UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Stutter, Gasometer - 12/01/11

+ Tetras (CH) - Jason Kahn - drums, percussion// Christian Weber - contrabass//Jeroen Visser - organ, electronics

+ Lucas Abela - glass noise

+ Umbilical Tentacle - Yuka Discobeans - vocals// Brad Smith - drums// Nik Kennedy - electronics

+ Oranj Punjabi - cassette, live samples

+ Casey Moir - extended voice

@ The Gasometer Hotel
484 Smith St. Collingwood

more  info here: CLICK

SPASMOSLOP @ NOISEBBQ - 21/01/2012

Crikey!

Marco Fusinato, Stitched Vision (NSW), Mshing (QLD), Cock Safari (NSW), Unique Oil Free Air (QLD), The Mermaids (NSW), Mitchell Brennan & Sean Baxter Duo, Oranj Punjabi, Junk Sick, Tim Coster, VDO, Galactagogue, Nic Tammens, Spasmoslop, Wife, FTRG, Radical Creation.

$15
NOISE from 1pm - late
Intermission / BBQ 5:30 - 6:45
BYO BBQ foods

RCKTSRGRY / NGC 1275 combo @ Tina's Studio - 17/12/11

Tina's having another party at her studio where two of my bands are coming together for a planet-moving spacey noise collab extravaganzaaaaa!

RCKTSRGRY MISSION TO NGC 1275
Tina Douglas - Wiimote/Laptop
Phillip Holquinn - Guitar/Electronics
Nik Kennedy - Vocals/Noisemakers/Electronics

Also playing: Mathew Greentree; Heitong singing traditional Chinese mountain songs; jamming; "open mic" and more to come.
It's a "private party" so I've blacked out the address, but if you wanna come, or possibly even play a set, email me or leave a comment here or something.

SPASMOSLOP playing @ Brunswick Beach - 28/11/11

 

MONDAY 28th – SPASMOSLOP [a.k.a. Nik Kennedy]: A NOISE VORTEX for the end of the world concocted out of a potent beach cocktail, a mike and who knows what else. (7:30pm, dur: 30 mins)

http://brunswickbeach.wordpress.com/ 

I'll be donning my finest summer tourist wear and relaxing on the beach while drinking/playing an apocalyptic hydrophonic cocktail, with an esky full of pedals. Thanks to Sonja Hornung for the invitation!

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 5th December 2011

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EOTFU @ DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 7th November 2011

ORANJ PUNJABI

Is a sound and performance project of Fjorn Butler using  no-input, tape and tape player sounds and found object manipulation. Psychedelic sludge mixed with library recordings of body noise.

LP HOVERCRAFT 

One man lost in the PAL cosmos, finding his way through black holes and fragmented signals, he adjusts luminance and chrominance to weave video feedback and looped radio transitions in order to try and find a new path back to earth, that is if the space madness doesn’t get him first.

END OF THE FUCKING UNIVERSE

Farewell your loved ones. Cosmos-destroying harshnoise beats, black hole subsonic voids and death bellows of the apocalypse. Libido Airbag gets arsefucked by Arse Destroyer.

EURO ZONE DEBT CRISIS 

'Video/Sonic Crisis concept
Euro Video Projection
Unstable forms
Pre Music'
'17 Euro Zone member states
27 European Union member states
17/27=0.6296
1 $US = 0.6241 Eu' 

BISON GRASS
Thoughts, rituals and meditations.

 

Discobeans

238 High St. Northcote

7:00pm / $5 entry

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EOTFU is a new project I'm doing with Jack Whitcroft (from The Swamp/Half A Head/Die Pigeon Die/Doubled Over)... ultra-processed brutal beats and monster sub-bass, goregrind gurgles and harsh screaming! Kinda like Libido Airbag meets Arse Destroyer meets Last Days of Humanity meets Passenger of Shit!!

SPASMOSLOP audio/video from Broken House gig - 23/10/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488J1JPthVg

Huge cheers to Aaron Wallace for posting up some broodle documentation from the gig on Sunday. And thanks again to the Broken House maniacs for having us, was a ripper gig!

