHOTS :: DIIV :: DILATED :: DILETTANTES :: DIPLOMAT :: DIPSTONE :: DIRT PLAYGROUND :: THE DIRTY MONKS :: DIRTY PAGANS :: DIRTY WOLVES :: THE DIVINE FLUXUS :: DIZZEE RASCAL :: DJ KELE OKEREKE :: DJ SHADOW :: DJ SPOZ :: DJANGO ROWE QUARTET :: DJANGO ROWE TRIO :: DMA'S :: DOC DISORDERS :: DOCTOR TREK IN SPACE :: DOE :: DOM TRIMBOLI & THE WIZARDS :: DON MORRISON :: DONNARUMMA :: DON'T BRING STACEY :: DOOM POP :: DORKZ :: DOUBLE DENIM :: DOUBLE DRAGON :: DOUBLE HANDED :: DOWN & OUT :: DOZERS :: DR SURE'S UNUSUAL PRACTICE :: DRAINING :: DRAINING (ACOUSTIC) :: DRASTIC PARK :: DRAWN FROM BEES :: DREAM WIFE :: THE DREAMBOATS :: DRESS CODE :: DREW & SEAN :: DRILLER JET ARMSTRONG :: THE DRONES :: DROPLET :: DRUID FLUIDS :: DRUID FLUIDS (DUO) :: DRUNK MUMS :: DUD PILLS :: DUKES OF WINDSOR :: DUMB EARTH :: DUNE RATS :: THE DUNES :: DUNGEN :: DUSTY LEE :: DUSTY LEE & THE ANGELS OF GUNG HO :: DUSTY LEE'S BLUES JAM BAND :: DUSTY LEE'S WASTED WANDERERS :: DUZZMERALDA :: DYSPORA :: DZ :: DZ DEATHRAYS :: EARL SWEATSHIRT :: EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR :: EAST END VILLAINS :: ECCENTRICK - FANTASY EDITION :: ECDYSIS :: ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN :: ECHO & THE EMPRESS :: EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING :: THE EFFENDS :: EFFIE :: EGYPT :: THE EL CAMINOS :: EL COLOSSO :: EL FARINHO :: ELECTRIC EXILES :: ELECTRIC FIELDS :: ELECTRIC SEX PANTS :: ELECTRIC WIDOWS :: ELENA & AIDAN CIBICH :: ELEPHANT :: ELEPHANT HIVE :: THE ELEVENTH HOUR :: THE E.L.F. :: ELK :: ELLA ION :: ELLEN KIBBLE :: ELLI BELLE :: THE ELLIOTT JOHNSON BAND :: EL BOTTLE O' PARADISO :: EL-P :: ELSY WAMEYO :: ELVIS :: EMDEE :: EMERAULD :: EMERGENCY RULE :: EMILY DAVIS :: EMILY DAVIS TRIO :: EMILY WYATT :: EMMA HORWOOD :: EMMA JAYNE :: EMPERORS :: EMPIRE VAGABOND :: THE EMPTY SLEEPS :: THE EMPTY THREATS :: ENCARTA :: ENDLESS NAMELESS :: ENEMY OF :: ENERGY ANGEL :: ENNIS TOLA :: ENVY STREET :: ER@SER DESCRIPTION :: ERIN BUKU :: ERIN MO :: ES IST SUPER :: ETHAN HUBBARD :: ETHANOL BLEND :: ETHANOL BLEND (DUO) :: EVEN :: EVERYDAY APATHY :: EXOTIC POTION COOKIES :: EXPATRIATE :: THE EXPLODERS :: EXPLODING PLASTIC INEVITABLE :: THE EXPLOSIONING :: EYES MORE SKULL THAN EYES :: EZRA HOPE :: FACEMEAT :: FACEMEAT - A ROCK OPERA :: FAFI D'ALOUR & THE DELINQUENTS :: FAIR CALL :: FAITH NO MORE :: FAIR MAIDEN :: THE FAK :: FAKE LAKE :: FAKE TAN :: FASCINATOR :: THE FAT SACK :: FAT TAILED ANTICHINUS :: FATHER JOHN MISTY :: FAVOUR THE BRAVE :: FEAR AND LOATHING :: THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS :: FEBRUARY CLOUDS :: FEIST :: FEMME FATALES :: FERGUS O'REGAN :: FEZ FAANANA :: THE FIDDLE CHICKS :: FIGHTERPILOT :: FILTHY LUCRE :: THE FINISHING SCHOOL :: FINNEN & DAVIDSON :: THE FINNS :: FIRS :: FISHING WITH HENRY :: FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE! :: FIST PUMP, FIST BUMP :: FISTFUL OF TROJANS :: FKA TWIGS :: FLAVELLA L'AMOUR :: THE FLEEING MINDS :: FLEUR GREEN :: FLEUR GREEN & THE KEEPERS :: THE FLOORS :: FLORENCE & THE MACHINE :: FLUME :: THE FLYING SQUAD DUO :: FLYYING COLOURS DUO :: THE FOLKO-OH-NOES :: FONT PLAYS FONT :: FOOL'S IDOL :: FORCES :: FOREIGN/NATIONAL :: FOREST OF GNOMES :: FORMER CHILD STARS :: FOX FAEHRMANN :: FOXX ON FIRE :: FRANKIE SUNWAGON :: FRANZ FERDINAND :: FRAUD MILLIONAIRES :: FREE DRINKS :: FREESTATE :: FRESH KILLS :: FRIDAY'S FOX :: FRIENDS :: FROM THE DEAD SEA :: FULL CONTACT SAFARI :: FULL TONE GENERATOR :: THE FUMES :: FUNK LATIN UNION :: FUNKOARS :: FUNKY C FUNKY DO :: FUTURE FARM :: FUTURE ISLANDS :: THE FYOOGS :: G FLIP :: GALAPAGOOSE :: GALAXY CAT :: GALLEON :: GALLERY ONE :: GANG OF YOUTHS :: GARDEN RUIN :: GAVIN DE ALMEIDA :: GAY PARIS :: THE GELS :: GEMINI DOWNS :: GEMMA THORNE :: GENERATION SWINE :: THE GENEVIEVES :: GEORDIE LITTLE :: GEORGE GLASS :: GEORGIA NIELSEN :: GERMEIN SISTERS :: GET SOME :: GG ALAN BINDIG :: GHOST THIEF :: GHOST WALK :: GHOUL :: GHYTI :: GHYTI (DUO) :: GHYTI & THE PHILANTHROPIC ORCHESTRA :: GINDIANA BONES AND THE SEVERAL KIDNEYS OF THE UNDERGROUND TRAIN STATION :: GINFOX VS HELLO NEWMAN :: GIRL :: GIRL TALK :: THE GIVEAWAYS :: GLASS :: GLASS DUNES :: GLASS SKIES :: GLASS TOWERS :: GLEN AVENTI :: GLENN OSMOND & THE FULLARTONES :: GLISK :: GLITORIS :: GLOWING :: GNARLS BARKLEY :: GOD GOD DAMMIT DAMMIT :: GOD GOD DAMMIT DAMMIT (Lounge Set) :: GOLD BLOOM :: THE GOOD CHINA :: GOOD BOY :: GOODBYE, MOTHER LEOPARD :: GOONBOMB :: GOON WIZARRD :: GOTYE :: GRACE: THE SONGS OF JEFF BUCKLEY :: GRACE CUMMINGS :: GRACE GOODFELLOW :: GRAFTON PRIMARY :: GRAFTON STREET :: THE GRAND RAPIDS :: GRASSHOPPER & THE BUTTERFROGS :: THE GRATES :: GRAVEYARD TRAIN :: GREAT GABLE :: GREEN CIRCLES :: GREENLEAF :: THE GREETING METHOD :: GRENADIERS :: GREY DATURAS :: GRIMES :: GRIMEY :: GROOVE ARMADA :: GROUND COMPONENTS :: THE GROWL :: GUILLAUME SOLO ACOUSTIC :: GUINEAFOWL :: GUN IT :: GÜNTER & THE SAFEWORD :: GYRO :: HÄGÖL :: HAIM :: HAL BIRD :: HALCYON DRIVE :: HALFWAY TO FORTH :: HANA & JESSIE-LEE'S BAD HABITS :: HANNAH FAIRLAMB :: HANNAH YATES :: THE HAPPY ENDINGS :: HAPPY SOMETIMES :: HAR MAR SUPERSTAR :: THE HARD ACHES :: HARD RUBBISH :: HARMLESS HUNTER :: HARMONY :: HARRY FREEMAN :: HARTS :: HARTWAY :: HARVEY RUSSELL :: HAWKS OF ALBA :: HAYSTACKS CALHOON :: HAZY J & THE WASTED DAZE :: HEAPS GOOD FRIENDS :: HEARTLINE :: HEATH WEBER :: THE HEGGARTIES :: HEINOUS CRIMES :: HEKYL :: HELLO ENEMY :: HELLO, LOVER :: HELLO NEWMAN :: HELLS HOIST :: HELMET :: HENRY WILSON :: HEPÉ MATEH :: HESTON DROP :: HEY FEVER :: HEY HARRIETT :: HEY LADY! :: HI, I'M RECLUSIVE AUTHOR THOMAS PYNCHON :: HIDDEN INTENT :: THE HIGH BEAMERS :: HIGH STAKES :: HIGH TENSION :: HIGH VIOLET :: HIGHTIME :: HILLS & TRAINS :: HIT THE JACKPOT :: HOCKEY DAD :: HOFMANN & THE COSMONAUTS :: THE HOLD STEADY :: THE HOLIDAYS :: HOLLY HASTINGS :: HOLOGRAPHIC CHARIZARD :: HOLOGRAPHIC COLTS :: HOLY FORREST :: HOLY FUCK :: HOLY HOLY :: THE HOLY SEA :: HOLY SERPENT :: HOME COURT :: HOME FOR THE DEF :: HOMELY SMELLS :: THE HONEY PIES :: HONEYBEAM :: HORROR MY FRIEND :: HORSE LORDS :: HOSPITAL THE MUSICAL :: HOT MESS :: HOT WINGS :: HOUSE IN THE TALL GRASS :: HOUSE OF JADE :: HOWL AT THE MOON :: HOWL N' BONES :: HOWLING BELLS :: THE HOWLING FOG :: HUBRIS :: HUMBLE BEE :: HUMMINGBIRD :: HUMPHREY B. BEAR :: HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY :: THE HUNTED CROWS :: HURRICANE JANE :: HURRICANES :: THE HUSHES :: HUSTLE HOUSE :: HUXLEY :: THE HYDES :: HYDROMEDUSA :: I, A MAN :: I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT WEEZER :: I HEART HIROSHIMA :: I, ICARUS :: ICE ON MERCURY :: ID :: IDLY BY :: IGGY POP & THE STOOGES :: IIAH :: ILLICIT EVE :: IMMIGRANT UNION :: IMOGEN BRAVE :: IMPARTIAL :: THE IMPOSSIBLE QUICHE :: THE INCHES :: INDIAGO :: INSOMNICIDE :: INSTITUT POLAIRE :: INTERCOOLER :: INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF MOJO :: THE INTERNET :: INTERPOL :: INTERSECTION :: INTERZONE EXPRESS :: INTROVERT :: INUETTE :: INWOODS :: IRAAN SANADZADEH :: IRIDIUM :: IRIE KNIGHTS :: THE IRRESPONSIBLES :: ISAAC THOMAS :: ISLE OF CAPRI :: ISLE OF VISION :: IT'S A HOAX :: IT'S A HOAX (INSTRUMENTAL) :: IT'S NOT A PHASE :: IT'S WARSAW :: IVORY :: THE JAY WALKERS :: J-LO BIAFRA :: J-WAH :: JACK HARLON & THE DEAD CROWS :: JACK LONDON :: JACKSON FIREBIRD :: JACKULSON :: JAMES HICKEY :: JAMES PARRY :: JANE'S ADDICTION :: JAPAM :: JAPANDROIDS :: JAPANTHER :: JARVIS :: JARVIS COCKER :: JASON KATSARAS :: JASON SIMON (DEAD MEADOW) :: JAY WALKER AND THE PEDESTRIANS :: JAYNE-ANNE POWER :: JEFF MARTIN & TEREPAI RICHMOND :: JESS DAY :: JESS JOHNS :: JESS KENT :: JESS PORTER :: JESSE DAVIDSON :: JESSE DAVIDSON BAND :: JESSE FRANCIS :: JESSICA RAE :: JESUS CHRIST POSSE :: JETTISON :: THE JEZABELS :: JIKA :: JIMMY & THE MIRRORS :: JIMMY EAT WORLD :: JIMMY MARIN :: JIMMY MOUNTAIN :: JIMMYBAY :: JIMMYBAY & OLLIE KABBANI :: JODECI & SAM :: JOE MCKEE :: JOEL STERN :: JOEL STERN, CURED PINK & TIMOTHY TATE :: THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS :: JOHNNY AMERICAN HORSE :: JOHNNY SEAGULL & THE HOT CHIPS :: JON ADDAMS :: JON ANN :: JON MARCO :: JON MORTIMER :: JONGO BONES & THE BAREFOOT BANDITS :: JONNY BLIZZARD :: JORDAN TITO :: JOSH CALLIGEROS :: JOSHUA JAMES MORPHETT :: JOURNEY WELL SPACE WIZARD :: JOY & SPARKS :: JP COE & THE DELEGATES :: JUDGE MENTAL :: JULIETTE SEIZURE & THE TREMOR DOLLS :: JUMP OVER FENCES :: JUMP! YOU REVOLUTIONARY :: JUNGLE CITY :: JUNGLEMIRE :: JUNIOR V :: JUPITER :: JUPITER (DUO) :: JUPITER LEAD :: JUST DESSERTS :: KAB SAVVY :: KACEY STEPHENSEN :: KAHL WALLIS :: KÁLI SAVILL :: KAMIKAZE :: KAMIKAZE TRIO :: KANGAROO SKULL :: KARL MELVIN :: KASABIAN :: KASAVETT :: KATE VIGO & THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA :: KATIE BRIANNA :: KATIE MILLER :: KATIE POMERY :: KAURNA CRONIN :: THE KAVS :: KAZKARIV :: THE KEEPSAKES :: KELLIE LLOYD :: KELLY MENHENNETT :: KELSHY :: KEMP BROTHERS :: KETTERING :: KHAN :: KIAN :: KICKASS COWGIRLS :: KID SAM :: KIDS IN CULTS :: KIDS WITH TEETH :: KIKUYU :: THE KILL DEVIL HILLS :: KILLED BY CUPID :: KILLER BIRDS :: THE KILLBOT FACTORY :: THE KILLGIRLS :: KILLING CENTRE :: KING DADDY :: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD :: KING JEFF & THE HOW ARE YOUS :: KING KRILL :: KING KRULE :: KING OF THE NORTH :: KINGS WITHIN :: KINGSTON DOWNES :: KINGSWOOD :: KINS :: KIRK SPECIAL :: KIRK WATT :: KITCHEN WITCH :: KITTEN KONG :: KITTYHAWK :: KLLO :: KOI CHILD :: KOLEH :: KORAL :: KORAL & THE GOODBYE HORSES :: KOSHER SALAMI :: KOTARA :: KRIS WANDERS :: KRISTINA MILTIADOU :: KUČKA :: KURRULTA PARK :: KURT VILE :: KYLE CHARLES HALL :: KYLIE BRICE TRIO :: KYM RÖBEY & THE DEVIL'S LETTUCE :: KYRI :: KYTES OF OMAR :: L.R. MARSH :: LA FEMME LE FEVER :: LACHY BRUCE :: LADY GUNG-HO & THE ANGELS OF STRANGELOVE :: LADY STRANGELOVE :: THE LADYBEATLES :: LADYHAWKE :: LAHARA :: LANCE LAZER & TALIBAND :: LARSEN :: LAST DAYS OF KALI :: LAST DINOSAURS :: LAST THYLACINE :: THE LAST SUPPER :: LATE NIGHT LIES :: LATE NIGHT MATINEE :: LATER THAT NIGHT :: LAURA HILL :: LAURA IMBRUGLIA :: LAUREN ABINERI :: LAW & DISORDER :: LAZARO'S DOG :: LC3'S :: LEAD WORM :: LEADER CHEETAH :: LEAF & STEM :: LEFT :: LEFT ON SEEN :: LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT :: LEIGHSTARDUST :: THE LEITMOTIF :: LEITMOTIV LIMBO :: LIVE SLUG REACTION :: LEITH JAMES :: LE GATEAU CHOCOLAT :: LEMMINGS :: LEMURIAN :: LENI :: LENIN MCCARTHY :: LEO :: LEAPING FELIX :: LES SAVY FAV :: THE LEVITATORS :: LEX MONSERRAT :: LICKITY SPLIT :: LIFE IN LETTERS :: LIGHTS :: LIKE KITES :: LIKE LEAVES :: LIL VALENTINE :: LILAC COVE :: LILY MOJITO :: LILY ROSE :: LILLY SIM :: LILLYS RADIO :: LIMB KING :: LIMBS AKIMBO :: LINE HONOURS :: LIPSMACK :: LITTLE BRIDGET :: LITTLE CAPTAIN :: LITTLE DRAGON :: LITTLE DUST :: LITTLE ICE AGE :: LITTLE PRINCE :: LITTLE TWO EYES :: THE LIZARDS :: LLAMAGEDDON :: LLEWELLYN