http://blog.woodlandbar.com/

Think Northern Soul, Bomber Jackets, Lambrettas and Fred Perry.


Saturday 24th September
Dolphins (live)
DJ’s
Swede Tooth (Reggae/Dancehall)
9-11pm
Harvey Satan
11pm-3am
Doors 9pm $5

Gold Coasters Dolphins cite The Clash, Echo and the bunnymen, Rocky Erickson as influences. Come check out their unique sounds and turn up early for the heavy heavy DUB sounds of DJ Swede Tooth.

TASTY BRATS DUNE RATS are launching their long awaited second EP 'Social Atoms' @ Woodland this Saturda night with the help of new funk/r+b acolytes Gung Ho and tasteful DJ selections from members of local legends John Steel Singers and up 'n' comers Millions.


ONLY $10 THROUGH OZTIX or $15 on the door.


Tickets are selling fast - don't sleep!








Brisbane duo Dune Rats are preparing to drop their much-awaited second EP ‘Social Atoms’ this month and sending a callout to fans up and down the east coast to help them get the party started on their September launch tour.

Formed in late 2010, the talented duo of Danny Beus (Villians of Wilhelm) and BC Michaels (The Cairos/Comic Sans) has experienced a groundswell of support from critics, bloggers and fans alike.

Yet to blow out the candles on their first birthday cake, Dune Rats! celebrate with a select number of dates in Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Goldcoast, Toowoomba Brisbane and Byron Bay.

It’s been a hectic year, and we’re amazed and stoked at the attention we have been getting. After releasing our debut EP we realised that Dune Rats was going to be more hectic than we originally thought. We threw ourselves into it, got a heap of awesome support slots and blog mentions, and hopefully we can repeat that success with ‘Social Atoms’,” said party-time drummer, BC Michaels.

"Ross de Chene Hurricanes are two punks from Melbourne, who were brought together through a mutual love of Tony Modra and his radical speccies. Justin thumps the jungle drum while Mark’s sound is mostly associated with the guitar and the vocal chords. Together they make raucous garage jams about gals who reject them and guys who are way tougher than them.

The dudelingers have finally recorded some new songs in their garage on the trusty old 8-track cassette machine and will be bringing them to you real soon."

WEDNESDAY 7TH AND THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

BIGSOUND Live is nearly a week away! Here's some essential information so that you can start planning:

>>HOW TO REDEEM YOUR TICKET FOR A WRISTBAND

BIGSOUND Live is a wristbanded event. Wearing a BIGSOUND Live wristband gives you access to all the venues involved (depending on venue capacity). For up to the minute venue and show information check out www.bigsound.org

To obtain your wristband/s please take your paper ticket/s to:

OzTix Shopfront, 692 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley (very close to Bakery Lane)

During the following times:
Wednesday, 7th September - between 4pm - 11pm
Thursday, 8th September – between 4pm – 10pm

Additional tickets can also be purchased on the night unless sold out prior.

BOX OFFICE TICKET PRICE : $60 for both nights; $38 for one night. HERE

Tickets will be sold only by EFTPOS on the day. (Debit Card, Visa and Mastercard)

Please Note:
Venue and performance times are subject to change, so keep your eye on www.bigsound.org for the latest program information.
Due to capacity issues with smaller venues we can not guarantee entry to every venue, so please ensure you arrive early for your favourite artists.
All BIGSOUND Live shows are strictly 18+
Please have your ID available when collecting wristbands
Enquiries: info@qmusic.com.au or 07 3257 0013

>>BIGSOUND LIVE TIMETABLE:
You can create your own schedule and view the online timetable HERE
View on your mobile at bigsound2011.sched.org/mobile
Download a print PDF version HERE.

>>BIGSOUND LIVE MAP
BIGSOUND Live is held over 8 different venues throughout Fortitude Valley.
Download a PDF map HERE.

Friday 9th September
+The Otchkies
+Running Gun Sound
Blank Realm DJ's
Doors 9pm $12+bf

TICKETS HERE

TEENAGE WOLVES PERFORMING THEIR ECCENTRIC STRAIN OF SPAGHETTI WESTERN SWAMP GOTH BLUES AFTER A FOUR MONTH HIATUS.


