THE KILL Euro Tour + new album!!

The Kill are going to Europe in July to play Obscene Extreme and Play Fast Or Don't fests in Czech, and do a Euro tour of some description... I don't really even know where else we're going yet but it should be sweeeeeet no doubt! Thanks to Curby OEF and everyone else helping out!
And if everything goes to plan we'll release our 2nd full-length album, on Obscene Productions/Blastasfuk in time for the tour. Heaps of new songs written, I just need to write a novel worth of lyrics for all of it... recording starts soon...

HOLY BONER @ MIUC - 25/03/2014

Expect nothing but aleatoric atrocities at MIUC this Tuesday as three scumcore groupings control sieges of sonic power to demonstrate the potential of extemporisation-as-Divine-Death and redefine the very concept of brutalissimo. First time make-it-uppers Pissbolt smash out of the prison-without-walls known as composed music to suffocate their kvlto thrash in a whirlwind of spontaneously unabated fury and flex their improv instincts of survival. Lo-fi parasites Peter Hyde, Chris Nylstoch and Sean Baxter (aka the heaviest new noisecore trio of 2013) grind past the point of no return in their sophomore blastfest sure to make Multinational Corporation-backed punks crap their dacks. And the polluted minds of Holy Boner inflict unquestionable suffering upon their anti-musical weaponry, with the common enemy of audial moderation well and truly within their auditory crosshairs.


•Pissbolt feat. S-Bolt (Roar), R-Bolt (Axe) & J-Bolt (Skins)

•Peter Hyde (Voice), Chris Nylstoch (Guitar) & Sean Baxter (Percussion)

•Holy Boner feat. Omad (Noisecore Vocals/Noise), Nik Kennedy (Modified Bass/Goregrind Vocals), Rod Cooper (Handmade Guitar/Noise) & Brad Smith (Drums/Grindcore Vocals)


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 

Flyer by Pete Hyde

WANKOSLOP @ Discobeans - 23/03/2014

Solvent Cage
Em Vécue Aquieu
Clinton Green
Rod Cooper
Wankoslop

Closing night for the exhibition Titled | Untitled

$5 entry
Doors/Food from 6:00pm
539 Plenty Rd. Preston

https://www.facebook.com/events/220216321505669/

Collab with Vijay Thillaimuthu @ MIUC - 25/02/2014

This installment of Make It Up Club is a selection of brutalissimo sound purveyors lurking across thresholds of various soundworlds in the electronic crud-smeared underbelly of Melbourne's DIY noise arena. With a unifying love of suffocating densities and sublime reverberant immersion, Vijay Thillaimuthu's high-ish electrowizardry aesthetic and Nik Kennedy's low-ish scumcore sonic strategy render such descriptive dichotomies utterly irrelevant. Wikipedia defines Nathan Gray as an artistic standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and connectors capable of manipulating a variety of electronic musical instruments, computers and other aleatoric sources into connecting and communicating with one another. And the post-grim powered electronics of Ciarán Geoghegan will be wilfully smashed into the robust industrial-strength ambience borne of Todd Anderson-Kunert's electric assemblage, in a supercollision of extreme frequencies. 


•Vijay Thillaimuthu (Electronics) & Nik Kennedy (Voice, Clarinet, Electronics)

•Nathan Gray (Case Full of MIDI)

•Ciarán Geoghegan (Electronics) & Todd Anderson-Kunert (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 

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Feeling very lucky and stoked to be playing at MIUC again, this time in collab with Vijay Thillaimuthu doin some modular synth conjurations and whatnot... I've got some cool new tricks, processing voice and clarinet (of doom). Rock n roll...

HOLY BONER @ Holdings - 16/02/2014

Come see people yelling over other loud noises!

Cantankerous Records Presents This:

Dead Boomers: Launching their new 7" vinyl out on Iron Lung Records and their new cassette "Outcalls" out on Cipher productions.
Punshing power electronics with a punk tinge...

SPLIT TEETH:Lightning speed power violence; 100% brutal.

Holy Boner: All star noise/grind lineup for maximum brutalitiy.

Velvet Whip: Self doubt, intelligence, paranoia, urban problems, claustrophobia, ugliness, animosity, and power.

Inmost Night: Punkened black metal to open your mind!


Live at Holdings
492 Bell Street Pascoe Vale South
3pm Sunday 16th February 2014
Free.
All Ages.
Free tea & coffee.

Plenty of merch available; bring your hard earned bread and squander it on some dated formats...

