Australian Post-Punk (Updates)

braggin

grong grong compilation out in a week or so

This guy on YouTube, OzObscurist, has a sweeeeeeet collection of material online including matrial from Wirlywirld and King Snake Roost. Check especially his 'Grunge Before Grunge' series, in 3 parts (perhaps there more parts to come?), which covers several obscure tracks from the Australian grunge phase of 1982 to 1986-ish.

http://www.youtube.com/user/OzObscurist#p/a/2971BA5EABF99671/1/nzlwdg8vJUg

some neat stuff, though i was hoping for vids!

why did we not go see GG?

i.. don't know! had no idea it was on..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otV-qSh7aVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcbBM--HI88&feature=related

these guys are rly good

not bad at all.. the birthday party influence is strong in those guys

yuh totally

Next gig:

Scattered Order / Makers of the Dead Travel Fast / A Slow Rip + DJs

Saturday 28th November
Abercrombie Hotel, Broadway, Sydney

In support of the Prat Culture + Release

http://www.nonightsweats.com/asr/aber_small.jpg

hope to see some sydney people there. come up and say hello.

a sub-event of the sydney festival:

http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2010/Free/Circa-1979-Signal-to-Noise/

and Modular's blog:

http://www.modularpeople.com/blog/?p=825

there will also be a related fringe concert with scattered order, dead travel fast, no-v-bleet, wild west, no night sweats and other people from the time.

aussie version of the msq box:

http://mono.whatevz.net/images/terrace_industry_cover_rgbwebadVtQS.jpg

out in jan

Is that the condensed CD version?

i don't know how much crossover there is between this set and the VoD box, haven't seen the tracklisting yet. but 4 discs doesn't seem all that "condensed" ;)

Ah. For some reason I thought there was going to be a single CD version. So this will be a 4 CD box? Great!

Found this on another site:
cd1: systematics - single, rural, tracks from comps, field of cows; splendid mess - track from a selection; patrick gibson - tracks from too separate

cd2: dead travel fast - tael single; 3 tracks from vessels; 2nd album; acra - 3 tracks from cassette releases

cd3: scattered order - relaxed with you + tracks from comps; barons - paint it black; height/dismay - 3 tracks; prod - contents one + 1 cassette track; solipsik - ep+ a selection track

cd4: ya ya choral - dutchman, quaver + 1 unreleased; bell du soir - single; pel mel, wild west, limp, slugfuckers, tame omearas, the same, denial, severed heads, no night sweats - single tracks from comps and elsewhere

Posted too quickly. Here's the tracklisting:
http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=23299.0

ah so there's basically no crossover between the two boxes.. so maybe another disc is on the way?

the program for the freebie conference bit of Circa 1979 looks pretty good:

Signal to Noise Sessions

A day of free talks exploring early experimentation in music, film and video and the cultural influences surrounding one of the most creative periods in Australia’s music history.

Key panelists including Tom Ellard (Severed Heads), Andrew Penhallow (Volition Records), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) and Roger Grierson (Thought Criminals) share their works, insights and experiences from the underground of Australian music.

Session 1: World Domination - The Australian Post Punk Movement
Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre
January 16 at 12pm, 1 hour including Q&A

Australia’s Post Punk movement sought to 'steal' music back from the experts and promote artistic expression with little concern for mainstream success. It was an era of tribalism, collaboration and experimentation challenging the foundation of the Australian music industry. This first Signal to Noise Session will compare the Post Punk era to today’s creative community and question why the music received international praise while it was relatively overlooked at home.

Moderator: Marty Wirth
Presenter: Julian Knowles
Panelists: Michael Tee, Jaimie Leonarder, Roger Grierson, Andrew Penhallow, Clinton Walker

Session 2: Postmodern vs. Modern debate on Remixing and Recycling
Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre
January 16 at 1.30pm, 1 hour including Q&A

For the past two decades we have been consumed by the culture of remixing, sampling and recycling but what do we have to show for it? Does remixing offer an avenue for artists to explore new ideas or has it desensitized our appreciation for originality? This Signal to Noise session will challenge the ideals of musicians, film makers and academics involved in the Post-Punk era and try to answer the question: what would Roland Barthes do?