DJ CHECKERS (THE MAJORS / LEMONAIDS)

FIVE DOLLARS ON THEE DOOR
B-GRADE FILMS ALL NITE LONG

http://timesnewviking.net/


TICKETS HERE


"If you think that indie rock preens too much these days, Times New Viking probably sport bruises and scraped knees, and if you think it was all over for Pavement after "Forklift", TNV's lo-fi skree and bounce will certainly shake your love shack." - Pitchfork
Ohio's noise-pop upstarts Times New Viking are easily one of the best of today's lo-fi revival scene, winning fans from the ground-up and praise galore for beautifully their brash, creative, loud lo-fi indie pop punk.
Their recent album, Dancer Enquired, out now on Popfrenzy records, was recorded with the help of help of Adam Smith and Dustin White and represents all that is Times New Viking: it is loud and brash, with mammoth guitars, all throughout nurturing both beauty and authenticity.
Times New Viking are Adam Elliott, Beth Murphy, and Jared Phillips and theyre touring Australia for the first time this August.

Velociraptor "Drunken Knife Fights Ensue" East Coast Tour

This September, Brisbane 12 piece garage pop revivalists Velociraptor will draw straws for the middle seat of the tour van, and hit the road for an epic lineup of east coast shows.

More vintage street gang than band, Velociraptor are known largely for their inability to contain their onstage antics to the actual stage, and their incredibly catchy garage pop gems they deliver on the back of an orchestra of guitars and gang vocals.

Since the release of their debut 7", highlight tracks Hey Suzanne and Sleep with the Fishes have both received heavy airplay on national radio as did latest single In the Springtime when it made high rotation on Triple J.

Live, the band has played alongside the likes of You Am I, Little Red, Regurgitator, Shout Out Louds, Neon Indian, John Steel Singers, Violent Soho, Die Die Die at some of Queensland's best events, and most recently performed main support on the QLD leg of Ghostwood's national tour.

With a brand new EP in the works, this will be Velociraptor’s one and only tour this year, and your last chance to catch them before festival season begins.

Saturday 3rd September - Velociraptor @ Woodland
$10

Pretty excited about this one!

MOON DUO
plus guests (tbc)


Saturday, 1st October

Presale $20 plus booking fee
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/Default.aspx?event=22596


FACEBOOK EVENT -HERE-

MOON DUO
Formed in San Francisco in 2009 by Wooden Shijps guitarist Ripley Johnson and his partner, Sanae Yamada, Moon Duo’s first two critically acclaimed EPs, Killing Time (2009) and Escape (2010), fused the futuristic pylon hum and transistor reverb of Suicide or Silver Apples with the heat-haze fuzz of American rock ‘n’ roll to create tracks of blistering, 12-cylinder space rock. Now their debut album Mazes, recorded in San Francisco and mixed in Berlin during 2010 as the band prepared to move to the mountains of Colorado, explores a far broader, lighter, sound.

That’s most clear on the dreamy organ and skipping riff of the title track, which recalls the Velvet Underground, or the handclaps and swinging organ bloops over the potent shredding and guttural riff delivered by Johnson in When You Cut: “He is an incredible guitar player,” enthuses Yamada, “He is one of those musicians who has the ability to elicit a guttural, corporeal response in the listener.” Throughout, Mazes is the sound of Moon Duo carving out their own identity, looking to the horizon, and moving forward.

Ripley says that, as a guitarist and songwriter, delineating between Moon Duo and Wooden Shijps “happens naturally. I focus on one project at a time, and the way the two bands operate is very different. And there are certain limitations that Moon Duo is forced to accept, not having a drummer for example, and I really like that. I like the creative challenge of working with limitations. Having done so much home recording cultivates that. Working with one other person is much different from working with four.”


“We wanted to do something in a more ‘rock 'n' roll band’ style, something a bit fuller than our previous recordings.” In terms of recording this meant that Moon Duo “used more tracks on this record, in order to get a denser, layered sound to make this our ‘rock band’ record. I grew up a huge Stones fan, so I've always liked that dense sound, with multiple guitar tracks, percussion, piano, organ - anything you can squeeze into the mix.”