THOMAS :: LO! :: LOADED LEOPARD :: LOCAL REVOLUTION :: LOEMAX :: THE LOFTY MOUNTAIN BAND :: LOLA :: THE LONDON ROAD POETS :: THE LONELINESS OF A MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNER :: LONELY FIRE :: LONELYSPECK :: LONG WALK HOME :: LONI RAE :: LOOCH :: LOON LAKE :: LOOPOLE :: LORDE :: LOREN KATE :: LOS PALMS :: LOST COSMONAUT :: LOST IN TRANSLATION :: THE LOST SHOW :: LOST VALENTINOS :: LOST WOODS :: LOUIS DONNARUMMA :: LOUIS FARK :: LOUISE ADAMS :: LOUISE & THE TORNADOS :: LOUISE ADAMS & THE FRINGE DWELLERS :: LOVE CREAM :: THE LOVE JUNKIES :: LOVE OF DIAGRAMS :: LOVE STEREO :: LOVE ZOMBIES :: THE LOVES :: LUCI :: LUCINDA GRACE :: THE LUCKSMITHS :: LUCY THE BAND :: LUCY ZOLA :: LUKE ASHBY BAND :: LUKE CARLINO :: LUKE DUX :: LUKE ESCOMBE :: LUKE EYGENRAAM :: LUKE GOLDING :: THE LUKE LOUIE TRIO :: LUMENS :: LUMONICS :: MABIINA PARTY :: LYLA :: MAC DEMARCO :: MACH PELICAN :: MACKENZIE :: MAD SHAPES :: MADCLASSIC :: MADURA GREEN :: MAGGIE & LOUIS :: THE MAGGIE PILLS :: MAGIC BONES :: MAGIC MOUNTAIN :: THE MAGNETS :: MAISIE :: MAISIE B :: MAJOR SHADE :: MAKING :: MALLRAT :: MAMMAL :: MAMMOTH :: MAMMOTH LOGIC :: THE MAN HIMSELF :: MANE :: MANI NEUMEIER & THE BITCHES OF ZEUS :: MANNEQUIN DEATH SQUAD :: MANNIX :: MANOR :: MANSIONAIR :: MÄNTRÄ :: THE MARABY BAND :: MARCUS COROWA :: MARCUS WARNECKE & SAM PORTER :: MARDEN :: MARGARET LLOYD & SEB TONKIN :: MARK CURTIS :: MARK CURTIS BAND :: MARK CURTIS & THE FLANNELETTES :: MARLA SINGER :: MARY TREMBLES :: MARY WEBB :: MASEGO :: MASSIVE :: MASTER'S CURIOUS DELIRIUM :: THE MATEHS :: MATHEMATIC :: MATHIEU WERCHOWSKI :: MATT BANHAM :: MATTHEW BARLOW :: MATT HAYWARD :: MATTHEW MILES :: MATT WARD DUO :: MATT WARD & THE RISING SONS :: MATT ZENGERER :: MAUVE :: THE MAX HEADROOM :: MAX SAVAGE :: MAX SAVAGE & THE FALSE IDOLS :: MAYDAY FAIR :: MAYFIELD :: MCKISKO :: MEAKE :: MEANWELL COLLEGE :: THE MEDICS :: MEGAFAUNA :: MELLOW YELLOW :: MELTON PEACH :: MEMORY CASTLES :: MENAGERIE :: MERCY ARMS :: THE MERCY KILLS :: MERE THEORY :: THE MESS HALL :: MESSRS :: METHYL ETHEL :: METZ :: MEZZA, ROACH & HOG :: MEZZANINE :: MICHAEL STOWERS :: MICHAELA JENKE :: MICK ARMSTRONG, ANDY ARMSTRONG & STAN BASTIRAS :: THE MIDDLE EAST :: MIDDLE KIDS :: MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS :: THE MIDNIGHT MARES :: THE MILTON EXPERIENCE :: MIKE MCKEON :: MIKE RADZEVICIUS :: MIKE TILBROOK :: MIKEY (EX ARTAX MISSION) :: MINDSHOWER :: MIO :: MIRRORLINE :: THE MISCHIEF :: MISCHIEF THE CAT :: MISS GOLLY GOSH :: MISS OHIO :: MISS RENEE SIMONE :: THE MISSION IN MOTION :: MM9 :: MODERN DAY RIOT :: MODERN RELICS :: MOGERLAINE :: MOLLY ROCKET :: THE MOLTING VULTURES :: MOMOKO SODA :: MONA LISA OVERDRIVE :: THE MONDAYS :: MONDO PHASE BAND :: MONEY FOR ROPE :: THE MONIKERS :: MONKEY PUZZLE TREE :: THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL :: MONTES JURA :: MOODY BELLES :: THE MOON DIGITS :: MOONFAKER :: MOONHUNTER :: MORALS OF A MINOR :: THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS :: THE MORS :: THE MORS MODERN MYSTERY SEXTET :: MORTAL AMBITION :: MORTAL WOMBAT :: MOSES SUMNEY :: MOSHPIT GIRLFRIEND :: MOTHER'S CAKE :: THE MOTHERFUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS :: MOTHERSLUG :: THE MOTION BELOW :: THE MOTIVE :: MOTOWN CONNECTION :: MOUNT SELDOM :: MOUNTAIN SONGS :: MOUNTAIN STATIC :: MOUNTAIN STRANGER :: MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY :: MOUNTBATTEN :: MOURGOS GRUND :: THE MOURNING SONS :: MOVE TO STRIKE :: MOVIN' MELVIN BROWN :: M.J. TURNER :: MR. 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:: Wednesday, July 16, 2008