"If you are coming by car there is no parking on Bell Street, but you should be able to find some in York Street which is just around the corner. The last stop on the 55 tram at Bell Street will get you nearby. Holdings is about a 5 block walk west from there. If you can get to Bell or Coburg Station the 513 bus will take you pretty much across the road. Just ask to get off before Reynolds Parade. Holdings is across the road from a 7-Eleven (which is on the corner of Reynolds & Bell) if you need a landmark."

www.cantankerousrecords.blogspot.com

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VERY EXCITED for this - our first gig with the new HOLY BONER line-up...  

Brad Smith - Drums/grindcore vocals
Nik Kennedy - Modified bass/goregrind vocals
Rod Cooper - Handmade guitar/noise
Omad - Noisecore vocals/noise

We've been jamming and doing some recordings (coming soon)... and I reckon with Rod's demented guitar and Omad's harsh Arse Destroyer-ish vocals added to the me & Brad "rhythm section" it's sounding more brutal/intense/noisy and chaotic-but-tight than ever before! 
TOTAL DEVASTATION NOISECORE!!!!

Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/blarghstrad-noisesmith/a-taste-of-boner

KNIGHT/FIECK/KENNEDY @ MIUC - 11/02/2014

This Tuesday at the Make It Up Club prepare to get blasted into the electronic realm of the sonoverse as six electrifying young circuitry abusers inflict their will upon the speaker cones of Bar Open, your ears and brains. A first-time trio of epic sonic proportions, namely firebrand aural punishers Carey Knight, Samaan Fieck & Nik Kennedy, will rain molten detritus of mangled frequencies triggered by years of being called 'emerging artists'. Travis John presents a systematic and methodical torture session for guitar, wreaking intense sonic pressure on a robustly resonant body to evoke skull-splintering drones from a simple combination of string, pickup and amp. And scumcore noise brutalisers Harriet Morgan and Luke Holland channel analog scree as Armour Group, scouring the aether of the ancient occult, antediluvian war and archaic historical sources for sonic insight.


•Carey Knight (Electronics), Samaan Fieck (Electronics) & Nik Kennedy (Voice, Electronics)

•Travis John (Guitar)

•Armour Group feat. Harriet Morgan (Electronics) & Luke Holland (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

COLLAB WITH ANTHEA CADDY @ MIUC - 28/01/2014

This Tuesday is your last chance to aleatorically party on down for the Make It Up Club's sweet 16th birthday with our final four groups, representing three continents of sonic vocabulary, further fostering intercultural collaboration via communicatory spontaneous music creation and mutual construction of transcendent textures. Melbournian diasporic cellist Anthea Caddy returns to the MIUC stage on her yearly jaunt home from Berlin to the motherland for a clash of string and vocal resonance with oral force of nature Nik Kennedy to round out a killer month of rarefied cross-cultural collaborations. It has also been two years since American modular maven Ben Vida blasted dense synthetic frequency clusters at the architecture of Bar Open, but in 2014 he's here to celebrate improvisation by affecting and reacting to the patch pin matrix, knob and joystick manipulations of Mathew Watson to co-create some layered electronic ecstasy. We also have a first time Make It Up Clubber in British vocalist Viv Corringham, a notional storyteller of lingual deconstruction and textural liberation, ably welcomed to the environs of Melbournian improv by local legend and ambassador-of-impromptu Dave Brown. And a cavalcade of free jazz firebrands corralled by living luminary Kris Wanders and featuring double bassist Slawek Janicki, saxophonist Brett Evans, drummer Damien Ellis & keyboardist Jude Russel, contextualise that the MIUC would probably be nonexistent were it not for Ornette's actions over 50 years ago.


•Anthea Caddy [MEL/BER] (Cello) & Nik Kennedy (Voice)

•Ben Vida [US] (Modular Synth) & Mat Watson (Synthi AKS)

•Viv Corringham [UK] (Voice) & Dave Brown (Guitar, Objects)

•Kris Wanders (Saxes), Slawek Janicki (Double Bass), Brett Evans (Saxes), Damien Ellis (Drums), Jude Russel (Korg)


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

https://www.facebook.com/events/198809800307572/

PAUL KIDNEY ERKESTRA @ Musikunst, GB Hotel - 25/01/2014

Paul Kidney ERKESTRA ... 

Let the freak show begin, Melbourne's premier underground - psychedelic - experimental - noise - rock - outfit meet up with a bunch of Melbourne sound merchants to melt the fun receptors in your fragile little minds! 