This meant a vastly different recording process to Moon Duo’s first two EPs, which were recorded fast and at home. Mazes was a more drawn-out process, involving proper recording studios for the first time including the trip to Berlin to mix and re-record certain parts and the track ‘Run Around’. “The working title was Die Blumen [the flowers], so going into the mix sessions we kind of felt like it was becoming our ‘Berlin record’, but in the end it retained the stamp of San Francisco and we liked Mazes title better anyway.” And ultimately, Mazes is a definably American record, recorded against the backdrop of the Johnson and Yamada’s move from the Californian coast to the heights of Colorado. “I think a lot of our music has something to do with the mythology of the road,” muses Moon Duo’s Sanae Yamada. And if Mazes is a quest, a journey through American landscape and music, Johnson concludes that its key is “finding one's place in the world; moving forward, and the different paths one takes moving through life, trying to reach various goals, literally moving; love; pain; change. Or just getting by, and making sense of things”.

Wear your finest mod threads for a $50 Box Vintage voucher.

BATRIDER
Piles of Lies Album Launch Tour
Thursday 18 August - WOODLAND - Brisbane QLD
Friday 19 August - Emma Soup - Newcastle NSW *new show
Saturday 20 August - Goodgod Small Club - Sydney NSW
Sunday 21 August - Phoenix - Canberra ACT
Saturday 3 September - Format - Adelaide SA
Friday 9 September - Grand Poohbah - Hobart TAS
(double album launch with The Native Cats)
Saturday 10 September - Skinny Geans - Launceston TAS
Friday 16 September - The Bakery - Perth WA
Friday 30 September - The Tote - Melbourne VIC *change to date
(double album launch with Native Cats)

"Stripped down to the three-piece they were always meant to
be...Batrider crystallises that bipolar emotional pressure that
distinguished them as a band unafraid of expressing the worst parts of
being alive..Piles of Lies gives you a full 16 tracks in all their chaotic,
loose-ended brilliance"
Mess+Noise
"This album is further proof that Batrider has found its place in Adelaide
landscape. You get the feeling that both albums will be remembered as
landmarks in Adelaide grunge/punk"
The Thousands
"As brutal as they are melodic, and as abhorrent as they are beautiful,
Batrider presents wonderfully destructive images, backed by guitars
that will slice at your heart,
then turn around and pummel the fuck out of it"
Drum Media Sydney
Batrider - Piles of Lies is out Friday 15 July 2011 via Two
Bright Lakes / Remote Control

BATRIDER (ALBUM LAUNCH)

w/ special guests

PER PURPOSE

MARTYR PRIVATES

NITE FIELDS

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Thursday 18 August
Woodland Bar
Coniston Lane, Fortitude Valley

8pm / $10

Here, lathering one another with sun tan oil and fish guts are two of the most exciting bands in the world right now, Love Connection and Pets With Pets. 'Home on the Wave' is a collaborative effort, and is nothing short of a psychedelic pop gem; featuring the blurred jewel-like magic of 'Pets with Pets' and Love Connection's uber-psychedelic pop sensibilities to create a little salty oasis of happiness.

Happy Endings, Bats & Woodland present

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Love Connection (Melb)
Tiger Beams
Tiny Migrants

Saturday 13th August
$12 door / $10 with Student I.D.
Doors 9pm

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Email: guestlist@happyhappyending​s.com for $8 guestlist.

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http://www.happyhappyendin​gs.com/
http://www.batsmagazine.co​m/
http://www.woodlandbar.com​/




As the harsh winter is drawing to an end and the restless youth of Brisbane are stirring from hibernation in search of casual sex, and surplus alcohol to replenish their weakened bodies, Happy Endings is there to nurse them back to health. Starting in August, Happy Endings will be hosting a monthly party at Woodland Bar to celebrate the changing of the seasons by showcasing the best local and interstate bands the country has to offer. The first of the series kicks off on August 13 with a Jungle-themed soiree/fundraiser for Melbourne outfit Love Connection who will be showcasing at CMJ in New York in November and supported by local favourites Tiny Migrants and Tiger Beams. September will be huge with garage pop revivalists Velociraptor launching their ‘Drunken Knife Fights Ensue’ east coast tour supported by the all-girl rock quintet, the Madisons and Gold Coast garage rockers Dolphins on September 3rd, followed by another huge night on the 24th which sees Sydneysiders Megastick Fanfare and local experimental poppers Oh Ye Denver Birds come together for a huge double header. With cheap entry, rotating themes, and drink specials put these dates in your diary. Happy Endings all round!

