The He Dark Age - The Dog's Breakfast

The post Pork project by Paul Newsome called
The He Dark Age as promised from Chuck and
his incredible musical archive.
Rare and as often the case here never seen
before on the net.
Thanks Chuck.

Track list
a1-science & technologhy
a2-let the brakes off
a3-holding out for eden
a4-lean baby lean(x20)
a5-the master
a6-gentlemen
b1-sad amphibians
b2-grieve not for me oh adrienne
b3-jesus didnt beat him over the head
b4-japanese tourist lost in brisbane
b5-the frame


Download Here




The He Dark Age - The Frame
A post-punk experimental (partially) Brisbane band from
1986 to 1990 taken from their VHS As Far As Legs Will Carry.

The video features clips from each track on their sole LP
The Dog's Breakfast, a live show from 19/7/90 with the
band supporting Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the
UQ Refectory, and various short videos.

THE HE DARK AGE is a collaboration between
Paul Newsome and Tony Milner, who've come from a
long line of Brisbane groups dating back to the late
1970s ie: the Swell Guys, No-V-Bleet, Pork, the Sump,
2 Stroke Poke, Smoothage, the Plug Uglies, In My Skin,
Machines That Walk, Xero and countless more.

Thanks Donat for the video and information

Pork Zines 1 and 2

More Brisbane musical history from Chuck,
2 magazines from the band pork, full of
interesting stuff and 16 pages long!

Lets hear from Chuck.

This is a zine from the pork ppl
I dont have any more pork than already posted on the
recent cassette posts, but i do have a post pork project
by Paul Newsome called "The he dark age"





Also have porker issue 2 ill send over later..
has a great indepth interview with john-e xero..
willsteed is listed as playing with pork in
"who's who aust. rock"

This also is a massive 16 pages of fasinating stuff,
the interview with John is great.
The photo below looks like the stage at this venue
in the valley whos name escapes me.
I remember seeing Xero there such a long time ago.
Maybe it was the same gig .
Thanks yet again Chuck


Download Pork Zine 1 Here
Download Pork Zine 2 Here

Castrak Cassette and Ratsak Fanzine

A double treat for this post,
first a cassette and the Fanzine it came from.
The cassette comes under the name Castrak,
circa 1983 with a fantastic collection of rare
tracks. Of special interest is the JFK tracks,
including a different version of Follow that car,
than the album. Also theres more Tex, pork,
a song from Xero and another from Other Voices.
Originally I didn't have the issue that this cassette
came with but Steve have kindly scanned his copy
and Chuck has turned it into a pdf file.
Thanks guys.
You have to see this mag it is fantastic!



Track list
01 - Other Voices - Scene Unseen
02 - Xero - Lofty Joins The Navy
03 - Dumbshow - Illustration
04 - My Three Sins - Stand Up
05 - Tex Deadly and the Dum Dums - This Here Country
06 - Pork - Sketch
07 - Doby Gillis Experience - When The Memory Is Gone
08 - JFK and the Cuban Crisis - Follow That Car
09 - JFK and the Cuban Crisis - Goodbye

Download Castrak's Cassette here
Download the Fanzine issue 3 here



Teaming this cassette which originally came from Bazzil
of prehistoric sounds fame,
is a issue 2 of ratsak, which Chuck has found
and dusted off so it can see the light of day again.
Heres what Chuck has to say about it

some great articles in this... tex interviews the kicks...
the start of the mystery of sixes balckban era .....
tsk tsk tsk interview and that fat pig Russ Hinze
on the cover...
what more could ya want !!!

Download Fanzine issue 2 here

Cubbyhouse Fanzine and Cassette "What We Did On Our Holidays"

A rare piece on Brisbanes music history,
a do it yourself fanzine and a cassette with
some very rare Brisbane recordings.
The Dumdums on the first track was none
other than Tex Perkins and his first band.
Pork a legendy band that incited both rapturous
joy and intense dislike.
My Tangled Shoelaces were a fantastic, wimisical bunch
of kids whome went on to become Wonderous Fair,
my personal favourites.
And This Five Minutes an excellent band that were also
a fav of mine. Chuck discovered a long dead post on the
blog that started me off blogging,
asked me if I had the said recordings
and found somehow in his attic a long forgotten copy of
the original fanzine that was sold with these recordings.
Bazzil from prehistoric sounds did the original digitaliztion
of this casstte.
Thanks to Baz and Chuck for all of this.

Heres what Chuck has to say

long b4 there was desktop publishing apps there was the
prehistoric photocopier and some scissors....
not the flashest fanzine ive ever seen but a very interesting
piece of brisbane music history i think...
now finally completed for me, with bob's and bazzill's help
with the audio component i had long given up hope of ever
tracking down.
ALL HAIL THE BLOG

Track List
01 - The Dum Dums - Voodoo Doll
02 - Pork - In
03 - Tangled Shoelaces - On The Sea
04 - Tangled Shoelaces - You Can Come Too
05 - This Five Minutes - To Sir With Love
06 - This Five Minutes - One To Ten
07 - Des Johnson - Never Home
08 - Tea For Two - Solid Instrumental

Download Cassette Here

Download Fanzine Here