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Music Australia - December 2006

The Shenanigans - FREE show

December 26th 2006 22:53

Bit of self promotion here... this show is on tomorrow night, so if you fancy a trip to idyllic Springwood come on out for a free show. The Shenanigans is the first band I ever played in and we're reforming for this reunion show. This show will mark 10 years since we first started jamming together.

The Shenanigans - myspace, click to hear some songs.

Save Some For Daddy are rad punk/funk band and they're a lot of fun to watch.
Save Some For Daddy - myspace, click to hear some songs.

The Bernie Lomax 5 is my more current band.
The Bernie Lomax 5 - myspace, click to hear some songs.

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The Compound and Maggotsville

December 17th 2006 23:48

The Compound (or 22, as it's sometimes known, but never 'Club 22' [the operators will kill you if they hear you call it that!]) and Maggotsville are a pair of spaces for bands to play shows in, usually D-I-Y style punk and indie bands. They're both rad cause there's none of the bullshit that comes with playing shows in pubs or PCYCs and the like. The Compound is a small-ish room on Enmore road in Newtown, run by the people who also run the store Paint It Black, which is a few doors up. Maggotsville is a warehouse in Marrickville where some people live that also doubles as a venue for bands to play in.

New Justice Team at the Compound, photo by Amy.

Unfortunately it looks like both of these spaces will be shutting their doors to bands in the very near future. The Compound recently played host to the Sydney all-ages show for Scandinavian punk band Regulations... unfortunately noise levels have led to complaints and it looks like the venue might have to lie low for a bit if not shut it's doors completely. In the past the venue has threatened to finish up in light of some bands or people treating the place with minimal respect. What's wrong with people, eh? It's a rad place to watch bands.

Maggotsville has a few shows left, but it looks like it too will finish up soon as they have vacant rooms they can't fill (for people to live there). Without tenants the place will not be able to stay open. Obviously no one is particularly to blame about this, but it still sucks all the same.

NJT again, at Maggotsville, photo by Amy.

Anyway, the main point of this post was just to say that I thought these two venues were rad and that I'll be sad to see them go (if they do indeed go, my fingers are crossed that something will work out). I'd like to say thanks to the dudes and dudettes who helped make the Compound and Maggotsville possible, I had fun whenever I played there.

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Bands and snazz

December 12th 2006 07:37

I haven't really been writing much for this blog lately... not through lack of interest or time, I just haven't really had much to say at the moment about Australian music that I felt was entirely relevant for this blog. Anyway, here's some quick links to older entries for easy reference...

Spilt Milk - Western Sydney old-school punk band from the 90s.
Peabody - rad indie rock band from Sydney.
The Quickening - Brisbane-based tight-as-fuck punk band (think along the lines of Propagandhi)
Kampei - Sydney pop/punk/ska/rock band. Lots of fun.
Extra Limb - another fun and good value punk band from Sydney.
Cosmic Psychos - Victorian buzz saw rockers... one of my favourite bands.
Downtime - now defunct Sydney hardcore band, another onf of my favourites.
Jihad Against America - recently deceased controversial band from Melbourne.
Unpaid Debt - punk band from Sydney
Game Over - Melbourne-based 90s pop punk.
Steppin Razor - ska punk dudes from Sydney.
Chaz. H. Scally - Penrith-based ska-core band.
H-block 101 - probably the best punk band to ever come out of Australia.

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