FUCKED @ The Tote 20/03/11

"Many in Melbourne first witnessed the power of Defektro Live at KTL (Featuring Stephen O'Malley of SUNN O))) in June 2008. And it has been a long long wait for his return.
In the time between, "Metal_And_Bone_Servitude", a studio collaboration between Defektro and The Bastard Noise was released, selling out almost instantly and becoming a cult hit with lovers of noise worldwide.
Formed in Tokyo, Japan in 1995 as a three piece industrial/noise unit, Defektro is currently the one man operation of Hirofumi Uchino and based in Sydney.
Hirofumi is known and respected worldwide as much for the instruments and effects pedals he builds as the extreme forms of music he creates with them.

Live performances from this truly unique artist are all too rare. It is with great honour that WeEmptyRooms is able to present this event with such a quality lineup at one of Melbourne's greatest live venues.

Also WeEmptyRooms will be doing some killer deals on all label stock and distro at the mercy desk so vinyl lovers bring ya dosh."

FUCKED

Lloyd Honeybrook - horrendous blown-out saxophonics

Robbie Avenaim -ultrablasts and robodrums

Nik Kennedy - oral gymnastics

R.I.P. stupid myspace band bios

"one day in june 2007 FRED THE SHREDDER and JAMES DESTROYER decided they wanted to start a fucking sick brutal death/grind band like devourment and cannible corpse!!! then they needed a really fast drummer to complete the lineup so they asked Freds sisters friend Bob if he would like to play drums. He said "Yes!" and FESTERING BLOODFUCK was born!!!! After 5 mad rehearsals in the DEATH SHED we did our first concert with triangle banana, deep within disconformity and barry & the burps at the bundoora youth centre and it was fucking sick and everyone was moshing heaps!!! then Freds mum said we arent allowed to jam in the shed anymore so when we find a new place to jam were gonna make some shirts and record the ULTRAFESTATION BLOODFUCKING DEMO CD-R which will be the heaviest shit weve ever done!! Pre orders available now!!! Songs online soon!! Any record labels wanna release this sick shit get in touch!!! 

look out motherfuckers!!!!"

RCKTSRGRY videos!

A bit of a preview for our gig next week. Check out these nifty RCKTSRGRY videos put together by Tina Douglas using mashed old sci-fi movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Re-g5NNbsk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpf6pxa5ANw

RCKTSRGRY @ Make It Up Club - 15/03/11

 Breath and the occult art of the ancient XYZ coordinate radiomap feature in this week's concert. Sydney voice artist Tony Osborne returns with his extended, jumbled and reconfigured explorations of the possibilities of vocal enunciation and (in)communicative action. RCKTSRGRY make a rare appearance that expands the limits of the space/time/sound intra-dimension. And the raw power of really smooth screeching/howling by local voice-master, Shane Van Den Akker.

• MADHEAD AKA Tony Osborne (Syd) (solo vocals and electronics)
• RCKTSRGRY featuring Nik Kennedy (adapted instruments and electronics) and Tina Douglas (hacked'n'cracked wiimote)
• Shane Van Den Akker (voice)

The Make It Up Club
www.myspace/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


Flyer by Tina Douglas! It's been a while since RCKTSRGRY played so I'm really stoked for this one. And we'll be playing to kooky sci-fi visual projections created by Tina, sweeeeeet!

Holy Boner with Yuka @ Tape Projects 12/03/11

Holy Boner have another collab gig with Yuka Discobeans this weekend!


MYCETOZOA SOUND MARINADE

Please join for Das Butcher & Chronox tour-warming wing wang...

DAS BUTCHER..............................Diabolical Dirge Donut
HOLY BONER with YUKAAA................Wukka wukka wukka!
CHRONOX....................................Light, dope, locked grooves
+DEE JAYS....................................Ecstatic/ Esoteric type

8PM.. TAPE PROJECTS 1/81 BOUVERIE ST. CARLTON
SATURDAY 12 MARCH 2011.. $FIVER

Discobeans March!

www.discobeans.com

Discobeans monthly gig #2!! This one is looking like a cracker with another nice varied line-up. I think this will be the 2nd Ove-Naxx show since he moved to Melbourne from Osaka, and I'm especially stoked to finally see Liam Haryono's (from Psychward Cult / Pathetic Human / Flesh World etc) Tea & Sympathy Symphony solo project for the first time.

