True Radical Miracle

Last night I headed down to Pony and took in a rare appearance from one of Australia's finest bands True Radical Miracle. If you haven't come across this band and you are a fan of bands like Pissed Jeans, Snake Apartment, Dry Rot, Born Against & the like then you need check this shit out.

They have a few releases from the most recent back we have "Cockroaches" on Missing Link, "Roaches Parts 1 & 2" on Sabbatical, "Some Songs For Shame" on Eerie Stratum and the "Taste The Rainbow" cassette on Fuckn Stoner.

Taste The Rainbow will see cd release, with possible bonus material on Sweat Lung at some point which makes me very happy.

Here are some shots of TRM in action:

Rahduuuuuuuuunes in the house!

So yeah, I somehow vagued out in work world for a couple of months and lost track of where I was at with a couple of label releases. Snapping out of it I have finally got the covers to the awesome Rahdunes release, this is the CD release of the LP that came out on Emperor Jones last year and it's a fuckin' bliss filled journey that I never want to hear the end of. Available from Me and Missing Link as of now and more places as soon as possible. 6 panel, double sided, 2 colour, metalic ink printed covers on "bone" card stock with full colour printed pro-pressed disc. Mastered for CD by Greg Wadley. Limited to 500.

email getonthehorse[@]hotmail.com to order a copy or for more information.

Fabulous Diamonds

So my housemate Jarrod and friend Nisa play in this great outfit Fabulous Diamonds and they have a great new CD out on Michael K.'s Nervous Jerk label vinyl to come soon on Siltbreeze. It's great and the photos rule!

I bet y'all jealous I get to see this mans hairy torso wondering to the shower every other morning while I'm eating breakfast.

Menche / MIBEM

So the MIBEM Festival happened in Melbourne recently and was totally awesome thanks to Pateras, Fox, Annalee etc. There was killer performances all round but unfortunately my camera battery was not cutting it. I have only a couple of ok / average shots from a new point & shoot that I'm not used to yet.

Openers and Melbourne's loudest wall of destruction Y35.3 (above)

Daniel Menche total mind evaporation (below)

What I experienced at MIBEM was generally pretty awesome. Highlights, Sean Baxter & Valerio Tricoli Duo, Menche, all the collaborations at the Horse Bazaar closing party! had a blast unleashing some fury during the Collapsed Toilet Vietnam vs. Daniel Menche set.

Check out some MIBEM photos including the CTV vs. Menche shots HERE.

Cut Sick!

Here is a couple of shots of Melbourne's Cut Sick. Always killer live shows and awesome guys.

Pathetic Human

Definately my favorite Melbourne punk-hardcore band at the moment .. killer live energy great music, Pathetic Human

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam - 3rd Flush

Sweat Lung vs. AWK

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam 'Cistern Existence' Cassette Out Now

The debut cassette from Collapsed Toilet Vietnam came together today. Limited to 75 copies. The tape is available for $5 AUD plus postage email collapsedtoiletvietnam[@]hotmail.com to order listen to two tracks from the release here.

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam 2nd Show.

This weekend at Forepaw in Northcote!

(to be updated with some words soon)

Would you jump of a bridge if he said so?

So I met this guy at a metal karaoke night in Canberra maybe 5 or so years ago... maybe the most likely place to meet a dude with this tattoo in Australia I guess...

Flamin' Galah

I took this photo at Footscray train station a couple of years ago.

THE FUCKIN' KILL!

So this weekend sees one of the most anticipated grind shows in Melbourne's history with the return to the stage of The Kill. This return sees the band with new vocalist Nik, also of Super Fun Happy Slide.
It has been a few of years since I saw the unit of Jay (also of Fuck... I'm Dead, Identity Theft and Mid Youth Crisis, Open Wound etc.), Robbie (ex-Open Wound) and Neil (Undinism) play. Seeing this band with Neil as the vocalist was a terrifying experience, alway intense and often blood soaked. I have seen many a person flee a venue or vomit their dinner mid way through a set of The Kills blast ridden, riff-shredding, blood jetting performance.
After parting ways with Neil, Tony from Blood Duster gave vocal duties a bit of a whirl but that was a short lived line-up. The new line up is looking to be pretty killer Nik is a talented lad, though I think the blood-letting spectacle may be all in the past now so we will have to make do with the ultra-blasting and riff destruction of which no doubt there will be plenty.

