tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64389423030088575802024-02-19T16:40:52.768+11:00Sydney TapesCA-11 -> ST-9100 -> iRiver HP-120 w/ RockBox or Edirol R-09HRMorrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-74125867076928929182010-10-19T12:42:00.003+11:002010-10-19T13:04:17.299+11:00FarewellAt least for now.<br /><br />As you have probably noticed I'm not really doing this so much anymore. It's been a productive two years and a lot changing during that time, but unfortunately I'm not feeling the passion for it anymore and feel as if recently it's becoming more of a chore that's taking away from my enjoyment of shows. I took a month of going to gigs in general and came back trying to tape Sun Araw and that was not a good experience, I might release that later. Hey, I might even come back to the blog later if I feel and resparked interest in it, or maybe if the Sydney scene really switches it up in the near future. That said it's been a fun 2 years, met a buttload of people, heard a lot of incredible music and I think I've captured a very important time in Sydney music on tape forever. Thanks to everyone that listened, commented, let me tape them, hung out with me at shows, let me know that my efforts were appreciated, Adam Lewis for having me on Radiant on FBi a few times, <a href="http://papaiti.com/bootlegs">Papaiti</a> for playing my tapes on his show in Wellington, and Chris over at <a href="http://fanmaderecordings.blogspot.com/">Fan Made Recordings</a> for getting me into this in the first place.<br /><br />As for regrets, I regret never being able to record the following bands: Ether Rag, Thylacine, Yes, I'm Leaving, Let Me Down Gently, Jungleman, None Music, Ghoul, Michael Crafter, Carborator and plenty more from beyond Sydney.<br /><br />And for the sake of numbers, my most downloaded shows were The Cure, Pavement, Rowland S. Howard, Glassjaw and Paul McCartney in that order, each downloaded tens of thousands of times each. I might do a few posts in the future revisiting my favourite shows.<br /><br />I might have some new blogs up soon, something small for now that I run with Adam Lewis from Radiant on FBi fame is <a href="http://ausreleases.tumblr.com/">ausreleases</a>, just an archive of albums released for free by Australian bands.Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-38051111195506911072010-08-23T16:17:00.005+10:002010-08-23T16:39:40.768+10:00Royal Headache + Wollen KitsPhotos by Dimity. Full set over at <a href="http://twentyeightpercent.blogspot.com/">Two Point Eight.</a><br /><br />I didn't get a chance to record Lowlife and the Warm Feelings as I was pretty all over the place at that part of the night, but they were pretty cool.<br /><br />But before I start anything, fuck Newtown RSL. I haven't been there since I saw Animal Collective play there years ago, unless that Kiosk + Calvin Johnson show was after that, I forget. But the sound is fucking atrocious, at random points the sound would just totally blow out and either become all high end or get drowned in bass, and at the best of times it was like hearing the bands play through a hand held radio, also I know it's standard RSL fare but trying to tell people that live within 5kms that they need to get a membership is annoying as hell when you have an event such as this going on.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Woollen Kits</span> played just as well as they did the night before, but with pretty poor sound, but less guitar cutting out.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx-9Aht-vrhvQtTfNCKYq_GadozdAbEP7tMH-9K_H9WPnGcDxdCEDTBMulCIWzR2C-S74JbKiQVWwh2UntjQhmNMRiih67_-pMU3Nj5ihBkg2fLIJbJmR9vjAb6ge_FtjPt-Z-ZKBXeuQ/s800/IMG_5981.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 580px; height: 387px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx-9Aht-vrhvQtTfNCKYq_GadozdAbEP7tMH-9K_H9WPnGcDxdCEDTBMulCIWzR2C-S74JbKiQVWwh2UntjQhmNMRiih67_-pMU3Nj5ihBkg2fLIJbJmR9vjAb6ge_FtjPt-Z-ZKBXeuQ/s800/IMG_5981.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G7R5BCRL"><br />Woollen Kits - Newtown RSL, Sydney, 20/08/2010 - 47mb - 30 minutes</a><br /><br />Playing the shortest set of the night in true <span style="font-weight: bold;">Royal Headache</span> style, they stepped it up a notch and reminded everyone why they love them so much. No other band in Sydney can get a crowd going like these guys can and it's pretty awesome/fun to see that sort of reaction. It still amuses me how much they hate even the slightest suggestion of playing Honey Joy, despite the fact that song is pure genius.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYF0bPUeVeir2qHdQD_5Gg_AR7nkYg4EFjJt8WEBEl7rti1hj2QB4XXxcFu6lEFMCGnETpc8D_X96NRl988cDR-2zH1GqtxUIdJ_HCrxbeoTNfjvMjrGOUj-nnsTHqJu_qBM-fDJlynFg/s800/IMG_6032.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 580px; height: 387px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYF0bPUeVeir2qHdQD_5Gg_AR7nkYg4EFjJt8WEBEl7rti1hj2QB4XXxcFu6lEFMCGnETpc8D_X96NRl988cDR-2zH1GqtxUIdJ_HCrxbeoTNfjvMjrGOUj-nnsTHqJu_qBM-fDJlynFg/s800/IMG_6032.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A28M6XB1">Royal Headache - Newtown RSL, Sydney, 20/08/2010 - 33mb - 23 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-15644879316531627112010-08-23T16:07:00.004+10:002010-08-23T16:41:04.306+10:00Woollen Kits + Bed Wettin' Bad BoysPhoto by Dimity. Full set available at <a href="http://twentyeightpercent.blogspot.com/">Two Point Eight.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bed Wettin' Bad Boys</span> played a set with Shortty (currently of Royal Headache fame) on drums. It's pretty cool that they switched things up but I definitely prefer it as just the 3 of them, it kinda took away from the amateur charm and made it all a bit stale.