Check it all out here: http://sonorousstrings.tumblr.com/post/11820509640/broken-house-october-23rd-2011-teen-ax-spasmoslop

SPASMOSLOP @ Broken House - 23/10/11

Thanks heaps to Cooper RSI and The Broken House gatekeepers for putting me on this sweeeeeeeeeet line-up!


Teen Ax (power electronic noise-rock from Sydney)
Reunion Sacred Ibis (loops, weirdness, Nintendo)
FTRG (Japanoise worshiping sound-violence)
Trichotillomania (brain slop + tape ooze)
Spasmoslop (parallel universe frequency vortex)


+ maybe others... details forthcoming.

Broken House, 52 Hope St., Brunswick
Enter via back alley.
Start around 2:00pm, finish around 5:00pm
Any questions, email: alteredstatestapes@gmail.com

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Black Market - 12/10/11

This Wednesday 12th October:

• UMBILICAL TENTACLE
  Harshfunking partynoisecoremania and vicious mullets with Yuka Discobeans (vocals/electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics) & Brad Smith (drums)
• VACENDAKRIZIN
  Insert description here.
• 25 DOLPHINS
  Bryce Sweatman & Ben Niiboy making dolphin noise... or something.

Gasometer Hotel
484 Smith St. Collingwood
8:00pm / $5

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 10th October 2011

THE SWAMP WITH STRINGS & PERCUSSION @ MIUC - 27/09/11

One of the most mind-blowing performances at MIUC earlier this year was The Swamp, a conceptual improvisation by Nik Kennedy featuring four grindcore vocalists utilising heavily processed voices through massive speakers. For this reprise, The Swamp is augmented by master junk percussion from Nat Grant and MV, and the grimcore cello aktions of Judith Hamann. And, a double treat from the North: No Anchor, Brisbane's finest no-core punknik's in extreme free improv mode, and the electroacoustic genius of Joe Musgrove, 1 half of internationally renowned audio-video abstraktionists, Botborg.


+ The Swamp with strings and percussion, featuring: Brad Smith (vocals and electronics), Zev Langer (vocals and electronics), Jack Whitcroft (vocals and electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals, bog sounds and electronics), Judith Hamann (cello), Maya-Victoria (percussion) and Nat Grant (percussion)
+ No Anchor (BRIS), featuring: Alex Gillies (drumkit), Donovan Miller (bass) and Ian Rogers (bass)
+ Joe Musgrove (BRIS) (a/v processing)


The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Coming up:
04/10/2011: Miles Brown and Matthew Brown.
11/10/2011: Ren Walters' This Ensemble.
18/10/2011: Jasmine Guffond (Ber); Tony Osborne (SYD); Oscil Ether (BRIS).
25/10/2011: Kevin Lo and Troy Naumoff.
01/11/2011: David Tolley's The Other.

DEATH BY CONES @ Black Market - 28/09/11

Black Market - Wednesday 28th September:

 + DEATH BY CONES
Life-shortening quadraphonic noise onslaught with Mark Skelton (brutal pedal noise/Peavy amp), Jack Whitcroft (brutal guitar noise/Sunn amp), Lloyd Honeybrook (brutal saxophone noise/Lab Systems amp), Nik Kennedy (brutal voice noise/Warwick amp)

+ AVENAIM/BAXTER/TALIA

First-time triple genius extended percussion collab from three of Australia's finest stuff-hitting blokes - Robbie Avenaim, Sean Baxter & Joe Talia

+ JOE MUSGROVE (QLD)

Visceral, synaesthetic real-time audio/visual processing, from one part of Botborg - http://botborg.com/

+ BLARGHSTRAD/NYLSTOCK
The demented one-man-band of Brad Smith (drums/bass guitar/vocals) turns full-fledged stadium rock band gone wrong with the abstract ultrashredding freakery of Chris Nylstock (guitar)


@ Gasometer Hotel
484 Smith St. Collingwood
8:00pm / $5

SPASMOSLOP (without) MILITARY POSITION @ Make It Up Club - 20/09/11

 Melbourne art-punk, Harriet Morgan, has been collaborating with Nik Kennedy for some time now, and their musical communication has become empathic. Employing sub bass drones and processes voice, the group creates whirlwinds of noise. Wank Bank is the new shitcore project started by Tommy Gunn, and promises faux goregrind, improvised toilet noise. And master experimental percussionist, Robbie Avenaim returns to Melbourne for a rare solo treat. A night of intense, shitcore inspired, avant improv.