Love Connection (Melb)
Tiger Beams
Tiny Migrants

$12 door / $10 with Student I.D.
Doors 9pm

SPLINTERS IN MY ARSE-PUNKY REGGAE PaRTY



Saturday, July 30 at 9:00pm-3am+
Music selections from Swede Tooth, Earl Grey, Tubes for Breakfast, D Black, Tim Rix and special guest
ROSS CRIGHTON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi​ki/The_Raincoats

Rasta/Punk movies on the big screen.

only $5

Popfrenzy & Happy Endings presents
TIMES NEW VIKING

Saturday 27th August - Woodland, Brisbane

Times New Viking movie from POPFRENZY HQ on Vimeo.

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"If you think that indie rock preens too much these days, Times New Viking probably sport bruises and scraped knees, and if you think it was all over for Pavement after "Forklift", TNV's lo-fi skree and bounce will certainly shake your love shack." - Pitchfork
Ohio's noise-pop upstarts Times New Viking are easily one of the best of today's lo-fi revival scene, winning fans from the ground-up and praise galore for beautifully their brash, creative, loud lo-fi indie pop punk.
Their recent album, Dancer Enquired, out now on Popfrenzy records, was recorded with the help of help of Adam Smith and Dustin White and represents all that is Times New Viking: it is loud and brash, with mammoth guitars, all throughout nurturing both beauty and authenticity.
Times New Viking are Adam Elliott, Beth Murphy, and Jared Phillips and theyre touring Australia for the first time this August.

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More pic's from Barry HERE

:-)

With the release of their second full length album Loaded Gun, Brisbane rockers Black Mustang are gearing up for a rockin’ Australian tour, kicking off with an album launch at Woodland Bar in Brisbane’s music hub Fortitude Valley on July 23.

Loaded Gun, due for release on July 15 on Plus One Records through Shock, is the epitome of a classic Aussie rock record. With the new single “Ain’t Going Down” at radio “Loaded Gun” is
set to encapsulate a more diverse sound while still providing the indie garage rock anthems & dynamic live show through which Black Mustang

A string of tour dates will see Black Mustang traverse the East Coast, adding more tour dates as the months progress. The band is excited to be kicking off the tour with their Brisbane date, starting in traditional style with a hectic night of rock and roll.

Joining them for the Brisbane leg of the album launch will be Byron Bay favourites “The Black Stars”, who
will be also be doing a run of shows with Black Mustang on a tour up and down the East Coast, taking in
Lenox Heads, Lismore, Maitland, Sydney, Melbourne & many more to be confirmed.

Black Mustang don’t need an introduction to rock audiences, they’ve already earned their stripes and
acclaim in the Oz rock genre. Having burst onto the Brisbane live scene in 2004, Black Mustang have
played and toured relentlessly covering all corners of Australia while earning a
reputation as Brisbane’s own garage rock stalwarts. Developing their dynamic live
show they released their debut self-titled 6-track EP “Black Mustang” in 2007 and
quickly followed up with their debut full length album “Between the Devil and the
Deep Blue Sea” in 2008.

Black Mustang went on to open shows for critically acclaimed Australian acts like
The Angels, Lime Spiders, The Stems, Six Ft Hick, Tame Impala, British India, 67
Special and The Celibate Rifles. With a line-up change early 2010, a rejuvenated
Black Mustang having acquired a new guitarist commenced writing the follow up
to “between the devil and the deep blue sea”, as well as joining “The Angels” again
for a run of shows in North Queensland.

Saturday 23rd July

First 100 through the door get an exclusive free copy of Loaded Gun album

Popfrenzy & Happy Endings present

Ty Segall (USA)
Tiny Migrants
Martyr Privates

Thursday 7th July
Woodland, Brisbane
18+



Popfrenzy and Happy Endings are extremely excited to announce the release of the new album ‘Goodbye Bread’ by San Francisco’s TY SEGALL on June 24, 2011 PLUS his debut tour of Australia this July!

