Obat Batuk feat. Cock Safari – Live at The Pharmacy 17/04/2012
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Cock Safari & Polyfox – Happy Valentines Day
Cock Safari and Polyfox have teamed up together for a new cassette titled Happy Valentines. It’s out through now through Grog Pappy so email grogpappy(at)gmail.com to get yours. Here is what you might expect.
Cock ‘n Fox play all the different pieces of equipment they can find in a 3×5 meter room with a ditty of a duet at the end of the cassette
The Zingers NSW Tour
Melbourne’s premier high rollers The Zingers are bringing their butler fueled you’ll get nothing and like it attitude to Newcastle and Sydney for the first time, as part of their Space And Grapes national tour. You’ll see the high highs of innovative cobfoolerly and the low lows of a million dollar chump. Supporting also from Melbourne, fellow glazers Young Romantix. After this tour we’ll be still doing it.
There will be three shows held over the weekend. The details are below:
Friday 24th February
Croatian Club
THE ZINGERS
COCK SAFARI
PREHISTORIC FUCKIN’ MORON(s)
POLYFOX AND THE UNION OF THE MOST GHOSTS
Doors at 8
$5
Saturday 25th February
Dirty Shirlows
HOLY BALM
THE ZINGERS
YOUNG ROMANTIX
WHORES
Doors at 8
$10
Sunday 26th Febuary
Hollywood Hotel
THE ZINGERS
GHASTLY SPATS
NO ART
YOUNG ROMANTIX
Doors at 4
Free entry
Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts – Enchanted Broccoli Forest
Yep, It’s been pretty quiet here at Monstera Deliciosa DIY music label and blatant self promotion empire, chalk it up to the sorry state of the music business perhaps? Anyway, we’re back with good reason! We are very happy to finally announce the release of the long awaited new EP by Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts which is adorably titled Enchanted Broccoli Forest. Consisting of 5 classic Polyfox tracks, this marks the first officially released recordings of Polyfox as a live band with Nicholas French packing away the casio MT-40 and loop station, instead joined by Nathan Martin on bass and guitar, and Grant Hunter on drums. Only a blithering fool would turn their noses up at this good time fun music that will surely enrich your miserable lives!
One day we went to Arthive and recorded drums with Grant’s laptop, we saved the wav files and probably put them on a flash drive. Some time afterwards we took it to Nathan’s garage which is converted into a rehearsal room. The reheasal room had 2 doors, one of which is a roller door.
When we were all in the garage/rehearsal room we put the drum tracks onto nathans laptop by dragging and dropping them into a folder that we created specifically for the songs. We then proceeded to utilise a program called ‘pro tools’ to record the other parts of the songs all of which i had pre ‘written’ in my bedroom in Umina/Ettalong beach where I live with my parents. My mum is a hairdresser and my dad is a painter/decorater, I don’t know what Grant’s mum does and I’m not really sure what his stepdad does either. They live in Gatton QLD which Grant informs me is a town of people that are mostly part of a cult that worship deities and ostracise any woman that remains unmarried in her 20s. I dont know what Grant’s biological dad does. I dont know what Nathan’s dad’s job is but I know he is an extrememly nice man that surfs and that once made me spaghetti on toast among other things I can’t remember him making for me.
After we recorded the songs they sat on all of our hard drives and various cdrs for a long time. Evan from ‘Bare Grillz’ was interested in hearing the songs so I uploaded them to mediafire and he downloaded them and thanked me.
For a while we entertained the notion of putting out a 7 inch record with these songs, but then we decided that probably no one would want it besides 10 or 20 people at the most and those 10 or 20 were likely to not buy it because 7 inches can cost up to and above 10 dollars, which is more than I could anticipate people wanting to pay.
Thankyou to Matt from Lesstalk Records who was going to put out the 7 inch and im sure deep down he is thanking us for not weighing down his record label with unsold stock.
I’m not sure if nathans copy of the software ‘pro tools’ is legitimate or not but it sure did have a lot of pop up messages which Nathan declined to read before ok-ing them away. Sometimes there were so many of these pop up messages the program would refuse to load up.
The day we recorded the vocals was a good day, everyone was in a really good mood.
At some point when Matt was mixing the tracks on his copy of the software ‘pro tools’ he used two small brown speakers as monitors which Grant thought was outrageous. One day i went over to Matt’s place in Sydney because Grant was unhappy with the mixes of some of the songs and i thought the drums were too quiet so we turned the drums and the vocals right up and settled on that for the mixes.
The song ‘marriage’ is not really about actual marriage I didnt really have anything insightful to say about marriage.
The song ‘creature comforts’ is about how comfortable a lion must feel about the fact that it is a lion, although i dont really think the lyrics reflect this.