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48Qo2nvuYoGCAvzeRvQcC7ic2KjzyU1ZUuZeuwoYPjzNxkpBiQBYSTvjtizNWb-ASlg6CbUp2MOZdPLUEN1VKuPTfcRD-wymy9bZaXztA5IrNpXvjMqiAoTW51t69IVjVr1_MiOCsfTU/s800/IMG_5931.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 580px; height: 387px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48Qo2nvuYoGCAvzeRvQcC7ic2KjzyU1ZUuZeuwoYPjzNxkpBiQBYSTvjtizNWb-ASlg6CbUp2MOZdPLUEN1VKuPTfcRD-wymy9bZaXztA5IrNpXvjMqiAoTW51t69IVjVr1_MiOCsfTU/s800/IMG_5931.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=382JTWPH">Bed Wettin' Bad</a><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=382JTWPH"> Boys - Gallery Bar, Sydney, 19/08/2010 - 41mb - 28 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Woollen Kits</span> came up to Sydney for the weekend to play a stack of free shows. The vocals sort of become over powering in the last song so everything else is mixed a bit lower throughout as a result, I might fix it later, but their brand of double-guitar-pop is just beautiful. First time getting to see them live so half the set was new music for it and I dug it all heaps.<br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KPRL0P93"><br />Woollen Kits - Gallery Bar, Sydney, 19/08/2010 - 44.7mb - 31 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-24510139970686817952010-08-11T21:38:00.003+10:002010-08-11T21:49:07.472+10:00First ever Absolute Boys show.Long long ago I got to witness and record <span style="font-weight: bold;">Absolute Boys</span> first ever show supporting My Disco, Holy Balm and Royal Headache. The recording was great, and they were great, but this has been unavailable since then. But as of right now I'm allowed to put it back up so everyone can hear, and I cannot recommend it more. Give it a spin. Here's what I said at the time:<br /><br />"Who are the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Absolute Boys</span>? I only found out who they "might" be the night before and this was enough to make me excited, 1 part <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Eucalpyt</span>, 2 parts <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ohana</span>, and the result was fucking awesome. Got about half way through the intro to the first song before realising this was going to be a great band. Pretty sure this was their first show."<br /><br />Minimalist awesome.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9WE2BNJD">Absolute Boys - Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, 24/09/2009 - 30.54<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">mb</span> - 21 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-67002958335095410972010-08-02T19:06:00.003+10:002010-08-02T19:12:23.473+10:00Pisschrist farewellSupported by Pathetic Human and Teargas.<br /><br />This was due to start at 4pm in Footscray Park, but this damn hyped up thing I've been hearing about all weekend called the "Arctic Blast" hit and just started pissing down, being windy as hell and into single digits of temperature, so we had to stand around for about an hour and a half while things were slowly set up, was actually quite painful but easily worth it.<br /><br />Was really pumped to see <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pathetic Human</span>, I expected nothing more than the 10 minutes set they gave us, I couldn't see anything but they played well.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O0OYDWKG">Pathetic Human - Footscray Park, Melbourne, 01/08/2010 - 15mb - 10 minutes</a><br /><br />Never heard of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Teargas</span> but I am an instant convert, once again didn't see what they looked like. The power cuts out about half way through after one of the many dogs pull it out of the pole, followed by a human pyramid being built to plug it back in.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RB0M4LAB">Teargas - Footscray Park, Melbourne, 01/08/2010 - 39mb - 26 minutes</a><br /><br />And on to the final ever <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pisschrist</span> show, they were awesome, so damn awesome. BUT. They played for 50 fucking minutes. I was exhausted by the end, I granted that it was their farewell show but I had really had enough by this point with the weather/location and what not. Though huge fans of the band would have been loving it, and so ended my adventure to Footscray Park and Melbourne.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N1FHBG8Q">Pisschrist - Footscray Park, Melbourne, 01/08/2010 - 77mb - 51 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-10990664138335222312010-08-02T18:53:00.004+10:002010-08-02T19:25:20.848+10:00Super Wild Horses album launchSupported by School of Radiant Living, Boomgates and Total Control.<br /><br />So I went to Melbourne for the weekend, I had a bit of trouble trying to figure out which Victoria Hotel this was since the address I had been given was an actual hotel. Turns out the show was literally in a hotel, in a function room. Which turned out to be surprisingly good, as I'm sure they don't normally have gigs there so there was no limiter and it was preeeeeeeeetty pretty loud.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boomgates</span> were quite interesting to see, who are (correct me if I'm wrong) Rick from the Twerps, Steph from Dick Diver, Gus from Teen Archer, Brendan from Eddy Current Suppression Ring and maybe one other person. There are some really well thought out songs here, but they also played a few duds as well, a short set of all the good stuff would have gone over really well, but this dragged on a little. Brendan spent half the set shredding into a melodica and I don't think I heard a peep out of it once.