The February gig was really great - big turnout and very solid performances all round. Thanks to everyone that came down. I took this crappy pic of Clickjaw's set on my phone:

Laptops/Nintendo Wii controller/interactive visuals/voice combo was intense and had the audience completely entranced, especially during the squirm-inducing webcam transfusion finale which left everyone speechless and in a gloriously uncomfortable silence when the set ended. A magic moment!

HOLY BONER @ IDGAFF

"Shane Van Den Akker and Corey Keem's Improvised noise duo "I Do'd It" perform their second gig as part of this event. Kicks off early, 5pm. "I Do'd It" are on first, experimental noisecore act "Holy Boner" on second and the almighty rock gods and godess "Fred" to take it home. Bring your earplugs! Bruta-ful noise!"

Early! 

Be early!

Discobeans Mondays #1

Reminder for this new monthly gig series I'm helping to organise at Discobeans. I think this has a lot of potential to become a really good new gig night and this is the first one so fuggin come on down!

Links for clicking:

Haricuckoo

Clickjaw

RSI

And while I'm here, a nice pic of me playing a Spasmoslop gig at Discobeans last year taken by Tina Douglas:

Collab with Bonnie Hart @ MIUC

 

 Tuesday February 1st, 2011 @ the Make It Up Club

A bumper program at this week's MIUC, with sounds from across the hemispheres (including 2 special groups from the USA). Nat Bates (the visionary director of Australia's premier sound arts festival, Liquid Architecture) unveils his latest explorations in spontaneous musique concrete structuring. A first-time duo collaboration between two of Melbourne's finest and most voracious explorers of abrasive, abstract noise, with Bonnie Hart and Nik Kennedy. From Hoboken and Brooklyn Heights, Night Toilet is the duo of Matt Vanek and Jordan Thomsen, creating abrupt, stinging volleys of carnassial noise composed of found sounds and stilted voices projected through the strained capacitors of battery operated, Orange micro-amps. And from Los Angeles, Metal Rouge, the free-floating, free-noise, No-Fi post-loftadelica duo of Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott.

• Nat Bates (ASR10 Sampler)
• Night Toilet (USA), featuring: Matthew Vanek (voice and electronics) and Jordon Thomsen (voice and electronics)
• Nik Kennedy (voice and electronics) and Bonnie Hart (voice and electronics)
• Metal Rouge (USA), featuring: Helga Fassonaki (lapsteel and voice) and Andrew Scott (guitar)

The Make It Up Club
http://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

Gigs wrap-up

Just had a great weekend of gigs starting with Skelton's house show, Psychward vs RSI (Tommy Gunnnn & Cooper Bowman) played a great set first up. Nice overall blanket of harshness, with all manner of samples/loops, synthy honks and nifty sound effect type things flying around to make it quite varied. Solid!

I was really happy with my set, used the bucket, voice, various metal stuff and the new Hex Bug which worked a treat. Sounded pretty brutal through Mr. Skelton's fine bass amps. Here's a pic, cheers to Kerrie Farnsworth...

Look at that carpet!

Incompetent Cervix (Mark Skelton & Mitch Brennan) played after me and delivered some mondo punishing harshness that fried my brain and left the crowd feeling warm and fuzzy inside their dilapidated eardrums.

Went to the Arthouse after that to play with The Kill. Captain Cleanoff kicked arse as usual. Still the most FUN grindcore band in Oz I'd say. Doubled Over and Czech visitors Needful Things also sounded great.