• Military Position vs. Spasmoslop, AKA: Harriet Morgan (bass/electronics) Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics)
• Wank Bank, featuring: Stewart Cole (pitch shifted vocals), Tommy Miller (drumkit) and Michael Bugsy (abused guitar)
• Robbie Avenaim (extended percussion)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10
Coming up:
27/09/2011: No Anchor (BRIS); The Swamp with strings and percussion; Joe Musgrove (BRIS).
04/10/2011: Miles Brown and Matthew Brown.
11/10/2011: Ren Walters This Ensemble.
18/10/2011: Jasmine Guffond (Ber); Tony Osborne (SYD); Oscil Ether (BRIS).
25/10/2011: Kevin Lo and Troy Naumoff .
01/11/2011: David Tolley The Other.

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Unfortunately Harriet can't play this show anymore so I'm gonna be doing a SPASMOSLOP solo set instead. Synthoscillodrones/vocalisations/clangs.

SPASMOSLOP/CANDLESNUFFER collab @ Make It Up Club - 13/09/11

 This week sees the continuation of our profile of Nik Kennedy in a collaboration with Dave Brown. This performance focuses on Kennedy's use of home-made instruments, employing metal, breath, hydrophonics and effects, with Brown in full, macrosonic Candlesnuffer mode. Axximilation is a raw analogue duo featuring two young women who consistently impress with their novel deconstructions of punk-inspired improv. And Sydney-based experimental musician, Sam Pettigrew features in a duo with Ben Byrne, incorporating bass and laptop in an empathic improvised musique concrete milieu.

•  Nik Kennedy (sub bass processed voice, homemade instruments, electronics and effects) and Dave Brown (macrosonically effected electric guitar)
•  Axximilation, featuring: Pandie Panther and Battle Pussy (drum kit, voice, tapes, laptop and distortion)
•  Ben Byrne (laptop and electronics) and Sam Pettigrew (SYD) (bass and electronics) 

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

MADCAP MISADVENTURES

Made a little flyer for the busy month ahead, featuring one of my favourite movie characters of all time - Sardu from "Bloodsucking Freaks"!

MILITARY POSITION/SPASMOSLOP - "Spectral Gloom" CD-R on Magik Crowbar

MC046: MILITARY POSITION + SPASMOSLOP "Spectral Gloom" cdr (25x)
Blackened axe, oscillations and misanthropic howls from Harriet K Morgan and Nik Kennedy. A post-apocalyptic blizzard of isolation, evident in the fact that there were a whopping two people at this show. Recorded straight to Ken Oath's taser.

Magik Crowbar - http://mindtimedestroy.blogspot.com

Recording taken from our first gig ever/first time playing together as a duo, in Shane Van Den Akker's kitchen. No jamming/rehearsal, just straight in. Thanks heaps to Tommy Gunnnnn/Magik Crowbar for putting this out. Comes in a nifty DVD case featuring Tommy's distinctive cut-up artwork. Some copies on pure holocaust kids' party invitation paper with little party hats embossed on them, for extra darkness and grim vibes.

MILITARY POSITION/SPASMOSLOP @ State of Decay - 10/09/11

CHAPMAN & BAILEY GALLERY - JOINTHASSLES & HELEN HUGHES - STATE OF DECAY

10 September – 1 October

A group show curated by Helen Hughes & Harriet Morgan
Opening Saturday 10 September 3:00-5:00pm

STATE OF DECAY looks at the literal and metaphoric concept of deterioration within life and imagery. The ever-impending feeling of both existing and ending, and the effect we have on the all the elements that go together to make the world we live in. The artists involved all differently communicate this aesthetic or ideology, displaying their thoughts on decomposition, mortality, decay and adverse experimentation within their visual and audio practices, whilst also simultaneously communicating how a human might feel, operating on a day-to-day basis- within this decaying and rotting earth.

STATE OF DECAY embodies the conscious & unconscious impact of living, the outcome of death, the emotional mindset associated with it all & the visual effects that fading, ageing, rotting, wear, time or hand can have on an image and the mind.