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AOEY46EU">Boomgates - Victoria Hotel, Melbourne, 31/07/2010 - 45mb - 31 minutes</a><br /><br />I was always looking forward to seeing <span style="font-weight: bold;">Total Control</span>, but did not expect them to be this good, one of the best sets I've seen all year, if I had to go down "x meets y" path I'd say Chrome Dome meets Brainiac. Best I saw all weekend, as far as I know Total Control is Mikey from Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Dan from the UV Race/Straitjacket Nation, Al from UV Race/Dick Diver and two other dudes that I'm sure people from Melbourne know.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AC1Y04QW">Total Control - Victoria Hotel, Melbourne, 31/07/2010 - 41mb - 27 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Super Wild Horses</span>, seemed to be a bit of an off night and they played wayyy to long. I didn't even know they had this many songs, plenty of enjoyable moments through out though.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y6G1A068">Super Wild Horses - Victoria Hotel, Melbourne, 31/07/2010 - 63mb - 44 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-3093177304932289182010-07-26T17:33:00.003+10:002010-07-26T17:35:54.364+10:00Golden Staph + Super Wild HorsesI missed all of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Golden Staph</span>'s shows this weekend because shit was busy as and I'm lazy but they were awesome, regret only seeing them the once but that didn't take away from it at all.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D06WYWP7">Golden Staph - Repressed Records, Sydney, 25/07/2010 - 29mb - 20 minutes</a><br /><br />First impressions from seeing <span style="font-weight: bold;">Super Wild Horses</span> back at Flip Out last year left me less than impressed. In fact I hated them, time to admit I was wrong because this was great.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HN6ALZ1G">Super Wild Horses - Repressed Records, Sydney, 25/07/2010 - 29mb - 21 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-57309202067000296292010-07-26T17:26:00.003+10:002010-07-26T17:33:11.239+10:00Intentions + Dead China Doll<span style="font-weight: bold;">Intentions</span> rule. Simple as that. It's a bit jumpy at the start and the vocals are blaringly loud.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AELU8GVJ">Intentions - Black Wire to Common Ground, Sydney, 24/07/2010 - 25mb - 17 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dead China Doll</span> rule. Simple as that. It's a bit jumpy at the end and the drumming is amazing.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MT0H3WF4">Dead China Doll - Black Wire to Common Ground, Sydney, 24/07/2010 - 26mb - 17 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-72855874119298711602010-07-26T17:23:00.003+10:002010-07-26T17:26:46.136+10:00Sally Seltmann - Heart That's Pounding launchI don't normally go to shows like this, but I was entertained and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sally Seltmann</span> writes a damn fine song. Darren from the Avalanches was on the drums as well. She plays quite a few New Buffalo songs as well, crowd was strange, 30-somethings trying to hold on to their youth through FBi vs. Triple J mouth breathers. The type of crowd that when the performer asks for quiet spends the entire song shushing each other.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KJH03YGN">Sally Seltmann - Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, 23/07/2010 - 91mb - 1 hour 5 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-21115415590666201122010-07-26T16:07:00.003+10:002010-07-26T16:12:04.790+10:00Naked on the Vague + Southern ComfortI'm not 100% on what <span style="font-weight: bold;">Southern Comfort</span> is. It's just Harriet and Angela yeah with Jack filling in whatevers vacant? Every time I see them he's playing a different instrument. Anyway, pretty cool.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HTKT42N5">Southern Comfort - Spectrum, Sydney, 23/07/2010 - 40mb - 28 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Naked on the Vague</span> played a sort of stripped down set, a lot less keyboards and pedals and such and lots more guitar, the result was brutal, one of the best sets I've seen them play.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GLLJKWR9">Naked on the Vague - Spectrum, Sydney, 23/07/2010 - 52mb - 36 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-44208991184446385352010-07-13T16:39:00.006+10:002010-07-13T16:47:26.848+10:00Aktion Unit + AlpsWent to the new Dirty Shirlows during the day for a set from Aktion Unit. It's pretty cool the way they've done it up, proper PA, a (wide but shallow) stage and even some lights. Didn't expect it coming in, so I guess that explains why they were closed for that time.<br /><br />I guess Alps of NSW is just <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alps</span> now, but this set was el grande. I missed everyone before he came on though.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HCJNPI68">Alps - Dirty Shirlows, Sydney, 11/07/2010 - 34mb - 23 minutes</a><br /><br />When <span style="font-weight: bold;">Aktion Unit</span> started it was some big band mode, there were 8 people on stage but my first impression that it was going to be some very low key ambient affair, but by about half way through everything was building up and by the end it was just an incredible cacophony of sound. A really great set all around. People were employing shit they'd learn from the Dead C the night before.