The song ‘wood birds’ is an assortment of words that may seem to have been written and added to the song for a reason but this isn’t the case, I couldn’t think of anything else. I took some advice that i should put lyrics in my songs.
I have often claimed that the song ‘coal’ is about my brothers, but this isn’t true, it could be interpreted as though that it is because one of my brothers works in the mines.
‘Hawaii’ though really is about a holiday that my brother and his wife went on to celebrate their honeymoon.-Nick French
Available now from Monstera Deliciosa in a limited edition of 50 cassettes for $5 each plus shipping. Order HERE. All cassettes come with free digital download in 320k MP3, FLAC, OGG VORBIS, AAC, ALAC formats redeemable through bandcamp. A CDR version will be available through Lesstalk Records soon.
Last year there was a festival called Summer Vibes. It was awesome. I can’t do it again. I wanted to briefly, but realised that anything and everything would just be shit after it. I also went to a few other festivals and checked out a few other festival lineups, and realised that shit is the new black, so I guess you can’t get too bummed about this.
Spring Break presents BUMMER VIBES FESTIVAL at The Croatian Club this Saturday February 18.
Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts – Hawaii (Live at Black Wire 03/02/2012)
Here’s a rad video of Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts closing their recent room clearing set at Black Wire Records with fan-favourite song Hawaii. You can also download a recording of the entire set HERE. (via http://sydneylivebandrecordings.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/blackwire-3212-polyfox-eat-my-shorts.html)
Feb 3 – Polyfox, Eat My Shorts, Ivan & The Backpackers, Amateur Drunks @ Black Wire
in no order these are the bands:
POLYFOX AND THE UNION OF THE MOST GHOSTS [French]
EAT MY SHORTS [fun queer punk!]
IVAN & THE BACKPACKERS [sweet hardcore punk from the mountains]
AMATEUR DRUNKS [pop punk pop punk ha]
theres gonna be cupacakes!
and pies!
weeeeeeee
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Friday 3rd February 2012
Black Wire – 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7PM $5
Fallopian Tunes Neo Tropical Tour comes to The Croatian Club
Fallopian Tunes is a label comprising of a close-knit family of musicians, producers, artists and odd-balls. The label hasn’t bothered with genre hair-splitting – there is an all embracing aesthetic to straight up ‘good music’ with an edge of the unreal.
In 2011, Fallopian Tunes released Wild Dog Creek’s 1000 Birth Felt and the second installment of their Mixtape series, The Rhythm Method. Fallopian Tunes goes on vacation this summer bringing a colourful cross-section of sounds to towns along the east coast.
The 2012 Neo-Tropical tour features:
Wild Dog Creek
Red Hymns
Document Swell
Yolke
Trjeau
Joining the Newcastle show will be local bands:
Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts
Frederick
Before Tigers
Wednesday 25th January
Croatian Wickham Sports Club
Doors 7pm $5 Entry
Justice Yeldham 12″ Picture Disc crowdfunding campaign
“the most exciting performer I have seen in the last three years – in fact, since I first saw Iggy Pop” Bruce Russell -WIRE magazine.
What’s been described as “a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe” is in fact the unique work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. In his infamous show that has astonished and bemused countless people in over 40 countries, yeldham ecstatically purses his lips against sheets of amplified glass whilst deftly employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, turning discarded shards into crude musical instruments. The results are a wild array of cacophonous noise that is strangely controlled and oddly musical. The instruments simple, original and effective premise is a welcome riposte to over complicated musical performances of modern times. A one of a kind act re-defining the expression ‘don’t try this at home’ this show quite simply needs to be witnessed to be fully appreciated, let alone understood.
dualpLOVER has decided to release a Justice Yeldham picture disc as a must have souvenir item for the upcoming Justice Yeldham tour of Europe in April. To realise this release we need to raise AUD$1500 to cover the minimum pressing of 250 units, our prices start at a little above cost for people able to pick up the discs in person during the tour. The final release will be pressed to meet our pledge requirements + 50 copies to sell on the tour after that no other copies will be made available.
Dec 2 – Go Genre Everything/Cock Safari & Fairy Mountain/Dingbats
Goodness gracious! Go Genre Everything are touring again. Be sure to check them out in your town, they’re the greatest band this country has ever produced. If your town is Newcastle, you can see them at The Pharmacy, a fairly new venue and artspace on Maitland Road Wickham from 8pm this Friday December 2. It’s across the road from Wickham park and easy to find. Also playing will be Cock Safari & Fairy Mountain in a welterweight bout, plus Dingbats, the exciting new project by Kane Ewin from Castings. Also Go Genre Everything have a new 7″ coming out on Vacant Valley called Domestic Dreams & Robots. You can pre-order it here.