The exhibition runs from 10th September to 1st October 2011

Stewart Cole / Marco Fusinato / Mark Groves / Blake Hesken / Christopher L G Hill / Luke Holland / Tom Miller / Harriet Morgan / John Nixon / Alex Vivian

Opening Performances from MILITARY POSITION/SPASMOSLOP + MSHING + DEAD BOOMERS

Reflective written responses from Christopher LG Hill / Helen Hughes / Harriet Morgan / Simon Taylor

Chapman & Bailey Gallery

350 Johnston St. Abbotsford

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Very stoked to be playing this! The gallery at Chapman & Bailey is a large room with high ceiling, big windows and a concrete floor ie. the sound will be bruuuuutal!!

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Make It Up Club - 06/09/11

 September sees a month of shows featuring Nik Kennedy, one of Melbourne's most exciting and inventive noise improvisers in four unique combinations. For his first performance, he is joined by long-time collaborators, Yuka Mikayama and Brad Smith in a chaotic, ecstatic and joyfully stupid project of partynoisecoremania. Sam Dunscombe convenes a trio of very recent group explorations into the “labyrinthine dungeons” of MaxMSP audio coding language (as he refers to it). Along with Jess Pinney and Kim Tan, the trio juxtaposes the warm and the cold, the fake and the real, the abstracted and the empathic, the clinical and the emotional potentials of this amazing digital tool. And, with immense pleasure, we welcome cornetist Felicity Provan back to Melbourne for a brief visit from her home in the Netherlands. A champion of abstract improv, free and modern jazz in Melbourne during the 80s and 90s, she is joined by Dutch colleague, improv legend and current Australian resident, Cor Fuhler. 

• Umbilical Tentacle featuring: Yuka Mikayama (vocals and electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals and electronics) and Brad Smith (drumkit)
• Doom Cube, featuring: Samuel Dunscombe (MaxMSP), Jessica Pinney (MaxMSP), and Kim Tan (MaxMSP)
• Felicity Provan (cornet and voice) (NL), Cor Fuhler (keyolin) (NL)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

Make It Up Club - September 2011

I'm playing every week!

 

September 6th

• Umbilical Tentacle featuring: Yuka Mikayama (vocals and electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals and electronics), Brad Smith (drumkit)
• Doom Cube, featuring: Samuel Dunscombe (MaxMSP), Jessica Pinney (MaxMSP), and Kim Tan (MaxMSP)
• Felicity Provan (cornet and voice) (NL), Cor Fuhler (keyolin) (NL)

September 13th

• Nik Kennedy (sub bass processed voice, homemade instruments, electronics and effects) and Dave Brown (macrosonically effected electric guitar)
• Axximilation, featuring: Pandie Panther and Battle Pussy (drum kit, voice, tapes, laptop and distortion)
• Ben Byrne (laptop and electronics) and Sam Pettigrew (SYD) (bass and electronics)

September 20th

• Military Position vs. Spasmoslop, AKA: Harriet Morgan (bass/electronics) Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics)
• Wank Bank, featuring: Stewart Cole (pitch shifted vocals), Tommy Miller (drumkit) and Michael Bugsy (abused guitar)
• Robbie Avenaim (extended percussion)

September 27th

• No Anchor (BRIS), featuring: Alex Gillies (drumkit), Donovan Miller (bass) and Ian Rogers (bass)
• The Swamp with strings and percussion, featuring: Brad Smith (vocals and electronics), Jack Whitcroft (vocals and electronics), Leo Whitcroft (vocals and electronics), Nik Kennedy (vocals, bog sounds and electronics), Judith Hamann (cello), Maya-Victoria (percussion) and Nat Grant (percussion)
• Joe Musgrove (BRIS) (a/v processing)

Massive cheers to Sean Baxter for putting these rather bloody marvelous line-ups together!

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 5th September 2011

+ QANTASS

Bush doof prog/cybergrind gamelan by 3 lads engorged by morph sports. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUlEgnw9QTo

+ CULM

 Improvised techno that is influenced by grime, juke and noise

+ WRONG ROOM

Early morning longing for the night before. Dark beats, dual drones, noise and the voices of ghosts. http://soundcloud.com/wrongroom

+ HEX ON THE BEACH

Invoking spirits amongst frostbitten palm trees.

