S W E A T L U N G

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam First Show Of 2009 / Occult Blood & Ivens East Coast Australia Tour October 2009.

2009-10-06T08:04:00.000-07:00

The second half of 2009 sees some exciting movements. Returning to Australia after 4 months travel means some noise will again spill from the gullets of both Collapsed Toilet Vietnam and Occult Blood!

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam last performed at the Sweatlung / Sabbatical / Stutter Xmas party in December 2008 almost a year later we have managed to assemble all members in the same city for long enough to play a show.

We are enthralled to announce the event to be staged at Loophole on High Street in Thornbury with the mystical & beautiful ladies of Downtown (also playing their first show in over a year), Kusum vs. Sean Baxter, Ivens (first show after returning from his Japan tour) and Bunyip Moon.

Swiftly following up the Collapsed Toilet Vietnam show will be the return of Occult Blood with dates in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane along side Ivens.

Occult Blood will be touring with fresh additions to the line-up, for these shows Aaron of Pure Evil Trio / Masstrauma etc will be taking up blasting responsibilities and Lloyd (Happy Go Hate Fuck etc) will be dragging corpses and blowing on pipes. Lloyd recorded with Occult Blood in May for an upcoming 7" release on a UK label.

The dates for the Occult Blood tour are as follows:
Wednesday 21st of October at The Old Bar, Melbourne:
Occult Blood
Ivens
Gold Tango
+ one more...

Friday 23rd of October at Dirty Shirlow's, Sydney:
Occult Blood
Ivens
Defektro
Crux
Grimm Tongue

Saturday 24th of October at the Step Inn Boozer Bar, Brisbane:
Occult Blood
Ivens
White Cop
Panel Van Halen
Secret Bird
and Slug Guts DJs

Come out an check out these great shows. New t-shirts will be available in limited quantities.

More news soon on upcoming Sweatlung Releases and photos from the last 4 months travel.

www.sweatlung.com website and webstore.

2009-08-06T13:30:00.000-07:00

The SWEATLUNG website / webstore has been open for a couple of months now and has been working pretty well despite me being on the other side of the world thanks to my sister's handling of the stock while I am away.

Check out the best place to purchase Sweatlung label release and 60+ other items. Over the next year I hope to see the webstore grow with new Sweatlung releases and more.

Some trade are welcome, just email info@sweatlung.com with what you like to trade and we can take it from there.

October will see the first Collapsed Toilet Vietnam show(s?) of 2009 in Melbourne with the awesome Downtown and also an East Coast Australia tour of Occult Blood and Ivens.

There should be a couple more Sweatlung releases coming together before the end of the year also, in the meantime take in the website.

Skulls.

2009-02-19T19:43:00.000-08:00

This was take a while back when I still worked at the record store. Dan (Occult Blood) and his son Oscar.

Highlights of the CONQUEST FOR DEATH.

2008-12-21T20:39:00.001-08:00

So, I guess it's taken me a while to get around to throwing up some shots from the Conquest For Death and Cut Sick tour but here goes, not much live stuff more just hangtime:

Craigums and Kiku at the Worlds End in Adelaide. Sick guitar move.

More wacky guitar antics.

Shep (Los Diablos / Unit 11:74 etc.) and Devon rubbing toilet regions.

Greg (Spiral Objective) and Karoline play catch-up.

Getting in the submarine at Holbrook.

Time to submerge, shame Holbrook is totally landlocked by a few hundred kilometres in every direction otherwise we could have send these goofballs to chill with Captain Nemo.

Ok. So Steve (Cut Sick) tried to earn some extra tour cash by driving naked from Canberra to Sydney in the middle of the night. Kinda turned out to be a bad idea but that's a long story.

White Male Dumbinance playing a killer set in Newcastle.

More White Male Dumbinance.

Rob from Cut Sick (also Useless Children and Occult Blood) treats Valla Beach like a toilet wall.

Craigums, awesome with an air guitar, not so accurate with a safety razor.

Moustaches and aviators.

Mad chillin at the Slaughterhaus in Brisbane.

More mad chillin at the Slaughterhaus.

Dave considered wearing the "heavy leather" he found laying around the Slaughterhaus kitchen to the show but chickened out.

I am not sure what is going on here but it could get goofy.

Yes, GOOFY.

Dave. Chillin hard.

Check out more photos of Conquest For Death and thier antics HERE.

CLOCKCLEANER

2008-12-21T19:37:00.000-08:00

So this loud obnoxious American guy John Sharkey III has been lurking around Melbourne for a few months now. Recently his band Clockcleaner played a bunch of shows around Australia. Here is a couple of pictures from the show at the Birmingham with Straightjacket Nation and Collapsed Toilet Vietnam.

