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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, June 24, 2009

LEADER CHEETAH + NO THROUGH ROAD + LIKE LEAVES
"THE SUNSPOT LETTERS" LAUNCH @ JIVE / Friday June 19th 2009

Let's face it, being a musician in the Adelaide music scene blows a fucking goat. It's the same 'ol story time and time again. You practice for days, weeks and months to get it right. You write heartfelt songs, heartwrenching songs, you squeeze every last drop out dreaming you'll be the next Joy Division, Pavement, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club or The Animal Collective. You start a myspace. You start a facebook. You get a gig at Rhino Room or maybe even The Exeter. You promote the fuck out of it and only ten to twenty of your closest friends and family bother to show up. The same ten to twenty who'll show up to every subsequent show. You record a demo. You dream of the day you'll get to play Jive, Rocket Bar or The Ed Castle. You get a manager, they treat you like crap. You lose a drummer, you record a demo with a drum machine. You start a Triple J Unearthed. You obssess over how many myspace friends you have, when your next gig is, how best to dodge Centrelink, why you only have three followers on Twitter and whether all the bands you've buddied up with secretly hate you. You score a month long residency at The Grace Emily, nobody shows up till the final night. You play Rocket Bar once, only to get kicked out before you can even collect your instruments. You barely make enough coin to pay the mixer. The drummer constantly drinks all of your rider. You're playing to the same ten to twenty people. Spoz finally shows up for a gig, gets trashed, takes shit photos and the review's even worse; and yet you still gain five more fans. You survive just long enough to record an EP. You score an interview with Rip It Up or dB. You host a launch party. It's the best damn night of your entire life! You're getting high rotation on Three D Radio. Richard Kingsmill even gives one of your songs a four out of five. You're living the dream! Then just as it's getting good the bass player fucks off to Melbourne (or better yet London) to "start a real band". You get a fulltime job. Nobody can find the time to jam anymore and the band breaks up. Six months later no one even remembers your name: just another casualty of the Adelaide music scene killing you way before your prime.



Yup, you see thousands of their corpses littering the streets every day, lining up in dole queues, working menial jobs, sleeping in lecture theatres and falling off the radar. But every once in a while one of them makes it through the cracks, thrives against all adversity and launches an album. Each and every one of them has been a shining example of the Adelaide scene at its finest: Mr Wednesday's "The Garden Where Parties Grow", Wolf & Cub's "Vessels", Soft White Machine's "The Great Divide", Morals Of a Minor's "Questions And Answers", BrotherSister's "The Wunder Tales" and The Sea Thieves' "Hiding In The Shade" (to name but a few). For years it was SO rare to see one actually happen, you couldn't help but celebrate (even if almost none of them ever got the exposure they deserved). But now? there's a fucking flood of them! Who knows whats changed, maybe nothing's changed (or maybe everyone's simply swapping marijuana for cocaine and exploding out there) but in the last month alone there's been a veritable avalanche of no less than six album launches (seven if you count No Through Road from the month before). From Before The Aftermath's self titled and Quiet Child's "Evening Bell" launching two weeks ago, to Wolf & Cub's "Science And Sorcery", Coerce's "Silver Tongued Life Licker" and Humble Bee's "When I Should Be Sleeping" all launching last week (and all in the space of one night no less), to Leader Cheetah's "The Sunspot Letters" launching at Jive tonight? Fuck, no wonder I'm exhausted writing about all this shit! For years this blog used to be nothing but me, the freaks, the geeks and the tumbleweeds smoking trees of weed and drinking till dawn; now look how far we have come!