+ WANK BANK

Bludgeoned toilet noise porngrind.

BLACK MARKET Aug 2011 program

More info on the 17th show which I put together:

+ CANDLESNUFFER - Solo guitar/electronics from one of Australia's most interesting and innovative guitarists, Dave Brown. www.candlesnuffer.org

+ F L A T H E A D - Terry McDermott (software) and Piers Morgan (hardware). Feedback guitar discharges textures ranging from delicate and brittle to cacophonous and dense. These sonic streams are refracted by frozen percussive interjections and granulated using custom-built software, to be projected into the void...

+ SPECTRAL GLOOM - Crawling hypnotic black noise dirge from Harriet Morgan (bass/electronics) and Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics)

+ BIG BIRD & THE SMELLY DICKS - rowdy hardcore punk from your ol' mate Big Bird and some other smelly blokes.

SFHS @ Black Goat!! 19/08/11

Super Fun Happy Slide will be playing this nifty gig @ Black Goat the night before Holocaust In Your Head. Will be our last shows for a while so come down!

+ INEBRIOUS BASTARD

+ SUPER FUN HAPPY SLIDE

 

+ COUNTER ATTACK

+ PANEL VAN HALEN

+ HEX ON THE BEACH

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 1st August 2011

FUCKED video by Nylstock

Cheers to Chris Nylstock of Venting Gallery/Unaustralians for posting this Fucked video, taken from one of our gigs at Make It Up Club... I think. Evidently this is #761 from the "1000 Short Movies About Experimental Music" project that Mr. Nylstock has been working on for several years now. Check out the other vids in his channel, including a maaaarvelous capture of my noisehomeboy Brad Smith playing solo @ Noise Bar.

THE SWAMP @ Make It Up Club - 19/07/11

 Tuesday July 19th, 2011

Subsonic timbres and gurgling textures feature in this week's concert. The Swamp, boasting a quartet of irreverent firebrands from Melbourne's internationally renowned grindcore scene (Die Pigeon Die, Holy Boner, The Kill and Internal Rot, no less), explore the limits of voice-noise and effected density. The debut performance of a new realtime processing/diatonic feedback project from Terry McDermott and Piers Morgan. And Sydney emigre, Milica Stefanovic makes her MIUC solo debut, with extended and abstracted electric bass guitar.

• The Swamp, featuring: Brad Smith (voice/fx), Jack Whitcroft (voice/fx), Leo Whitcroft (voice/fx), Nik Kennedy (bog sounds/voice/fx)
• F L A T H E A D featuring: Terry McDermott (software) and Piers Morgan (hardware)
• Milica Stefanovic (electric bass)

The Make It Up Club
www.myspace.com/makeitupclub
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10

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It kinda sounds like a scene from a horror movie where someone is walking through a spooky swamp, then gets eaten alive by swamp monsters. Pictured: my set-up, including aquarium air bubbler (of doom).

SPASMOSLOP/MILITARY POSITION collab @ VDA House - 09/07/11

Playing a house show tonight for a first-time collab with MILITARY POSITION (Harriet Morgan) @ 407 Johnston St. Abbotsford - 6:00pm!

Harriet - Blackened Axe

Nik - Voices from the Grave

Other bands/acts playing too, but I'm not sure who!

THE KILL @ Bendigo Hotel 15-07-11

Making their return from a triple-pronged grind attack on the U.S, Internal Rot, The Kill and Doubled Over smash out their first shows back in Australia on the one bill, with the detestable accompaniment of Garbage Guts to (de)flesh out a devastating night of grindcore! Internal Rot are launching their new 7" out on the illustrious 625 Productions and Crucificados Records and Doubled Over are launching a split 7" with Colorado's Roskopp, not to be confused with the Melbourne band Roskopp who Doubled Over and Internal Rot share members with. If you like things ridiculously fast, preposterously heavy or sickeningly gory this show will give you the kick in the pants you need! Come and get blasted!

