Penguins – Live at Vox Cyclops

Here’s a short live excerpt from a thrilling performance by Penguins from Melbourne, at Vox Cyclops Feb 5 2010.

Crab Smasher Melbourne Tour 2010

Marnie Vaughn chats with the president of her fanclub.

Crab Smasher are heading to Melbourne for some shows this weekend, not really in support of anything but certainly promoting love and tenderness! However, for those keeping score, they have a new 3″ CDR out on CURT called The Doctor Is In… Over His Head out in late March, they’ve recently recorded a bunch of new material, including a cover of the X-MEN animated series theme song for a new compilation coming out through Lesstalk Records, and a really spiffy new track called Skin Destruction will appear on the fifth volume of the New Weird Australia compilation series.  So there.

On Thursday February 11 you can catch the band at the Old Bar at 74-76 Johnston Street Fitzroy from 8pm, with Penguins, Spitfire Parade, and The Bunyip Moon.

On Friday February 12 you can catch the band doing a live set on 3CR radio.Not sure what time. Just listen.

On Saturday February 13 there is much to take in, so take a deep breath! You can catch the band for an early set at the last ever Summer Winds Festival in Albert St Park in Brunswick. It starts at 10am, Crab Smasher are playing early, but if you’re sticking around you can catch the likes of Prehistoric Fuckin’ Moron(s), Gauntlet, Psychward vs. Tea and Sympathy Symphony, Gauntlet, Lost Animal, Eko Eko Azarak, Either/Or, Matthew Brown, JK Fuller, Avatron, Repairs, Pissypaw, Murrggh’urr, Hissy Mearky, Chrome Dome, Yakks, MV, Omen, and i’m sure heaps more. All ages welcome.

Later on in the day from 2pm at CrashbangFuckyourhead at 43 Pender st Thornbury, there’s an afternoon of Newcastle Noise worship with Crab Smasher, Drillbit, Mitchell Brennan, and John Butler Fucks Kidz performing heavy heavy sets of ear destroying sound ruffage. All ages welcome.

Rounding out this ridiculously ambitious day is the Eternal Youth Carefree Cleanness launch spectacular at Loophole from 7pm, where Crab Smasher and The Welcome Fight will support the mighty Go Genre Everything as they launch their new album, which is awesome, and when Go Genre Everything launch a new album, they really LAUNCH IT. Its on High Street in Thornbury and you need a ticket to get in. If you haven’t got one, email Go Genre Everything here if you’d like to get one. You have to ask or you’ll never get one.

Finally as Melbourne get sick of Crab Smasher’s one trick, they open up for their guitar hero Popolice, with Winterplan and The Analyte at The Empress on Sunday February 14, from 8pm.

And then they drive home, maybe just maybe Grant will let everybody stop at Dog on the Tuckerbox for magnums.

New Weird Australia podcast #5 – Crab Smasher

This time around on the wonderfully fresh New Weird Australia podcast series we have a humourless interview and ill advised live acoustic set from Newcastle improv dullards Crab Smasher. If you use itunes. you can subscribe to the whole series of podcasts here. Check it out!

By their own admission, Crab Smasher are a NSW based group of “improvisational sound sharks crafting a frenzied hodgepodge of weirdo psychedelic noise rock and experimental pop delicious”. Having morphed through a variety of lineups and styles since their formation in 2002, their current incarnation took time away from recent Sydney gigs to visit the New Weird Australia radio show with guest presenter Brooke Olsen. The band deliver a rare live acoustic set and discuss what it means to be “the first carbon neutral noise band”, playing in a Newcastle scene big enough to fill a small living room.

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Kitchen’s Floor 7″ Launch Tour

Super great band from Brisbane Kitchen’s Floor are going on tour to support their new 7″ which is called Regrets and features three new tracks of down-in-the-dumpster pop bliss. It’s out through R.I.P SOCIETY Records.

ADELAIDE:

Feb 26th – Supermild w/ Hit the Jackpot + Bitch Prefect
Feb 27th – Format Festival w/ Batrider, Terrible Truths, Almost Numan

MELBOURNE:

Mar 3rd – Horse Bazaar (Stutter) w/ Sharpie Crows + Parading
Mar 4th – Bar Open w/ Pop Singles + Francis Plagne

HOBART:

Mar 5th – Houseshow (TBA)
Mar 6th – Brisbane Hotel w/ Ivy St. + Paint your Golden Face + Caught Ship

BRISBANE:

Mar 13th – The Hangar w/ Paint your Golden Face

Sydney launch TBA.

New Weird Australia podcast #4 – Scissor Lock

Very cute and just wonderful Sydney musician Scissor Lock appeared on the New Weird Australia radio show on fBi radio on November 12 2009. He played a bit of music and talked about what he’s been up to. There’s now a neato podcast available so you can listen to it over and over and over again.

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Scissor Lock – Difficult Music Festival 16/01/2010

Video excerpt of Scissor Lock performing at Sedition Gallery on 16/01/2010 as part of the all month long Difficult Music Festival.

Constant Light – Five By Five

Five by Five is the first release by new Melbourne group Constant Light, a duo featuring Sasha Margolis of Automating, Y35.3, The Salivation Army, and Spitfire Parade, and James Dean of Tugboat. The two tracks that make up this release consist of pulsing organs and delicately strummed guitars that swirl around in your ears like debris washing upon a beach where two former lovers reflect upon their doomed relationship but know they will still always be friends.  It is available in a limited edition of 20 3″ CDRS, you can order a physical copy for $5 and/or it is also available as a lossless quality digital download here.

http://www.myspace.com/constantlightduo

Go Genre Everything – Goin’ Blind

Go Genre Everything live at Glitch Bar Melbourne back in February 2009. Performing the classic KISS song Goin’ Blind.

Grant Hunter – On Your Feet(Again)

On Your Feet(Again) is a video work by Grant Hunter which was exhibited in 5.1 surround sound in an installation at John Paynter Gallery in Newcastle early 2008.

BTW, Grant Hunter has a new art blog HERE, where he is posting heaps of doodles, paintings and illustrations, many of which are available to buy, as well as streaming links to all 50ish of his released 1/1 edition grim solo recordings. You should check it out. How’s that for a bit of cross-promotion eh?

Three bands (with an animal in their name) at Vox Cyclops

Coming up  instore at Vox Cyclops we have an animal themed mash up of noise rock with the very radical Penguins from Melbourne, as well as veteran of Vox Cyclops Cock Safari, and virgins of Vox Cyclops Crab Smasher, who are both heading to Melbourne for some shows the following week. There’s also an art show opening in the shop on this night, which will probably be a treat to see also.

7pm Feb 5
VOX CYCLOPS
515 Hunter Street Newcastle

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