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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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:: Thursday, October 28, 2010

"TEA..? WHO THE FUCK IS TEA!?"
"PLUS ONE" @ THE ED CASTLE / Saturday October 23rd 2010

For all the years I've studied this scene (and by "studied" I clearly mean drink it so dribbingly drunk under the table I've long since forgotten everything I've ever learnt about it) some things still remain a "mystery" to me. For one.. how in the fuck did I managed to survive last night's skull rapage without a skull rapingly obscene hangover to show for it!? I mean you read that shit riiight? FUCKING HELL!! No seriously, I could've sworn I shat my liver out of a cannon with all the unbridled carnage I inflicted upon it from The Ed Castle to Supermild (and who the fuck knows where else!?). And speaking of the latter (and what little memory I have of it.. help!?) what the FUCK happened to Jeremy from 20th Century Graduates!? I mean one minute we're pissing ourselves laughing in the beergarden well past closing, next minute I'm startled by a door knock and a six pack of black clad ninja turtles hurling tear gas cannisters.. "for the upteenth time, his name is Julian Barratt! JULIAN BARRATT!! look that shit up! it's him I SWEAAAR!!" only to realise I'm still AT Supermild and I just answered the door with nothing but a pair of socks on (HA HA HA yeaaah that made for an interesting bus trip home lemme tell you!) but the less said about my drinking habits the better and more on the subject at hand. You see biggest mystery of all to me: is how I can keep writing this blog, nigh on five (maybe six) years now and STILL never run out of new bands to write about. And yes, yes I know they keep breaking up on me (and I'm possibly to blame for at least half of them.. ooops!) but they keep forming new ones! NEW ONES!! And more disturbingly still? despite all the damage done here, they keep inviting me to their shows!? sheeesh! don't you fools ever read my blog!? it's not just "pretty pictures" you know.. I RUIN LIVES!! I mean take Dave Blumberg here for instance. This yammering yeast infection has been on my case for months now, bugging me to catch his band Tea.. "who the fuck is Tea!?" EXACTLY!! I didn't think that shit existed either! But no.. no, he kept coming back maaan! he kept telling me about all these shows he got booked! he even cooked up all these posters in Photoshop to "prove it". And finally after last week's fiasco? (banned for life at Enigma Bar!? my arse!) I figured "fuck it" I'm totally gonna call his bluff, I'm gonna blog the shit out of his shit, I'M GONNA MAKE HIM PAY!! Why? why the fuck else duuude!? they're playing The Ed Castle tonight and I'm way too lazy to do anything else.. FUCK YEAAAH!!



11:18PM - Yup far be it for me to encourage such an asinine strategy (no really Se Bon Ki Ra, what part of me clicking "not attending" to all your facebook invites for the upteen billionth time DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!? FUUUCK!!) but sometimes all it takes to get coverage here in Spoz's Rant is for your band to bug me SO relentlessly for weeks on end that I'll finally cave and show up simply out of spite.. annoying, but it works! Just as I'll totally accept you sending me your band's ridiculously cute female drummer to ask me nicely (because yes my brain really IS that tiny) or cash bribes, lots and LOTS of cash bribes! (duuude I'm not even kidding you! I'M NOT ABOVE BEING BOUGHT DAMNIT!!). But even so there was just a teeny tiny "hiccup" to this genius plan tonight, and not just because it involves being at The Ed Castle AGAIN (cue the sounds of Sonny & Cher singing "I got you babe!" till my fucking head explodes). More so there was the small matter of me still writing up LAST Saturday night's episode: despite drinking myself into a stainless steel filing cabinet the night before? I woke up today fresh as a fucking daisy and writing up a storm, duuude I was on a roll! Only I was still putting the finishing touches on it around 11PM, I'm pretty sure the first band would've been on stage around 10:30PM, just as I'm dead sure Tea would be that "first band" in question.. and yeaaah I think we can see where this joke is heading can't we!?