INTERNAL ROT (7" LAUNCH)
THE KILL
DOUBLED OVER (SPLIT 7" LAUNCH)
GARBAGE GUTS

8:30PM
$10 ENTRY

SUSIE'S GONE @ Yah Yah's - 14/07/11

 Thursday 14th July:

Caught Ship
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKftiVC7By0&feature=related

Mad Nanna
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZt5Wjsxl8&feature=related

Old Growth Cola (QLD)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Quct_PGbc

Susie's Gone
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Susies-Gone/209166115761433

@ Yah Yah's

99 Smith St. Fitzroy

Pretty sure Susie's Gone are headlining and the line-up is:

Gareth "Ginger Meggs" Thomson - Drums
Julius "The Bully" Millar - Bass
Lloyd "Llod The Hinnybinch" Honeybrook - Turntables and boogieddancing
Nic "Artfag" Tammens - Guitardom and hipster cred
Nik "Brutalboogie" Kennedy - Vokills and grindcore faces
Mitch "Digiman" Brennan - Electroacoustic Mastery/Laptoppery and Newcastlery
Lachlan "Beewee" Barwise - Vacuum Cleaner and Ladiesmannery
Trevelyan "S'Avant Garde" Clay - Vocals and Hypeman
Samaan "Wifey" Fieck - Tapes and KIPL reps

CANCELLED - SPASMOSLOP @ Catfood Press 26/06/11

This Spasmoslop gig with Muddy Lawrence etc. has been cancelled because the fun police have put a stop to gigs at Catfood Press. Cool. Good idea, dickheads.

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 4th July 2011

+ BISCOTTI

Baking wonky beats that will break your knees and groove lines that will simmer until you are boiling. Kooky, colourful cocktail of sounds and dance with recipes from around the world and special home secrets.

+ SPASMOSLOP

Bruce McDarryl: Demented voiceboxisms, blown-out beats, mondo manic static, subsonic gut massages, malfunctioning cyborg errors and fuck knows what else.

+ PORPOISE TORTURE

Dark tape sounds, manipulation and grimisms of the voice from Christopher L.G. Hill (KRYSTOFFKRVSTOFFISTON, MOFFARFARRAH, GUGG, GAUNTLET etc.) No porpoises will be harmed during this performance.

+ ERNIE ALTHOFF

Ernie Althoff has been performing experimental music in Melbourne for 33 years. The fact that some of his audience aren't even that old themselves indicates some kind of perseverance and/or survival skillbase that he sees as a good thing! He may bring some electrically powered music machines, and other assorted bits and pieces with which to do sonic things at table height.

+ ENDLESS BEAUTY

Insert description here.

SFHS playing HOLOCAUST IN YOUR HEAD 20/08/11

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Holocaust-in-your-Head/217700821589626

SPASMOSLOP @ Catfood Press 26/06/11

"It's Muddy Lawrence 3 tape, tape launch!

Line-up:
Muddy Lawrence
Diploid
Spasmoslop
Ross
Culm
Lethe
Manley Pointer

Doors open : 2:30
Cost: $2.50

All ages!"

BLACK MARKET June 2011 program

Black Market continues at a new venue with more excellent line-ups. Most of the shows for this month have been "guest-curated", including the 29th which I put together, eyyyyyy. I'm fuggin stoked for this line-up so here's some more info:

- HOLY BONER + ROBBIE AVENAIM - ultra blastbeat mania improv noisecore set with Brad (drums), Nik (vocals/electronics) & Robbie (drums and robo-drums)

- DIE PIGEON DIE - disgusting, filthy, ultra-heavy goregrind with Jack (guitar/gurgles), Leo (bass/gurgles) & Christoph (drums)

- NATASHA ANDERSON - spine-tingling noisescapes using computer manipulation of custom-made block flute/periscope of dooooom

- WANKO SPECIAL - debut solo performance of Yuka Discobeans! I have no idea what to expect, except that it will be cool as

Can't wait!

