Tag: punk
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6FT Hick: Notes From The Underground
Click or not: 6FT Hick: Notes From The UndergroundFrom VietNambour to Lorient, 6ft Hick wage an internal war, with external casualties strewn across the rock n roll battlefield of France. Witness the carnage, the carnal, the carnival of commitment and causality HERE …
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Friday Fugazi: Mayhem At The Morrow
Click or not: Friday Fugazi: Mayhem At The MorrowThis is a specially personal FF for me. Watching this epic video shot by an old friend brings back the taste of warm VB, the dry mouth and glorious lack of oxygen from a smoke-filled room, salty sticky bodies sliding against each other, the crush of the throng losing their shit yet at the same… …
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Friday Fugazi: It’s All True
Click or not: Friday Fugazi: It’s All TrueThe awesomeness of Fugazi’s live shows wasn’t just the blistering music, sweat and visual energy emanating from the stage, but there was always guaranteed drama between the band and audience. sometimes it seemed like sections of the crowd were trying to deliberately rile up Ian and Guy, something that usually didn’t end well for the… …
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Art of Punk: Bryan Ray Turcotte
Click or not: Art of Punk: Bryan Ray TurcotteIf you think a few posters and some vinyl entails a punk collection, think again. This guy has the shirts off punk’s very back. …
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Descent Into The Maelstrom
Click or not: Descent Into The MaelstromDiscovering Radio Birdman just that bit too late in the early 80s was both a blessing and a huge disappointment to me. Blessed that Australia’s pre-eminent ‘punk’ band actually existed, disappointed that somehow they had been largely ignored and weren’t even able to be recognised as an underground or alternative band in the same way… …
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Thee Oh Sees (Were) Freakin Mental
Click or not: Thee Oh Sees (Were) Freakin MentalIf the strongest line-up of Thee Oh Sees in full cry at the Pitchfork Festival 2012 doesn’t energise you then you may well be dead. And if you ever wondered where the kid from Deliverance ended up… …
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The Importance Of Bad Brains
Click or not: The Importance Of Bad BrainsWhichever phase of music history is on the table for discussion, there will always be a number of bands or musicians whose names will be thrown into the ring as seminal, hugely influential or outright important. Most will deserve the accolades, many will not. Just as the likes of Hendrix, Bowie, the Stones and Zeppelin… …
