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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@Gmail.com Poison City Weekender 2013 highlights: The John Curtin being grossly underrated as a live venue in Melbourne. How everyone realised Cheap Girls were amazing about an hour before Weekender started. Clowns’ cocksure stage antics and smashing party anthems. Hoodlum Shouts and that feeling in my gut every time they play Guns, Germs, Steel. Red wine, how good is it? The Nation Blue and how no one has managed to create a gutsy fuzz quite like them. Every time Tom from Nation Blue swings his guitar around his throat and I’m convinced he’s about to decapitate a band mate. Cory Branan being a stupid goddamn dream boat. Someone convincing me that Jägerbombs are still a ‘thing’ at about 10am. Lucy Wilson having best voice ever. Luca Brasi playing to the wildest crowd ever and how that’s really saying something because #tassie. The Smith Street Band packing out a Corner Hotel and how we all just felt a little bit sad and proud and drunk. The Corner’s front bar DJ playing heaps of Limp Bizkit. Jen Buxton’s fucking lyrics. The way every band thanked Poison City’s Andy Hayden about eight times and how I’m genuinely unsure how he remains so modest and lovely. The Bennies and the way they win over about a 100 more people every time they play live. Jules from The Bennies just because. Lincoln LeFevre’s new song and how it laments the cute girls being dumb and how despite finding the sentiment deeply offensive I don’t care because wow. Lincoln LeFevre’s best live set ever. Blueline Medic.
By Peter Hodgson: crunchcolumn@gmail.com
CORE GIG GUIDE
FOMO is a disease that strikes us all from time to time. Never worse than when Florida’s The Fest takes place. That’s why dudes in Melbourne are putting on Not Fest! At The Reverence on Friday November 1 - Sunday November 3. Go see bands like Super Best Friends, Up and Atom, Foxtrot, The Shadows League and more and drown your FOMO sorrows.
Wednesday September 11: Tonight Alive, Hands Like Houses, D At Sea, This Fiasco at The Hi-Fi Thursday September 12: Sures, Go Violets at The Workers Club My Echo, Arcane Saints, Captives, The human Electric at The Bendigo Northlane, Saviour, Cardinals, Good Will Hunting at Commercial Hotel, South Morang Fourteen Nights At Sea, Bodies, The Coves at Barwon Club Cabin Fever, Flowers For Cops, Organ Donor, Scab Eater at The Reverence Friday September 13: Tonight Alive, Hands Like Houses, D At Sea, Lets Not Pretend at Billboard Claim The Throne, Naberus, Hadal Maw at The Evelyn The Snowdroppers, Gay Paris at The John Curtin Band Northlane, Saviour, Bury The Fallen, Driven To The Verge at Ferntree Gully Hotel Captain Cleanoff, The Kill, Join The Amish, Split Teeth, Acid Vein at The Bendigo Saturday September 14: Invasion Fest, The Plot In You, Storm The Sky, Fit For a King at Bang! The Gun Runners, Kissing Booth, Life Of My Own, Tigers at The Reverence. The Workinghorse Irons, Max Goes To Hollywood, The Murder Rats, Teen Kong at The Reverence Sunday September 15: Northlane, Saviour, Acrasia, Hideaway at Coburg Town Hall Murder Rats, The Superguns, Motherslug, The Vendettas, Selenium at The Bendigo
Calling All Cars are back with a new album, new single and new tour. The much loved trio will chuck a lap of the country in support of new track Werewolves and they’ll be at The Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne on Saturday October 19 with Super Best Friends and The Sinking Teeth.
This week in rad local signings: Resist Records have taken Iron Mind under their wing and will release the band’s second album in the coming months and Poison City Records have teamed up with Nation Blue singer Tom Lyngcoln to release his new ensemble Harmony’s new album next year.
Japan’s Palm will team up with Gold Coast outfit A Secret Death to nail a massive run of dates across the country.Things are going to get wild when they arrive in Footscray on Friday September 27 to play at The Reverevce.