They pretty much look like retards.

SWEATLUNG SUMMARY OF RELEASES, RELATED RELEASES AND INFORMATION OVERLOAD.

2008-11-22T20:28:00.000-08:00

OK. So It's come time to post an update that lists all the Sweatlung releases to date and let you know what is coming soon or in the works for 2009. Here we go:

RELEASES on COMPACT DISC:

TRUE RADICAL MIRACLE
TASTE THE RAINBOW + HEAD GAP SESSION
[sweatlung015]

Tracklist:
1. True Radical Miracle
2. Taste the Rainbow
3. Socks for Christmas
4. Debt Me
5. One Day an Organ Will Give Way
6. Pink Slip
7. Break on Through
8. 30 Years of Consistant Failure is an Impressive Achievement
9. Killing Arts Jive
10. Divorce '87
11.Shuffle Out
12. Unit 10 / 37
13. ... and at 9am I am Invincible
14. A Better Tomorrow
15. Divorce '87

Notes: Track 1-10 originally released on cassette by F'ken Stoner. Recorded May 2004. Tracks 11-15 previously unreleased, recorded live at Head Gap Studios in June 2006.

True Radical Miracle is:
Mark Groves
Scott O'hara
Leith Thomas
Evelyn Morris

PIG HEART TRANSPLANT
HOPE YOU ENJOY HEAVEN
[sweatlung011]Tracklist:
1. Prison / Fortress
2. Conquering the Flesh
3. I Video Tape Your Diet
4. Feeding From Your Trough / Population
5. Abject.Debased.Diseased
6. Crawling Through Hell

Pig Heart Transplant on this recording is:
August Alston / vocals
Sanders Creasy / electronics / guitar / roland
Chris Dodge / sounds
Dustin Ferris / drums / electronics
Jon Kortland / bass / electronics / guitar / vocals
Mike Priehs / sounds
Jensen Ward / drums
Greg Wilkinson / bass / electronics / vocals

RAHDUNES
RAHDUNES
[sweatlung010]Tracklist:
1. Head of Clouds
2. Meeting You is Like Sucking Gods Cock
3. Crystal Swords
4. Rivers in Egypt Set Sail
5. Deep Mystery
6. Basilisk

Note: Vinyl version of this released on Emperor Jones.

Rahdunes is:
Nate Archer
Aaron Coyes
Indra Dunas (drums on Rivers In Egypt Set Sail)

MAGNETICS
WE ARE THE MOUNTAINS, WE ARE THE FIELDS
[sweatlung009]Tracklist:
1. Charcoal
2. Pale
3. Silver
4. Red

Note: Tracks 3-4 originally available on self released demo cdr.

Magnetics is:
Ben Andrews - guitars, processing, feedback
Sarah Heyward - vocals, percussion, drums
Jarrod Zlatic - saxaphone on pale

BLARKE BAYER / BONE SHERIFF
SPLIT
[sweatlung008]Tracklist:
1. The Accident (Blarke Bayer)
2. Shout Collapse (Bone Sheriff)

Blarke Bayer is Benjamin W. Andrews
Bone Sheriff is Robert Mayson & Simon Taylor

JUSTICE YELDHAM
CICATRIX
[sweatlung007]Tracklist:
Part One: BJB Studios 211206
1. Colour Me Your Colour
2. I Just Can't Stand Wangdangers
3. Biscuit Basket
4. Knobranaut

Part Two: Digital Soundchecks
5. Daniel's Bedroom 201005
6. Warsaw Soundcheck 151005
7. Bologna Soundcheck 031105

Part Three: Live
8. 038 Zwolle 090104
9. 266 Chippendale 140706
10. 267 Chippendale 220706
11. 168 Toronto 260305

Bonus File: The Video Youtube Rejected
219 Bologna 031105 - Rejected (contents inappropriate)

Justice Yeldham is Lucas Abela

CHRIS SMITH JUSTIN FULLER
CHRIS SMITH JUSTIN FULLER
[sweatlung006]Tracklist:
1. In Cars That Ate Paris
2. Condition
3. Mercy Hospital
4. Nightlinework
5. False Field
6. Jackets
7. Arrive

Chris Smith
Justin Fuller

Greg Wadley - Chief Engineer
Jon Michell - Additional Engineer, track 5
Louise Conroy - piano accordian on track 6
Marney MacLeod - additional guitar on track 7