Then last night I went to Bar Open and saw a ball-tearing spontaneous collaboration between John Harte of Pig & Machine and Rob McManus of Grey Daturas. Completely unplanned, I think Rob was supposed to be playing a mega-reverbed drum solo but he and John (on synth/guitar) started just rocking out, slowly building up huge noise waves that just kept getting more and more intense. Really great stuff.

The highly entertaining BAADDD then followed with their patented sexxxy outfits, P-H-fat beats, manic vocals and the wildest dance moves this side of a C&C Music Factory film clip. If I ever have a birthday party, I'd want them to play it.

Onto the Soundcloud bandwagon

Myspace evidently had a car accident, leaving it horribly disfigured and incapacitated so I'm gonna start putting music on Soundcloud now - http://soundcloud.com/spasmoslop

Starting with a sample of a Holy Boner jam from last year and a preview/sampler track from the upcoming debut Spasmoslop release "Non-Monoglot" coming out soon on Magik Crowbar! http://mindtimedestroy.blogspot.com/

More info on that when it happens.

Spasmoslop - ''Non-Monoglot'' sample by Spasmoslop

HOLY BONER - "Very itchy" 2010 by Spasmoslop

DISCOBEANS 07/02/11

This is the first gig for a sweeeeeeet new monthly thing I'm helping Yuka organise @ Discobeans. It'll be on the first Monday of every month with noise/music/performance stuffz both local and not-so-local crankin it out in the downstairs restaurant area of Discobeans (restaurant is closed on Monday). Really stoked to be reprising our HxBx/Yuka collab for this, last time was a blast. Google/myspace the other acts to check out their smooth tones. More info coming soon... probably...

SPASMOSLOP @ The House of Skelton

The house of Skelton rings in the new year with some ear ringing noise.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22ND.

TEEN AX (harsh noise-rock from Sydney)
INCOMPETENT CERVIX (vegan noise terror)
SPASMOSLOP (sloppy spasms of filth)
PSYCHWARD VS. RSI (unholy bong militia)

3PM. FREE.

43 Pender St. Thornbury

Needful Things (CZ) tour

Friday 21/1/11 - Adelaide
Venue: Enigma Bar
Supports: Captain Cleanoff, Iron Worzel, Blockade

Saturday 22/1/11 - Melbourne
Venue: The Arthouse Hotel.
Supports: Captain Cleanoff, The Kill, Teargas, Doubled Over

Sunday 23/1/11 - Melbourne
Venue: Cat Food Press. Brunswick east.
Supports: Captain Cleanoff, Agents of Abhorrence

Wednesday 26/1/11 - Newcastle
Venue: Hamilton Station Hotel
Supports: Burning Servant, Granny Fist, Bad Taste

Friday 28/1/11 - Brisbane
Venue: Rosies
Supports: Burning Servant, Laceration Mantra

Saturday 29/1/11 - Sydney
Venue: Stag & Hunter Hotel
Supports: Burning Servant, Roadside Burial, Fattura Del Morte

Sunday 30/1/11 - Sydney
Venue: Repressed Records instore
Doors: 2pm ALL AGES

Looking forward to playing the Arthouse show, nice line-up. I'm also gonna do some "guest vocals" with Doubled Over for their ripsnorter Excruciating Terror cover! Broooooodle.

Good stuff 2009

In early 2009 I wrote a list of "recommended" grind/hardcore/etc releases for the third issue of Vomitose zine, which never ended up coming out, so I thought I'd post it cause there are some possibly-overlooked fuggin classics here for sure!

AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED  – Honky Reduction LP (USA) – RSR

Nice vinyl reissue of classic insane-o drum machine grind.

ATAVIST - II: Ruined CD (UK) – Profound Lore

Crushing slow-mo doom like Corrupted, but with a guitar sound like Intumescence!

BLUE HOLOCAUST / EMBRYONIC CRYPTOPATHIA split 7” (France/USA) – Goatgrind Records

Best drum machine goregrind around/Filthy downtuned gore.

CREAMFACE / MISOGYNIST PUSSYSLASHER split CD (Finland/Finland) – Lolita Slavinder Records

Crude, sleazy, depraved porngrind to make your skin crawl.