This concert will consist of two pieces, one by the Paul Kidney Experience (Bonnie Mercer, Matt Gleeson, Lloyd Honeybrook, Peter James, Nell Day, Don Rogers, Dave 'The Hitter' Bullock, Ben Butcher and the majestic overlord of psychedelic mayhem himself Paul Kidney).

Then the second by 'Paul Kidney Erkestra' featuring the Paul Kidney Experience and fiends (Danny Walsh, Ian Parsons, Nic Tammens, Kerrie Farnsworth, Piers Morgan, Shane Van Den Akker, Mat Blackwell, Nik Kennedy and Trent Brown).

Plus an überdelic light show!

ERK - expressing panic or dismay. "Erk! What's that?"


Great Britain Hotel Basement
447 Church St. Richmond
4:00pm start
Free entry (I think)

https://www.facebook.com/events/431587646943785/

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Can't wait to make some mania with these freakazoids in the basement! Thanks to the Majestic Overlord of Psychedelic Mayhem for the invite and Piers Morgan for organising and keeping this ripper monthly series going.

LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO @ The Evelyn - 17/01/2014

First official gig for LOUNGE PERVERT TRIO - Dan Tucceri on piano, Brad Smith on drums, me on vocals/noise...

Here's a video from our last gig, playing as "Denial De Monic vs. Holy Boner", thanks to Jules for putting it up!

Denial De Monic vs Holy Boner from Jules Dazzle on Vimeo.

Hopefully we'll play some more gigs in the near future!

DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 19/01/2014

+ DIARY DAY 1
Experimental hip-hop featuring members of Curse Ov Dialect

+ INMOST NIGHT
Experimental black metal featuring members of Cantankerous Records

+ THE CONVOY
Experimental music featuring members of Akaname

+ SOLVENT CAGE
Experimental noise featuring members of Paul Kidney Experience

+ NAYUTTO
Experimental guitaring featuring members of Be Nice To Us


Doors/Food from 6pm
First act 7:30ish
$5 entry
539 Plenty Rd. Preston

WANKOSLOP @ DISCOBEANS SUNDAY - 22/12/2013

+ OCCULT BLOOD

Neanderthunderous noisecore
http://occultblood.bandcamp.com/

+ DR. JAFFLE
Toasty beats produced from Gameboys, a Macintosh Computer from 1993 and Fresh Hi-Fi Beets from an intergalactic future beet farm. Delivered in a paper bag.
https://www.facebook.com/drjaffle/

+ STEVE LAW
Modular synth mastermind
http://www.solitary-sound.com/

+ WANKOSLOP
Bizarro noise performance-art wank with Yuka & Nik

+ AAACCCDDDCCC
Prof. Nason returns for another round of fuck-knows-what


Doors/Food from 6:00pm
First act 7:30ish
$5 entry

SPASMOSLOP @ The Barley Corn - 11/12/13

At The Barley Corn Hotel- Free Entry with purchase of drink. With Donkey Muthers of Arse, cleaninglady, Spasmoslop & The Royal Melbourne Noise Choir.

177 Johnston St. Collingwood
8:30pm

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Thanks to Shane Van Den Akker for organising!

TELEPORTER @ Musikunst - 26/10/2013

This month MUSIKUNST and All Tomorrows Hangovers presents 3 sets of pshych/noise/metal inspired band brawling, featuring conglomerations of aural tentacles of shreiking and brass and guitars and electronics and stuff!!! 

1. SHUDDUHBERRY
Horrormovie soundtracks for the warm-hearted and the hard of hearing
Piers du Voisin: amplified wood/steel/brass
Shane Van Den Akker: vocals
Steven Gill: electric guitar
Shane Caeser: drums

2. TELEPORTER
Psychic time-drift ejected from the void.
Yuka Discobeans: vocals
Nik Kennedy: instruments/electronics
Matt Faisandier: drums

3. BAND-BRAWL!
All in shit fight to the death

4pm Saturday 26th October
As always, doors 4 pm, performance 4:30 pm, $10 / $5 conc.
GB Hotel Basement 447 Church St Richmond

https://www.facebook.com/events/399721613487961/

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This was gonna be an Umbilical Tentacle gig but Brad couldn't do it so hey, new band - TELEPORTER. I've been jamming various psychedelic-y, noisy sounds with Matt for a while now but for this gig I'll be playing bass/electronics and processing the drum kit in an attempt to bend time, amongst other things. The collab at the end should be huuuuuuge too, can't wait. 
Thanks once again to Piers Morgan for organising these monthly gigs. The dark GB basement on a Saturday arvo is a perfect scenario for noisemusics!!