MALAKAT
COLLECTED TRACKS / COLLAGE (w. YELLOW SWANS & GREY DATURAS)
[sweatlung005]Malakat is:
Edryan Hakim
Simon Taylor

Collected Tracks features:
Absoluten Calfeutrail (track 2)
Vive R. (mixing assistance track 11)

Malakat / Grey Daturas / Yellow Swans Collage features:
Robert Mayson (GD)
Bonnie Mercer (GD)
Robert McManus (GD)
Pete Swanson (YS)
Gabriel Mindel Saloman (YS)

IAN WADLEY
THREE UNEASY PIECES
[sweatlung004]Tracklist:
1. Hopeful Doubtful
2. Snowed Under Glass
3. Forgotten You

Ian Wadley - guitar, fx pedals.

WHITEHORSE
LIVE AT SINKAGURA, OSAKA 29.06.2005
[sweatlung003]Tracklist:
-
-
Note: 2 untitled songs no track marks. Times listed on cover are the start times of each track on the cd.

Whitehorse on this recording was:
Peter Hyde
Mark Groves
Simon Taylor
Emile Askey
Brent Stegman
Bob Nekrasov

WHITEHORSE
CAVERNS
[sweatlung002]
OUT OF PRINTTracklist:
1. Caverns

Whitehorse on this recording was:
Bob Nekrasov - guitar
Brent Stegman - guitar
Emile Askey - drums
Mark Groves - rumblings
Peter Hyde - vocals
Simon Taylor - bass

WHITEHORSE
WEST OF THE SUN / OCEANS TURN TO BLACK
[sweatlung001]
OUT OF PRINT

Tracklist:
1. West of the Sun
2. Oceans Turn to Black

Whitehorse on this recording:
Mark Groves
Brent Stegman
Emile Askey
Peter Hyde
Dase Beard

Guests:
Ben Andrews
Max Kohane

RELEASES on CASSETTE:

COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM / PISSBOLT
SPLIT
[sweatlung016 / brokemerecords004]Tracklist:
Side Number Ones (Pissbolt)
1. Blue Mazda
2. Body Parts in Butcher Paper
3. Venomatic
4. Sack of Scorpions
5. 12 Gauge Tommy Knocker
6. Pissbolt
7. Razorback Attack
8. Warts and Balls

Side Number Twos (Collapsed Toilet Vietnam)
1. Severe Discharge
2. Fucknut
3. Buttwipe
4. Ballsweat
5. Haemorrhoid
6. Drenched in Stench

Note: Limited to 200 (100 yellow 100 brown)

Pissbolt is:
J. Bolt
S. Bolt
R. Bolt

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam is:
ST
PH
RM
MG

PATHETIC HUMAN / COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM
SPLIT
[sweatlung020 / magiccrowbar006]

Tracklist:
Pathetic Human side.
1. Satan's Clinic
2. Tabuli Badass (where's my pistachios)
3. Drowning in Mercury

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam side.
1. Choking
2. Vomiting
3. Spitting
4. Wheasing
5. Breathing

Pathetic Human is:
Bryce - drums
Joel - bass and backing vocals
Shaun - sax & synth
Tom - vocals and noises
Liam - guitar and noises

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam is:
MxRx
RxBxRx
PxTxR
SxMxN

UPCOMING RELEASES (upcoming releases scheduled):

RIVERVERB
FULL SWAY CD
[sweatlung012]Tracklist:
1. Dreamstate Messageborg
2. Riverbirth 010107
3. Womyke Tripuddle
4. Burnt Rubber
5. Into Me See
6. Pearl Hurler
7. Beat Baste
8. Checest

RIVERVERB is:
FRANK MELENDEZ / drums, electric cannon, analog synth, space drum, pedals, oscillators, recording/mixing, viking mountaintop throat offerings.

WYATT FRYE performed vocals on "dreamstate messageborg" and performed vocal manipulations live for most of 2007-2008 RIVERVERB performances.

GARDE performed space guitar (left speaker) and vocals on "chelest"

ABSOLUTEN CALFEUTRAIL
OVENS CD
[sweatlung013]
Absoluten Calfeutrail is Mark Groves

UPCOMING RELEASES (details to be confirmed):

PULSE EMITTER
GUGG
FREE CHIOCE DUO
COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM
OCCULT BLOOD
More to be announced...

