April 2016 – Rocknerd

Shriekback: Without Real String or Fish (2015).

23 April, 201625 August, 2016 Post-Punk, Record 0

For a band formed in 1981, Shriekback have certainly had a couple of notable breaks in their productive career.

George Matzkov’s tracks from lost 1980s Perth alternative bands.

12 April, 201624 August, 2016 Indie 1

George Matzkov, Perth scenester, Stems roadie and founder of Zero Hour Records, is putting out a book, to be released soonish: Way Out West: The West Australian Alternative Music Scene 1976-1989. To accompany it, he’s got a Soundcloud of tracks from cassettes and records of the day. If you’re from those times you’ll delight in this.

I threw up on Lux Interior.

2 April, 201628 August, 2016 Drugs, Live, Rock, Writing 11

It was mid-1986, at the Red Parrot in Perth (name and logo blatantly nicked from the New York club of the same name) in Perth. I was nineteen and had been going out to see bands and drinking in earnest for six months. The Cramps had played (the Canterbury Court Friday 22 August 1986 show, I think) and went there for after-show drinks.