Blackeyed Susans - London Sessions

I do like a bit of the Blackeyed Susans on a rainy day, which is
what it is here in Brisbane.
I hope where ever in the world you are this wonderful collection
of songs called the London Sessions will brighten up your day!


Track list
01. Spanish is the loving tongue
02. Anchor me
03. In the pines
04. Angel of uncertain times
05. Wee small hours of the morning
06. He'll have to go

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Seven Ballerinas - Live at the Playroom 16/04/1983

Michael has completed his trilogy of recordings of
the related Gold Coast bands Ratpack, The Strand
and the Seven Ballerinas
From the late 70's into the early 80s these bands
played around the Gold Coast and Brisbane.
The Seven Ballerinas were the most successful
releasing a single which got a lot iof airplay on
4ZzZ. You can read all about these bands on this
blog already

Ratpack here

The Strand here

and the Seven Ballerinas here and the single here

Thanks again to Michael for all his work,
he tells me he is planing to record some
Seven Ballerinas stuff in the studio!



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Atomic Beat Squad - Hurt b/w Hands Of Love 7"

Dennis, who is putting together a Brisbane electronic music
project at the moment has sent us this rare gem.
A 7" single from the Atomic Beat Squad released back in
1990 on Sundown records

Let me hand over to Dennis

And thank you Dennis for this fine post!

This is the Hurt 7" released by Atomic Beat Squad (ABS - formerly 
Tainted Violets) in 1990 on the Sundown label.
The blurb from the Time Off band guide of 1988 for Tainted Violets reads:
"Synth band with Bauhaus and Ultravox influences. Finalists in this 
year's Rock Awards. Come with big wraps."
I seem to remember ABS vying to be signed to a major label at the time.
...Dennis

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Beasts Of Bourbon - 26th 1st 2006 Big Day Out Festival RAS Showgrounds, Sydney

I had a request to reup a live Beasts of Bourbon show which I
could sadly no longer find, so I have taken it as a sign that I
should post this wonderful recording.
Its a live to air JJJ recording of only 5 tracks but its nice,
in a sleazy kind of way!
As only Tex can

Track
 01. Intro
02. The Low Road
03. Make 'em Cry
04. Just Right
05. Straight, Hard and Long
06. Saturated

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A couple of requests

I have received a couple requests lately which Im passing on to the SSS
readership. 1st  Scot is after Redgum stuff for a documentary he is hoping
to do, sounds like a promising project so all you Redgum fans out there
this is for you.
Over to scot


I’m after photos and videos of Redgum, especially anything that 
people may have taken at gigs through the years.
 I would digitise any material and return it to the owner with a 
digitised copy for their own use.
 So they’d be helping me with an important cultural project as
 well as preserving their own memorabilia. Who knows, this 
project may even convince Sony to finally reissue the old
 Redgum albums on CD…


You can email Scot on this address

digihed@netspeed.com.au


The 2nd request is for memories, music images whatever you have on Brisbane
electronic music
Ill give you the whole request as it came from Dennis

Hi Bob - thanks for writing. Nice work on the blog too.
We're working on a major retrospective of electronic music production in Brisbane 
over the last 20-30 years, and need to make sure we cover as much territory as possible.
 We need to look back in time at who was active with electronic music here during the 80s, 
as we started in 1994. Of course we know about Boxcar, but bands like Pork etc 
who were part of the scene well before that.

In your blog travels, own memory, tapes and 7" that you've got in your collection, 
and the recollections of your fans, we need want to dig up band names, contacts, 
and ideally any existing sources of tracks for this genre. 

The project is in the early days, but attached is more information. All help will be credited. 
Also attached is my running list so far but its mostly 90's-onwards...

Regards
Dennis

If you can help leave a comment here and I shall get back to you
I wont post any comments with email address's but I will froward you
contact details for denis.
Thanks

Deniz Tek Touring this weekend !!

Deniz who you say??
DID I HEAR YOU ASK WHO DENIZ TEK IS ?????
GET THE FUK OFF THIS BLOG NOW !!
U GONE YET ?/
GO ON- SCRAM !




Ok - now those fukers have gone... The one and only Deniz Tek comes to Brisbane on Saturday night and down Northern NSW way on friday.