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5JRRJAOT">Aktion Unit - Dirty Shirlows, Sydney, 11/07/2010 - 24mb - 16 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-20008229882547832842010-07-13T16:39:00.005+10:002010-07-13T16:47:23.494+10:00The Dead C for the Biennale<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Dead C</span> played their first show in 7 years in Australia as a free one at the SuperDeluxe Artspace. Spent the whole week pretty excited for this one and it met expectations, I missed the first minute or so because I was playing pool. Everyone seemed pretty stoked about when they started raking their guitars around during the feedback section at the end, I'm glad the sound quality turned out as well as it did because I had pretty low hopes at the time. There are at least 3 other recordings floating around out there if you don't like this one.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S8L43KUA">The Dead C - SuperDeluxe Artspace, Sydney, 10/07/2010 - 80.6mb - 55 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-67316422821309436582010-07-05T00:54:00.002+10:002010-07-05T01:14:18.887+10:00In Sepia/Nim split launchSince it was just down the road from Black Wire, why the hell wouldn't I?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hira Hira </span>played, you know the deal, there's a bit of clipping from my shitty wire that caused problems all weekend. Sing-a-long good times.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CSZX3ENB">Hira Hira - Jura Books, Sydney, 03/07/2010 - 25mb - 17 minutes</a><br /><br />Been waiting a while to finally see <span style="font-weight: bold;">In Sepia</span>, totally entrancing stuff. They were really really great. One of those bands I realised I had never seen before until they mentioned that it was their first time in Sydney.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MTAXJJ5E">In Sepia - Jura Books, Sydney, 03/07/2010 - 44mb - 30 minutes</a><br /><br />I had never heard of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nim</span> before and assumed I like them by association. They frikken ruled, really showy stuff, but great, fun post-hardcore in the same vein of Life at These Speeds/Moving Mountains, but from Japan instead. A band I wish I had known of before going in, but what better way to discover them?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ENT4JOTR">Nim - Jura Books, Sydney, 03/07/2010 - 59mb - 36 minutes</a><br /><br />And so ends the most incredibubble weekend ever.Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-12115877622874693382010-07-05T00:44:00.004+10:002010-07-05T00:51:10.192+10:00Black Wire to Common Ground in-storeSo <a href="http://www.blackwiretocommonground.blogspot.com/">Black Wire</a> is pretty much the new Paint it Black. First time I've been there and it rules. Great room for gigs and they have every Murder City Devils LP for $12! Entirely volunteer ran.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Fighting League</span> represented Canberra and were basically a shit load of fun. I dunno if I wanna bother describing it, just listen.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DUX1BLJQ">The Fighting League - Black Wire to Common Ground, Sydney, 03/07/2010 - 36mb - 25 minutes</a><br /><br />I've been pretty obsessed with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Assassins 88</span> tape the past couple of months, but I didn't know what to expect from them live. Just assumed it would be a duo and the bassist would sing, but turns out they both sing, with the drummer doing most of it with a mic (Telephone receiver? Ribbon mic? Same thing? Neither?) duct taped into his mouth. Live gave me mad Lightning Bolt vibes, without sounding like them at all. Just loud as shit pop music with crazy drumming.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U6HNHZQ0">Assassins 88 - Black Wire to Common Ground, Sydney, 03/07/2010 - 27mb - 19 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bitch Prefect</span> again. Awesome again. What a band. Come back soon.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0QGJ8HV9">Bitch Prefect - Black Wire to Common Ground, Sydney, 03/07/2010 - 51.5mb - 37 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-47357016752730600592010-07-05T00:28:00.003+10:002010-07-05T00:38:39.077+10:00Naked on the Vagues - Heaps of Nothing album launchA friend reminded me before their set that I once said that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Holy Balm</span> flip flopped between being "Eh" and the best band in the world. I retract that statement now, they're consistently amazing. Another great set.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1K9BY5EP">Holy Balm - Excelsior Hotel, Sydney, 02/07/2010 - 40mb - 27 minutes</a><br /><br />Just the same as everyone else, after hearing Kitchen's Floor do Bad Decisions and deciding that it's pretty much the best song ever, I had to see <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bitch Prefect</span>. They are great not a single bad song all set, just really great pop music, me and everyone I've hung around in the days since have just been singing along to basically any song from this set.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CPERM4OM">Bitch Prefect - Excelsior Hotel, Sydney, 02/07/2010 - 46mb - 31 minutes</a><br /><br />First chance I've had to see <span style="font-weight: bold;">Naked on the Vague</span> since releasing the best album ever. They ruled, had never heard Blank Minds live before, but the whole place basically turned into a metal gig when that was dropped, just heavy as hell. Band were at the top of their game at this show, a flooring set. Just the worlds darkest music with genius pop melodies is all.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Setlist</span><br />These Days<br />Mysterious Oven<br />New Song<br />The Joke<br />Wrong Room<br />Sacred Youth<br />Treading Water<br />Black Lettuce<br />Blank Minds<br /><br /><a href="//www.megaupload.com/?d=P4M5WS03">Naked on the Vague - Excelsior Hotel, Sydney, 02/07/2010 - 62mb - 43 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-34295406910031875522010-07-05T00:10:00.010+10:002010-07-05T01:47:38.177+10:00Dualplover End of Financial Year PartyDon't know how, but Lucas Abela managed to get Sydney's music scene to go to Home Nightclub. That was an odd experience.