THE WEEVILS (***1/2) myspace ::
Our opening act hasn't got an album out yet but if they did it'd likely be the most fuck off feral thing you'd ever hear moments before doing three lines of coke and a tab of acid, blacking out cold, waking up weeks later in a maximum security prison, on death row, completely oblivious to the fact that you were solely responsible for assassinating President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela using nothing but a cocktail olive and a rubber band, stark naked, whilst painted head to toe in blue body paint screaming hysterically in fluent Portugese; or yeah.. maybe that's just me. The Weevils. In essence they're a garage rock band channeling the very best in ear bleed from the late 50's throught to the early 60's with a few other insane punk and grunge influences thrown in for good measure (or one the best new Adelaide bands I've heard all year whilst simultaneously being one of the worst). Think of them as The Who mixed up with every shitty b-side from Nirvana and The Pixies as fronted by Craig Nicholls from The Vines attempting to cover Nick Cave's "The Birthday Party". Think of them as a teenage hormonal hissyfit gone horribly right. Or simply think of them as a hessian bag full of cats fighting, accompanied by the cheapest, nastiest guitars and amps that a quick trip to Crime Converters could possibly afford. Or maybe they'll like nothing else at all. Everything about them is out of tune, out of whack, off key, jarringly loud and utterly unhinged with necks crooked, arms thrashing, coin operated and flailing; and yet they sound all the better for it. It's any wonder how they do it, althought the fact that three of the band members are formerly from Skeletons (quite possibly the most skull-fuckingly genius hit of face melting jazz and incoherent screaming you never heard back in 2007-2008) may have something to do with it. The Weevils. Just like J. D. Salinger's "Catcher In The Rye", The Beatles "Helter Skelter" and every ultraviolent title developed by Id Software and Rockstar Games combined: if ever the CIA got their grubby hands on it we'd surely be upto our nips in desiccated carcasses in next to no time!











LIKE LEAVES (****1/2) myspace ::
Our second act tonight are currently in recording. It might be a full length album, a double disc or an EP and released onto CD, cassette, vinyl, eight-track, wax cylinder, clay tablet, internet download or etched into a gold plate stuffed into a deep space probe and shot beyond the orbit of Pluto; either way I can't freaking wait to hear it. Of all the times I've seem them live, both this year and last (eleven times in total?) I've never gotten sick of them. They're like a fine cuisine in that regard, a psychedelic sound you can eat and drink to the full, a sound that satiates the soul. Despite only having a handful of songs at their disposal, everytime I hear them I always pick up on something new. The most telling of which tonight is "Falling For A Fleeting Moment". If ever you've seen them in the last six months you'd know it well. Both Dan and Juliet on vocals, those distinctly discordant guitars washing to and fro like waves on a beach on a cold winter's night, a sound not too dissimilar to My Bloody Valentine meets Nine Inch Nails' "The Fragile". I like to think of it as the measuring stick to just how good a particular Like Leaves set is. It's that fine line between fragile beauty and leaving something to warp on the dashboard. It's just like a souffle. Get ONE ingredient wrong (especially the live sound) and it all goes belly up, Get it all right however and it's like the best thing ever. And to the infinite credit of Matt Hills the mixer in residence (and the band themselves), tonight they freaking nail it. It's probably the best rendition I've heard in months, it warms the entire set with a golden glow. Most other bands would be insane to consider a song as temperamental as THIS one as a centrepiece to their set but Like Leaves aren't most bands. They take risks, they forge their own lysergic path. It's bands like these you hope to see busting mad jams well into their triple digits like blues musicians. It's bands like these you know are true artists. And as much as tonight's set was essentially no different from the sets they've been playing for the last few months (short of a sequence shuffle), they did come up with ONE new surprise, a song called "Mercy Sound". Featuring Juliet on vocals and channeling everything from Beth Gibbons from Portishead, Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife, Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane to PJ Harvey from the Desert Sessions; it's everything you could ever ask for out of a Like Leaves song, that me attempting to string three to four superlatives and exciteable expletives together couldn't possibly do justice. It's songs like these and many others equally as brilliant tonight (their opening number "Fruit" with the teeny tiny finger cymbals was especially awe inspiring), that has me itching like crack addict for an album release. I'm told it'll be sometime in August or September later this year. and dude? it couldn't come soon enough!










