DISCO MULTIVERSE - 18/09/2016

+ INTERNAL ROT
A rabid swarm of mutant lawnmowers!

+ UMBILICAL TENTACLE
The exhilirating embrace of a giant squid!

+ DONKEY MUTHAS OF ARSE
Overinflated lungs exploding in a bottomless pit!

+ HEADLESS DEATH
The grim contemplation of your pathetic existence!!

+ SKYSCRAPER
Realisation that your spouse is actually a cyborg!

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The Tote Upstairs
Doors 6:00pm
First act 6:30pm
All done by 10:00ish
$5 entry
https://www.facebook.com/events/1162446293828006/
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DISCO MULTIVERSE
NOISEMUSICSOUNDS OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES SINCE 2011! 
NEXT GIG: SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER

Noise / Music / Performance / Experimental / Improv / Ambient / Harsh / Weird / Noise You Can Dance To / Breakcore / Noisecore / Grindcore / Hardcore / Punk / Non-Popular Pop / Psych / Drone / Electronics / Audio-Visual / Indescribable / etc... 

To enquire about playing
email info/links to Nik - sfhsgrind [@] hotmail . com

DISCO MULTIVERSE - 19/06/2016

NOISEMUSICSOUNDS OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES

+ CLOGGED
Maximum Goregrind Hooliganism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8iuEl9KZzw

+ LANGLO PANIFLAX
So crisp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xceIKmmeZWg

+ COP DATE
You just made a big mistake, pal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcVjOqIwW3E

+ CIARAN GEOGHEGAN
Electronic bleaknesses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvK3i4YuZHg

+ TINA DOUGLAS
Sci-fi sensory synthesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvO0Ybt2aB0

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The Tote Upstairs
Doors 6:00pm
First act 6:30pm
$5 entry

UMBILICAL TENTACLE surfin' with GRANPA

June 6th @ Northcote Social Club
Monday Night Mass - FREE

- Rice Corpse (Lucas Abela/Maria Moles/James Bowers)
- Umbilical Tentacle (partygrindharshsurfmoshnoisecoremania)
- Angus Leslie & Cosima Jaala (first-time face-off of epic bratcore proportions)

In a Melbournian first Lucas 'Granpa' Abela kicks off three days of tinnitus-drenced madness with his angular noiserock improv unit Rice Corpse adeptly assisted by local shredders Maria Moles - the percussive prowess behind Jaala and Titanic Jamz - and James Bowers - the vocoder (and keyboards or whatever) behind Sex On Toast, Au Dré and far too many others. To welcome the cacophonous royalty we've laid out our finest silly sonic silverware with absurdist aristocrats Umbilical Tentacle reppin' the everythingcore brutality, and turn up the musical and performative intensities by clashing two of the most charismatic frontpeople in town - Angus Leslie and Cosima Jaala. Eep.

More info and stuff here - https://www.facebook.com/events/980560695355348/

Cheers to Lloyd Honeybrook for organising!!

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ The Tote - 07/04/2016

Increased tremblings measured of late by the Seismologists of Eastern Australia are no mistake. There is indeed a significant event approaching:
DEAD and MoE are touring together. It’s the double bill you need n your life. You have been warned.
And yes that is THE MoE from Norway; legendary noise rock/avant garde DIY stalwarts.
Two relentlessly active and uncompromising bands; it’s a pissing contest of low end, high output and DIY cred. Remember that time John Farnham sold out 17 concerts at the Tennis Centre? This will be nothing like that.

First show of the tour. For full dates go here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/438455706360939/

Lineup of the bloody century!

DEAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_Q6_qAuzw

MoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqZut6YtXU

Batpiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AixU9XKgXFc

Umbilical Tentacle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFzLeDKCH_U

8pm. $10 Conc. / $15 Full
The Tote Hotel

School night, won't run late.

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Thanks Jem/DEAD for the invite!

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Howler - 01/03/2016

NEXT GIG!!! WITH OUR HOMIES CURSE OV DIALECT!!!! CAN'T WAIT TO SAY WE KNEW THEM BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS!!!! THIS JOINT IS A NIGHTCLUB OR SOMETHING??? MAYBE THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE WHO ARE ON A DATE AND WE CAN GET THEM IN THE MOOD FOR SOME HOTTTTT TENTACLE-THEMED LOVIN'

https://www.facebook.com/events/696012243834930/

UMBILICAL TENTACLE live @ Yarraville video

Cheers to Wayne from COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE? for this one! 
Also check out Wayne's very-bloody-long-running INFERNAL NOISE radio show here - www.facebook.com/infernalnoizeradio or here - www.3ser.org.au/programs.html?infernal-noize

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Yarraville - 05/02/2016

https://www.facebook.com/events/173584349666296/

CALL ON THE DAY FOR LOCATION 0490 215 663 

ALL AGES

FREE

AMURAO
(NEW D-BEATERS)

DERAILMENT
(https://derailment.bandcamp.com/releases)

UNNATURAL BIRTH
(https://girlsradiooffensive.bandcamp.com/track/unnatural-birth-retaliator)

DIPLOID
(http://diploid.bandcamp.com/album/deterioration-ep)

SEWERCIDE
(http://sewercide.bandcamp.com/album/severing-the-mortal-cord-ep)

SPLIT TEETH
(https://splitteeth.bandcamp.com/)

UMBILICAL TENTACLE
(http://radicalblarghst.bandcamp.com/album/primordial-squirts)

THE KILL @ The Bendigo - 30/01/2016

Flyer says it all!! What a corker of a grind shindig to start the year. Cheers Jay/KILL for organising!

https://www.facebook.com/events/482236725287772/

https://www.facebook.com/The-Kill-139892842732903/

UMBILICAL TENTACLE - 23rd & 24th Jan

Sydney's finest doo wop grind band FRAME 313 travels down to Melbourne for the first time ever to maybe launch their new 7" record "Streets Of Gold" if the pressing plant does its job. 