Moderator: Marty Wirth
Presenter: Tom Ellard
Panelists: Steve Malinder, Julian Knowles, Phil Turnbull, Ross Harley

Session 3: Experimental Film & Video
Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre
January 16 at 3pm, 1 hour 30 mins including Q&A

Although music was the headliner the Post Punk era also saw a surge in experimental film & video. The final Signal to Noise session will feature presentations of rare and previously unseen footage showcasing the groundbreaking ideas and DIY methodology that has come all to close to being forgotten.

Host: Jaimie Leonarder
Presenters: Jaimie Leonarder, Ross Hartley, Ian Andrews, Tom Ellard, Stephen Jones

Signal to Noise at the Sound Lounge

Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre
January 16,17 and 23,24 2pm-10pm, January 19-22 5pm-10pm

An exhibition of fanzines, photography and album artwork will revive and recreate the Sydney underground music scene of 1979-1985. Coupled with unreleased music and a previously unseen video archive, this exhibition is the first of its kind.

ooh

road tripp with tha S-dogg?

you betcha

"terrace industy" is the official compilation of remastered releases from M2.

the other cd release is a distillation of the VoD box (which contained previously unreleased material). i think it's 2cds. this was supposed to come out now but they decided to bring forward the release of terrace industry to co-incide with "circa 1979" and so will release it later in 2010.

btw:

sunday 17th jan 2010: sandringham hotel, newtown 4-9 or 10 pm. as a sort of closer for circa 1979...

wild west (with cathy hopkins)
scattered order (new set)
makers of the dead travel fast
no-v-bleet (swell guys)
the loop orchestra (using sydney post-punk as source material)
no night sweats
drosma bebris
tim van den berg

mc - scott holmes (the same / scattered order)
dj sets / door prizes / fun galore

wild west hope to have a cd for sale then as well.

The other CD is called "22 Pardons" - M Squared Rare Recordings 1979 - 1983 Volume 1. A single CD, it contains 22 selected tracks from the vinyl VOD box. This will be released mid 2010.

Scattered Order Mk I is keen to do mostly 'historical' material for the January show - how, who knows? It'll be good fun hearing how everyone else approaches this memory challenge.

Where to book tix for the Sunday show?

booking tix - the full promo stuff will come out on jan 4 or thereabouts so you'll have to wait until then.

terrace industry now shipping

http://www.ascensionrecords.com.au/

http://www.nonightsweats.com/images/wsn_final.jpg

In celebration of Circa 1979: Signal to Noise and the release of the M2 Box Set "Terrace Industry", a raft of bands from Sydney's 80s underground have reformed for a once only event.

Wild West (featuring Cathy Hopkins)
No-V-Bleet
Shift (formerly of Great White Noise)
Scattered Order Mk1
Makers of the Dead Travel Fast
No Night Sweats
The Loop Orchestra

MC Scott Holmes (The Same / Scattered Order)

Door Prizes, Fun and Laughs, incredibleness.

The Sando, Newtown
5-11PM
$15 at the door

Ordered. Excited. Full report upon arrival.

no pre-sales available, just door sales

My M Squared box just arrived, I'm psyched! Great packaging - the box itself is similar to the Stereolab singles box a few years back, with a nice healthy booklet and some coasters. I hope the music (some of which I've heard and love) lives up to my expectations!

the sunday night show at the sando was great! scattered order were the highlight, they sounded tremendous. dead travel fast were amusingly po-faced but i dug it.

A fascinating full colour catalogue of artifacts from Sydney underground post-punk period 79-85 is avaialble for free download here:

http://www.modularpeople.com/circa1979/

sigh...

so sarah from modular wanted tactics to support john cale at circa 1979 but couldn't afford the airfare to bring dave studdert back to oz.

now angus douglas has died (i don't have details on why or what from) and that's the end of the band for me. sure dave had the vision but angus was the sound beneath the vocals - all the way.

he won't be lauded like rowland howard but he was, in many ways, a greater guitar player.