TEA (****) website ::
So it comes as a complete surprise to discover that they're still playing here when I blunder my way into the band room. Even more so that they're barely one third of the way through their set (and it's an "extended" eleven song set too). Even more so STILL when I see the fuck off eclectic indie crowd that they've attracted from far and wide here.. yes even this early in the night at "Plus One", anywhere other than the beergarden or the front bar, AT THE FUCKING ED CASTLE!? (seriously don't make me show you how miraculous that crap is!) and they're totally losing their minds to this!? "WHOAAA SHIT!!". I know I totally had to pause for a breathe too *takes another swig of my beer* but it gets so much worse maaan! For as much as I was mad itching to trash the fuck out of this band and for that to finally be the end of it? (oh how I wish it could be true!) they totally don't blow a horse's hind, a goat or even a teeny tiny hamster wang in performing it! "AWWWW CRAP!?" I know! FUCK I KNOW!! there's just waaay too much idiotic and insane talent in the Adelaide scene right now and it's PISSING ME OFF!! and here we have yet another band that might actually be "worth the effort".. GUH! YOU FUCKING ARSEHOLES!! Yup this is Tea (no seriously, they're a band called Tea!) THIS is proof that they actually exist and in many ways short of some whimsically lax personal hygiene standards (I'm looking at YOU Blumberg!) we can be damn thankful that they do too! In the simplest of terms you could consider them a 60's surf/garage rock revival band. YES ANOTHER ONE. And yet as much as you can roll your eyes at me all you want (in fact I might just join you and make the retinal equivalent of a Mexican wave here) as much as they DO admittedly sound like a cookie "cutting edge" mashup between Wavves and Black Lips? they actually DO possess a teeny bit of "depth and range" in how they throw it all together, with all manner of other eclectic influences too. As such throw in everything from The Ramones, The Clash, The Saints, Brian Jonestown Massacre and fuck it.. just because I'm clearly waaay too lazy to do my research here (and I can't be the only one) sprinkle in a few no-names classics from both the Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs soundtracks too and you'd be dead on the money. But what really nails it is the tag-team delivery of both Dave Blumberg and Ray Dalfsen on vocals (who also take turns on guitar and bass). With Dave: he's channeling everything from the punch drunk belligerence of Gareth Liddiard from The Drones to the snot nosed fury of Joey Ramone from.. yeaaah I don't think we need to say where; and it totally works too. But the real shit kicker comes from Ray: who rips into this gutteral "whiskey stained" register that sounds for all the world like a Louisiana blues musician in his late 80's pan handling for coins, or better yet James Brown after he's been beaten black and blue with a pipe wrench: all hissing, spitting and squealing as he shreds his vocal chords red raw? duuude it totally blows your mind! especially when the band lets him go near "a capella" with it. Better yet this totally carries over into their hyperactive guitar and bass playing too. I mean don't get me started with how many other 60's garage bands I've seen of late who've pulled the whole "face the back wall/swinging gate/disinterested" hipster schtick in lieu of actually owning up to anything (I'm looking at YOU Dud Pills.. sheeesh!) but with Tea here? they're letting loose like fucking terrorists maaan! like the whole world's coming to an end! especially with Dave who does everything short of chase his tail around the room: all rubber kinetic and revving up his guitar up like a chainsaw. And as for their drummer Ben Kuerschner: well as much as he looks like he's all of 12 years old, he still does a bang up job of driving everything forward at a frenetic pace; and overall there IS this volatile energy about this band (bordering on an all out disaster) that just kills like no other: like they're wild animals with machine guns, pissing freely and setting fire to everything like they seriously don't give a fuck what you think, like they're every antic that inspires you to drink yourself hysterically blind (beyond any kind of retarded fashion "resurgence" that they may've accidently found themselves lumped with) no really, they're actually that geniunely good! Yup that's Tea. This is them appearing in Spoz's Rant at last. So now that they've totally lost all street cred as a result? yup looks like we're gonna have to come up with a whole new punchline!