QUIET CHILD + THE RED SUN BAND + VARLIIBA
LIVE @ CROWN & ANCHOR + JADE MONKEY / Saturday July 12th 2008

Previously in yet another exciting episode in the life of Spoz that wouldn't make a dick of sense if he didn't otherwise devote a live music website to it (and while we're at it, doesn't really make a whole lot of sense when he does.. weeeee!): Spoz is broken, Spoz is out of order, Spoz hasn't had a decent night's sleep all week and as just reward for all his efforts (above and beyond the call of stupid) Spoz is now hit with all the creaking decrepitude that come from winter's foul discontent and the clunkiest of literary devices that comes from constantly referring to himself in the third person. Spoz is over it, Spoz could take it or leave it, Spoz is going to poke his index fingers into both ears, swirl them around into his brain and go "la la la la" till it all goes away! Thus in effort to write himself out've all this mess, Spoz has decided to blow off his usual Friday night of live music with the awesome time suckage that only a Hollywood blockbuster can provide..



Yeah fuckit, I probably should've waited 'til this shit came out on DVD (which we all know is simply code for "steal this shit from the nearest bittorent, burn you Hollywood fucks! BURN!! BWAAHaHAhAHAhAHa!!"). Neat idea, awesome soundtrack, just clumsily put together. Bugger. Oh and I probably should've also gone straight home afterwards, but silly me I thought I'd go to the Crown & Anchor for a few quiet drinks instead. Only replace the phrase: "a few quiet drinks" with "why is that paramedic feeding two metres of rubber hosing down my throat? that tickles!" and you'd be closer to the mark as I'm invariably ambushed by all these grinning idiots..



Yup, I could've spent an entire night without my camera ever leaving my pocket, without taking a single shot, proud in my ability to actually function as a normal member of the human species without having to photograph every stupid fucking moment of it; but then a few too many pints (and one jägerbomb) later and I end up with a whole lot of THIS shit!? awesome! :)



Granted some of these macro shots were almost bordering on the artful..





"Deep behind those eyes: there's a small room, a sink with one leaky tap dripping, a ping pong table, the entire ensemble cast of early 90's sitcom "Herman's Head" bound and gagged and a teeny tiny gnome flicking a light switch on and off and laughing hysterically.. weeeeeeee!"



but just like every night before it, you invariably end up with a whole lot of shit like this..




and me finding myself utterly incapable of keeping a straight face because of it.




*Sigh* sometimes I wish I was that trippy asian dude out've Bladerunner (wait.. wasn't he Mexican?) making all those badarse origami animals and leaving 'em around the joint at 3AM, being all enigmatic and shit, rather than what I'm REALLY doing at this hour: "Hey where did both my kidneys and my liver crawl off to? oh there they are under the pool table! quick hand me that mallet so I can smash them!". Aaaaah isn't it always the way? (huh.. what!?)



Fast forward to my Saturday night and not only do I feel like a gold brick wrapped in lemon has just gone up my nose, smashed out my cranial contents all over the walls of the Cranka, burst screaming out've my eye sockets only to beat the rest of me black, blue and limping; but stupid me I thought I'd go with double the fun for the sequel tonight. As we embark on yet another game of venue tag: here at the Crown & Anchor for Quiet Child, Varliiba and Amour Fou..



and here at the Jade Monkey for The Red Sun Band, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! and Sianna Lee.



First stop, the Jade Monkey. Aaaaah yes, the Jade Monkey! nothing quite speaks to my lightly dappled dementia tonight than the sight of twinkling faerie lights and waaay too many guitar effects pedals scattered over a persian throw rug. They could mean only one of two thing (a) "oh fuck my brain hurts!" and (b) "we're gonna be upto our nips in the ecclectic tonight!" YEAAS!!




