quiet time

one or two of us are going away over the next few months, but we might be recording in august. we're gonna count in every song with 'ein zwei drei vier' - kraftwerk style!

meet iggy pop and david bowie

the future advertised now

somebody plz tell me how to resize these things omg. click for full deets.

Empress 6 May

thanks to everyone who came along to the empress to see us play last night.
hopefully you were there early enough to catch The Ancients & Poor People too.
if not, you missed out! keep an eye out for The Ancients new record
which will be out around august.

& we're playing next friday with Dan Kelly at the Northcote S.C.
hope to see you there. support supports!

Sydney etc

so our show with royal headache and dead farmers in sydney went really well! sadly i forgot my camera charger so there are no photos, but there was a great turnout, those who turned out were great and the turnout was great (w apologies to g.s.).

this was a very different experience from our very first show in Sydney - our very first show out of Melbourne, and so the one by which all others are inevitably measured to by some degree - where one of the acts we played with, and in a more general sense, the mood cast over the night all up ('rider at manager's discretion'. the manager turned out to be a dick) reminded me of this great quote from Robert Bly:

'only a person with really sluggish blood could put up with the average state of a human being without yawning...for the confessional poet anything less than an abortion or cancer operation really doesn't justify the machinery.'

obviously this applies to music too, as anyone who has endured a performance by your average singer-songwriter will testify. and i suppose it applies to blogs too, in which case - joke's on us! but my point is that our experience this time in Sydney wasn't tainted by having any shitty acts thrust upon us where we had to endure boredom straight-faced. it was really something to play with Royal Headache and Dead Farmers. even though the sound was a little iffy with the last minute venue change i don't think anyone really cared, and the PA sounded pretty good up near the front anyhow.

so thanks to nick et all for putting on the show - you did a really great job. and thanks to everyone who turned out (including auntie m and uncle d!), turned out well.

(R)Adelaide

Adelaide. you've been known to take many letters in front of you:

(B) - refers to paul kelly's song named after the town
(D) - al mac's lineage fled from here
(F) - they had the grand prix for a bit too
(H) - as in, 'got laid', or 'had a layd(e) last night lads' (see below)
(L) - hotspot for bux nights, footy tours, and gang murders
(M) - see above
(N) - see above
(P) - fem products abound on footpaths generally
(S) - westpac the tallest building
(T) - as in better than tassie. a tad
(W) - the general fatness of the populace

but DD can vouch that these are all bullshit!

(R)Adelaide is for real!

(R)Adelaide - a poem
thanks for the billies
on sunday
they were sick

thanks to everyone who came to the metro & format shows
thanks for the amazing soup nastasia (s&r shared it with us)

& our biggest thanks to rani & stacci!
for putting us up & putting on shows -
ta so very, very much.

we hope you feel better soon stacci
your key's in the post! x

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bitch prefect @ format

Adelaide doo-doo-doo-do.

Sorry don't know how to make that poster fit to the screen.

Guitars just get in the way...