UMBILICAL TENTACLE album recording

"DAY 2 OF RECORDING AT MAGNET STARTS SOON.... HOLD ONTO YOUR TENTACLES, BRAD IS USING A SLIPKNOT SNARE DRUM ALONG WITH HIS FUCKED UP KIT THAT HE'S HAD SINCE HE WAS ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD AND THE DRUMS SOUND LIKE FUCKING THUNDERRRRR. NIK IS USING THE FULL A-TEAM OF KNOB BOXES AND SHIT SOUNDS LIKE AN EXPLOSION IN A SYNTH FACTORY. SURF'S UP."

HOLY BONER @ MIUC 18th Birthday! - 05/01/2016

The Make It Up Club has been committed to nurturing, presenting and promoting avant-garde improvised music and sound performance since 1998, making it one of the longest continually-running improv nights in the world. 2016 sees our Club reach the numerically momentous 18-year milestone, so we cordially invite you to partake in the sort of annual aleatoric festivities befitting an improv night who’s just reached legal voting/tattooing/drinking age. The Club is undeniably a sonically variegated beast, so four diverse assemblages of stupendous spontaneous soundmakers have offered to fill each Tuesday at Bar Open with brutal jubilations and textural exaltations. 

The first week features three of Melbourne’s rowdiest ‘rock’ groups eschewing their usual composed fare for some intense indeterminacy with a special guest noisemaker each - with proto-metal boogie shredders Power featuring cacophonous guitar deity Dave Brown, post-punk-flavoured-garage punx Cable Ties featuring boyzIImencore tapemangler Llara Isabell Arena, and the recently resurfaced unrelenting noisecore devastation of Holy Boner (duo) featuring bonus electrodensities from Todd Anderson-Kunert and James Tolman.

January 5th

- Power feat. Nathan Williams (Guitar, Voice), Isaac Ishadi (Bass) & Penke Ethman (Drums) w/ Dave Brown (Guitar, Electronics)
- Cable Ties feat. Jenny McKechnie (Guitar, Voice), Nick Brown (Bass) & Shauna Ceratops (Drums) w/ Llara Goodall (Tapes, Electronics)
- Holy Boner feat. Nik Kennedy (Throat, Noise Bass, Electronics), Brad Smith (Throat, Drums), James Tolman (Throat, Noise) & Todd Anderson-Kunert (Throat, Electronics)

http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com.au/

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 26/12/2015

Flyer by OVE-NAXX

Last DISCO MULTIVERSE for 2015... co-organised by OVE-NAXX - expect nothing but the finest beats, noises and danceable party noisemusic sounds goin around... with special international guest YOBKISS from Netherlands!

Hey Summer, here is party for you on Boxing Day.
lots mates r going away for family what u gonna do, come join this party kick the bored off Santa's lazy day.

line up following ABC...

+ EGYPT LIES

+ Impatient 8 - bachi

+ OVE & Elf Tranzporter

+ SADO

+ Snuggy Man

+ Voici Bec U

+ WANKOSLOPISS (Wankoslop/Simon Pissbolt collab)

+ YOBKISS (NL)

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Doors 8:00pm
$5 entry
The Tote upstairs
Cnr Johnston & Wellington St. Collingwood

Last weeks' gigs

Forgot to post about these last week... good gigs! Thanks to everyone involved!

Photo by Carey Knight

The final Make It Up Club for 2015 features a motley crew of fourteen fine representatives from the myriad of Melbournian musicians who have bestowed the Club with aleatoric delights this year, congregating from their respective corners of the sonoverse to mutually revel in the splendour of spontaneous collaboration. Drawing on Annalee Koernig’s curatorial tactic for the Stutter Big Band of smashing together disparate improvisers adept at sensitive auditory engagement, participants from the new garde to the OG MIUC posse will utilise string, skin, wind and things to transmute slivers of mangled jazz, exquisite contemporary classical, brutal shitcore, lush drone, delectable noise, ecstatic psychedelia and boyzIImencore into a capriciously complex sonic entity attesting to the rich intricacy of our fertile local sonic terrain. There will be three sets of approximately 20 minutes length and no further imposed parameters, because improvisation and sonic liberation are awesome. 