11:49PM - Now obviously Tea weren't the only band playing tonight; except I seriously couldn't give a flying fuck who or what they were: as let's face it.. every single band in Adelaide played LAST night and now we're simply dealing with the "dregs" (wait.. did I just say that out loud!?) so obviously I only had eyes to get obliteratingly drunk in the beergarden. And yes I appreciate the irony in me saying that (especially after posting blogs bitching about just that a few months ago) but I totally had the best plan going. You see, unbeknownst to many: my camera was celebrating its 2nd birthday tonight (or more accurately after midnight) and I'd totally "bought along proof of purchase" to claim that (or at least I SO wish I'd thought of it earlier) and thus was clearly looking to scam $100 in complimentary Ed Castle bar credit in its honour (or at the very least make up for the fact my birthday fell on Good Friday this year). And I think we can all agree, THAT right there is a "mission and a half" for a Saturday night out. No really, you couldn't ask for better! And yet? damnit.. there was just so much excitement and insanity exploding in this band room tonight: comprehensive blog coverage or not, I just didn't have the heart to abandon it. I mean just look at these exciteable nitwits leaping in front of my camera lens during Tea? just look at that spastic orange beard? YEAAAS!! I mean how could you NOT simply celebrate the raging fuck out of that!?



12:43AM - So as much as all THIS totally isn't me reviewing Jay Walker & The Pedestrians right now (and wow they must be really pleased that I decided to "ditch them" tonight just so I could stick around for their set and get abusingly drunk in front of them to "gloat" over it) I will give you some of the highlights. And by "highlights" I don't necessarily mean anything the band might have been responsible for on stage (pfft.. no really? who really gives a flying fuck about that!?) nope for me tonight? it's all about the drunkarse antics happening OFF the stage (by which I mean plenty) or at least in this photo: two pisstwits who had no business being on stage tonight but decided to "crash the party" anyways. Who the fuck are they? HA HA HA WHO THE FUCK KNOWS!? (seriously duuude, I asked the band afterwards and everything, and they simply had no idea.. WOOOO!!).



Or what about "Grimace McGee" here? YEAAAS!! I mean obviously that's not his real name.. in fact I don't even know what his real name is, let alone know if I've even met him before (hi if you're tuning in though?) but I think we can all agree he DOES add a certain "something" to this crowd.



Or what about THIS mad cat feeling all the "vibrations"? aye? aaaye!? is that the maddest shit you've ever seen!? pfft.. OF COURSE NOT!! but it's still pretty freaking nuts all the same. No shit! I SO could've taken photos like these laughing my arse off all night and never find a dull moment!



Or at least until I got bored soon after (completely unrelated of course) and proceeded to take pot shots at Miles and Alex at the mixing desk here: which in my infinite wisdom I decided to shoot WITHOUT the flash, just so I could take fifty of them and not have a single one of them in focus.



Still at the very least I CAN tell you that this was one of the better Jay Walker & The Pedestrian sets I've seen all year. The crowd was totally mad up for it (yeaaah not like you would've noticed). They truly have come a long way. I totally would've given them a four and a half star rating too if I reviewed them (but since I didn't it? HA HA HA it totally doesn't count!). And as it turns out they totally had new songs too. Granted I can't remember the names of them (in fact the band didn't have half a clue what to call them either) but just so you don't go away completely empty handed? here's a video of one I recorded inbetween me stage invading the show tonight and making a total exploding twit of myself (an incident which for the most part thankfully remains "evidence" free).