METAL, HEAVY ROCK. CLASSIC ROCK LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL GOOD SHIT
KILL TV AT GODDESS #7
Did you catch Kill TV’s debut gig the other week? If not, they’re playing Goddess #7 on Saturday September 14 at The Flying Saucer Lounge in Elsternwick. Doors open at 7:30pm and the lineup also includes The Night Sky, Thrasher Jynx, Jessabella (burlesque), Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men, Suzie Stapleton Duo and Noir.
MAXX12 GO WILD Check out Maxx12’s video for Wild Years (a song produced by the late great Ronnie Montrose). In the words of the band: “Hello Rock n Rollers. Do U remember your Wild Years? Now here is a tune that will put You into a reflective spirit of your energized foot-loose and fancy free yester-years.”
NEW SATYRICON
This week black metal masters Satyricon release their new self-titled album via Roadrunner. I had a chat with main-man Satyr about it and he has this to say: “It’s analogue production with an awful lot of emphasis on getting an authentic, organic sound with a great dynamic range where the performance of the musician comes across in terms of actually breathing life into the song through the lows coming down really low and quiet, and the really explosive epic parts really coming across as powerful and huge. And to me it just means to play this record repeatedly on a good stereo without colouring the sound with your own EQ. Just leave everything in neutral so you can actually hear what the record sounds like the way that it was made. I also think that due to the fact that it has so many tiny little details here and there – whether it’s the mellotron or the harmonium or the piano or the acoustic guitars or the theremin, all these little instruments that have their small features here and there that are introduced in a subtle way – to me it’s more that than where you find yourself physically. It’s how you listen to it.”
NEW TRIVIUM VIDEO Trivium releases Vengeance Falls on Friday October 11, and this week they’ve released the official video for the song Strife. The album was produced by David Draiman of Disturbed, and guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy says “Vengeance Falls is the culmination of everything we’ve gone through; the representation of struggle endured from
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within and experienced from the world. Every failure and every success has led us to this moment. Vengeance Falls is this moment in time” remember your Wild Years? Now here is a tune that will put You into a reflective spirit of your energized foot-loose and fancy free yester-years.”
ROTTING CHRIST HEADLINE HEAVYFEST
Rotting Christ will headline HEAVY Magazine’s 2nd anniversary show HEAVYFEST in Sydney and Melbourne, with the addition of a headlining show in Brisbane. Touring nationally with Rotting Christ are Sydney’s extreme music terrorists The Amenta and Melbourne’s blackened horde Terra Australis. With an illustrious career spanning over 25 years and hailed as one of the most forward thinking bands in extreme music, Greek metal legends Rotting Christ will anoint our shores for their first ever headlining tour of Australia in January. Renowned for their unparalleled, intense and supreme live show and for having a wealth of classic back catalogue material to perform, the opportunity to witness Rotting Christ in the flesh is not missed by any metal fan. They’re at The Hi-Fi on Saturday January 18.
CAPTAIN CLEANOFF/THE KILL SPLIT “7 LAUNCH Got some frickin’ stuff coming up at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood this Saturday September 14, which is an alarmingly consistent habit for The Bendigo if you ask me. Kicking off at 8pm is a monster lineup of Captain Cleanoff and The Kill launching their split 7” together, Join The Amish, Split Teeth and Acid Vain.
GUS G’S FIREWIND ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER OZ TOUR Greek guitar virtuoso Gus G - known by many as the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and by his tenures in Dream Evil, Nightrage and as a touring player with Arch Enemy - is bringing his legendary power metal band Firewind to Australia for the first time ever this October and November, presented by Metropolis Touring and Tombowler. The Apotheosis Across Australia 2013 tour rolls into Melbourne on Sunday November 3 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets are only $59 plus booking fee and are available from metropolistouring.com.
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