NO THROUGH ROAD (****) myspace ::
On the grand scheme of things our third act tonight shouldn't exist. They're a freak anomaly bordering on the fictional. They're an Adelaide band that's actually released more than one album. Not just EPs, singles or brown paper bag demos but full length fucking albums. I know I hardly believed it myself, so I looked it up and there it was: "Monkey On A Rock", "Too Much Or Not Enough" and their latest release "Winner". That's three whole albums they've unleashed. Four or more if you include "Lo-Fi Sandwich" and all those other recordings their lead singer Matt Banham released as a solo artist: "Girls Are The Devil", "The Chelsea Theatre EP" and "Learning to Write Hate Songs" (to name but a few). Yup, where most bands promptly fall apart after less than two EPs, No Through Road have damn near made a career out of it. They're far from a buzz band, a skinny jean, spastic synth, haircut, fluoro fashion disaster with dancepunk beats and angular riffs to fuck like jackrabbits to. They're a messy, noisey, frequently belligerent, grouchy, anti-social and anti-establishment act to drink, mosh, and party to. They're just like your grandfather: half crazed and yammering in a retirement village dreaming of the good 'ol days when bands still played the beer gardens at The Austral and The Exeter. Don't let their relatively youthful appearance fool you, they've been at it for years, they've been at it so long they don't give a FUCK what you think. And in many ways THIS is why they've survived so long. It's that blitheringly casual "dont-give-a-fuck" attitude that's allowed them to thrive while many others have failed (that and the fact that Matt Banham may be the most annoying prolific artist in all of the Adelaide scene). You see it in every one of their gigs and tonight is no exception. Matt Banham out the front, tie askew, thrashing like an exorcism, hands raised in mad salute, swinging the microphone around on its lead like he's blind drunk and swimming laps in a karoake bar. Band members crashing into each other like dodgem cars, swapping instruments and spilling about willy nilly like it's more of a rehearsal space, an extended in-joke or Matt Banham's personal comedy routine than an actual gig but it's this laughable lack of polish and professionalism that makes them who they are: a band that fucking kills when they play live. For as much as the audience often misses the point (especially the scenster crowds who frequently freeze up to this schtick) they're never short of being a feral free-for-all to let loose and obliterate to regardless (if only you're crazy enough to join them). From the bottled heat of "Explosions" (featuring Paul from The Weevils busting a nut on the saxophone) to the primal screams of "Die For Something" to the aptly titled "Party To Survive" it's one fuck of mad jam from beginning to end. Sure most of it's lost on the crowd tonight as they simply stand there blinking like goldfish (save for a small scattering out front going berserk), but No Through Road couldn't care less either way. No matter what, they're still having the time of their lives.













LEADER CHEETAH (*****) myspace ::
Which brings us to our headlining act: the band that everyone came here to see, in such high numbers in fact that they've just posted the "sold out" sign on the door; all for the chance to see an Adelaide band launch a stinking album? Yup, just a few short years ago such a rapturous applause would've been damn near unheard of. And yet if any band deserved it, it would be Leader Cheetah tonight. You can see it on their well worn faces, relieved to see hundreds of smiling faces beaming back at them. They've dragged themselves through all nine layers of hell to get to this point; especially brothers Dan and Joel Crannitch on vocals and drums respectively. For just a few short years ago they used to be in The Pharaohs, maaan those freaks were hilarious; you may've heard of them. Back in the day they were yet another up and coming Adelaide buzz band. Abrasively post punk, fuck full of dancepunk beats and angular riffs; they were right up there with Bit By Bats and Wolf & Cub in indie street cred, they even scored Triple J high rotation for such shrieking body popping anthems to alienation and woe as "Keelhaul" and "Broken Arm". Their future was just about assured, they were everything Rocket Bar's fashion nazis would've damn near shat a kidney for but something didn't sit right with lead singer Dan Crannitch; it just wasn't him. Midway through touring their angry little EP "Medicines" he picked up an acoustic guitar and penned "Bloodlines" and it all made sense. THIS is where he wanted to be. Moments later he ditched The Pharaohs and Leader Cheetah made their shiny debut with brothers Dan and Joel Crannitch joined by Dan Pash on guitar and Mark Harding on bass (I think they played their first gig to perhaps ten or twenty people at Urtext Studios back in mid May 2007!?). Clearly we all thought he'd gone completely insane. Nobody knew or understood what the fuck he was thinking with this whole alt-country schtick. Many of us wondered if those signature sideburns of his had simply taken root in his brain. But sure enough, in time, he proved us all wrong. "Bloodlines" was just a hint of what was to come. Triple J latched onto it, spun it into high rotation and had us all hooked through the latter part of 2008. So that by the time "The Sunspot Letters" was released in March this year, people flocked to it in droves. Its golden tones, earthy hues and homespun feel won people over and along with it scores of accolades and blogger buzz; thanks in part to the work of one Mark Kramer (producer for Galaxie 500, Low and Urge Overkill's "You'll Be A Woman Soon") and also thanks to Dan Crannitch's distinct vocal presence: possessing an oddly fragile, quavering nasal quality that reminds you of both a Vegas drag queen and Neil Young being dragged by his ankles through the desert. A voice quite unlike any other we'd ever heard in the Adelaide, let alone Australia. Yup, talent this unique and weirdly accomplished doesn't come along very often and for once we sure as shit weren't gonna let it go quietly. When Leader Cheetah finally spun by their home town for an album launch party tonight, we packed Jive to the ceiling in celebration..