DIE PIGEON DIE – Ripped From V to A CD (Melbourne, Australia) – No Escape Records

Monstrous goregrind with some of the best vocals in the genre.

DYSMENORRHEIC HEMORRHAGE / SAVAGE MAN SAVAGE BEAST split tape (USA/USA) – Self-released

Two of the best drum machine grind bands ever, on the one tape. Track it down!

THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE/HATRED SURGE split LP (USA/USA) – Schizophrenic Records

Intense hardcore/grind/sludge split. Anguished and very angry.

EXIT WOUNDS – 17 Wounds of Exit CD (Poland) – No Escape Records

Hyperactive raging grindcore intensity, like Yacopsae meets Denak!

FINAL EXIT – Seasons Are Going and Going 3” MCD (Japan) – Rage For All

Blown-out brown note spastic whirlwind noisegrind from seasoned veterans of noise.

GREEN BERET – Out of Control CD (USA) – Prolapse Records

Top-notch discography of uniquely deranged and extreme experimental grind.

DAVE PHILIPS – The Hermeneutics of Fear of God LP/CD (Switzerland) – Absurd Records

F.o.G. songs chopped up and rearranged into a new and devastating wall of noise.

INSECT WARFARE/CARCASS GRINDER split 7” (USA/Japan) – Psychotherapy/Out of Control

Great split of brutal ultra-fast and catchy traditional grindcore.

INSURGENTS – EP 7” (Australia) – Endless Blockades

Debut release of energetic old-school hardcore punk from some town in the middle of nowhere.

INTUMESCENCE/MALIGNANT TUMOUR split 7” (Netherlands/Czech Republic) – Brigade of Natural Genocide

A bit old now, but this is Intumescence’s best stuff – raw, thick, ultra-filthy goregrind at it’s best!

LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY – Rest In Gore 1989-2006 2xCD (Netherlands) – Bones Brigade

Essential goregrind discography. Heaps of awesome rare & unreleased stuff.

NETJAJEV SS – Self-titled 7” (Sweden) – Rescued From Life

Very cool and unique outer-space hardcore fast punk insanity.

PARLAMENTARISK SODOMI – Har Du Sagt "A" Får Du Si "Nal" CD (Norway) – No Escape Records

Wild old-school grindcore with spectacular songwriting and strong Repulsion vibes.

ULCERRHOEA – Rise For The Downfall CD (Sweden) – No Fucking Labels/Breathlike Violence

Raw as fuck classic goregrind demo tapes and unreleased stuff. Bloody essential!

Check this stuff out!

New-ish SFHS & The Kill videos

Live @ The Prague 28/11/10 - shot by Cookie ... killer sound if ya really LOVE kick drums.

SUPER FUN HAPPY SLIDE - GORETRON

SUPER FUN HAPPY SLIDE - LET'S THRASH METAL

THE KILL - KUNG FOOL

THE KILL - TOTALLY CACTUS

WHIPLASH 2

Fuggin siiiiiick line-up! This is the last Super Fun Happy Slide show for a long time as Den's moving to Tassie to build a shack in the hills and cultivate a thick beard. SFHS isn't officially over but I imagine we'll just be playing a couple of gigs a year from now on.

We've still got about 20-something songs recorded early 2010 for a 2nd full-length that need to be mastered... we'll get onto it eventually...

SPASMOSLOP @ MIUC

Tuesday December 14th, 2010
Gridish is a novel approach to realtime processing devised by John Jacobs in which one is forced to wonder what happens when four performers connect without a signal in a feed-forward critical mass of no-input hazard. Harriet Morgan debuts her new solo project. And the Spasmoslop is back with sonic mayhem.


+ Gridish, featuring John Jacobs, Ceri Hann, Steve Law and Marco Cher-Gibard (feed-forward loop processing)

+ Harriet Morgan (solo bruitism)

+ Spasmoslop, AKA: Nik Kennedy (vocals, bucket, electronics, and stuff)


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