“Hard Left” remains chilling and apposite. The fascists and quasi-fascists haven’t changed in thirty years.
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Category: Live
How many years of my life have I spent waiting for the band to start?
Links: High-resolution consumer audio, London for music sales, the worst Beach Boys album.
Audio snake oil, London still the centre of the universe, Summer in Paradise.
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65daysofstatic, Barcelona, October 24, 2016
It was pure serendipity that I found myself on the other side of the planet from my usual home at the same time that 65daysofstatic graced Barcelona to promote their new soundtrack album, No Man’s Sky. The venue, Razzmatazz, has a good reputation and deservedly so. It’s rough and ready, but sensibly designed allowing for generous audio and viewing spaces, good ventilation, and even reasonable drink prices.
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Severed Heads, Boxcar, Single Gun Theory and the Volition Records package tour.
I’ve seen Severed Heads three times. First time was Perth in late ‘91 on the Volition Records “An Intro To Techno” package tour. At this point “techno” still specifically referred to original Detroit techno; the pounding four-on-the-floor stuff the KLF were topping the charts with was various hyphenations of “-house”. Volition almost certainly meant something a bit more like “industrial”, but for some reason people then seemed reluctant to say that word with a straight face.
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Scattered Order are alive and well.
Scattered Order are an Australian noise band who are probably “industrial”, but you never see them in any lists of industrial bands, and that’s just wrong. They have never been popular in any sense. They remain good and important, however, and have persisted. Modulo a decade’s break here and there.
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New Order and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Opera House, June 4, 2016
The concert hall of the Sydney Opera House is, of course, one of the world’s great venues. Filled to capacity of over two-and-half thousand the audience were displaying an enthusiasm that would continue throughout the night. Although older on average, there was a fair sprinkling of younger faces indicating that the reputation of one of the world’s great electronic and synth-pop bands was still continuing.
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I threw up on Lux Interior.
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.
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Jesus and Mary Chain “Psychocandy” 30th Anniversary
It is rather frightening to think that it’s now over thirty years since Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain graced the airwaves. Well, frightening to people of a certain age such as this reviewer.
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The fall of The Fall
This review has been sitting in the ‘to post’ box for a while, for reasons that will become evident.
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Pop Will Eat Itself, Hi-Fi Bar (Melbourne Australia), September 07, 2014
(PWEI at Fortitude Valley, image by Jeff Ram Photographer) After three years of a band having a ‘new’ lineup one would think that they’re
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Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, 11 May 2013
In my much younger days, like many others with simultaneous libertarian and socialist convictions, a gravitation towards the political side of punk rock had
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Midge Ure, Melbourne, 19 April 2013.
Midge Ure is a musician who shouldn’t require much of an introduction. He’s travelled from from the Rich Kids in the 1970s, to Visage,
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Simple Minds, Devo, The Church: Palais, November 30
Among the aging fans of good eighties music the prospect of The Church, Devo, and Simple Minds all at one show came with some
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The Sisters of Mercy, Corner Hotel, Melbourne, March 1st
The “industrial groove machine” known as The Sisters of Mercy recently performed twice in Melbourne at the Corner Hotel and apparently also at the
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The Damned, January 20, 2012, Melbourne
In previous reviews the general superiority of Billboard as a venue has been mentioned and they remain applicable here; the light is better, the
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The Clouds, The Wonder Stuff, Jesus Jones: August 19, Melbourne
The Clouds, The Wonder Stuff and Jesus Jones make a very good combination of acts, although holding the event at The Palace was a
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Gary Numan and Severed Heads, Forum, Melbourne, May 14, 2011
The Forum is one of Melbourne’s many stylish venues. Built in the 1920s it has a baroque level of art nouveau features with a
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Melbourne’s Arthouse to go out with a bang!
Melbourne’s famous alternative music venue ‘The Arthouse’ is closing its doors forever on May 1st due to issues caused by the same liquor licensing
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Leftfield, Melbourne, March 18, 2011
The early 1990s were a depressing time, and even more so in Victoria, Australia. The Gorbachev revolution, which successfully led to the unravelling of
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Hawkwind, Billboard, Melbourne March 12, 2011
As they announced, these are the warriors on the edge of space and time. Now in their forty-second year of performance and correlating with
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A requiem for the Luminaire.
I just returned from the last of many gigs I saw at the Luminaire, and indeed, the last ever gig there. The bands playing
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Laura MacFarlane, Hong Kong In The Sixties, Hissing At Swans – Betsey Trotswood, Tue 7 Dec 2010
The Betsey Trotswood is a tiny little pub in Farringdon that sells actual beer instead of the fizzy piss found most places basement indie
Read More79 Revisited with Mindroom and Embrace The Ashes @ the Noise Bar, 2010-11-26
A tribute to the bands from the period 1979-1984 known as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), this was 79 Revisited‘s first
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Metallica @ Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 2010-11-21
The final night of a tour is special. When the band has been touring two years and the last night is in your home
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Tears for Fears, Spandau Ballet: Melbourne, 21 April 2010
I originally picked up a Rocknerd account so I could review international acts from non-crap bands that made it to the great southern lands.
Read MoreLast song at the Tote.
The last song of the last night, “My Pal” by the Drones with Joel Silbersher, on video. And, of course, the 7:30 Report. Now,
Read MoreSupport slot of the year.
The epic tale of how Deathboy supported Tricky. Includes handy hints on getting a free hotel stay.
Read MorePatti Smith, St Giles In The Fields, London, Fri 18 May 2007.
Patti Smith entered St Giles In The Fields, a small but beautiful working church built in the 18th Century in the heart of London
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Meredith
The best festival this country has to offer. Meredith Music Festival lived up to the hype yet again with its fine selection of music, beautiful weather, ice cold beer, good food and fun times had by all.
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Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine/Jim’s Super Stereoworld/Abdoujaparov – Mean Fiddler, London, Fri 15 Nov 2002
review by Teqkiller Met up with Vicky and Nick (rhyming potential is overwhelming here) in the Wetherspoons that’s where the Marquee used to be
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