1:57AM - Now up next there was originally going to be a third "headlining" act: Rocketsmiths from Brisbane. Only as luck would have it they totally goosed up their Tiger Airways flight over and didn't make it in time (and yes.. feel free to tell me just how much I should be kicking myself retarded over the fact that I missed them!). Which as it turns out, resulted in both remaining bands being scheduling later in the night to cover up for the shortfall. Which makes for quite the happy coincidence too.. considering I arrived late myself and would've otherwise totally missed out on the first act, the same first act I was here to see.. WHOAAAA!! And as much as I don't want to imply that Tea might have "phoned a bomb threat in" to achieve any of that (no.. not at all!) I'm instead gonna divert your attention to Alister Pike's kickdrum. What's so special about that you might ask!? Well.. you see that decorative logo he's got covering it? "no really Spoz, get to the fucking point already!". Well would you believe that it only cost him $15? "GET OUTTA HERE!!". No really.. don't pretend to be all enthused on my account! Apparently he cooked the whole thing up in Photoshop, went to one of those crap shack printers, knocked up an enlargement and whacked it on with blu-tack.. HOW MAD IS THAT SHIT!? yup that's a bona fide tip you can take to the bank!



And that's not the only thing they were giving away either! HELL NO!! All these copies of their debut EP "The Rise And Decline Of The Sun"? They were totally giving them away for less than the price of a beer. LESS THAN THE PRICE OF A BEER!! IMAGINE THAT!? And we're talking a schooner of beer here.. not one of your fancy pants pints (or the price of a handle, a middy or a pot for all you interstaters). Shit if you happened to be a hack journalist like myself, it didn't even cost you a dime! In fact I might have even scored fifty to a hundred of them, spread them about the floor in front of me and pulled "snow angels" like a madman. And I swear it was the most fun you could ever have in two minutes (with your clothes on?) without being stuck in an awkward two hour conversation afterwards attempting to explain where your relationship might be heading: "well um, I don't know about you but I always thought it was obvious: I'm in it for the beer YOU FOOL!!".



2:01AM - Now to be honest I'm feeling at a bit of a "loose end" right now. And I don't just mean for the past thirteen odd years (ooooh zing!) I mean more tonight: here at The Ed Castle, here in the band room, taking stupid photos of Jay Walker & The Pedestrians trying to pack their shit away, in the off chance I might pick a fight over it.. aaaah fuck it what else was I going to do with my night? SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE!? AAAAAHAhAHaHAhahA!! And as much as I could've simply switched my camera off, hit the bar, gotten even more hilariously drunk and forgotten I was even writing this blog in the first place (or at least until I ended up at Supermild) I also figured I hadn't been taking nearly enough stupid photos for the past few months (and in my defense I have been a little too weirdly sober to find the "inspiration") which for those of you keeping score? pretty much means I'll keep doing what I've done all night anyways but now I'll totally have "justification". And don't both Alister and Dan here look real happy that I came to that roundabout conclusion too!?



(this photo for instance would look totally bitchin' for their next poster)



2:08AM - And so with newfound purpose.. as much as it's pretty much been the same "purpose" I've had all night: and that's justifying my drunkeness in public by projecting it onto everyone else around me (ain't that the truth!) I headed out into the front bar just now in search of more "unsuspecting victims" to inspire me. And it didn't take long to find them either when I bumped into these two likely louts: Scott Somerville and Tim Whitt (formerly The Waterslides) spinning tunes as The Bottle Rocket DJs (aaaah yes.. I truly do bring out the "best" in people don't I!?).



2:21AM - Stumbling into the beer garden next, most if not all of the people out here simply took one look at me and collectively jumped the fence rather than face me (hmmm come to think of it I kinda wish I got a video of that). Those chance few exceptions that remain however? are quite possibly the ones that disturb me the most. Take Olivia here for instance: "doe eyed deer" if ever I saw one (awwww I know!). Appearing on Spoz's Rant would surely be the last thing she'd ever want, a waking nightmare even. Except everytime I bump into her, she gets this crazy idea into her head that I need to take a photo of her, then insists she inspects said photo, goes "ohhhh gawd I look hideous! DELETE!! DELETE!!" and then insists I take another one. Now as much as this make her little different from all the other "exciteable scene girls" I know (yeaaah it's a hard life but someone's gotta do it) when I get a bad photo? they're really REALLY hilariously bad. I mean she takes really "good photos" too, don't get me wrong she's cute as a button! it's just she excels at the trainwrecks like they're nothing short of an artform. So being who I am? yup I obviously delete all the good ones and simply use the bad ones instead; with the possible exception of this photo where she's rather deftly shifted the focus to her friend here.. I know, she really is THAT GOOD!!