Joining them are auditors of magic UMBILICAL TENTACLE, purveyors of fire CORDELL, wizards of crystal powers METH LEPPARD and finally the connoisseurs of the finer things in life SMACK BABY.

We heard that the Brisbane Grindcore Syndicate has been talking smack about you so you should come by and prove them wrong by moshing everywhere, especially at this gig.

SAT 23RD JAN  /  8PM  /  $10  /  AA  /  DUDE  /  NICE
PM FOR ADDY

Q

https://www.facebook.com/events/700018646801130/

frame313.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/seagull-chainsaw/frame-313-black-rabbit

radicalblarghst.bandcamp.com/album/primordial-squirts

cordellcrust.bandcamp.com

methleppard666.bandcamp.com

smackbabypv.bandcamp.com

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Come upstairs to the Tote on a sunday, carn, it will be fun.

On the billy we have (in no particular order)

Umbilical Tentacle - local pop group singing love songs
Smashing Faces - newcastle pop group singing hate songs
CROSSED - geelong pop group stinking love bongs
Meth Leppard - adelaide pop group drinking bong water
Drain Life - another local pop group who sing songs about blood, fire and satan

Top Music Stuff 2015

Jumping on the list bandwagon... new and old releases/bands/stuff I enjoyed the most in 2015....

+ ACTIVE STENOSIS [https://activestenosis.bandcamp.com]
The premium flying-guts sloshing drum-machine goregrind! This bloke can do no wrong!

+ MEATAL ULCER [https://meatalulcer.bandcamp.com]
Australia's (maybe the World's?) most outrageous chundering gore vocals and most intense goregrind! A whirlwind of gross.

+ A SYMPHONY OF DEATH RATTLES compilation tape [http://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Symphony-Of-Death-Rattles/release/6766719]
Excellent first label release from my favourite Frenchman, Pierre of BLUE HOLOCAUST & BRAINDEAD zine. A disgusting collection of some of the best goregrind bands of the last few years.

+ ECOSTENCH - "Discography 1995-1997" [https://mortvillenoise.bandcamp.com/album/discography-1995-1997]
"Hidden gem" of the year! Raw grind with elements of humour and experimental touches which are actually really good!

+ ASBESTOSISIS - "Blocked Up From Barbeque" [https://asbestosisis.bandcamp.com]
Melbourne Morticianwave cavernous sewer goregrind spew!

+ G.O.D. - "Body Horror" [https://blastasfuk.bandcamp.com/album/body-horror]
Top-shelf gory grindcore from Canada, and "Most Pwanging Snare" 2015!

+ CAPTAIN CLEANOFF - "Rising Terror" [https://blastasfuk.bandcamp.com/album/rising-terror]
Australia's catchiest grindcore band get more riffs stuck in heads.

+ AVIAN TERROR [https://avianterror.bandcamp.com]
My new favourite band from Sydney... Raw and wild pure grindcore!

+ MACHETAZO covering a MORTICIAN song on their split with R.A.S. [https://youtu.be/iHd1LaViVUI]
Best MACHETAZO song since the "Trono de Huesos" album!

+ TERMINATOR 666 - "Demo 2011" [https://terminator666.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2011]
Best/Worst Music & Band Name of 2015. The most delightfully sloppy shitty shit I've heard since early PLASMA!

+ TECHNICAL ITCH - "Souls of Impatience" studio mix [http://techitch.com]
Recent mix from the master of dark, brooding drum & bass. Precision sound art with a beat!

+ EATBRAIN podcast [https://soundcloud.com/eatbrain/sets/podcasts]
Cutting-edge neuro/tech drum & bass mixes. Incredibly intricate sound design - some of the juiciest textures I've ever heard!

+ BARCODE FILTHCAST [https://soundcloud.com/filthcastpodcast]
Heavy/tech/hard drum & bass mixes from the more extreme end of things.

+ ROT - "Fatality" EP
Because I haven't heard their new one yet, and really, this stupendous EP from 1996 should always be in every list... forever!

CLOGGED, by CLOGGED tape / DD

Re-Post from RADICAL BLARGHST

"Fat throbbing gore riffs, hyper blasting, deranged Drumming, 3 headed roar/shriek/shifted Vocal, a big Noisecore hard-on sporting Goregrind monstrosity, bursting out of a secret lab and consuming scientists whole. Dense, nasty, un-serious, bizarre and brutal." -Gonzo Karaoke '15

Yep, pretty much. Down to the last pile of copies so get on it if you can't be buggered waiting around for the next run of tapes sometime in the new year.

https://radicalblarghst.bandcamp.com/album/clogged

Humble thanks to Gonzo Karaoke for that rather insightful review! It really nails what we're going for with this band. Much appreciated!

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/

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

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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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

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!

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!!!!