For the last six years, Ty has made a name for himself cranking out the kind of rowdy ear-splitting, lo-fi garage punk rock that makes the White Stripes sound like something you’d buy for Grandma. At just 23 years old, the prolific wunderkind has already made nine albums including four solo albums since 2008 and three with former band The Epsilons. Plus he’s released with fellow San Fran neo-psych garage mainstays and tour mates Thee Oh Sees and still finds time to be a sometime member of Sic Alps.

With support from
Tiny Migrants- http://www.myspace.com/tinymigrants
Martyr Privates- http://soundcloud.com/martyr-privates

Doors 8pm

BUY TICKETS HERE

Laser Archipelago | Secret Birds from syncingboat on Vimeo.

FIRST/LAST(?) SECRET BIRDS SHOW OF 2011

Doors from 9.

9:45 Martyr Privates

10:30 The Fears

11:15 Secret Birds

Projections by Syncingboat.


"(Secret Birds) fondness for slo-mo psych remains, in all its distorting effects and endless layers, but here Black introduces drum loops that can nod to Suicide. In place of the scope achieved with collaborators, he turns to bleary explorations that move at a crawl and yet have a lot going on. Layers are ever slowing down, speeding up, and shifting."

- Cyclic Defrost

ALSO WITH

THE FEARS

"Falling under the influence of sixties girl group sounds and classic bands
like Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, 13th Floor Elevators and The Jesus and Mary Chain, Feathers create multit-layered hazy harmonies with simple yet structured magic melodies. They'll take you on a cosmic trip with their dark undertone of fuzzed out surf sounds."

AND THE DEBUT OF

MARTYR PRIVATES

Featuring Cam (Slug Guts), Ash (Good God) and Sam (Secret Birds)

$6 OR $12 WITH THE TAPE (which comes with a digital download and looks real cool).

Also cheap tees for sale.

Thank god the Bris City Goths have got somewhere to hang again now that King George Square is finally finished being made anew. I felt so bad watching all twenty of them squeezed onto a desolate staircase where no one could even see them for six months. It’s only fair that we should provide further compensation by throwing a juicy dance party in their dishonour, so thank satan that Magic Mountain’s got this covered tonight. “Goth Juice made from the tears of Robert Smith”. Dress code: Black (duh). – by BRETT ARCHIBALD BEVEGE http://thethousands.com.au

$5 entry
Doors 9pm
Goth till midnight-Magic Mountain indie club till 3am+

"Didn't think we'd let our 200th Birthday slip by did you?
PLUS how great are the fan-dangle new sites?

BRISBANE, it's time we had a DANCE OFF.

Here are the details for our mega dance party:
Fri July 8, 7.30pm pre-drinks for contestants only.
Theme: web 2.00
Dress: 'The Internet' (Our editor bags coming as Rick Astley, but you can come as a LOL-cat or Antoine Dodson)
DJs: thanks to Rio Lobotomy, D.Black and Polar Bear you won't be able to stop till you drop

As for the Dance Off - competitors get special treatment...
HOW TO ENTER: To register to be a contestant in the 'dance-off' competition please email rach@rightanglestudio.com.au with your name, contact and specify if you are entering as solo or in a couple. As a registered contestant you'll be invited to a pre-drinks warm-up party. The prize?: The last dancer/couple standing will receive a MEGA PRIZE plus fame and glory. Registrations close July 4.

MAGIC MOUNTAIN as usual after Dance Off Party concludes"

-FOURTHOUSAND

Saturday 9th July
"FLAVOURS OF SKUZZ" at WOODLAND. It will be running from 4pm - 3am, 11 hours of non stop garage rock awesomeness!
Tickets HERE

HOSS (Melb) (ex GOD)
HITS
THE VEE BEES (Woolongong)
THE BOONDALL BOYS (ex ONYAS)
DICK NASTY
SLUG GUTS
BLANK REALM
VELOCIRAPTOR
STRAIGHT ARROWS (Syd)
MEATBEATERS (Adelaide)
JONNY ROMEO (Griffith)
NEW JACK RUBYS
BRAT FARRAR (melb)
UNDEAD APES
LOBSTER PROPHET
PASTEL BLAZE
THE ROYAL FAMILY
THE CHOKES
KEEP ON DANCIN'S
MAIN STREET BRATS
THE NARWHALS
GRAVEL SAMWIDGE
FEATHERS
THE GOOCH PALMS

DJ Wolvie Trash

Secret Birds Concert – Part I from Paul W. Rankin on Vimeo.

