Thought I'd offered this ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Z8WmJp_vI ) earilert in the year. Maybe not. This is from the Steve Andrews benefit gig at SFBH. Quite a few of the old punk crowd turned up. Good and emotional night out! and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLzqfjbJEqo
Awesome. Just discovered the Hard-Ons are playing on Bar Bodega next Thursday night (Aug 8).
Awesome. Just discovered the Hard-Ons are playing on Bar Bodega next Thursday night (Aug 8).
Awesome. Just discovered the Hard-Ons are playing on Bar Bodega next Thursday night (Aug 8).
20years since I last heard the Hard-Ons, but 'Then I kissed her' (Arabic version) still a great sing along. I'll do my best to be there.
The Hard-Ons were hard out last night. Smallish crowd, shortish set, but managed to see all the support bands for once so can't complain.
HH - Sofa Head (Pre Marital Predicament & Acres of Geeses) and the The Joyce McKinney Experience (Love Songs For Kirk) are both on Rdio. The same albums tend to get licensed to all the streaming services so they're probably both on Spotify too, which is free as long as you have a Facebook account and can put up with a few ads.
Excellent, what a service - First an International Gig Guide, then local 'heads up' and now the mysifying world of online music ;-)
I seriously cannot recommend Rdio highly enough. At $14 a month it's an absolute bargain and in my opinion a better service than Spotify.
Thanks for the tip on those 2 bands - had a wee listen already and both sound good to me.
At the harder end of things one of my big Rdio discoveries this year was Deafheaven. Their latest album Sunbather is immense. It's kind of like Metal-gaze or Dream-metal. Napalm Death crossed with My Bloody Valentine or Ride.
Which now leads on to their 'new' album, which for me is better than their last six at least :-) A taste below
Fortunately I'm in happy state of ignorance regarding most contemporary US punk, but get your point. As for those bands that copy the BR sound, can any of them get even close to Graffin's 'thesaurus punk' lyrical content?
I strongly recommend you revisit late 80s/early 90s releases: No Control, Against the Grain and Recipe of Hate... I've still yet to know of 3 consecutive LPs of brilliance by any band*
*Caveat: many bands I listen to didn't get to three LPs in their entire history.
HH - what about Suffer at the start of that run? And did you deliberately leave out Generator between Against The Grain and Recipe For Hate?
Not being picky, just highlighting that Bad Religion's consecutive run of 'brilliant' late 80s/early 90s albums could easily stretch to 5!
Great band.
HH - what about Suffer at the start of that run? And did you deliberately leave out Generator between Against The Grain and Recipe For Hate?
Not being picky, just highlighting that Bad Religion's consecutive run of 'brilliant' late 80s/early 90s albums could easily stretch to 5!
Great band.
HH - what about Suffer at the start of that run? And did you deliberately leave out Generator between Against The Grain and Recipe For Hate?
Not being picky, just highlighting that Bad Religion's consecutive run of 'brilliant' late 80s/early 90s albums could easily stretch to 5!
Great band.
Confess to thinking generator while typing Recipe for hate! It's my # 2 (after No Control)
I dont get as excited by Suffer as many others - I would put the 4 track EP that had Along the Way, Yesterday & Frogger on it as my favourite early release.
HH - what about Suffer at the start of that run? And did you deliberately leave out Generator between Against The Grain and Recipe For Hate?
Not being picky, just highlighting that Bad Religion's consecutive run of 'brilliant' late 80s/early 90s albums could easily stretch to 5!
Great band.
Really like BR. Probably their major label period is their only dull. Since they have been back on Epitaph they have been really good, The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First, New Maps of Hell (haven't really listened to The Dissent of Man) and now True North.
Really into Teenage Bottlerocket at the moment:
That's good sing a long stuff, Bullion. Can't decide whether it's the music or skateboards that makes me think The Vandals!
The Misfits at Bar Bodega tomorrow night.
OK, should probably be billed as The Misfit, but still the best Misfits covers band you'll ever see.
