Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff & Magnetics CDs now available.

This week sees the release of 2 new Sweat Lung titles:

Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff "split" CD

Blarke Bayer is the solo project of Ben Andrews who also plays guitar in Magnetics (see below), Agents Of Abhorrence and My Disco. This release finds him exploring a wall of drone subtle drifts and waves of noise.

Bone Sheriff is the drunken ramblings of Simon Taylor (Whitehorse / EOH / Malakat) and Rob Mayson (Grey Daturas / EOH / It's Is / Whitehorse etc). Fueled by a cocktail of ginger wine and sparkling ale BS shudder to life rattling bones and burning souls. An awesome follow up release to "Moonee Ponds" (Sabbatical)

Magnetics "We Are The Mountains, We Are The Fields" CD

Magnetics is the Melbourne duo of percussionist & vocalist Sarah Heyward (The Focus) and guitarist Ben Andrews (Blarke Bayer / Agents Of Abhorrence / My Disco). Layering guitars and percussion Magnetics drift from sparse soundscapes to melodic passages of melodic guitar and dreamy vocals. Jarrod Zlatic of Fabulous Diamonds makes a guest appearance wielding his sax on one of the tracks.

Both CDs are available post paid in Australia for $12 AUD for prices outside Australia or to find out who's stocking Sweat Lung titles near you please email getonthehorse[@]hotmail.com

Future releases from: Malakat (apparently by Xmas they tell me), Y35.3 and more.

Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff split CD launch

Check this out ... CD available on the night and then on from Sweat Lung, Missing Link and other awesome records stores. Also out soon Magnetics 'We Are The Mountains, We Are The Fields'.

Justice Yeldham "Cicatrix" CD

Fresh from the pressing plant I got the covers for the Justice Yeldham "Cicatrix" CD.

Cicatrix is the first full length outing from Justice Yeldham and is presented in four parts:

Part One: Studio - The first studio recordings of Lucas playing his pieces of glass.

Part Two: Digital Soundchecks - Recently recovered sound files from his one and only digital tour at the end of 2005, these tracks were recorded soundchecks that Lucas used to play back and eq.

Part Three: Live - Live recordings from Zurich, Sydney & Toronto.

Part Four: Video - The video that youtube rejected for inappropriate content filmed in Bologna, Italy.

These will be available to order in the next few days. Please email getonthehorse[@]hotmail.com (remove brackets) to order.

Also still available, Ian Wadley - three uneasy pieces, Chris Smith & Justin Fuller CD and Whitehorse - Live in Japan.

Coming Next: Magnetics - CD & Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff - split CD.

Label News.

Ok... here is a text heavy posting. It's been a while so I thought I would throw down a Sweat Lung Label update.

First of all Ian Wadley will be headed to the US for SXSW and a bundle of other shows, keep an eye out here for dates.

Both the Chris Smith Justin Fuller & Ian Wadley cds will be available soon at Aquarius Records in the US and are available now at Missing Link or email getonthehorse[@]hotmail.com to buy them direct.

The release scheduled as Sweat Lung 005 (Malakat) is traveling in the space plain of Simon & Edryan which Will at sometime in the future connect with the Sweat Lung time line but at this point visual confirmation has not been confirmed.

Next up on Sweat Lung will be the following release:
Sweat Lung 007: Justice Yeldham - CD
Bloody noise from the red spattered glass of Lucas Abela.

Sweat Lung 008: Magnetics - CD
Ben Andrews (Blarke Bayer / My Disco etc) & Sarah Heyward (The Focus) produce shimmering sounds from guitar & percussion with beautiful vocals. An amazing duo.

Sweat Lung 009: Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff - Split CD
Blarke Bayer is Ben Andrews exploring drone & harsh tones, with a previous 3" cd release on Numerical Thief BB on this outing finds himself accompanied but the primal alcohol fueled sonics of Bone Sheriff, Rob Mayson (Grey Daturas / EOH / Maggoted) & Simon Taylor (Whitehorse / Malakat).

All three of these release are not too distant from being completed, with any luck they will be available over the next couple of months.

More soon

SL /PH

731 - Are You Ready To Grind

Okay so a little self indulgence here. 731 is my new band, the music we play is on the punk end of the grind scale, you can check out a couple of tracks here. The band features current and ex-members of Odiusembowel, Sense Of Purpose, Terror Firma, Fallout and Whitehorse. The first four photos were taken by Duncan of awesome long running Melbourne death-grinders Shagnum on his phone camera. If you look carefully you can make out Extraordinary G, playing guitar and I Quit drumming away at the back.

It was a killer first show playing with Damage Digital (Japan), Agents Of Abhorrence, Dad They Broke Me and Aeroflot.

This picture show a clearer story and was taken by The Budge (who rules) when we played at the Greenroom (RIP) with Guantanamo Bay City Rollers, Dad They Broke Me and Pisschrist.

Limp Wristies

So, a good portion of my summer revolved around the Limp Wrist tour of Australia that with a bit of help from a bunch of friends and a amazing show of support from fans all over Australia was a ripping good time and more fun than you can poke a stick at.

I only have a couple of photos to put up.. so here goes.

DX "Distort" and Scott.