2:33AM - And of course the minute you take one of these photos? quite like one potato chip fed to a seagull they'll come a flocking in greater numbers: flapping their arms about all exciteably, squawking mad and begging for more, knowing full well what the horrifying outcome will become of it when they see them sober a week later. "GUH!! HOW COULD I BE SO STOOOOPID!?". Well if it's any consolation? all but maybe five of the 630 odd photos tagged of me in facebook is every one YOU maniacs getting your own back (proud of every one of them I am too!). Just as I gotta give you due credit for occassionally coming up with truly creative suggestions in which to shoot yours: like this one here that I shot whilst standing over a table. One made all the funnier by the fact that not only did a bouncer come running when he saw this (only to be shooed away by Laura looking weirdly photogenic on the left there: "pfft.. it's cool maaan, he's here all the time!") but also because I ended up shooting a subsequent one, because Olivia saw the first one and shrieked "ohhhh gawd I look hideous! HEEEDIOUS!!" (so.. guess which one I ended up using anyways!?).



3:05AM - Still as much fun as that arguably is? it's still a lot of hard work. And if anything? the very fact that I'm HERE slumming it at The Ed Castle tonight implies I'm looking for the exact opposite of "hard work" or sweet fuckall beyond a simple "drink to face" transaction whilst shooting anything stupid or insane that happens to cross my path (Olivia the golden exception of course). Which is where Brendan Shaw enters the picture. Yup you may recognise him as the lead singer for Lady Strangelove, or as one of the Strangelove DJs who spins here almost every Friday night, or maybe.. just maybe (if legend serves us correctly) as one of a group of shining individuals who may've indirectly lead to The Vines cancelling their nationwide tour due to "mental illness" back in November 2008: when Craig Nicholls made that ill informed "trip" to The Ed Castle (and I'll let you decide for yourself on the "veracity" of that claim). Either way it can't be denied that above all else he is truly a gift to photography that keeps on giving. Obviously words alone cannot express what you're about to witness here.. nope, quite like The Matrix you must experience THIS for yourself.






Somewhere in the middle of all this shit he might have mentioned too, that this was the first night he'd been out "drinking" in six months. To his credit? I don't think anyone would've really noticed.






3:19AM - And then the weirdest thing happened: without warning all the lights went out and we were plunged into darkness. Obviously it would be ill informed of us to leap to any unfounded conclusions here, putting "two and two" together of where two entirely unrelated events do not intersect but I admit, the coincidence was downright freaky (and not entirely unprecedented). Still all was not lost. In quite the same way that excessive dope smoking leads to carpentry, so too Brendan Shaw proved to be a dab hand as a "master electrician" (no really, it's his professional trade and everything!). And in next to no time with bouncers and barstaff gobsmacked in awe, he brought order back to the grid. And then to commemorate the occassion? we took THIS photo.



3:30AM - Obviously we'd stumbled upon something huge here.. monumental! As much as we had absolutely no idea what triggered it, or how, or even if any of this shit was related at all.. who's to know!? either way we tried our utmost to recreate the same conditions with anyone else we happened to find. I mean there's no point repeating the same experiment with Brendan is there? it's just simple scientific reductionism! Find the mechanism at play, replicate, repeat, or at the very least take multiple shots ridiculing anyone insane enough to try whilst pissing ourselves retarded. Subject A: Mathias Northway from Two Suns. Results: confusing? Conclusion: needs more testing.