Above:
Secret Birds live performance for the annual I Used To Skate Once show at The Zoo in Brisbane, Australia. For this show they brought in five drummers to play simultaneously, and asked if I'd cover the show.
Secret Birds perform long, heavily instrumental pieces. The film covers the two pieces performed, one in each part. This first piece, which is in two halves, goes for about 17 minutes. The entire performance is covered in one shot.
myspace.com/​secretbirds

Saturday 2nd July
-Secret Birds (Cassette Launch)
-The Fears
-Martyr Privates Doors
9pm $6/$12 with tape

San Francisco psych wunderkind Ty Segall continues a tireless musical assault on ears and minds and is touring Australia for the first time this July.
On the heels of two critically acclaimed solo albums, Segall holed up in a basement studio with Mike Donovan of the SicAlps in late 2009 and early 2010 to come up with his latest record Melted. It's a carefree yet precise balance of acoustic and electric elements. Distorted echo and thunder mix together with enough clean guitar lines and addictive choruses to deliver an album that recalls the '60s without sounding like anything created during that decade. Time melts away, vision melts away, minds melt away. Get Melted!
"Ty Segall's short, sharp songs peal out of the garage without raising the doors, sending 1960s rock riffs crashing through splintered, smart-ass lo-fi buzz." - Pitchfork

Tickets HERE

MAGIC MOUNTAIN GOES GOTH. ONE NITE ONLY.


Crack out your bolo ties, trenchcoats and floppy black hats as DJ Migs and friends spin dark classics from The Cure to The Knife and everything in between.

PLEASE WEAR BLACK!!!!

$5 entry.

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

FLAVOURS OF SKUZZ MOVES VENUES, CHANGES TIMES/BANDS SLIGHTLY


Flavours of Skuzz, the finest collection of nogoodniks, drop outs, glue sniffers and gentlemen sailors ever assembled in the history of Queensland has had to MOVE VENUES.

Due to a cliched but nonetheless accurate 'set of unforseen circumstances', the event could no longer go ahead as planned at the Jubilee Hotel. Instead it will now be taking place in the convivial surrounds of Woodland Bar in Coniston Lane, Fortitude Valley. An extra room has been made available so that all three stages can go ahead as planned, with only minor changes to the line up. The event will now be running from 4pm on Saturday the 9th of July until 3am the following morning - that's eleven hours of hectic garage rock madness.

The organizers would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the bands who are no longer performing at the event and to anyone else who has been inconvenienced by this change of plans - we will make it up to you somehow! However, we are super excited about the new venue and we're pretty sure FLAVOURS OF SKUZZ is going to go off like the proverbial fart in bottle/frog in sock/Cumbian taxi driver.

The final line up is: Hoss (VIC, ex GOD), HITS, The Vee Bees (NSW), The Boondall Boys (ex Onyas), Dick Nasty, Slug Guts, Blank Realm, Velociraptor, Straight Arrows (NSW), The Meatbeaters (SA), Jonny Romeo (NSW), Brat Farrar (VIC), Undead Apes, Feathers, Lobster Prophet, Pastel Blaze, The Royal Family, Keep On Dancin's, The Busymen, The Gooch Palms (NSW), The Chokes, Main Street Brats, The Narwhals and Gravel Samwidge. DJ Wolvie Trash will also be spinning skuzzy nuggets between bands.

However numbers are now somewhat limited and tickets are sure to sell out fast so to ensure your place head to www.oztix.com.au now!

***MESSAGE ENDS***

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Local photographer Dan Mccabe has been taking some great shots in the club as of late.
Check them out and bookmark it:

HERE
HERE
HERE

FRIDAY 13TH MAY
No Anchor Album Launch for the Dble LP 'Real Pain Supernova'

No Anchor will be launching their third album 'Real Pain Supernova' A Double LP of good vibes and bad trips!

Coming along for the ride will be:

Undead Apes
http://undeadapes.blogspot.com/

Dreamtime.
http://dreamtime.bandcamp.com/

$12 to get in and nothing more for a good time!

Before then though, you'll be able to go and pre-order the new No Anchor album from www.noanchorband.com

SATURDAY 14TH MAY
Re:Enactment 'Sport' Album Launch!


