Deux – Hell City Glamours (self released)

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By The Barman

The Barman

03 June 2014

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So it’s goodbye from them. After 12 years of playing gin places, late-night dives and boltholes all around Australia, a US tour, two EPs and two albums, with one final lap of honour, Sydney's Hell City Glamours will be no more. “Deux” is the farewell long-player and it’s a pretty good way to go out.

• metal
• sydney
• album
• hell city glamours
• deux
• glam

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Runaways - Kim Salmon and Spencer P. Jones (Incubator Recording)

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By Robert Brokenmouth

Robert Brokenmouth

01 June 2014

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Here’s a tip. If you don’t own this disc, get it now. And buy it for everyone you know who loves music.

• spencer
• kim salmon
• runaways

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Do the Crawl - Rocket to Memphis (Off the Hip)

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By Robert Brokenmouth

Robert Brokenmouth

01 June 2014

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This mob seem to come from Perth, a town which seems to live in several weird time warps all at once. The convict past and the glorious fuck-you-we’re-suddenly-rich '80s, and all the other sorts of odd pockets of Australiana you can imagine.

• off-the-hip
• rocket to memphis
• do the crawl

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The Meat Puppets at Fowlers Live in Adelaide

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By Robert Brokenmouth

Robert Brokenmouth

01 June 2014

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The Meat Puppets are an outfit I’ve been looking forward to seeing ever since I heard they were coming. 

There are a few similarities with the last outfit I saw recently, The English Beat. Old band touring, only two original members, no set list. No encore because of curfew (Fowlers is right next to a huge block of student accommodation; you only rarely see the occasional student at Fowlers, and their sense of dislocation and disgust is visible).

But the gigs are very, very different, and not just because of the style of music.

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• adelaide
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• puppets

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The English Beat, Fistful of Trojans at the Governor Hindmarsh, Adelaide

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By Robert Brokenmouth

Robert Brokenmouth

01 June 2014

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It was an unusual night. First, I was comp’ed quite unexpectedly and had no time to do any research on the current state of play on The Beat (as I still think of them).

Slightly giddy after a long day concentrating old and fragile papers (don’t ask), I found myself examining many things in considerable detail. 

People, f’rinstance. We all kind of make our own fantasy of what we’re really like, and try to live it. Sometimes someone comes along and, unbidden, flings open the French windows and lets a bit of air and light in.

• live
• adelaide
• the english beat
• ska
• blue-beat

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The Out Of This World Sounds Of - Hipbone Slim And The Kneetremblers (Beast Records)

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By The Barman

The Barman

01 June 2014

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Hipbone Slim (aka Sir Bald Diddley) is a musical slut, fathering nine records by four different labels in three countries in 10 years at last count. The parentage of each of his offspring js easy to pick - by rockabilly out of garage rock with dashes of ’50 instrumental and skiffle thrown in - and “The Out Of This World Sounds Of” throws up no surprises.

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• sir bald diddley
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Get Your Rabbit's Foot And Run - One Thousand Years (Off The Hip)

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By The Barman

The Barman

01 June 2014

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One Thousand Years sound like they’ve spent that accumulated amount of time listening to their dads’ record collections. And exactly why is that a bad thing? Rock and roll’s grim hold on the collective consciousness is eroding by the day so if bands like this West Australian quartet are going to fly the flag, who are we to complain?

• off-the-hip
• album
• one thousand years
• get your rabbit's foot and run
• classic rock
• fremantle

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Pink Fairies resume live gigging in the UK

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By The Barman

The Barman

31 May 2014

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Legendary UK psych rockers the Pink Fairies are scheduled to play the Hop Farm Festival in Kent, England, in July.

They’re billed to share a stage on July 5 (day two of the festival) with Peter Hook and Maximo Park, among others. Headlining the main stage that night is the execrable James Blunt (!)

The line-up is Russell Hunter, Duncan Sanderson, Andy Colquhoun, Jacki Windmill and second drummer George Butler.

The Pinks initially announced only two dates - in Bilston on May 15 and at the 100 Club in London two days later - and reports form those shows were very positive.

Further gigs are now planned for October including Hawktoberfest, a multi-band line-up in Manchester with old sparring partners Hawkwind.

• live
• pink
• fairies

Hugo Race announces Australian solo show tour

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By The Barman

The Barman

29 May 2014

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Multi-instrumentalist and hypnotic crooner, Hugo Race, returns home to Australia in June and July, fresh from an intense wave of European solo headline concerts in support of his latest EP "Ophans".

The five-city tour will include dates in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmania.

Race delivers a unique take on experimental blues, folk and dark-edge, dragging inspiration from artists the likes of Neil Young, Velvet Underground and Wilco.

His EP is credcited to Hugo Race Fatalists, the collaboration between Race and Italian instrumental gurus, Sacri Cuori , and is said to create "ground-breaking, intense sonic soundscapes that merge folk, experimentalism, electronica and rock".

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• hugo race
• wreckery
• nick cave
• true spirit

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