Love and death in the dark

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By The Barman

The Barman

07 April 2024

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THE BEASTS
JP SHILO
The Metro Theatre, Sydney
Friday 5 April 2 2024

Was a time when Australia was seemingly the envy of the underground music world. A wave of Oz bands had grown up in relative splendid isolation, in an environment with a currency based on paying your dues via live work.

The bands absorbed many external influences but parsed them through local filters and delivered something unique.There were few barriers between the players and the punters (in some cases they were interchangeable) and their existences revolved around extended weekends and pushing things to the max.

That’s why gigs like tonight need to be cherished. They come along only once in a while. They recall a different time, and give hope that some kids will pick up on what’s being dished up and want to go and do the same. You call it nostalgia; I call it therapeutic.

• kim salmon
• boris sudjovic
• james baker
• charlie owen
• the beasts
• the metro theatre

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Jupiter 5 ready to launch debut "5th From The Sun"

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By Art E. Ficiaiintelligence

Art E. Ficiaiintelligence

03 April 2024

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After a year of celestial alignment and astral preparation, the Sydney rock veterans of Jupiter 5 are unleashing their debut album "5th From The Sun" upon an unsuspecting universe.

This dazzling 13-track masterpiece is a protopunk-garage-meets-rifferama-psych explosion that will shake the foundations of your reality!

The launch party for this otherworldly odyssey takes place at Marrickville Bowling Club on Friday, May 3, marking Jupiter 5's first planetary descent since their last in-the-flesh appearance in July 2023. Tickets are here.

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Enter The Silver Dragons

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By The Barman

The Barman

01 April 2024

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Born from a necessity to combine a succulent Chinese meal with swampy garage rock’n’roll, The Silver Dragons (named after a retro Chinese restaurant in Umina on NSW Central Coast) formed at The Link & Pin café in Woy Woy after singer, Anton Hughes, was asked to support Sydney alt-country star Adam Young.

Over a year of gigging the band has morphed into a garage/guitar-pop/fuzz/rock band and has just issued its debut recordings as a digital four-song EP.

• graham hood
• the silver dragons
• anton hughes
• michelle ker
• dwayne yule

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Helluva line-up for HellNation 4

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By The Barman

The Barman

01 April 2024

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Sick of hearing about the collapse of big ticket festivals (especially that steaming pile of shit called Pandemonium Rocks where the line-up is being stripped of headliners as we speak but is still selling tickets and being falsely advertised?) Well, here’s some better news.

The New Christs are headlining an all-day, multi-band bill in Newcastle this month for the ridiculously cheap door price of 30 bucks.

HellNation 24 is at the Lass O’Gowrie Hotel in Wickham on Saturday, April 13, kicking off at the ungodly hour of 11.30am.

There are loads of out-of-towners and local acts to make a weekend stay worth your while and tickets are going here.

• new christs
• hellnation24
• lass o'gowrie

Joeys Coop to mark a decade with a special Sydney show

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By The Barman

The Barman

01 April 2024

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Sydney underground rock’s best kept secret, Joeys Coop, brings up its 10^th anniversary with a special show at Camelot Lounge in Marrickville at Saturday May 4.

Fronted by dapper Mark Roxburgh (ex-Decline of The Reptiles) and with a sound shaped by the distinctive guitar stylings of ex-Died Pretty guitarist Brett Myers, the gig follows a five-month absence from the stage.

Joeys Coop promises special guests, a giveaway release of previously unreleased material and (maybe) balloons and party hats. Tickets are available here.

• died pretty
• joeys coop
• brett myers
• mark roxburgh
• decline of the reptiles

Welcome aboard! These Pilots steer their own course

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By The Barman

The Barman

29 March 2024

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By The Seat Of Our Pants - Pilots Of Baalbek (Outtaspace)

Next time somebody tells you that rock and roll is dead, know this: They’re either projecting their own sad existence or they’re looking for it in all the wrong places. The best Rock Action almost always exists on the fringes, never attracting mainstream support because most people don’t know what they like, they only like what they know. 

Dig, and you shall find.

• canberra
• outtspace records
• pilots of baalbek
• by the seat of our pants

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Guitars and spirit make Flowers For Jayne's latest a keeper

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By Edwin Garland

Edwin Garland

24 March 2024

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In The Keep - Flowers for Jayne (self released)

Flowers for Jayne have been floating around for the last for a couple of years with their melodic power-pop blended with James Williamson-style, blazing guitar shredding. 

The band is led by ex-Lime Spider, Jayne Murphy, whose background from Sydney’s western suburbs carried with it a staple diet of KISS, Cheap Trick and the cooler sounds of Australian indie- noisy guitar greatness.

Jayne has one part of the pedigree of a great rock ‘n’ roller – she’s an outsider with her own personal tribulations behind her.  She has always relied on music to keep going. 

• flowers for jayne
• jayne murphy
• in the keep

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A band in full bloom on a wet Sydney evening

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By Edwin Garland

Edwin Garland

24 March 2024

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FULL FLOWER MOON BAND 
SUNFRUITS
(and VILLE VALO)  
Metro Social Club, Sydney
Saturday 16 March, 2024
Photos by DIGBY FROG

Brisbane's Full Flower Moon Band is one of the best, and most inventive bands in Australia; simply put they’ll lift the hairs on your arm. Bold statement, but true. The reasons why will be clear if you read on.

It’s a Saturday night. It’s raining, I am standing at the bus top, irritated and looking at the timetable. Damn, the bus is late again and I’m going to miss the connecting ferry.  Fuck privatisation. It has turned the local bus service to shit.

Approaching is a cool rock ‘n’ roll couple who look about my age, one of them wearing a Chimers T-shirt (a rarity in my part of the world.)

We strike up a conversation about the appalling bus service as they have walked from another stop after giving up waiting for a bus that will never arrive. 

• live
• sydney
• full moon flower band
• sunfruits
• ville valo

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Fans get a killer show with no trickery involved

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By Ronald Brown

Ronald Brown

15 March 2024

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Cheap Trick
+ The Angels
The Palais, St Kilda, VIC
Wednesday, 13 March 2024 

Hello I-94 Barflies! I hope you are all in fine form. Myself, I’m still recovering from seeing the amazing Cheap Trick at The Palais Theatre in St Kilda and they did not disappoint.

Dragging myself out of bed at 430am for a 1000 kilometre public transport round trip is never pleasant and as the years creep by, travelling does get more fiscally challenging. But family and live rock ‘n’ roll is what gets me off the land and out of The Farmhouse. First, let me say this if you’re ever in Melbourne The Pint On The Punt in Richmond is a nice place to start your drinking, get a feed and sleep on a lumpy mattress. It’s also within walking distance of the now boring suburb of St Kilda. 

• st kilda
• cheap trick
• australian tour
• 2024
• palais
• the angels

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