SIANNA LEE (****) myspace ::
Speaking of ecclectic, our opening act for tonight comes in the form of this statuesque singer songwriter: Sianna Lee. You may remember her as the lead singer for Melbourne act Love Outside Andromeda. You may remember them for the song "Something White and Sigmund" that made #65 in Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2003. You may also remember them for such brilliant albums as their self titled debut "Love Outside Andromeda" and "Longing Was A Safe Place To Hide". Or perhaps you don't remember her at all (as maybe you simply nicked all the above info from wikipedia instead *cough*) and now you're wondering just why exactly she's dressed up on stage like a recently escaped hula hoop artist from the circus of Karen O fashionable mishaps (yay! sparkle tights!). Yup that's Sianna Lee, and this is me taking photos of her right now with a mindsplitting headache and wondering just what the fuck I've just gotten myself into..









So here we are: a crowd awed into silence, a venue filled with the smokey remnants of a guitar slow strumming and cloaked in layers swampy reverb, a voice subtle and apologetic yet driven with a brooding crooning thirst for the blue, a reed thin cigarette holder held between index and forefingers ashing itself into the smoking cavity that was once my mortal soul. Sianna Lee. If all that alcohol from the night before had struck me as equally blind as it has me dumb; I could've sworn I'd just paid $12 to go see PJ Harvey instead: all that delicate vulnerability, the wailing, the yodeling and all the gnashing ferocity ever so soothing to my broken brain! aaaah what's not to love!? For the most part it's just her and her acoustic on stage 10ft tall and spooking us the fuck out, but later on she's joined by one of Adelaide's many talented indie scene halflings on drums and mouth organ to thrash it out the rockier numbers (as seen below). Yup, anywhere else but here this circus freak show of "performer and pint sized" would've been pelted with beer bottles by now; but here at the Jade Monkey, they're amongst friends now.. awwww! :)



AMOUR FOU (***) myspace ::
And speaking of being pelted to death with beer bottles; it's off to the Crown & Anchor for their opening act: Amour Fou. Yup, it's anyone's guess what the fuck is up with their name, but two distinct possibilities present themselves: the first is that it roughly translates from French to English as "Crazy in Love", the second is that it's a title of an episode from third season of The Sopranos (wow, it's amazing what 3 seconds of misguided research in wikipedia can do for you!). Still as much as I was looking forward to it being more of the first (ie: some kinda whimsically shit beret wearing cocktail cover of Beyoncé solo career with a samba beat) what we got instead was somewhat more akin to the second (only replace the Mafioso with a spirited punch up over far too many Guinness on St Pattie's Day and you'd be right on the money). Oh and I'm also told this is their first ever "fresh fish" performance tonight? Oooooh shit, here we go again!











Amour Fou. You may recognise the drummer in the ridiculous bowler hat as being one of the screaming fists through the wall that was Realist Few (aka: the most awesome rage blackout in the Adelaide music scene ever to destroy 4-5 guitars in one live set); whilst you may recognise the rest of them from Scotland Yard and Interpol's most wanted list of IRA bombing suspects (which you'll be sure to see again, fleeing the scene on foot moments before my bus explodes later tonight). As such their sound is somewhat akin to all the internal bleeding your brain will receive from the anthemic overtones of Sparta, the laxative undertones of Audioslave and the roaming hands of excessive guitar wank that is Carlos Santana; as fronted by what appears to be Darryl Braithwaite and a whiskey bottle circling the drain fast to a Leaving Las Vegas. It's a strange mix to be sure (even more so on a hangover) and it's made no less disturbing by the suburban pub rent-a-crowd pushing well into their 40's waving their handbags in the air, but as long as you can get past all that, this still works brilliantly to get shitcrazy in drunk to!



FIRE! SANTA ROSA FIRE! (****) myspace ::
Returning back to the Jade Monkey, and my furthering inability to string two thoughts together is further pissed on by the prodigal return of these six too many band members on a live stage (and one ridiculous hat with ear flaps) by the all too familiar name of Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! (aka: Flat! Fanta Soda!, Flaming Gay Santa! or Indie Posers On Fire!). Oh yes, how could we possibly forget this band: Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! Back in 2007 they were THE reason for your fangirls to start countless "Spoz Hate Clubs" on myspace thanks to all the drunken dance antics I'd always pull out front that'd look like Emilio Estevez's epilectic fit from Breakfast club, only sped up by a factor of 4 and performed by Aphex Twin (gee.. no wonder I was so popular!). Which may've also been the same reason I kept getting all those decapitated dolls heads in my letterbox till I stopped going to their gigs earlier this year *cough* Yup, it's been a while, more than four months in fact since that set at Rocket Bar when they headlined with Sugar Army, I wrote that live review (that compared them to the comedown scene from "Human Traffic"), Matt Hayward threatened to shit down my neck hole if I ever wrote another one like it (dude isn't that like a red rag to a bull!?), we laughed and we laughed, I changed my locks and now they're back.. YES! And where once there was a shadow of a doubt, one look at them tonight and we have now full confirmation! Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! have well and truly lost their fucking minds..