• MIUC Big Band featuring:

Dave Brown (Strings)
Alex Garsden (Strings)
Lizzy Welsh (Strings)
Sean Baxter (Percussion)
Joe Talia (Percussion)
Maria Moles (Percussion)
Aviva Endean (Reeds)
Lloyd Honeybrook (Reeds)
Lisa MacKinney (Organ)
Carolyn Connors (Voice)
Peter Hyde (Voice)
Llara Goodall (Electronics)
Nik Kennedy (Electronics) 

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CLOGGED @ Monday Night Mass - 14/12/2015

FLYER BY S-BOLT
https://www.facebook.com/events/454728061377780/

CLOGGED, by CLOGGED tape available on the night!
https://radicalblarghst.bandcamp.com/album/clogged

HUMAN LARD @ TWEAK IV - 12/12/2015

New sound. Free entry. BYO. 8pm start. Doors open 7.30pm

Lloyd Honeybrook + Julia Reidy
Rod Cooper
Left Hand Path (Michael Famularo + Toby Brodel)
Human Lard (Nik Kennedy + Stevie Richards)
Tina Douglas

Studio 5/246-248 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

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Should be a great night... get on down if you're keen for some bonza noisemusics in a very "intimate environment"... Cheers to Tina for organising/hosting/imagery!

https://www.facebook.com/events/497828363731906/

UMBILICAL TENTACLE - PRIMORDIAL SQUIRTS tape/DD

TAPE / DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OUT NOW on RADICAL BLARGHST

Trax 1 taken from split 7" w/ Sete Star Sept (2013, Tenzenmen Records) 
Trax 2-9 taken from digital ep "Flailing Libido" (2014, Radical Blarghst) 
Trax 10-14 taken from various live recordings between Sep 2013-July 2015 

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Bridging the gap before we record our upcoming full-length album at the end of this month at Magnet Studios with Matt Faisandier AKA Swampy, the sound wizard responsible for "THE SUCTION"!! We've been plotting this for a while, can't wait ride the partygrindharshsurfmoshnoisecore wave!

THE KILL in Sydney (updated)

Big thanks to Bubsy and Nathan from Grindhead Records for putting this together, Jeff/Valve, Tom/Blackwire Records, Dave/Dispolar, and everyone involved, especially the guy who dislocated his kneecap in the mosh during our set on Saturday night. Thanks for your enthusiasm!

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SUPER FUN HAPPY SLIDE shirts + news

Artwork by Stewart Cole

Available now from RADICAL BLARGHST

Also, this one is being done by GRINDFATHER PRODUCTIONS early 2016:

Artwork by Kingbean AKA DISPLEASING DESIGNS, who also did the art for "Drop Your Pants & Grind"... which, by the way will be released on LP in 2016 by PSYCHOCONTROL with new artwork by Mr. Kingbean ! ... PLUS, there will be a SFHS "Collection" tape also on GRINDFATHER containing the first 2 demos and heaps of nice, raw live & rehearsal stuff, including unreleased songs, different versions of album songs, cover songs (mostly NAPALM DEATH of course) ... No new recordings planned, unfortunately... this is all we can do at the moment with Den living out in the Tasmanian wilderness...

GIRLS RADIO OFFENSIVE compilation tape

UMBILICAL TENTACLE are on this excellent compilation released recently... cheers to GRO for their hard work!

CLICK >>>> https://girlsradiooffensive.bandcamp.com/album/compilation-tape-2

Compilation of currently playing punk bands from Australia, put together as a fundraiser for the Mapuche-Aboriginal Struggles for Indigenous Land project. All proceeds will go directly to this project. See foeausmapuche.wordpress.com for more info. 

See booklet included for band info, links to band sites and lyrics. 

Compilation put together by Girls Radio Offensive, independent community radio show on 3cr in Melbourne. 

See 3cr.org.au 

and girlsradiooffensive.wordpress.com

AUDIBLE PLAGUE MENACE @ The Tote - 02/12/2015

Two absolute legends of Japanoise bestow tinnitus upon Melbournians for one night only, with a cavalcade of local shredders and Sydneian guests throwing out the harsh, jagged welcome mat to show them how we throw a noiseparty round these parts. Only deaf is real!

