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 - 14/08/2016

THE CONVOY
https://theconvoy.bandcamp.com/

TANNHAUSA GATE
Tannhäusa Gate merges the glitches and noise pollution of our digital environment with the warm dulcet tones of analog synths, creating aural mantras and enigmatic psychedelic soundscapes.

+ SUPPORTS
Snow-soaked nebulousnessless. Swathes of sonoversal stoicisms. Serendipitous sinusoidal supplications. Siiiiiiiick.

BUTLER/KACZMAREK/HILTON
Gary Butler (the creation and destruction of music), Rafal Kaczmarek (drums), Tim Hilton (trombone)

HOLY BONER
Total Devastation Noisecore (+ guests)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7YuhHGb1lE

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DISCO MULTIVERSE
NOISEMUSICSOUNDS OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES SINCE 2011!
NOW AT THE TOTE UPSTAIRS ALMOST EVERY MONTH!
NEXT ONE AFTER THIS: 18TH SEPT 2016

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...

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

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OCTAVE PUSSY pulled out so due to zero public demand, HOLY BONER will fill in.

YENDO BRUUC @ Hotsh*ts - 30/07/2016

Fundraiser for FLOWERGRAVE COLLECTIVE PHILIPPINES

Heaps more info about them and the gig here - https://www.facebook.com/events/1741178252836452/

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Looking forward to our first official gig with YENDO BRUUC!! We're on first at 4:00pm.

YENDO BRUUC is Yendo (AKA Rod Cooper) on yet-unnamed noise instrument & snare-ified vocals, and Bruuc (AKA Spasmoslop) on Mr. Putin noisebass & broken-speaker vocals. It's kinda halfway between noisecore and harsh noise... no drums, just tight, dense blasts of harshness and some mechanical/industrial vibes... it's odd but we think it works!

Cheers to Nathan for putting us on and Hotsh*ts & friends for hosting and continually supporting good causes!!

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/

HOLY BONER live @ The Tote video

Courtesy of the Blarghstrad blown-out phonecam channel!

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 - 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

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!

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/

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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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

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!

CLOGGED & UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Yarraville - 24/07/2015

Taken from https://www.facebook.com/events/1121714434521907/

AUSTRALIA'S MOST UNDERRATED PUNK BAND OBAT BATUK ARE PLAYING SOME SHOWS IN MELBOURNE. COMING WITH THEM ARE FELLOW SCUM BAGS THE FARTING ARSES. WOO!

FRIDAY JULY 24TH / 6PM / $10 / YARRAVILLE(Yes, this is the space in Yarraville that you're thinking of. They just can't have their name or address on the internet anymore due to dick neighbors) with:

SCAB EATER
UMBILICAL TENTACLE
CHURCH
CLOGGED

SATURDAY JULY 25TH / ESSENDON / 8PM / FREE

R.I.P FUCKER
ASBESTOSISIS
YOUR FACE(FIRST SHOW)

BOTH SHOWS ALL AGES. MESSAGE ME FOR ADDRESS OR DIRECTIONS

OBAT BATUK
https://fliptopresant.bandcamp.com/track/obat-batuk-fuck-off-to-melbourne

THE FARTING ARSES
https://soundcloud.com/the-farting-arses

Recent stuff - 16/06/2015

Whoops, haven't updated the blog for ages... so here are some things I've been up to lately...

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Disco Horse photos by Nayuto Adachi

Vocals/noise/contrabass-processing setup for collab set with Rory Brown & Passenger of Shit @ "Sunday Arvo Noisemusics" gig @ Magnet Studios shitty photo by me

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Ultra/Hyper, Magnet Studios photo by Lloyd Honeybrook

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Ultra/Hyper, Magnet Studios photo by Peter James

THE KILL & friends flyers by ???

THE KILL @ Little & Olver photo by Lloyd Honeybrook

First KILL gigs since Euro tour 2014!! Our 2nd full-length is out now... did I mention that already?

Also just released - "Speed Freak Killer" CDEP which contains our tracks from the 3-way split with Antigama & Noisear, plus 3 bonus tracks. The 3-way split tracks are some of my favourite THE KILL tracks that we have recorded... bridging the gap between MAKE 'EM SUFFER and KILL THEM... ALL, I'm particularly happy with the way my vocals sound on this recording, thanks to Jason Fuller/Goatsound recording them through a pre-amp to give them that harsh and distorted sound, brrrrrutal!

Check it all out here - https://blastasfuk.bandcamp.com/

Oh yes and THE KILL contributed a BLACK FLAG cover to this thing - https://goatsoundstudios.bandcamp.com/releases

Listen/download/donate to a worthy cause!

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ DISCO HORSE!!!! - 12/04/2015

"DISCOBEANS SUNDAY" finds a new home at Horse Bazaar... DISCO HORSE!!!

Kicking off Sunday 12th April
Doors 6:00pm // First act 7:00pm
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+ CURSE OV DIALECT
Surrealist multicultural hip-hop
https://curseovdialect.bandcamp.com/

+ UMBILICAL TENTACLE
PartyGrindHarshSurfMoshNoisecore you can dance to
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/umbilical-tentacle.html

+ cleaninglady
Modular Synthesis, Electroacoustic, Adventures in Sub-Bass
https://soundcloud.com/cleaninglady

+ TACTICAL ATTACK
Hardcore fastpunk
https://tacticalattack.bandcamp.com/

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

+Dj Leftist Insurgency vs Mack Daddy Albino Dwarf
Neue Deutsche Welle, New Age, Rock in Opposition. Avant-Prog, Afrorock, Japanese New Wave, etc etc

VISUALS
+Socio Ducati
+Langlo Paniflax
+AI YAMAMOTO
+Trewlea Peters

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Horse Bazaar
379 Little Lonsdale St. Melbourne
http://www.horsebazaar.com.au/
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DISCO HORSE

LIVE NOISE / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE STUFF EVERY MONTH SINCE 2011!

http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/discobeans-sunday.html

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UMBILICAL TENTACLE & CLOGGED videos & news

Thanks to Brad & Brendan/Kingbean for recording and uploading these. Cool to see footage from the UxTx gig at Footscray Park as it's a rare occasion where I didn't play synth and we get to see Brad with his undies on his head. Rock'n'roll baby.
Next up for UxTx - very excited that we're recording soon for a split 7" with legendary Japanese noisecore band and our own personal heroes, FINAL EXIT!!! And we're playing this gig:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1375681716064479/ - thanks to SHITWANK for organising!

As for CLOGGED - we recently recorded 14 tracks in my studio with techno/electronica producer Juxtpose for our debut EP or whatever it is. Definitely not techno... Mr. Juxtpose is using his skills to help us create a raw, nasty, noisy goregrind recording... of course! It's sounding great so far. We'll put some samples online soon... probably...