That epic, yet picky, claustrophobia of the first couple records is a triumph. I'm sure it's the kind of thing where the band and critics went on to champion the later, better recorded work, but those early singles have a density that invites endless listening. hard to find the singles, of course, but the first of the double cd collections gets most of it (The Sound of the Sound, vol. 1). Not on iTunes, but it's around.

surprised that TSOTS isn't on itunes - it is on emusic (which is where i got it)

some of the remastering on it isn't terribly well done (ok mainly just the tracks from the fatman 45) but most of it is pretty good

Speaking of the availability of great Australian post-punk, I'm trying to gather Sunday Painters material for a possible collection, so I'm looking for any material that might be out there. Not the vinyl itself. I'm more interested in any photos, scans, or cassettes. Memories. T-shirts. Fanzines. Articles. Whatever any of you old timers have lying about. Scans and digitizations fine, of course. And any of the compilation tapes they appeared on would be especially nice: One Stop Shopping, Fast Forward #7, Public Eye #2. Also The Art Throbs' No Media is Good Media tape, or the tape comp on Terminal Records of Wollongong bands titled Big Little Bands. Any help appreciated.

one stop shopping is on mutant sounds, not sure if that helps you though?

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/02/va-one-stop-shopping-3-tapes-1981.html

Yeah, that's an mp3, and without a scan. Fantastic that it's there, of course. Wouldn't have heard it otherwise.

i figure i can use this thread as a catchall for aussie reissues

shortly arriving is a Chad's Tree retrospective, which is pretty nice since none of it has ever been on cd save for one or two tracks, the two LPs are relatively rare and v expensive, and it's great stuff.. pre-Blackeyed Susans fact fans

after that the delightful Egg records (who did the let's go naked comp) is doing a Rabbits Wedding retrospective, which i have been wanting for years and years and may even have given them the inspiration to do (as I emailed them with said request about five years ago). quite Go-Betweensy but their 'hit' Coming Like Summer is dripping with lloyd cole. really love this band so i am chuffed..

the RW reissue probably helped along by one of the band members rediscovering all the tapes and various other bits and pieces fairly recently

For those of you in Sydney:

A CloakRoom Assembly - Territory & Population - Album Launch

Saturday 19th June 2010

Megaphon Studios
Floor 2, Building 8
70 Edith Street
St Peters NSW

$10 at the door

8.00 – 8.30pm - Shane Fahey
8.45 – 9.15pm - A Slow Rip
9.30 – 10.00pm - Gail Priest
10.15 – 10.45pm - Pimmon
11.00 – 11.30pm - A CloakRoom Assembly

This should be a great night of interesting and vital music

ABC Radio National (Australia) presents a 2 part documentary on the Sydney and Melb scenes:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2010/2946088.htm

On today at 2PM AEST (3 hours from now) and next Sunday - streaming on the web or podcast as well.

Nice to see that Other Music here in New York finally got some copies of Terrace Industry. Had been on the fence since I probably had 2/3 of it in one form or another, but a physical copy within arms' reach was too much to pass up.

there is now also this, which is a subset of the VoD box:

http://www.ascensionrecords.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=95

So what's left in this barrel to scrape? Is there going to be another in the "Do The Pop" series?

some great new post-punk & underground rock bands out of australia include

UV RACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pePULJR0UDE
BLANK REALM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxVu2WXCXQI
KITCHEN'S FLOOR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1hBHP5qr6A&feature=player_embedded

love kitchen's floor, don't have much if any time for the other two..

So what's left in this barrel to scrape? Is there going to be another in the "Do The Pop" series?

doesn't look like it, but the well is far from empty. for one example, the au go go label catalogue has been barely touched by compilers, amongst others. there's easily another 5 compilations worth of uncompiled stuff out there that wouldn't disappoint fans of the 'tales' or 'can't stop it' comps..

when someone finally gets around to anthologising the mid-late 80s aussie stuff some minds are going to be seriously blown