MAIN STAGE
7:50 – DF0:BAD [SYD] vs. RVACB 
8:30 – Mshing
9:10 – MV, Nat Grant & Pete Hyde
9:50 – Marco Fusinato
10:30 – Defektro [JPN]
11:30 – G.C. [JPN]

SIDE STAGE
8:10 – Gravitational Constant [SYD]
8:50 – Smash Tennis
9:30 – Hospital Pass
10:10 – Maria Moles & Hate Sax
11:10 – Military Position vs. Spasmoslop

FRONT BAR (FREE)
9:00 – cornholecrucifixion [SYD]
9:45 – Carolyn Connors, Fjorn & Lara de Soulio
10:30 – Passenger of Shit & Aethyreal Girl


https://www.facebook.com/events/1540611976177968/

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Pretty bloody excited to be revisiting my duo with Harriet Morgan/Military Position, which hasn't happened in about 3-4 years or something... alongside an absolute mind-boggler line-up!! Big cheers to Lloyd Honeybrook and whoever else is involved for making this happen.
Here's the recording from our first gig ever. In Shane Van Den Akker's kitchen, for an audience of 2 people: Shane, and some other guy who you can hear turn up part way through the set, who then immediately went outside. Memorable!

SPASMOSLOP in Ballarat video

Thanks heaps to REFUND for filming and uploading this awesome high-quality (watch in HD!) video of my set at RADICAL AUDIO TEMPLE in Ballarat.... I've been working on my solo stuff a lot this year... it's a constant work in progress and I think this video really captures the vibe of what I'm trying to do with SPASMOSLOP these days. Looking forward to recording soon for some new release(s) in 2016!

Recent stuff - 29/11/2015

Heaps of gigs over the last few months... SUPER FUN HAPPY SLIDE in Melbourne, UMBILICAL TENTACLE, CLOGGED and RITUAL OF THE BEUG in Newcastle, and CLOGGED took a stupid "cool band photo" on the highway back to Melbourne, MONO/DISCO/SPASM at Magnet, SPASMOSLOP in Ballarat, THE KILL went to Perth with CAPTAIN CLEANOFF and got driven around in a crazy old bus, first performance of a new trampoline-noisecore band with Matt Faisandier and Gemma Falconer at Make It Up Club... haven't updated the blog for ages cause I've been doing all this stuff... here's photos and videos from various people, all completely out of order, I've lost track, blog-writing is annoying... Lloyd Honeybrook, Carey Knight, Peter James, Josie Jo, Tina Douglas, Brad Smith, Matt Faisandier and others, thanks everyone for making the effort to document all the great stuff that happens in our beloved Unpopular Music scenes!

LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO @ Bar Open - 25/09/2015

MORBID ANAL PRESENTATION

FEATURING DONKEY MUTHERS OF ARSE 

DJ IRON CHEF

AND LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO (featuring some losers from The Kill, Internal Rot and Kriss Hades' band)

First band on is Lounge Pervert Trio- it sounds like this:::https://vimeo.com/76790703

Improv-Jazz-Noise-Grind 

Then DJ Iron Chef::: you want food? You got it? You want noise? You got even more? You want beats and eats? Sure. What's for dessert? What is dessert? I only ordered the salad and diet coke. 

After being fed by Mr DJ Iron Chef, you will experience some Morbid Anal quality heavier than Mal Colston grind. This is because these slobs want to drink at the end of the night so they can enjoy getting drunk in each others company later on during

Donkey Muthers Of Arse, starring the talented painter Shane Van Gogh, known for cutting off his penis and sending it to his lover in a fit of ecstatic fervour.

Hope you all have a lovely time at our happy little event.
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Bar Open
317 Brunswick St. Fitzroy
Doors 8:00pm
$5 entry



LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO on first at 8:30pm

EAR OF THE BEHEARER 10-Year Anniversary - 06/09/2015

dettol forever presents

MINIMUM WAGE

Ear of the Behearer celebrates ten years broadcasting on PBS 106.7FM Melbourne by throwing a cool party including:

Paul Kidney Experience 
Spasmoslop
Hologram Whitney Houston
Solvent Cage
HATE SAX
Bonnie Mercer 
Penguins 
cleaninglady
Papaphilia
Drooling Mystics
Donkey Muthers Of Arse

http://www.pbsfm.org.au/earofbehearer

Public Bar - 238 Victoria St.Melbourne
4PM / FREE

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Bar Open - 28/08/2015

A night of experimental, noise, punk and hardcore at Bar open, featuring a plethora of various extremes of punk/noise. 

DIVIDIR - Experimental Psych/Industrial

Umbilical Tentacle - SURF/NOISE/TRASH/NOISECORE

The World At A Glance - Art/Noise/Emo punk performing as a 9-piece band

NERVE - Noise/Techno

DEAD MATES - Noisy Powerviolence

$10, 7pm, Bar Open 28th AUGUST

https://www.facebook.com/events/146991902301907/

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Thanks Scott/TWAAG for organising!

Recent gig photos

Thanks to Carey Knight for these cool pics...