RELATED RELEASES:
TEST SUBJECT:

731
RAW-GRIND-VIOLENCE CD
[testsubject001]
OUT OF PRINTTracklist:
1. A Most Deafening Silence
2. Bodycount Rising
3. Record Collector Dissector
4. Empire of Bone
5. Manufactured Lives
6. Increasing Pressure
7. 731 (so loves the world)

731 was:
Extraordinary G - grinding implement
Grind Fed Bathory Hen - vokill attak
I Quit - machine gun blasts
Vegan Straight Edge - subsonic weapon operations

Download this release free from: http://www.getonthehorse.com/731-Demo.zip

GUANTANAMO BAY CITY ROLLERS
ALCOHOLOCAUST CD
[testsubject002]Tracklist:
1. Spin Cycle
2. Mixed Opinion
3. Kunt
4. Krafter
5. Smoke Weed, Drink Beer
6. Glut
7. God Biscuit
8. Russell Crowebar
9. I Want to be Anthony Callea
10. In One Ear...
11. Night of the Creeping Jesus
12. Alcoholocaust
13. Fat Manager Massacre
14. Joke of Life

Guantanamo Bay City Rollers is:
Chappy - vocals
Cheesy - guitar
Gardy - bass
Mikey - guitar
Jonny - drums
Taylor - bass 05-07 and on this recording.

WORMS OF THE EARTH / THE SURROGATE
SPLIT CD
[testsubject004]Tracklist:
Worms of the Earth
1. The Lull / Anew
2. Clouds / Sand
3. Light / The Quell

The Surrogate
4. The Collapse
5. The Void
6. The Endless

Worms of the Earth is:
Cameron Chambers - guitar
Corey Delley - guitar
Dase Beard - bass guitar / noises
Luke Ashby - drums
Rob Allen - vocals

The Surrogate was:
Shaun Bourke - lead guitar
Joel Keenan - rhythm guitar / vocals
Nick Greenfield - bass
Lochlan Watt - drums / vocals

COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM (self released):

COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM
CISTERN EXISTENCE CASSETTE
[ctv001]
OUT OF PRINTTracklist:
1. Feverish Explosions
2. Blisters
3. Erruption
4. Opening the Back
5. Lingering
6. Scratching Scabs
7. Making Weight
8. Cistern Existence
9. Emptied Out

OCCULT BLOOD (self released):

OCCULT BLOOD
PARASITIC PARADISE CDr
[F.O.B.T.001]Tracklist:
1. Parasitic Paradise

OCCULT BLOOD
RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES CDr
[F.O.B.T.002]

Tracklist:
1. Right Between The Eyes

All available releases can be purchased from getonthehorse at hotmail dot com...
Please contact this this email for any information including wholesale purchases.

More information soon.

True Radical Miracle "Taste The Rainbow + Head Gap Sessions" CD NOW AVAILABLE!

2008-10-23T19:19:00.000-07:00

JUST AN UPDATE THAT THIS IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE $12 Australian post paid in Australia or $12US post paid the world. Please email for wholesale prices. getonthehorse at hotmail dot com PARTY!

OK! I am about to get on my bike and ride this one direct to the pressing plant!

True Radical Miracle's debut cassette see's CD release on Sweatlung with bonus live at Head Gap Recording Studio tracks, live versions of tracks from "Some Songs For Shame" (eerie stratum) cdep and "Cockroaches" (Missing Link) full length.
Great quality recording on that live stuff too!

The artwork reworked from the original cassette release with additional gig poster artwork from the period added on the inside.

The release clocks in at around 30 minutes worth of material and with any luck will be released in time for the 2 shows in Melbourne next week:

Friday 31st of October - Catfood Press - Lygon Street Brunswick.
Useless Children (cd launch)
True Radical Miracle
Pissbolt (awesome thrash from 3/4 of Dad They Broke Me)
Breathing Shrine (grey daturas / collapsed toilet vietnam / bone sheriff members)

Saturday 1st of October - The Old Bar - Johnston St Fitzroy
Eleventh He Reaches London (CD launch)
True Radical Miracle
Fourteen Nights At Sea
Bad Cop Bad Cop

Check out the shows.

If you can't pick up a copy from the band at the show feel free to shoot me an email and pre-order / order a copy $12AUD post paid in Australia $12USD post paid the world.

email me via getonthehorse(@)hotmail. com (remove brackets)

S W E A T L U N G

Some Things Take Time.

2008-09-09T08:44:00.000-07:00

So while I was packing up my belongings from my desk at the job I recently left after 7 plus years, I was taking down the SWEATLUNG logo that I had drawn and pinned to the wall above my desk. I figured seeing as I have been putting some more effort into the label of late that I should work on putting this logo to some sort of use. When I unfolded the paper to put in the scanner tonight, I realized that I had conveniently dated the sketch "2004". So this has been sitting there without a thought for 4 years. It needs a little bit of a polish, which i have started to do, added some background colour and cleaned some random marks, but here it is for the first time made public.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Sweatlung logo!