Thankfully however, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, now joined by Caitlin as sixth member (as clearly too many twits banging tambourines up on stage ain't nearly enough) are a refreshingly different beast from the spastic hummingbird of old. Gone is the meth amphetamine binge between The Rapture, the Klaxons and Death From Above 1979 whilst Snufalufagus from Sesame Street beats you senseless with an aluminium baseball bat; gone is that freaky comedown earlier this year as they simultaneously attempted to detox from that all shit at once "oh crap there's a baby on the ceiling and it's coming right at me!! AAAUUGHHH!!!"; and in its place is something much worse: Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! have gone native! Fuck full of incomprehensible time signatures, jangling hippy jams and hand claps: they're Tinkerbell with a head concussion, they're Happy Tree Friends do folk, they're B12 mixed with guarana and ginseng, they're everything Japanese that causes seizures and they're Beck and The Polyphonic Spree letting off firecrackers from their arse as a sixpack of ecclectic idiots in indian headdresses and space helmets drop acid and commune with planets. Phew! Oh yes, welcome back Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! you're completely and utterly batshit insane; but duuuuude we wouldn't have you any other way! :)



VARLIIBA (**1/2) myspace ::
Thanks to Fire! Santa Rosa Fire! it's taken me months of extensive physical therapy, weight training, electro shock therapy, dietary supplements, weekly sessions with a speech pathologist (followed by a crash course in quantum mechanics and three seasons of Doctor Who episodes to engineer a time machine to return me back to this insane literary device minutes later) to get me back to the Crown & Anchor. Phew. And just when I think I'm in the clear. I see what I'm up against for act four, Varliiba. VARLIIBA!!?? WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THIS SHIT!!?? Yup, if anything was to explain the one eye rolling back into the back of my skull, the one small trickle of blood leaking out've my left nostril and my imminent collapse to the floor foaming at the mouth in the attempt to make sense of all this shit, it would be the one too many i's in the name that is Varliiba. Seriously, Varliiba!? what the FUCK were you pinheads thinking!? Are you trying to cheat in scrabble!? Did someone sneeze whilst typing that out for your myspace address and it just stuck!? Did you get the name from one of The Mars Volta's malfunctioning ouiji boards? Is everyone on crystal meth now!? GUH! I'm so fucking sick of all this shit!! I QUIT!!









Wait.. what!? I'm still here? that's weird, I wish I could explain that one. Tell ya what, if you can figure out what the fuck I'm on about half the time with all these live reviews; I'll give you one good reason why I'm still batshit insane to be doing this every week.. YES! (hint: being laughably drunk 90% of the time reaaaally helps.. weeeeeee!) Varliiba. They're the million and one OTHER entries you'll ever find in a google search if you type in: "Prog Metal", "Tool", "A Perfect Circle" "Maynard James Keenan", "Melbourne" and "oh fuck not this shit again!!". They're every other review I've ever written in the last six months that says all the above with an added fuckbucket of expletives (no, not you Sydonia you dudes were awesome!). And they're every reason why I'm currently pointing both barrels of this shotgun at my head in the mistaken belief it's an oversized pez dispensor, squeezing the trigger and hoping for candy. On the flipside however, they're also everything that is ridiculously awesome about Metallica's "One", oversized meaty guitar riffs, bludgeoning blunt rhythms and me being beaten to death by a Neanderthal armed with a sledgehammer. Yup, it's 1988 all over again, I'm a decapitated head singing in a brown paper bag, and we're all going to hell. Varliiba!? OOOH FUCK YEAAAAH!



THE RED SUN BAND (****1/2) myspace ::
Upon returning to the Jade Monkey, quite possibly beyond the point of no return, quite possibly hallucinating all of this shit in a brown paper bag: I'm reminded of a night back in 2001 or 2002, the first night we discovered the Jade Monkey. Me and my friends had spent the night prior at one of the many other drinking establishments splattered throughout Rundle and Grenfell (or quite possibly elsewhere) Someone suggested we continue the festivities at The Jade Monkey; and after much blundering down side alleys later we finally find it's fateful threshold. With much hooting glee and stomping of feet it was decided I would be the first to burst through that door; only to run screaming right back out again from the most terrifying sight I'd ever beheld: silence, darkness, a room filled with it, transfixed to a lone spectral manifestation in long trousers and suspenders twanging a soft guitar and yodeling. Moments later I regained my composure and we soon crept back in safety in numbers. We were seated, still, attentive, so silent you could hear the bacterium sneeze; but it didn't last long. One of us, a girl no taller than 5ft, couldn't bear it no more. She excused herself, inched past the crowd one by one and crept silently out that door. You could hear the tiny footstep down that alley, then moments later, somewhere waaay off in the distance you could hear her explode with laughter. And here I am making the same mistake all over again as I stumble upon The Red Sun Band tonight. Ever so soft, fragile, beautiful and articulate to a room awed into silence. One five minute walk away from the Cranka; and here I am on the floor twitching in fits; air bubbles bursting in my blood stream? awesome!










Yup, they're a segue that hits me like a punch in the face. The Red Sun Band and me wondering again just what the FUCK I've just gotten myself into. You can see them all out there, packed to the walls. Heads bowed. Slowly swaying from side to side. Figures huddled, small of stature, fragile, thin of build. Long knit scarves, duffle coats and fluffy brown cardigans. Their hair is in their eyes. Their tiny fingers are clasped in prayer. Folding like a wet napkin. Finding comfort in melancholy, locked in respectful stillness, eyes unfocused, as one Ricky Fitts burst into tears over the beauty of a plastic bag dancing with the autumn leaves. Oh yes that's the awesome sadsack power of The Red Sun Band, and this is me running screaming out've that door (if only I wasn't paralysed in awe myself.. whoa!). They're Mazzy Star, The Howling Bells and The Clouds so soothing you want to cry. They're a shoegazer's paradise in angelic vocals and layers upon layers of heart wrenching guitar. They're so damn mesmerising in fact my hairs are standing on end and turning white as I speak. It's a funeral, it's a wake, there's tea and biscuits, we've all been buried alive, The Red Sun Band are gently tiptoeing all over our graves and there's not a single dry eye left in the house. Oh such bliss to be found in this winter of discontent!