The Friday gig is at Lismore - facebook details here - https://www.facebook.com/events/296969587091763/?fref=ts



and the Saturday gig is at The Beetle Bar in Brisbane .
facebook details here  -
https://www.facebook.com/events/475837049118095/?fref=ts

Both nights feature Leadfinger in support.

Deniz Tek facebook here with all other tour info



Brilliant news is that Pip Hoyle also of Radio Birdman will be joining on keyboards for these 2 gigs...
The good Mr. Tek is back in Oz doing a tour for his new cd - "Detroit" found here for sale at the good ppl from Citadel records... ALL HAIL THE CITADEL !

If your one of those psycho nutcase compulsive obsessive fans you might wanna check out ebay to buy one of his geetars presently up for auction - details here - mention the secret codeword :SEVERITY ENTERTAINMENT if you win the geetar auction and you might get it autographed.. who knows... .




There is a great interview/ article on all things Deniz Tek from this mag from 1995 called - Prehistoric Sounds vol 1 issue 3 by the great Ian McFarlane.
Tek only section download here



and rok on over to this blog for a pdf download of a zine called 'Superdope' from 1991 as it has a nice interview with Deniz and Angie Pepper.
http://www.hedonistjive.com/2010/06/superdope-2-summer-1991.html


UPDATE :
Well it was a great gig... plenty loud!
A good mix of old Birdman stuff and a few from the new cd Detroit.
Songs included - Oh Well, Murder City Nights, Love Kills, Pine Box, I'm Alright, What Gives?, Aloha Steve and Danno, Man with Golden Helmet and a few others i can't remember ...

I managed to grab a few vids from the balcony but vocals a bit dim but hey... if yer a fan you get the drift.. a few more gigs -

Fri 15th: Melbourne - The Tote

Sat 16th: Castlemaine - The Bridge

Sat 23rd: Wollongong - Barcode 

Sat 30th: Hobart ( Tasmania ) - The Brisbane Hotel

 do yerself a favour !
Europe in May im hearing too !

Robert Forster - Robert (live 24th Oct 2012)

There is that old adage that if you can play a song on acoustic it will stand up to any future production tampering as a worthy song in it's own right...
So.. to see Mr Forster stand b4 an intimate crowd (Visy theatre holds 200 max) and just bash out such an impressive back catalogue with only an acoustic in hand to protect him from the mob was an impressive evening indeed...
Karin gets up for a few songs during the encore to play some fiddle but this night was all about Mr Forster and his gift of great song writing..
This recording is from the second of two nights at the Visy theatre- Powerhouse in Brisbane.
I didn't get any photos from the night - powerhouse are a bit anal that way...so borrowed some art from willy Blake for the covers..

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Crime And The City Solution touring..

Well I didn't think I would ever get to see this band live, but Thursday night in Sydney and Sunday in Brisbane at the HI-Fi they will be finishing up their Australian leg of a few months of touring.
From all accounts the ATP gig in Melbourne was excellent.
Rumours of Mick Harvey getting up onstage as well..
facebook details here - https://www.facebook.com/CrimeandtheCitySolution?fref=ts

I found a really nice recording of Crime .. from October last year at the good folk at New York City Taper -
you can download mp3 or flac here  - http://www.nyctaper.com/2012/10/crime-the-city-solution-october-22-2012-music-hall-of-williamsburg-flacmp3streaming/

Jimmy And The Boys - Teddy Boys Picnic

The second studio album from Jimmy and the Boys was the 1981,
Teddy Boys' Picnic.
The band then briefly disbanded in January 1982
and Jones moved to the theatre stage, playing the dual roles
of Eddie and Dr. Scott in the Australian revival of
The Rocky Horror Show.
In mid-1982 the band reformed for a national tour,
which resulted in a live album, In Hell with Your Mother
but they disbanded soon after.

According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane,
the group's performances "mixed S&M trappings,
sex shop props, mock rape and other depravities
with sub-Zappaesque humour, hard rock, jazz,
reggae and disco"

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Jimmy and the Boys - Not Like Everybody Else

`
Back in 1979 this little gem hit the record stores,
they even were on countdown. What I didnt know is
the classic title track of this album was a cover of a
kinks song. Found that out some time later.
Described as a shock rock band and fronted by
the flamboyant Ignatius Jones these guys released
three Lps.
In May 1981 they scored their only top 10 single with
"They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me"
written by Split Enz front man Tim Finn.

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