Subject B: Alister Pike from Jay Walker & The Pedestrians. Results: "WHOAAA FUCKING FUCK!!" Conclusion: the sooner we leave this place and forget we ever unleashed this insanity? the better!



3:40AM - Obviously there's no logical explanation for why we ended up at Supermild, I mean shit duuude since when is "logic" ever implied or even known to exist at this juncture!? (not this night or any other night.. but especially not THIS night!) nope we're well beyond the point at which even my futile attempts to provide "meaningful commentary" would ever provide sollace to the many questions that must surely be vexing your mind right now. Still at the very least? I did use an entirely different photo to signify it. Motorcycles at 90 degree angles at all times!? spectacular!



4:27AM - Now in any other night (and by "any other night" I clearly mean when I still possess a teeny tiny "marble" of common sense to think better of it) I wouldn't ever bother documenting anything that happened while we're in here. I mean shit duuude you know the drill: blah-di-blah "long necks of beer!!" yah-di-yah "hey look some peeps I've photographed upteen billion times before doing fashionably wacky shit!" derp derp derp "RUBY CHEW!!"; no seriously feel free to tune out any minute now I reaaally don't mind. Except clearly I've already "tuned out" myself tonight, and I've already been on a mission and a half to shoot pretty much anything stupid and or insane in sight and yeaaah fuck it why stop now? Still at the very least (after deleting 90 odd photos that were inexplicably pointed at the floor or ceiling) I did come up with some certifiable gold: like THIS shot for instance. Clearly it needs no captioning (as much as I'm supplying one anyways) suffice to say that I literally wept tears of laughter when I attempted to edit this one up in Photoshop. And if you're still missing the punchline? simply scan your eyes left to right past the two Lucys until you find it.. no shit, I don't know HOW he isn't printed on our currency. Brendan Shaw: living legend!



4:34AM - Of course they weren't the only ones "worth documenting" in here tonight (or in other words I'm so sorry I had to put you through all this shit). Except most were already forming a screaming stampede out the back door jumping the fence at the mere sight of me (half their luck I'd say) except for Dan Varricchio here from Like Leaves. Apparently he was one of the few poor souls didn't get what all the "flashing sirens" over the bar meant when they ushered my arrival a whole hour ago. And better yet he's holding an entirely "ridiculous" looking wine decanter (which as we all know is the only excuse I ever need to photograph the living shit out of it). And as for that whimsical pair of bunny ears popping up behind him? yeaaah funny you should mention them: as no sooner did I show Dan this photo, the owner of said "bunny ears" poked her head in, went "awww crap you got my armpit!" and so we agreed to shoot a second photo (which in my infinite wisdom I've decided NOT to publish here as it was so damn awesome she'd likely kill me for it).



Yup so there we have it: an entire Saturday night blog concocted for the sole purpose of writing about a band some random pissweasel at Supermild's been bugging me to see for months now that very few of us even knew existed, let alone believed COULD exist with an hilariously fucked up name like "Tea" (Tea? no really? TEA!? WHAT THE EXPLODING CRAP IS THAT ALL ABOUT!?). Better yet I didn't even have to go to all this effort in the first place as it turns out: as days afterwards I discovered they'd already booked to play this following Friday night with Bird Wizdom, Fake Tan, The Aves (and about a billion other fartarse bands you've likely never heard of) for some hit and run "alleyway show" (aka: what could be better than catching five or more bands stuffed into a "heritage listed" warehouse/firehazard with little or no stage lighting or PA system while hundreds of teenagers drink goon and tear shit up!? NOTHING THAT'S WHAT!!) the same show that I was totally planning on seeing anyways since, fuck I dunno.. August? (which pretty much means I wrote up this entire blog up for nothing!? HA HA HA aaawesome!). Yup as much as many things in this music scene might still be a "mystery" even to me after all these years, at least it's obvious now why I get drunk. Because if I didn't? all this insanity would begin to make a whole lot LESS sense.

Previously on Spoz's Rant: Seabellies + Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! + Steering By Stars

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