THE KILL did the USA

 The Kill have just been on tour on the East Coast of USA playing Maryland Deathfest and a bunch of sweeeet shows in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington DC and Philadelphia. There are already a few videos up on youtube:

The Kill @ Maryland Deathfest

The Kill @ The Bordello, Philadelphia

The Kill @ Strange Matter, Richmond

And photos around if ya do a bit of searching. Thanks to the people who shot these and put them up. Super huge mega thanks to our driver and "cultural advisor" Jason Wade and everyone who helped organise stuff, let us crash at their house, fed us, attended to the shows, moshed up a storm and made us feel so welcome. Extra mondo ultra-brutal grinding thanks to the other bands we played with, especially our tour-mates Noisear and Shitstorm, who absolutely ripped arse every time they played, and our fellow Aussies in Doubed Over and Internal Rot. Mad holy-fuck-that-was-good thanks to Last Days of Humanity for blowing my balls off at MDF. It was my grind nerd dream come true to see these guys play! I might post more about all this later...

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 6th June 2011

Another ripsnorter line-up, if I do say so myself. Can't wait to see Discobeans godmother Yuka's new duo collab with Mel Toxic Lipstick, and James Rushford/Jess Pinney/Simon Hanselmann's Tight Passage. "Sludgy Psych Shit" according to James. Bonza.
Couldn't be happier with how this series has been going so far. Thanks heaps to everyone that has played and attended these gigs! Onward!

BLACK MARKET May 2011 program

 

Psychward Cult playing tonight!

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 9th May 2011

This month we're on the SECOND Monday instead of the first... with...

+ DJ ARSECRACK
[Sean Baxter: plunderphonics/turntablism/smooth soul music]

+ RACELESS
[one of the founding member of Curse Ov Dialect will be performing a solo set as
1)a political surreal rapper from planet filfla
2)instrumental master of ancient chants and beats
3)possible special guests]

+ TISSUE THANKYOU
[Bisket Martin doing her one girl show with a hand slapped so nicely in your bottom your ears shall bleed to the soothing sounds of love, mastrabation and salad]

+ BLARGHSTRAD NOISESMITH
[Brad Smith: Stupid facial expressions, bombastic blasting, sweaty man stench, bass induced noisewall erection/deconstruction, horrendous throat torture and good ol' fashion mental instability]

+ THE SHARAWADJI EFFECT
[Dale Chapman & Matt Williams: indian banjo, conch, electronics, space echo, theremin, percussion, voice]

HOLY BONER & YUKA & DXN TXCCXRX @ IRENE'S - 07/05/11

SEPTUOR NIGHTS - 7 BANDS - 7 BUCKS - 7TH MAY - 7PM

 

 7th of May

Doors open 7PM.
...
7 Dollars will bring you:::

7.30PM- (Main Room)
Niko Niko- 

Trippy prog sojourns north and south of the equator to jamsville and beyond, with added freakouts.

8.00PM- (Lounge Room)
GNAUMGN-
The sound of A Demon Sheen and Dvd Prsctt-Std condensed into aural vibrations and catatonic black metal noise manipulations

8.30PM- (Main Room)
BAADDD-
A two headed miniature beast of burden by the name of HoofKake will rear it's bizarrely shaped head for all to be enthralled by it's spastic motions and squawking

9.00PM- (Lounge Room)
Infinite Decimals-
Sonic pastiches of unfamiliarity thrown against a canvas of eardrums within a psychedelic and improvised medium

9.30PM- (Main Room)
Holy Boner w/ Yuka & DXN TXCCXRX-
The mind melting noise fuckery of Nik and Brad meet the banshee wailings and piano desecrations of past collaborators Yuka and Dan

10.00PM- (Lounge Room)
Dead Ants Trio-
The result of a young and delicate flower by the name of Troy deciding to warp minds with an incomparable brand of improv-noise-skronknastics

10.30PM- (Main Room)
disrupture-
Members have had past experience in religious vocations having preached the sermon of the Reverend Kriss Hades and the Cult of the Placenta Head. As a result, ear drums have been perforated, blackouts have happened onstage and toasters have been destroyed. You've been warned!

How to get there if you haven't been before---
Irene's Warehouse is on Pitt St, a little dead end street just before the East Brunswick Club. Trams no. 1 and 8 will get you there. Here's a Google map... http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=il

Hope to see you there- should be an awesome night!

Artwork for the gig done by the Dutch master, Shane Van Den Akker.