<br /><br />I got there about 9pm, and now that the line up was basically nothing like it was originally planned, I don't know who the first couple of bands I saw were, I'm assuming I missed Godswounds, but the first I recognised were <span style="font-weight: bold;">Crab Smasher</span>, one of those bands that are awesome and on every line up, but I keep managing to miss. Was a good way to start the night, there's a short conversation I have towards the start of it, sorry about that, also I can't remember how much of the first song I missed, my gear has been fucking up recently, and I know exactly how to fix it, I just don't have the money.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M27YCH68">Crab Smasher - Home, Sydney, 30/06/2010 - 23mb - 17 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Drunk Elk</span> played next I think, I've completely forgotten the order, and were a bit of a downer and didn't quite suite the night, but were still great. There's about 5 minutes I cut out in the middle of them just tuning their instruments.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8S7L9OD2">Drunk Elk - Home, Sydney, 30/06/2010 - 28mb - 19 minutes</a><br /><br />10 minutes of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rice Corpse</span> next, don't know why so short, guess Lucas had better shit to do that night. Still mad regrets not taping them at Auralted States, probably the best I've seen them played, also the longest.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8RDI7SLC">Rice Corpse - Home, Sydney, 30/06/2010 - 13mb - 9 minutes</a><br /><br />Then in true Dualplover style it turned into some fucking weird rave-core rave for about an hour and a half and everyone acted like a bunch of fucking weirdos, after counting down to the new financial year. It was awesome.<br /><br />I had been quite excited to see <span style="font-weight: bold;">Horse MacGyver</span>, (Probably better known as ///▲▲▲\\\, fucken #\\/\\/|†©|•| |•|▲µ§, too far? Too far.) so I was a bit shitty that he played a short set, and some cunt spent the entire set throwing shit at him, but when he got into the flow of things it was really fucking good, but by all accounts his set at Serial Space the night before was just mind blowing. Because I decided to consider that I was seeing him tonight and skip out on that show to go to my usual Tuesday Night Trivia at the Clare. I'm dumb.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DD6F7FBO">Horse MacGyver - Home, Sydney, 30/06/2010 - 24mb - 17 minutes</a><br /><br />I saw <span style="font-weight: bold;">Teen Ax</span> once before when they were Liz Hurly, and was really impressed, they were still really good but it occurred to me that night that the drummer is just fucking appalling, even playing shit as simple as this and everything about it is so weak. Here, have the potential award.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TY0IMTAX">Teen Ax - Home, Sydney, 30/06/2010 - 20mb - 14 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Whores</span> rule. Whores fucking rules.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ADXWWZY1">Whores - Home, Sydney, 30/06/2010 - 25mb - 18 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-65799443221487715502010-06-27T22:24:00.001+10:002010-06-27T22:26:26.773+10:00Oren Ambarchi for the BienalleYeah I don't really consider going to the eastern suburbs for a gig a good time, but <span style="font-weight: bold;">Oren Ambarchi</span> blissed everyone and their free noodles the fuck out. I don't know how long Oren Ambarchi gigs normally go for but 25mins leaves me wanting a lot more.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U658NZH2">Oren Ambarchi - SuperDeluxe Artspace, Sydney, 26/06/2010 - 33mb - 25 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-23121131312424709192010-06-27T21:24:00.003+10:002010-06-27T22:19:07.831+10:00Graf Orlock/Dangers House showYeah I went to a house show and took my recording gear, nerd alert.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nice Guys</span> opened up proceedings at the neighbourhood friendly time of 1pm, I only ever seen these guys one other time at their first show, and got damn they've improved. They got really good really fast. Eager to see them again after this.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BQUDY5OB">Nice Guys - House Show, Sydney, 26/06/2010 - 29mb - 20 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dangers</span> were up next, and my impression was that the vocalist was trying to murder the crowd, he at one staged jammed me into a fireplace. Pretty darn good set but there were times where the vocals verged into the yelping territory, but the rest of the time they were really solid.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V74NVRE7">Dangers - House Show, Sydney, 26/06/2010 - 40mb - 28 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Graf Orlock</span> last. It's not every day you attend a gig where everyone shouts along to movie quotes, but these guys really brought it. The mics clip a whole heap when shit gets rough but I managed to get a good sound out of it, sounds a bit fucked up as well when a few guys and I tried to jam him through the bannister. Classic ending of doing a cover of the Jurassic Park theme while crowd surfing through the room, through the kitchen and out into the backyard.