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Noise Bar - 19/10/2013

"One night of the most ferocious and fun lovin debauchery, featuring a couple of the finest bands melbourne has to offer: 

Creepcake- a bunch of exquisite freaks

The Tipplers/schwanz kaput- a bit of irish delight to assist your inebriation 

and Umbilical Tentacle,weird as fuck, onesie wearing kitchen appliance wielding percussion to make your ears bleed with pleasure

Also guest appearances by everyone's favourite birdgod, Quetzacoatl!

$8 entry for mortals, $4 for gods, demons, reptiles, insects, cyborgs, hobosapiens and aliens

doors open at 7.30pm/"

https://www.facebook.com/events/222103221286523/

IS. NOT. MORE. @ Discobeans - 13/10/2013

+ VENUS FLY TRAP
New shit from Yuka, Hitomi, Stella, Bridget & Dana

+ JORGE RAMIREZ (Mexico)
Fry your brain
https://soundcloud.com/jorge-ramirez/tesela-0-1

+ OCCULT GIBBET
Junk & synth dystopian amalgamation

+ IS. NOT. MORE.
Abstract vocal-driven noise from Bonnie Hart (vocals/electronics) & Nik Kennedy (vocals/electronics)

+ THE CONVOY
Hypnotic guitar mantras
http://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/


Discobeans
539 Plenty Rd. Preston

Doors/food from 6:00pm
$5 entry

DIE PIGEON DIE + CANADIAN GRINDMANIA @ Gaso - 04/10/2013

"Prolific Canadian DIY mincecore/grind punks following in the tradition of Agathocles, Unholy Grave and fellow Canucks Dahmer and Mesrine, ARCHAGATHUS hit Australia for the first time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81KIv_b4H7Y http://archagathus.bandcamp.com/ As an added bonus Archagathus side band VIOLENT GORGE will be blazing through a short and intense set of savage mince/grind/barf!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8eYDjh-Y8U
Joining them for this show are Melbourne undergrinders Doubled Over, Die Pigeon Die, Internal Rot and Pneumatic Slaughter. Get MINCED or get fucked!"

https://www.facebook.com/events/150511531823808/

Superb!

DUALS @ Conduit Arts - 28/09/2013

DUALS is a collaboration between Conduit Arts boards members Todd Anderson-Kunert and Leo Kavanagh. It will be an evening of noise makers and improvisers coming together to perform in duo formats over the course of the night. The match ups (noise/improviser) are random and shall be selected on the night of the gig making sure that each performance is free to be as open, spontaneous and instinctual as possible.

Performers on the night will be:

Todd Anderson-Kunert
Ciaran Geoghegan
Samaan Fieck
Spasmoslop
Leo Kavanagh
Brett Thompson
Lloyd James Honeybrook
Reuben Lewis

Tickets are $10 on the door with the money going towards the musicians on the night.

HYPEREMESIS/MEATAL ULCER split release

I recently contributed some vocals for MEATAL ULCER's side of an upcoming limited split 7" with HYPEREMESIS from Canada on Goatgrind Records... turned out great I reckon... very stoked to be involved in this pile of total filth!! Looking forward to possibly doing more in the future!
You can listen to the material here:  http://meatalulcer.bandcamp.com/album/hyperemesis-meatal-ulcer-7

NOISE FLASH AFTERPARTY @ Discobeans - 01/09/2013

Interstate and local participants of Noise Flash stick their sonics into a PA - no FM radio required!

+ SHANE FAHEY (SYD)
Analogue synth noisemusic

+ DOG ACT
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+ ENDGAME (SYD)
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+ FLASHERS x 2
Two amplified collab groups made up of Noise Flashers, including Todd Anderson-Kunert, Dave Foreman, Carey Knight, Jonathon Nokes, Nat Grant, Stephen Richards, Piers Morgan, Nik Kennedy, Valleys + more

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DOORS & DELICIOUS DISCOBEANS FOOD FROM 6PM
FIRST ACT 7:30ISH
$5 ENTRY
539 PLENTY RD. PRESTON

NOISE FLASH @ Melb Museum Forecourt - 01/09/2013

For this performance, Noise Flash will be outside the front of Melbourne Museum, as part of the Liquid Architecture festival. Thanks to Todd Anderson-Kunert for organising! The one at the Botanic Gardens earlier this year was really cool so get down!
Info here: http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/installation-noise-flash/