Now I've seen my fair share of sold out shows and more often than not (especially when it's hosted in Jive) it's a fucking zoo. It's a screaming throng of hilarious dickheads, sprouting camera phones, vomiting up surface to air human missiles with arms and legs flailing, beers spilling everywhere, broken glass, bruises and sore heads; followed by the barstaff spending the remainder of the night scraping suspicious stains off the ceiling. Sure that can be a good thing, many of the best nights have been just like that; but thankfully tonight was none of the above. It was still packed to the ceiling, but it was far less a shrieking monkey cage flinging faeces everywhere and more akin to that toasty feeling you get whilst watching the music video to Weezer's "Island In The Sun". Y'know the one directed by Spike Jonze with the band frolicking about with all the lion cubs, squirrels, bears, chimps and shit? If you don't know what I'm getting at take a quick look, and chances are when you return you'll be beaming with smiles; because THAT was what Leader Cheetah were like tonight. They were a warm winter fire and we were three hundred cats and dogs basking in its glow for the entirety of their set. From opening numbers "The Explorer" to "Alibi" with the three piece horn revelry joining them on stage, to "Bloodlines" and "Dianne" with Tom Spall (lead singer from Cortez) joining them with the violin: their well worn "busted sofa" of a sound drew you in. You could see it in Dan Crannitch's odd arm twirling, Dan Pash's oversized earmuffs, Joel Crannitch's hillbilly beard bobbing to the beat and Mark Harding's hunchback. You hear it in how fragile and yet how full every song sounds in that velvetly quaver. It's all those little quirks and flaws both visual and audible that made them ever so much more strangely compelling, you couldn't help but drift along to the journey. By the time "Spirit To The Bone" and "Fly Golden Arrow Pt 1" flew by we were in a whole other place where tumbleweeds blowing by on dusty roads weren't seen as snarking metaphor for a city of suburban waste and existential ennui, but a place we could all call home. And when they returned for the encore and album outtake "Grass Castles"? duuude we never wanted to leave! Leader Cheetah not only owned this crowd, they freed it from all it's worldly concern. Which when you consider they're nothing but a "local band" fronted by a scruffy loon who pulls beers at The Exeter and yet they're still playing to THIS shit tonight; is nothing short of a triumph. Adelaide? fuuuck, who knew it was possible!?








12:57AM - Surely we've witnessed every exception to the rule tonight. In three supports and one headliner we've seen everything that this scene could possibly aspire to and so much more. Clearly it's too much for my brain to handle. This isn't the Adelaide I know, especially not in the dead of winter, isn't this meant to be the slow season? (six album launches in the last three weeks? sheeiiit just YOU try and do them justice!? and I barely caught half of them!!). No, we must be in some kinda freaky alternative reality where red is green, the venues are packed full and the skies rain cocktail shrimp. I needed something to return me to reality. All those dark ales I'd been drinking tonight clearly weren't getting the job done, we needed something much stronger. And as luck would have it, Matt Hills the mixer had just the remedy! I had no freaking clue where it came from (he claims he got it in Switzerland but I knew better) but something told me it'd do the job like nothing else. Cannabis sativa syrup (5%), sugar, concentrated lemon juice, black tea extract (0.14%), antioxidant, L-ascorbic acid and cannabis sativa extract (0.0015%)!? Ooooh yeah, down the rabbit hole heeere we come!! So without hesistation I popped the lid and necked it all down..