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y8ZBDTE7">Graf Orlock - House Show, Sydney, 26/06/2010 - 35mb - 25 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-84091914004057347632010-06-10T14:28:00.003+10:002010-06-10T16:20:45.190+10:00Crow album launchSo this was pretty cool, never had a chance to see <span style="font-weight: bold;">Crow</span> before, though they mostly played new songs, they were done alright, but the older material was amazing and refreshing to hear. The PA system in the venue sucked balls and there were tech problems galore. Notes is a Vanguard-esque venue, which means it sucks. Also middle-aged drunk people. Can't get enough of them.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7QUV7BAW">Crow - Notes, Sydney, 04/06/2010 - 120mb - 1 hour 22 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-43079240575720495282010-06-10T14:16:00.004+10:002010-06-10T16:11:02.735+10:00VIVD Festival: The King Khan & BBQ ShowThis show, quite simply, was weird.<br /><br />It started off good enough, with King Khan walking off stage, out the fire exit and up onto the balcony where Lou Reed was seated to try and play a guitar solo, unfortunately the guitar dropped out and it was left up to Mark Sultan to fill the gap. From there on the show was up and down. Great parts included the music, Mark Sultan, getting everyone to throw a rubber snake around, and feeding everyone, the weird parts were King Khan being a general douche, being incredibly racist and getting the person he was being racist towards to dance for him still, cracking the shits with people in the crowd, kicking a dude in the fucking face, and desperate chicks getting up on stage being desperate.<br /><br />It was easy to tell what was part of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> the King Khan and BBQ Show</span> and what wasn't, seemed to me like King Khan was just trying to hard to impress Lou Reed, who greeted him mostly with his heroin face.<br /><br />So yeah, The King Khan and BBQ Show ended after this show, and King Khan was banned from the Opera House. They are no more. Read King Khan's side of the story <a href="http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=27519.0">here</a>, though he quite obviously left a lot out, what was written there wouldn't have caused Mark Sultan to break up the band, but it's all very sad, they were great together.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z3E68P5D">The King Khan & BBQ Show - Opera House Studio, Sydney, 03/06/2010 - 99mb - 1 hour 8 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-17442670200801156312010-06-03T12:37:00.004+10:002010-06-06T02:01:56.980+10:00VIVID Festival: Melt-BananaThis was awesome.<br /><br />The set starts out with 15/20 minutes of the Yasuko Onuki & Ichirou Agata collaboration that was shown at Noise Night, once again in complete darkness with nothing but head torches, before the rest of the band joined them for an hours worth of awesome<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Melt-Banana</span> material. Yasuko has the craziest eyes ever when she's not being adorable and Ichirou is still blowing my mind as a guitarist. Encore includes them covering the Specials covering Monkey Man.<br /><br />Not that any one that has any say in this will read this, but I really think the Opera House should have gigs in the Studio like this more often, and not just for international bands/established Australian acts. The sound is amazing and it's got a good vibe, plus the novelty of being the god damn Opera House.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Setlist</span> - <a href="http://happynewears.tripod.com/Melt-Banana.html">Thanks to Wiebke's awesome Melt-Banana live archive</a>.<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Phantasmagoria<br />T for Tone<br />Slide Down<br />One Drop, One life<br />Lock the Head<br />In Store<br />Cat and the Blood<br />Dog Song<br />Dig a Pit<br />Chain Keeper<br />Shield for Your Eyes, a Beast in the Well on Your Hand<br />RRAGG<br />Spider Snipe<br />Heiwaboke Crisis<br />Cat Brain Land<br />Too Rough to Scoop<br />The Call of the Vague<br />Loop Nebula<br />Leeching<br />Circle-Jack (Chase the Magic Words, Lego Lego)<br />A Hunter in the Rain to Cut the Neck Up in the Present Stage<br />Pain in Ash<br />Cracked Plaster Cast<br />Green Eyed Devil<br />A Dreamer who is too Weak to Face Up to<br />Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold<br />Blank Page of the Blind<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Encore</span><br />Monkey Man<br />Spathic!!<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Encore</span><br />Scratch or Stitch! </span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=08OF5YES">Melt-Banana - Opera House Studio, Sydney, 02/06/2010 - 113mb - 1 hour 14 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-4749063733039575902010-06-01T22:24:00.005+10:002010-06-01T23:13:31.013+10:00VIVID Festival: Noise NightHoly. Fucking. Shit. What. Did. I. Just. Witness?<br /><br />To start off it's hard to believe that these bands are all playing the Opera House, let alone all on the one night. Always knew tonight was gonna be special, but no idea it would end up being this huge. Not the loudest gig I've ever been to but definitely one of the most sustained.<br /><br />We walk in to find about 30 people on stage setting gear up and just a dull drone that goes on for about 20 mins before the almighty <span style="font-weight: bold;">Zond</span> begin playing. Now if you went to Flip Out last year, you'd know barely anyone got a chance to see them since they opened the doors after they had already started playing, I was always bitter about this, this set was great though, album is out today on RIP Society in fact. The set ends with a massive drum solo from the drummer, doesn't make sense on the recording, but if you were there, you would have seen that like clock work, the entire stage was flooded with crew bumping out all their gear and setting up for the next band while the drum solo went on, they even removed and replace pieces of the kit while he was playing, then the bassist and guitarist from Melt-Banana come out and fill some time with feedback leading into their set.