There also looks to be a collection CD/LP coming out on No Escape/Torture Garden Picture Company and further releases to come.

The show line-up also features 3 more of Australia's best grind bands the legendary Captain Cleanoff, the raw styles of Roskopp and the young but terrifying bowel vocal extravaganza of Die Pigeon Die.

Here is a few of my old photos of The Kill with Neil in fine form:

Not to be missed!

Raw Duudes

Rahdunes: Aaron & Nate.

I spent some time today with Greg Wadley tweaking at the Rahdunes master for release on the Lung. I'm really digging this material. If you are a vinyl freak you should definitely check out the vinyl release of this Rahdunes stuff on Emperor Jones.

With any luck this will be ready to go by mid December, just have to finish tweaking the master and finalize the artwork.

Also this Monday sees the first flush of Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, featuring 4 of 6 Whitehorse members. Tapes will be available in the next few weeks. The debut show takes place at Pony with our schedule slot being 8:30 to 8:40. Here is some words about the show:
"To celebrate the release of the Absoluten Calfeutrail / Y35.3 split cassette on Max Kohane's Idget Child label, Pony is hosting a launch show featuring a substantial lineup of Melbourne's best. Opening the show is the debut performance of Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, a scum bucket quartet made up of Whitehorse members. Armyish follow with a rare performance from the trio of Marcus Griffin, Justin Fuller and Emile Zile. Antisocial rock trio Deep Where All Drown then offer a set of ugly art, followed by Embers with their relentless grindcore in the late ‘60s free jazz tradition. Rounding out the evening is Absoluten Calfeutrail (Mark Groves of Whitehorse/True Radical Miracle) making a terse racket, and Melbourne's finest power electronics exponents Y35.3." (see the flyer a couple of posts below)

More posts soon.

Party lifestyle choices.

Ok... So on my recent trip to the US my camera didn't come out as often as usual so there is not much totally awesome stuff going on here... but here is some photos I just dragged out.
This bummed me out as I almost always take my bird and snake to get burritos.

The Rahdude himself Aaron Coyes chillin with me and my mo.

Mayson and me long into the night sleeping on a piano in some big open space in the East Bay ... memories slightly hazy.

Bone Sheriff make an impromptu performance in Portland, OR opening for a Whitehorse show.

From what I understand this super dangerous fun thing in Philly has since been welded in place to stop people swinging themselves 3 stories in the air.

Pretty much the best karaoke night that ever did exist.

I believe this was during Sex Pistols "Anarchy in the UK"...

Sam made a bad food decision... (this was brunch for one).

Johnny my favorite bartender at Lucky 13 in Park Slope.

Javier hanging on Seldon's birthday at Lucky 13, when I get my shit together I will scan the photos of ME dancing on the bar and post them here...

Stefan my troubled friend... this is somewhere between annoying all our friends and moshing onto people we may or may not have known while they sat quietly on the couches upstairs at Tattooed Moms. Pretty much another awesome night.

After Chip and Lee kept telling me about their AK-47s this is about as close as I came...

Stefan and Justin chillin' after a mellow evening of Pink Razors and Drop Dead in a basement.

Me and the man Ryan chillin hard in Richmond.

The sign that made my day at the last day of Best Friends Day as I was about to start the long journey back to Melbourne... when I left the Drop Dead show the room had no roof left and the floor had sunk a whole bunch and DD couldn't play more than 3 seconds without the kit collapsing under a pile of people... total destruction.