He spent his early years as a player in Sydney’s underground music scene and also broadcasting its music on community radio. So it was a labour of love for ex-Vanilla Chainsaws frontman-turned-solo-artist Simon Chainsaw in 2009 when he put together a covers record of the songs of the era that inspired him.
Sixteen years later after the “Fuck The Neighbours” record, he’s taking to Sydney stages with a band bearing the same name whose members helped birth the music.
Named after a Thought Criminals song, “Fuck The Neighbours” is an all-Australian punk supergroup playing Oz punk classics for a limited number of shows. You can catch them for a matinee show at MoshPit Bar in St Peters in Sydney on Saturday, November 29. Tickets here.
Comprising Simon Chainsaw on vocals, guitarist Cub Calloway (The Saints, New Christs), bassist Bob Short (Filth, Urban Guerillas) and drummer Murray Shepherd (Fun Things, Screaming Tribesmen. Hitmen DTK) as the core band.
They’ll be joined at the MoshPit by guests including Mark Easton (Suicide Squad, Bedhogs, The Kelpies, Soggy Porridge), Geoff Holmes (X, Evil Rumours) and others to-be-announced.
They’ll be supported by the infamous Adelaide band The Molly Fet Circuit, the experimental “ambient horror goth industrial punk drone synth machinery slagheap” comprising I-94 Bar literary legend Robert Brokenmouth (Smallpox Confidential) and Shaun Duncan (White Tiger A:. A:.; Die Like A God; Council Of Elders; Maggot Death; and Apeman Spaceman.)
Expect a Fuck The Neighbours set list derived from, and dedicated to, the music of the Thought Criminals, X, the Scientists, Rocks, Radio Birdman, The Chosen Few, Razar, NEWS, Lipstick Killers and many more. Grab a ticket to see Fuck The Neighbours and if it’s too fast and loud…Fuck The Complainers.
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