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A16WE0UO">Zond - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 32mb - 21 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Melt-Banana </span>weren't really suited for the seating environment, but I was blown away by them, the guitarist is beyond amazing. Some really cool sounds and great, punchy and fast songs. Based on this performance I've decided to go see them on Wednesday night as well now. Them pumping out 6-7 songs in their timeslot is pretty funny considering later on Boris only got through one.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5MZXXIY5">Melt-Banana - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 31.6mb - 21 minutes</a><br /><br />It was hard to tell but the next set was actually <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson & Sarth Calhoun</span>. It was odd to see such a legend play so far back on the stage while the sound crew wheeled out all of Boris's gear, but it was actually really good, this is what I was expecting to hear last night, Laurie Anderson really added a lot to it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y8P05EBG">Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson & Sarth Calhoun - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 19.4mb - 13 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oren Ambarchi</span> played a short ambient set in the lead up to Boris, I've never had the opportunity to see him, I've only heard various live tapings of his and all sorts of praise from my friends. Totally blown away, this guy is amazing, I wish he was around more often. Some of the highest calibre of music I think I've ever heard.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F50JY5OT">Oren Ambarchi - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 15.1mb - 11 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oren Ambarchi</span> remained on stage and joined <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boris</span> for one the most face melting 20mins of my life. This was just amazing, they only got through the final Untitled track from Smile, but all of it was amazing. This band, this is the band. Perfect way to close the first half of the set. People really got into it. Four fucking guitars at once though.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PXPH5X0M">Boris & Oren Ambarchi - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 30.3mb - 22 minutes</a><br /><br />Now there was an intermission, I don't know if people were only there for Boris, or didn't know there was an intermission at all but half the people left, to be honest I didn't know there was going to be one but had just assumed as such when the house lights came up, but I've heard a lot of stories of people missing the second half of the show, which is when shit got crazy.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rice Corpse </span>opened the second portion, Lucas Abela playing the fucking Opera House, too be honest it didn't really suit it, I find his performances to be quite confronting and a great time, but a lot of that comes from how close and involved in the crowd he usually is, rather than on a stage 15 or so metres away from anyone. If was after this set that I realised the second portion of the show would have really poor flow, though the biggest cheer of the night was when a vacuum cleaner was brought out to clean up Justice Yeldham's mess, with every cheering for it to be turned up. Noise Night guys.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=81S6SSZE">Rice Corpse - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 17.3mb - 12 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bardo Pond</span> were up next after a bit of awkward silence, with guest spots from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marc Ribot</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Miles Brown</span>. This was probably the loudest part of the night, shame it didn't go for longer but everyone had their time slot I guess. Marc Ribot was amazing to watch.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GVG01NP1">Bardo Pond, Marc Ribot & Miles Brown - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 27.7mb - 20 minutes</a><br /><br />After a way to long intro, there was only enough time for <span style="font-weight: bold;">the Night Terrors</span> to get through 2 songs, I could see potential but there just wasn't enough time for them to do their own thing, will be looking out for a solo show of theirs soon enough.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A3TT554A">The Night Terrors - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 22.1mb - 16 minutes</a><br /><br />Though not on any of the line ups, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yasuko Onuki & Ichirou Agata</span> from Melt-Banana returned to the stage with a different set up and basically trolled the crowd, playing off synth pads, drum machines and all sorts of pedals, they played in complete darkness with only head torches on, playing a constant stop and start set, only giving people enough time to begin playing before starting to blast them with noise again. To be honest, I really liked it. Felt like it went for a life time though.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XJX1LC9P">Yasuka Onuki & Ichirou Agata - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 10.5mb - 7 minutes</a><br /><br />Then there was the collaboration. This was amazing, thought I'd never see anything like it, has to be heard to be believed, once again, what I was more expecting from Metal Machine Trio.