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FUCKED @ MAKE IT UP CLUB 03/05/11

Fucked will be playing this very cool line-up at Make It Up Club in a couple of weeks:

• Morten J Olsen (percussion) and Sean Baxter (percussion)
• Fucked! Featuring: Nik Kennedy (voice and noise), Lloyd Honeybrook (alto saxophone and noise) and Robbie Avenaim (drumkit and noise)
• Carolyn Connors (voice) and Judith Hamman (cello)
  
  
  
  
  Nice!

HOLY BONER ON A SANDWICH BOARD???

Kinda odd. This was out the front when HxBx/Yuka played Racket @ Miss Libertine's. Our management team says this means we've "made it".

LAST GRIND SHOW @ THE ARTHOUSE

HOLY BONER & YUKA @ R9 Racket - 08/04/11

R9

Sound, Art, Experiments. Transmissions from the outer limits at Miss Libertine's Band room from 6:30 pm till midnight. $5 entry.
34 Franklin St. City
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Sean Baxter
Drop Bear
Holy Boner & Yuka
Captain Satan
Inxile
Maria Rozalia Finna
Tim Catlin
Netzair
Schweinhund
cat full of GHOSTS

SUSIE'S GONE @ The Toff - 05/04/11

JOHN WEISE (USA)

with OREN AMBARCHI, JOE TALIA DUO, EMBERS DUO, SUSIE'S GONE and DJ JOE PRESTON

$15.00 + $2.80 BF = $17.80 online presales / $20.00 on the door

In Australia touring in support to Thrones (USA - Joe Preston of ex Melvins, Sunn O)), Earth and High on Fire), legendary Los Angeles experimental noise artist John Wiese will be performing an exclusive headline show in Melbourne. John toured Australia as a member of Sunn O)) in 2005, not to mention touring with them around the world, he’s also collaborated with the likes of Wolf Eyes, Evan Parker, Merzbow, Smegma, Kevin Drumm and Cattle Decapitation. John also has his own project called Sissy Spacec. Supports TBA ( link: www.john-wiese.com/ )
Tickets on sale from Moshtix - phone: 1300 GET TIX (438 849), on-line: buy here or Moshtix outlets including Polyester (Fitzroy & City).

Tuesday 5th April 2011. Doors from 9.00pm

The Toff
Second Floor, Curtin House
252 Swanston Street

We're on at 9:15pm sharp!!

SWEATMAN & KENNEDY INC. @ DISCOBEANS - 04/04/11

First time duo collab with one of my favourite Melbourne drummers Bryce Sweatman (Psychward Cult/Pathetic Human/Chrome Dome/The Zingers) - sweet! We've been jamming and recording some dark vibes lately using processed percussion/vocals/keyboard kinda shit. Also really looking forward to Harriet Morgan (Psychward Cult/Murgh'terr) playing solo under the highly enjoyable name Military Position.

BLACK MARKET @ Noise Bar

Very stoked to be playing solo at the first of a new weekly gig at Noise Bar. And SFHS a couple of weeks after that! Support!

FUCKED @ KIPL 28/03/11

Another Fucked gig next week!

"Globe-trotting glass eater Lucas Abela has made a career out of exploring the extreme side of sound. First it was with turntables attached to saw horses with sewing machine motors, briefly Freddy Krugger-styled record needle gloves, then it was a contact mic'd trampoline. For the last few years, under the guise of Justice Yeldham, it's been glass.

Starting each performance with a large sheet of glass, a contact mic and an array of effect pedals. Performances last as long as the glass can withstand the pressure of Mr Abela's face.

Sabbatical is proud to present this rare Justice Yeldham performance as Mr Abela stops over in Melbourne on his way to who knows where.

KIPL custodians and all-round excellent gents Wife will kick off proceedings, followed by the interminable noise assault of Fucked. Offering a welcome respite, Miles Brown & Shags Chamberlain will cleanse the aural palette with their theremin and synth explorations.

Finally, Justice Yeldham will perform on a couch. Seriously, that was his only rider request - a couch to perform on.

It's an early start for an early end. It is a Monday night after all.

Monday, 28 March 2011
7.30pm

Justice Yeldham
Miles Brown & Shags Chamberlain
Fucked
Wife

Seven dollars entry

KIPL, 136 Roden Street, West Melbourne"