It's finally here! Sure, it's taken a while. But you know we've been good for it. It might feel like your nemesis from school giving you your tuckshop money back at the 10 year reunion. But this is more like...well that, a heartfelt apology for the delay, and a sultry glare of conviction that this album is the fucking shiz.

It's been mixed by Magoo (Regurgitator, Art vs Science) and Burke Reid (The Drones, Gerling). And it features guest appearances by Jay Whalley (Frenzal Rhomb) James T Laneous (Laneous and The Family Yah) and Shem Allen (Skinny Jean) and Jemma Hicks.

'Sport' is our debut album. We want you to have it first. You are our family. You can't choose your family but you can choose to be very excited about seeing Sydney's incredible 'No Art' return to Brisbane. Playing as well, The Rational Academy, whom after having already released an ocean of quality records are absolutely peaking with some the best new songs we've heard this year.

Then there's Lofly's finest - Toy Balloon DJ's, if you've ever been to a Hangar where Coops is on duty and you've wondered why it's all of a sudden sunrise and you still don't want to leave chances are it's his fault. All time, good time, times!

We're all going to be there and we want all of you to be there. This show is going to be the fucking tops! bam.

In Stereo, the 2nd full length from Australian two piece The Blackwater Fever. Recorded at Brisbane’s newly established Borough Studios. Co-produced with artist Skritch (Mary Trembles, Beast Of Bourbon, Tex Perkins’ Dark Horses)

In Stereo is a blend of rock n’ roll, blues and soul. Written with honesty, performed with intensity and vigor. Ignoring all cool kid trends and hipster sounds. The Blackwater Fever have produced a potent 2nd album.

“SWEET MISERY IS THAT RAREST OF THINGS: A TOUGH, PASSIONATE GARAGE BLUES ALBUM THAT IS SATISFYING FROM BEGINNING TO END EVEN AFTER THE UMPTEENTH LISTEN.” – Tsunami Mag
Their dark debut ‘Sweet Misery’ received continuous praise from the Australian music press. There was airplay and interviews on JJJ, RRR, FBI, RTR, ABC and 4ZZZ. It was a feature album on PBS radio and made waves across to US college radio. HBO featured tracks, reaching over 38 million US viewers, used for their summer Cinemax campaign … and oh yeah it was voted best Australian release on Polish radio 2009! It is released in Australia, Europe and Japan.

“REFRESHINGLY BLEAK, MYSTERIOUSLY ACCOMPLISHED AND COMFORTABLY CONFIDENT” – MAG (JB HI-FI)
A harrowing growl, a tortured electric guitar and the rhythmic stomp of an unrelenting drum kit. If you close your eyes you can almost smell the swamp and feel the moonlight on your face. It’s hard to believe such an atmospheric, blues-heavy sound comes from just two guys. Breaking your heart one minute only to pick you up with an irresistible rocker the next, this Australian duo are a live experience not to be missed.

“DARK RIVER OF VITRIOLIC ROCK’N’ROLL” – Time Off
TBWF have shared the stage with internationalists The Black Keys, Jon Spencer, Datsuns, Black Diamond Heavies & Bob Log III plus shows and tours with home grown acts Birds Of Tokyo, Calling All Cars, Tame Impala, Mia Dyson, The Mess Hall, The Vasco Era, The Kill Devil Hills, Yves Klein Blue, Youth Group and The Fumes to strong music press reviews.
With their hands well and truly dirty laying the foundations of a 3rd album already. TBWF seem hell bent on making their mark on the Australian and international music scene.
In Stereo in stores late March 2011 through Plus One Records

Blackwater Fever play Woodland Friday 6th May

Aa - ‘glow wreath’
(radio edit) revealed
Ahead of their first ever Australian tour, Aa offer the most excellent, ‘Glow Wreath’, clipped by Aa exclusively for Australian airwaves!
Here’s a link to download the track now:
http://sensoryprojects.com.au/audio/Aa_Glow_Wreath_Radio_Edit.mp3

Aa bio:

Brooklyn’s Aa (say 'Big A little a') have been honing their unique blend of intensely stylized DIY maximalism in the lofts and clubs of New York since 2002. The component parts - multiple drum sets, a tangle of synthesizers and samplers, dudes shouting - are simple enough, yet the experience is an utterly unique and giddily engaging gasp of fresh air; a densely imagined, obsessively structured, hyperactive shoplifting spree through the polyrhythmic post-post-punk digital landscape. Earth-shakingly organic beats, squawking, alien samples and group chant-hooks crash headfirst into blissed-out electronic rave-ups - everybody moves, everybody sweats.