Martin ass up at the Manacle, Sydney.

Scott wrestling the guitar at the Manacle, Sydney.

3 'Sweet Melons' somewhere in northern New South Wales: Scott, Pete (me) and Paul.

'MEOW' Andrew gets catty at Maggotsville, Syndey.

Ian Wadley - three uneasy pieces cd

Wadley at The East Brunswick Club 21.12.2007

Things have been a little crazy of late, that time of year, so I have only just got around to getting my head around adding a post about the Ian Wadley - three uneasy pieces CD release on Sweatlung. After a year or so coming together this disc is finally back from the press.

3 tracks from Ian who has spent time performing with such acts as Bird Blobs, Small World Experience, Minimum Chips and Function. These track find Ian alone with his guitar.

Ian is performing live around Melbourne at the moment some shows with Simon Taylor (Whitehorse / EOH / Bone Sheriff etc) and he will also be performing at the upcoming All Tomorrows Parties curated by the Dirty Three.

Regulations in Melbourne

So Regulations from Sweden just toured Australia with Straightjacket Nation and the ruled pretty hard. Here are a few shots from a show they played at The Greenroom for Missing Link & Siren Visual end of year party with True Radical Miracle, Fabulous Diamonds and 731

Otto

Robert

Marcus

Jens

Marcus, Otto, Al (Straightjacket Nation), Robert, Jens

Dad They Broke Me

One of my favorite Melbourne bands at the moment are Dad They Broke Me. Ultra heavy and totally crushing. Think Unsane, Jesus Lizard, Zeni Geva a touch of Eyehategod and and blasts of grind.

They have a s/t cd out on thier own label Broke Me Records, who also released a killer s/t cd from long running and totally awesome death-grinders Shagnum who feature 2 members of DTBM. They have also just recorded for a release on Missing Link Records.

Definately check out this band. They destroy!

Guantanamo Bay City Rollers

Here is a hand full of pics of a killer grind outfit from Adelaide, South Australia. Check out thier shit HERE. They have a killer demo and with any luck before too long the will have more. If you get the chance to see these guys I would highly recommend doing so.

Chris Smith Justin Fuller CD

Melbourne residents Chris Smith and Justin Fuller have been creating and documenting various forms of music together since the late 1990's.

Over seven years in the making, their new eponymous long-player takes in pre-occupations with austere, shimmering textures, maxist shuddering walls of noise, and many things between.

A broad and compelling approach in terms of sound-source and recording technique, any aspect suggesting theory or intellect is already overcome by brut physicality and lilting tear-jerkers.

That's right now available, if you would like to purchase a copy direct please email me at getonthehorse[no spam]@hotmail.com (remove the no spam). Copies will also be available in stores soon. I will update with links soon.

Ian Wadley's "three uneasy pieces" CD will also be available sometime in the next week or so. Just waiting for the covers to return from the printer.

The Whitehorse CDs scheduled for release on Sweat Lung have now been scrapped as 20 Buck Spin Records will be releasing the material as a part of a 2 cd collection of Whitehorse material sometime early 2007.

Other releases scheduled for release on Sweat Lung in 2007 include works from Malakat , EOH, Justice Yeldam and more.

Cooper / Baxter & Justice

Last Friday night I headed down to Pony to catch performances by Rod Cooper & Sean Baxter and the always amazing Justice Yeldham here is a few photos of the event.

Rod Cooper appears in a film called Sticky Carpet about the Melbourne music scene which should be released in the not too distant future by Siren Visual.

Sean Baxter and a pile of percussion.

Rod Cooper manipulates his sound device, this produced some amazing sounds.

Justice Yeldham. (below)

Totally amazing.

Mass Traumatic Saturday Night.

Ok. So Sydney's Masstrauma were in town and I went down to catch them play at a house in Coberg. These photos are a handful from the night that only begin to hint at how ridiculous the night was.

MASSTRAUMA

Fingers managed to get smashed with a raw sausage. This is just one of the photo I have of him smeared with snag. More may appear over time.

This is some Gummo shit going on here.

NOTE: The death of this cat was due to being run over by a car, none of the people there are sick enough to kill a cat, unfortunately Fingers is sick enough to pick it up and pose for photos with it.

MATTRESSTRAUMA

The fun times. After the show the lounge room was briefly turned into a mattress wrestling event TJ and Aleshia amongst others went hard out. This was much more out of control than it appears in these photos... fun times.

Fuck... I'm Dead

Gore grind seriously is a silly genre of music... I am a fan of Fuck... I'm Dead but I have to laugh at dudes in thier mid thirtys behaving like this at thier Missing Link instore.

Jay jerkin' it.

Pisschrist in the flesh.

While up in Sydney I ran into artist and frontman of Smash n' Grab, Spider. He now has a crazy Pisschrist logo tattoo'd on his neck. Brutal!

Municipal Waste Ripping Through Australia.

When I got back from the Pisschrist tour it was straight on to a few shows with Municipal Waste. They had some awesome shows and it was a blast. Unfortunately I only got a couple of site worthy photos...

This Sydney crowd shot seems dated already.

Phil gets brutal.

Ryan unleashes the axe.

The Waste stop off at the Giant Koala for a battle... the Koala got wasted.