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Line-Up</span><br />Lou Reed - Guitars, Effects<br />Laurie Anderson - Violin<br />Sarth Calhoun - Programming (Metal Machine Trio)<br />Marc Ribot - Guitar<br />Ichirou Agata - Pedals (Melt-Banana)<br />Miles Brown - Theremin (The Night Terrors)<br />Tym Krasevac - Drums (Zond)<br />Marney MacLeod - Guitar (Zond)<br />Justin K Fuller - Guitar (Zond)<br />Matthew Brown - Korg (Zond)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3JMR5Q6K">Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Sarth Calhoun, Marc Ribot, Ichirou Agata, Miles Brown, Tym Krasevac, Marney MacLeod, Justin K Fuller & Matthew Brown - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 36.6mb - 25 minutes</a><br /><br />After this, Lou Reed thanked us all and hoped we enjoyed it, and then just sat there while everyone walked out. About 80 or so people decided they weren't going anywhere and stared demanding a Zondcore. After much talking with the various people on stage, the lights went off again and a second jam started for the people who were smart enough to stay behind, this was the much better of the two improv sets at the end and was one of the best things I have ever seen.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Line-Up</span><br />Lou Reed - Guitars, Effects<br />Laurie Anderson - Violin<br />Sarth Calhoun - Programming (Metal Machine Trio)<br />Ichirou Agata - Guitar, Effects (Melt-Banana)<br />Jason Kourkounis - Drums (Bardo Pond, Hot Snakes, The Delta 72)<br />Oren Ambarchi - Drums<br />Miles Brown - Theremin (The Night Terrors)<br />Justin K Fuller - Guitar (Zond)<br />Matthew Brown - Korg (Zond)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KF017M51">Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Sarth Calhoun, Marc Ribot, Ichirou Agata, Jason Kourkounis, Oren Ambarchi, Miles Brown, Justin K Fuller & Matthew Brown - Opera House, Sydney, 31/05/2010 - 30.6mb - 21 minutes</a><br /><br />If anyone knows any more info/people I left out from the collabs, let me know.Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-39831430369261917982010-06-01T22:14:00.003+10:002010-06-01T22:22:45.687+10:00VIVID Festival: Lou Reed's Metal Machine TrioDon't know how I feel on this one. It wasn't quite as expected, I was hoping for a massive wall of feedback and noise with the associated feeling of discomfort through the whole thing, but it ended up being kinda pleasant. There were some very enthralling structured bits, but the improv used to link it all up was pretty sketchy at times. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lou Reed</span> is looking pretty haggered these days, and he sorta just sits on his throne and orders his minions around to do the leg work for him, but overall this was very much worth it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A9TKMFAN">Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio - Opera House Theatre, Sydney, 30/05/2010 - 127.45mb - 1 hour 29 minutes </a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-87624835073588661772010-05-29T10:46:00.004+10:002010-05-29T22:11:00.781+10:00VIVID Festival: BorisSimply floored. Amazing show. If not for Dirty Three, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boris</span> would be the best thing I've seen all year. Opening song is amazing, closing song is even better, they did a bit of everything, a really varied night. Struggling to find the words, a must listen. The atmosphere in the room was great, the light show was stunning, though it wasn't as loud as expected, but that's hardly a bad point.<br /><br />Can't wait to see them again on Monday, wish I was going tonight.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Setlist</span><br />Farewell<br />Rainbow<br />8<br />Message/Statement<br />Floorshaker<br />A Bao a Qu<br />16:47:52...<br />Akirame Flower<br />Pink<br />Korusu<br />1970<br />You Were Holding an Umbrella<br />[ ]/Untitled<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BA6J9VOI">Boris - Opera House Studio, Sydney, 28/05/2010 - 128.5mb - 1 hour 28 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438942303008857580.post-749208231336962732010-05-27T14:02:00.003+10:002010-05-27T14:13:45.762+10:00Circle Pit - Bruise Constellation LaunchSupported by Lost Animal, Dead Farmers and Bed Wettin' Bad Boys.<br /><br />I only had enough battery to record two bands, so naturally I picked the head liner + the band I had never seen before.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lost Animal</span> was interesting, some great tunes, backed up by this bassist who has been playing in pretty much every Melbourne band to visit Sydney lately, I saw him play with Pikelet a few weeks ago and then with Pets With Pets last week, and now Lost Animal. This is a set I think would be really interesting to see played with a live band, even if it's all synths and sequencers, could be really cool.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KB9HII5Z">Lost Animal - Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, 26/05/2010 - 38.1mb - 26 minutes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circle Pit</span> owned. They owned. Tight as hell, vocals were spot on, there was guitar troubles here and there but over all a fucking awesome performance. Bruise Constellation is so freaking good. Really stoked on this band right now. Can't really say much more to be honest, a must listen.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GGSNFEP8">Circle Pit - Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, 26/05/2010 - 59.4mb - 42 minutes</a>Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163177954738080360noreply@blogger.com0