"Not just noise, not just drums, but something that reaches ecstatic, bombastic heights." Pitchfork

"An art-punk party-starting re-invention of the hippie drum circle." Village Voice

"Passionately clamorous local experimenters." New York Times


To co-incide with the release of ‘mAate’, Aa are in Australia for the first time ever in late April, for a run of amazing shows:
Radical Awesome Tours present Aa:

Thursday 28th April
FORMAT (SA) - 15 Peel Street, Adelaide
More info and tix available at: http://format.net.au/

Friday 29th April
THE WORKERS CLUB (VIC) - Cnr. Brunswick and Gertrude Streets, Fitzroy
More info and tix available at: http://theworkersclub.com.au/

Saturday 30th April
SUGAR MOUNTAIN @ THE FORUM (VIC) - 154 Flinders Street, Melbourne
w/ Young Magic, YellowFever, Virgo, Otouto, Oscar & Martin, Collarbones, No Zu, Qua + more TBA
More info and tix available at: http://www.sugarmountainfestival.com/
Thursday 5th May
WOODLAND (QLD) - Coniston Lane, Fortitude Valley More info and tix available at: http://woodlandbar.com/
Friday 6th May
RED RATTLER (NSW) - 6 Faversham Street, Marrickville More info and tix available at: http://www.redrattler.org/

Slug Guts have just came back from SXSW and are launching their new LP on Friday. Special guests EAT SKULL (USA) are on the bill too.
Tickets online HERE or OZTIX outlets and THE OUTPOST!!

Percussion-heavy art-punk/experimental electronic Brooklynites Aa (usually pronounced "big A, little a") are making their Australian debut on a tour with Melbourne's brilliant tribal-psych youngsters Rat vs Possum. One that pulls into Woodland on Thursday May 5!

Already given Thurston Moore's seal of approval ("they club out bite-sized hunks of neo-no, new-wave-electro-murk, disco-noise readymades, French duck calls and a buncha other stuff. And it sounds quite pleasing!") Aa have new record - mAate - out on Australian label Sensory Projects (a compilation of 2009's gAame album plus the Glossy 12" and unreleased tracks), and it's a slice of polyrhythmic post-post-punk digital heaven. They are, quite frankly, no kidding guys ... amazing.


Rat vs Possum - also playing this weekend at the Ric's Big Backyard Festival (although we all know you'll be at Woodland for The Belligerents, natch) - have been going from strength to strength since last year's Daughter Of Sunshine release, introducing audiences across the country to their sunny psych-pop tribalism, likened to a Brooklyn loft party taking place in a zoo. They're taking time out from recording a new album for this tour, so make sure you come check out their brand new sounds.


Doors at the early time of 8pm for this one, with ticket details TBC. Add it to your Google calendar now!

Portland scuzz-pop act Eat Skull are joining forces with Brisbane swamp-rock overlords Slug Guts for a night of contorted electric insanity at Woodland on Friday April 8.

Known for their lo-fi classics Sick To Death and Wild And Inside, and a handful of super-sharp (and rare) 7-inches, Eat Skull combine Flying Nun-style art-pop with feedback, grit and punk attitude. Hooks galore, provided your ears can withstand the onslaught. They are, if we can allow ourselves a moment of real honesty here, completely unmissable.

Slug Guts need no introduction, having been regulars on the Woodland stage. Except of course this time they're playing off the back of a triumphant US tour, where they were seen partying with Tyler The Creator at SXSW (no shit). Plus they have an album out - Howlin' Gang - on amazing New York label Sacred Bones. And with song titles like Spring Hill Lair, you know this is the best thing to wash up on Brisbane's riverbanks since long before the floods. It's loud, it's mean and it's dirty. As Secret Birds man D.Black says, "those guys are animals".

Tickets are $15+bf pre-sale or $18 on the door. The night starts at 8.30pm. Be early!