Hello fellow Punkers...it's been a while. That is a great line up...sadly will not be able to make it, so look forward to any reviews.
Now Mr X, I'm back in blighty in mid-late April - what was that great website that had all the punk shows around the UK that you alerted me to last time I went? Cheers!
Yeah, Stargreen.com, that's the one!
That's exciting HH, hope you can get a few choice gigs lined up.
Any chance of seeing you at SLF at Bodega, 19 Feb?
Nice one fellas, I'll get on to that.
SLF were totally off my radar..I think I had them bracketed as 'too much like old skool punk' whie I was raging in the mid 80s hardcore scene. But (still) have no evidence on which to base that claim!
Cockney Rejects, The Fall, The Plasmatics.....
Stiff Little Fingers were very good last night.
Great band, great songs, good crowd in (many, many old faces out).
I love SLF. One of the first bands that had a real impact on me. A lot of those songs are lyrically brilliant too. Suspect Device and Alternative Ulster are really clever, particularly considering the subject matter.
Lucky to have seen them a few times overseas and last night was right up there.
Because they have featured in posts on this thread.
RIP:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/9865022/GWAR-frontman-Brockie-found-dead
End of GWAR?
Probably, which is a shame.
A world with no GWAR is a lesser place.
Hardcore/thrash legends D.R.I heading to Wellington (7 May) and Auckland (8 May).
Death to capitalist Hardcore :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iacV9iuewLE
Who am I? DRI!
What Label am I on? EMI!
Sore Throat lyrics often were minimalist...
Death to capitalist Hardcore :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iacV9iuewLE
Who am I? DRI!
What Label am I on? EMI!
Sore Throat lyrics often were minimalist...
Would be good to catch up, but am currently saving my pocket money for tickets to abuse Spammers players :-)
No worries, will let you know how it goes.
By the way, been listening to a lot of Sofa Head recently. Very, very good. Didn't realise the drummer was Andrew Laing who then went on to the mighty Leatherface.
Well bugger me, nor did I. Two great sunderland bands, must have needed some crossover (see what I did with the DRI hangover thing there?)
I had a schoolboy crush on the lead singer of Sofahead. She gave me a shout out at a gig at the Hull Adelphi once. To this day, I don't know whether it was a big ups for trying to chat her up at the bar before the gig, or ridicule for trying to chat her up at the bar before the gig :-)
Pretty good actually. I enjoyed it. Definitely at the thrashier end of the punk spectrum, but I don't mind that at all. The support band Rogernomix were good too. Very fast and heavy.
Very small crowd there though. Maybe 150 out on a Wednesday night.
New Rancid and Lagwagon albums just out.
That's this afternoon's listening sorted.
Here's a great discovery at nzonscreen.com - the video of "Flaming Soul" by Flesh D-Vice, one of Wellington's best ever (maybe even the best?) punk bands.
If ever a song should be a Fever anthem it's this one.
There's definitely a chant in there somewhere too...
New Rancid and Lagwagon albums just out.
That's this afternoon's listening sorted.
http://www.kerrang.com/24316/lagwagon-stream-new-album-hang-full/
Japanese Bubblegum Punk!
Shonen Knife are coming. I saw them support Captain America and Nirvana in London just as Nirvana was peaking and is still probably the best gig I ever went to. Not often you see a force of nature reach it's powers. Honestly it was something completely different and I was no big fan until I saw them.
Shonen Knife was good too, it was at the Kilburn Ballroom. I had no idea Nirvana were going to be the biggest band in the world until after I saw them and then I knew it.
The Dickies are coming to NZ next April
http://www.punkas.com/
Thursday, April 23 @ Musician's Club, Dunedin [R18]
Friday, April 24 @ Dux Live, Christchurch [R18]
Saturday, April 25 @ Bar Bodega, Wellington [R18]
Sunday, April 26 @ King's Arms Tavern, Auckland [R18]
Tickets are on sale from Friday, October 24.
And Kitsch are releasing a new album, and for those in/near the 09 have an album release show:
http://www.elevenfiftyseven.com/
Last one was very good