1:52AM - A whole hour passes by in a complete blur, doing what exactly I can't recall, short of a few brief flashes: me licking the purple muppet fur on the pillars, laughing hysterically at all the shooting stars whizzing by above me, attempting to start a rave with the exit sirens and a stolen kick drum, rocking back and forth in foetal position behind one of the main speakers shrieking hysterically wishing all the voices would stop arguing in my head; y'know.. the usual. When I eventually came to, suspended by my ankles over the balcony wearing scuba gear (don't ask) everyone else around me had already gone; all three hundred save for a blurring apparition by the bar. Whoaaa. Could it be I simply imagined this entire night (and somehow concocted the rest in Photoshop)? What the hell was I doing in Jive when it's obviously been closed for the last six hours? and are those.. sirens!? Shit, I dunno about you but I gotta get the fuck outta here!!



2:45AM - I stumbled about the blackening wreckage of Hindley Street with nothing to accompany me but a stiff breeze, row upon row of beady eyes peering warily from shuttered windows and a dull splashing of puddles. It's like I'd somehow stepped out of that smoking DeLorean and found myself in bizarro 1985; and yet THIS felt more real to me than anything else I'd seen tonight. THIS was the Adelaide I knew, I was sure of it! And thus, my shrinking sanity reassured, I made my way down to The Ed Castle: near empty, save for a small scattering of mental patients huddled about the DJ decks and I found my home again. Here listening to an ecclectic mix of Led Zeppelin, Jane's Addiction, Kyuss, Funkadelic and some fuckarse bizarre shit from the 50's composed by some experimental nutjob by the name of Bert Kaempfert. For the next half hour I stole as much beer as inhumanly possible from Azz Strangelove's rider (I mean who wouldn't? he gets six jugs yo!!), jotted down all that crazy shit they were spinning (you can never have enough fuckarse retarded junk for your ipod) and then ever so discretely I made my way out that door again.



3:22AM - Yeah I know, I'm so fucking predictable aren't I? It's like I can't do anything anymore without ending up at Supermild. Go out for a loaf of bread and a carton of milk; next thing I know it I'm at Supermild. Fall asleep in my own bed; wake up on the floor of Supermild. Kidnap a gopher from a small down in midwest USA, steal a pickup truck, drive it screaming over a cliff, die in a massive explosion; screen goes blank and guess where I respawn moments later listening to Sonny and Cher!? (oh no wait.. that's Groundhog Day). Yup, it's moments like these that I'm really beginning to suspect that I actually died a year ago and I've simply been haunting this place ever since. Any minute now Haley Joel Osment will show up and dude it'll be all over; I just know it!



3:50AM - Of course there was next to no one in here tonight (at least no one I recognised) save for this one nitwit I found snuffling about in the beer garden, feeding his insane nicotine habit the only way he knows how. You may recognise him as Brent Carraill, bass player for Quiet Child. And if you've got a really good memory you may also remember that he actually died almost two years ago, on October the 5th 2007 at Enigma Bar: after a hilarious prank with a bag of popcorn went horribly wrong. To quote: "Brent's small intestine tied itself into a knot, he collapsed dead in a pool of his own foaming vomit and moments after THAT his twitching remains were to be found on sale behind the bar for $12.50 with a serve of fried rice. Wow, cycle of life huh?". Yup, it's all beginning to make sense now. Not only does this explain that weird cardboard cutout that's taken his place in the band ever since; but also points to a much wider conspiracy theory unravelling before our very eyes. Everything we're seeing is clearly a lie. We're all dead. We're living in a ghost town. Maybe it was the swine flu, maybe it was bird flu, maybe everyone simply packed up and left for Melbourne years ago and forgot to tell us. Fuuuck, I dunno how I never saw it before!?



None of this night made a lick of sense. It was an anomaly, a glitch in The Matrix and any minute now the whole thing's gonna bluescreen in front of me, we're gonna need to reboot the entire system and reinstall Windows XP from a command prompt because we clearly fucked up one of the registry keys that keeps this reality in check. This isn't Adelaide anymore, this is something else altogether. Six album launches for the last three weeks running? and not ONE of them was The Hilltop Hoods? could that actually happen!? Yeah maybe it didn't, maybe I imagined it, maybe I've gone completely insane, maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and we'll all be back to where it was five years ago; back in the dark ages where bands only lasted two EPs, played gigs to audiences of ten to twenty people, move to Melbourne and simply vanished without a trace. Surely it's like that every OTHER weekend around here. Or maybe.. just maybe, this is but a hint of what's to come!

Previously on Spoz's Rant: Wolf & Cub + The Scare + Like Leaves

:: Spoz 2:34 PM |
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