DEATH BY CONES @ Conduit Arts

Shane Van Den Akker, Jenny Barnes, Anne-Lise Ah-Fat, James Tolman

Richie Cyngler, Peter James, Stevie Richards, Jason Heller

Llara Goodall, Tom Miller, Todd Anderson-Kunert, me

HUMAN LARD @ Longplay

TAKE THAT VILE FIEND - Excreted Brain Matters

https://blarghstrad.bandcamp.com/album/excreted-brain-matters

26 rage filled stabs of noisey goregrind filth from the blokes who have subjected you to such aural atrocities as Super Fun Happy Slide, Holy Boner and more. Excreted Brain Matters is 23 mins of your life you will never get back, so you might as well enjoy the onslaught of fuzz drenched low end riff slop, scintilatingly sizzly blast mush and putrid vocal spew!

CD version will be available thru Radical Blarghst soon! (ETA: Sep '15) 
https://www.facebook.com/radicalblarghst
blarghstrad.bandcamp.com
radicalblarghst.blogspot.com

Take That Vile Fiend is: 

Brad : Riffatomas/Bum End/Bludgeoning/Heaved Gurgles 
Nik : Gargled Throt 

All tracks horrendously recorded by Brad between Nov 2013 and Feb 2015. 
Layout/Stolen Imagery by Brad.

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Bruuutal!! Check it out and support Brad's new label, RADICAL BLARGHST!!!!

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 23/08/2015

DISCO MULTIVERSE at The Tote Upstairs continues...

+ ROD COOPER & MICHAEL FAMULARO
https://youtu.be/eDtjCCtqjqU
https://www.facebook.com/lefthandpathnoise

+ FAITH AVERSION
Wankoslop meets Monolith... Yuka Discobeans (vocals/noise), Peter James (noise), Nik Kennedy (vocals/noise)
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com/
https://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/spectres

+ CHARLES IVES SINGERS
https://youtu.be/UimUnKv9jYE

+ BARISAL-GUNS
Collaboration between Tina Douglas and Peter Webster. Laptop, sensor devices synthesising 3D position data (Nintendo wii controller & Leap Motion controller), sound reactive realtime video feed.
http://tinadouglas.net/

+ EGORS MTN
Improvised psychedelica made with guitar, effect pedals and feedback.
http://soundcloud.com/egors-mtn

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Doors 6:00pm // First act 6:30pm
$5 entry

HUMAN LARD @ Longplay - 20/08/2015

nonlinear happily presents a night of sound/sounds/noises at Longplay, featuring:

Human Lard (Stevie Richards and Nik Kennedy)
Red Wine And Sugar (Mark Groves and Samaan Fieck)
Todd Anderson-Kunert
Galway (Llara Isabell Arena and Carey Knight)

Thursday 20th August @ Longplay (318 St Georges Rd Fitzroy North)8pm. $10 Entry. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/589424257862475/
www.thisisnonlinear.com


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First gig under the name HUMAN LARD ... (nice one Stevie)
Thanks to Todd AK for organising!
My side of today's jam...

SPASMOSLOP @ Magnet - 15/08/2015

+++ DRACOPEDE (NSW)
https://soundcloud.com/dracopede

+++ THE CONVOY
http://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/

+++ SPASMOSLOP
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/spasmoslop.html

+++ PHANTOM GRAVELLER

+++ FREEZING FOG

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6:00pm
FREE
11 Roosevelt St. North Coburg

DEATH BY CONES @ Conduit Arts - 01/08/2015

4 x noisemakers, 4 x amps in the 4 corners of a 4-sided room. Audience goes in the middle. Get comfortable and soak it up, or move around and find the sweet spots.

For this event there will be 3 different sets with 3 different line-ups...
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VOCALS
Anne-Lise Ah-Fat, Jenny Barnes, James Tolman, Shane Van Den Akker

SYNTHS
Richie Cyngler, Jason Heller, Peter James, Stephen Richards

NOISE
Todd Anderson-Kunert, Llara Goodall, Nik Kennedy, Tom Miller

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8:00pm
$10 entry
Conduit Arts - 83 Brunswick St. Fitzroy
www.conduitarts.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/690312044434669/

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Very excited about this gig.... I've been wanting to put on a "various artists" DEATH BY CONES for aaaaaaages. Can't wait to play and especially can't wait to actually be in a DBC audience! Big thanks to Todd Anderson-Kunert for co-organising with me, and Leo Kavanagh & Conduit Arts for hosting.