QUIET CHILD (****) myspace ::
One longboat on fire floats me down stream and back to the Crown & Anchor. Carried here by the lone voice of Jim Morrison singing "ride the snake.. ride the snake.. to the lake, the ancient lake, baby!". The tape skips, reverses and the flames flicker, rise and coalesce my body whole again. Organs intact. Pupils dilated to pinpricks. A shitcrazy confused look on my face as the sun and the moon do their dance, clouds fly through the sky, a thousand stars to a kaleidoscope spin and there he is: standing right before me, enveloped in an unearthly red glow: he is Silent Bob, he is Kevin Smith, he's with a band and he's singing the blues! Whoaaaa where the fuck am I? Am I dead? Is this hell? Is that you Jebus!? No wait I can't be dead, I'm immortal here written on a page until a freak electrical fault wipes this server clean and hey look, here's Quiet Child at the Crown & Anchor! and there goes my tenuous grip on reality, flying up the walls like a balloon pissing out air... weeeeee! Yup, if I wasn't drinking tonight I'd surely be dead by now and you'd be sifting through the smoking wreckage in search of my dental remains.. FUCK YEAH!









Quiet Child. Besides the trivial observation that their drummer Paul has had a haircut (or as he more accurately put it after the show: "I'm not Paul, Paul is dead, and I'm an evil doppleganger sent from my alien overlords to kill you all"), they're pretty much the exact same cheerful band of merry minstrels I've seen countless times before this year: haunting, brooding, noodling to excess with odes ripe with overwraught and melancholy: or in other words THE number one band in Adelaide you could ever hope to be buried alive to (if The Red Sun Band hadn't already done that mere moments ago); programmed to precision right down to exact same strain of influenza that their lead singer Pete appears to be afflicted with for the 3rd time running this year.. yeeouch! Yup, far be it for a website like this to fall prey to such wild flights of fancy (HA!), but one wonders what would happen to Pete if he didn't have all these viruses in his sinuses to guide him? Would he sound like Alvin & The Chipmunks, The Smurfs, Tiny Tim and Thom Yorke combined; punched in the balls by an insane three year old? Would he sing happy songs about rainbows and squirrels and midgets shot out've cannons? And would they be anywhere as mind shatteringly brilliant as a result? Hmmm the mind boggles. So here's an impossibly long ode to woe (that youtube cut "short" to only 10 minutes) for you to think it all over..



2:05AM - Hours later (after Paul's botched alien invasion attempt calls in the army and a crack "clean up" crew in hazmat suits to clean the joint in response) I find myself here across the road at Producers Bar, babbling incoherently, climbing the walls, making insane chicken clucking noises; as Sophie the bartender throws pints of beer at my ringing skull fragments in effort to revive me. Yup, somewhere in that teeny tiny peanut brain of mine I suspect I've not only fried a microchip, but burnt out the entire circuit board along with it and I'm waaay past my warranty for fixing it (damn!); but still, could you think of a better night for it to happen!? weeeee! :)



2:41AM - Inexplicably I find myself back at the Cranka again with all my clothes on back to front and no idea how I made this jump in the narrative. I suspect it may've been something Sophie put in that beer (perhaps her and Bec at The Ed Castle swap notes?) and it takes a few moments for me to be able to focus on simple shapes and colours again; but something else feels a little out've place too. I mean shit, I'm at the Cranka on a Saturday night: where the FUCK has everyone else buggered off to!? All this live music and nothing to show for it? this blows!!



3:03AM - And so, gathering the last of my marbles and finishing my beer, I knew what I had to do: I had to journey westward past the desolate expanse of Rundle Mall to where the fires of this night still burned brightly. And it was here, mere moments into my epic travels, that I made this chance discovery in mindblowing awesomness. Words alone couldn't hope to express what I saw, but maybe this video will give you a taste: as we behold the utterly skullfucking brilliance that is these two dudes jamming Super Mario Brother tunes at 3AM.. YEAAAAS!! :)



3:12AM - As much as I would've loved to have stayed there in the Mall for the rest of the night, married the Malls Balls, had freaky little Malls Balls children and started up my very own utopia comprised of nothing but mirror polished metallic spheres and pixelated characters from the golden age of video games (*cough* it helps not to think about the "how and why" for too long, simply nod like you understand and move along) and instead I find myself here at Jive. Because nothing quite spells "awesome" in giant neon letters at the end of the night than waiting in line for Gosh. A line that doesn't move. For a whole 1/2 hour. OOOOOH FUCK YEAH!



Yup and so there we have it: here at the ONE rat infested death trap in all of Adelaide that every single idiot decided to pack out to blackhole density tonight and me stuck on the outside waiting to get in. Wow. If that doesn't just sum up my weekend brilliantly, then nothing else will. And if anything else, this should teach me once and for all that I should NEVER take another Friday night "off" if my life depends on it. I mean shit if you thought this was stupid, imagine if I took an entire week off!? or a month!? or a YEAR!!?? Stay tuned next week and find out! :)

Previously on Spoz's Rant: Ricochet Pete + Dead Popes Of The Vatican

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