Superstupid vs. Paul Kidney at Pony

2008-09-06T23:22:00.000-07:00

Last night at Pony in Melbourne city Superstupid unleashed a wall of heavy-as-fuck-blown-out-ear-blistering-psychedelic-fuzz-rock. Minds blown and ears ringing, Paul Kidney was there at the front unleashing his own energy in full Kidney style sonic driven dance. Amazing show.

Pig Heart Transplant : Hope You Enjoy Heaven CD Out Soon On SWEATLUNG.

2008-08-26T03:29:00.000-07:00

I'm super stoked to announce that the PIG HEART TRANSPLANT 'HOPE YOU ENJOY HEAVEN' cd on Sweatlung is just about to be unleashed. Having been in process for almost a year now the all the parts have hit the ground down under and are heading off to the pressing plant this week.

Pig Heart Transplant is a project headed by Jon Kortland (Iron Lung / Gob) and on this release he is joined by a host of heavy hitters: August Alston (Lords Of Light / Walls / Silentist), Sanders Creasy (Unpersons, Bite Itself), Chris Dodge (Despise You / Lack Of Interest / Spazz / Hellnation / East West Blast Test etc.), Dustin Ferris (Hounded Wounds), Mike Priehs (Threatener, Herds, Mutator, Broachfaced), Jensen Ward (Iron Lung / Artimus Pyle / Walls / Cold Sweat, Gehenna etc.), Greg Wilkinson (Brainoil / Lana Dagales / Laudanum).

Having released a bundle of tapes, CDrs and a split 7" with rumblers Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, PHT have proved themselves a force of dark noise. Sparse rumbles, sludge ridden guitar, raw growls and blunt force drums with nods to Man Is The Bastard and Swans.

Also available in a limited quantity is a Pig Heart Transplant "Hope You Enjoy Heaven" CD & t-shirt deal, please contact for availability of sizes etc.

This release will be available in mid September. If you would like to pre-order a copy please feel free to shoot me an email at getonthehorse(@)hotmail.com .

Toilet Trouble In Vietnam With Paul Kidney

2008-08-16T07:15:00.000-07:00

Occult Blood - First Show.

2008-08-12T04:55:00.001-07:00

Thursday the 21st of August will see the last performance from Melbourne's awesome Flesh vs. Venom, along with the support of old school grinders Roskopp and free-jazz-sludgers Embers this night will see the debut attack from scum noisecore outfit Occult Blood featuring members of Cut Sick, Useless Children, Either/Or, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, Whitehorse etc. ATTENDANCE RECOMMENDED!

Family Jewels & Breathing Shrine

2008-07-29T07:59:00.000-07:00

Caught the first show of Family Jewels, Nick from Onani / Circle Pit at Forepaw the other night, pretty promising beginings from this Sydney fella. Afterward Breathing Shrine, Bonnie Mercer and Rob Mayson from Grey Daturas and about a million other outfits, played a great set. Highly recommend checking out both these acts.

FAMILY JEWELS

BREATHING SHRINE

Absoluten Calfeutrail

2008-07-29T07:20:00.000-07:00

Absoluten Calfeutrail performing in a Thornbury lounge room a few weeks back. Harsh, abrasive brutality. Absoluten is Grover who also plays in True Radical Miracle, Whitehorse, and CTV. He has great release on Sabbatical, Idget Child and Smell The Stench and also a future release on Sweatlung. Check out Absoluten actions and other Grover related info HERE.

Junk Brothers

2008-07-29T06:18:00.000-07:00

Featured previously here in some shots from Pony a while back, these shots of Rod Cooper and Sean Baxter were taken at one of the monthly Sabbatical Presents nights at The After Dark in Thornbury. The Sabbatical nights at the After Dark along with the Stutter nights at Horse Baazar are must attend events if your keen to see great experimental party hits.

Sean Baxter & junk.

Rod Cooper and one of his contraptions.

Both great performers and people!

Under The Bridge

2008-07-29T05:07:00.000-07:00

There has been a bunch of shows under the Northcote Bridge over Merri Creek in Clifton Hill, I have played two shows down there one with Thugz n' Playaz and another with Collapsed Toilet Vietnam. I didn't really get any photos of any of the bands playing but here is some shots of the gathering under the bridge when Pathetic Human, Bleak Infinity, Bum Creek, Gauntlet (KRYSTOFFKRVSTOFFISTON & Always), Collapsed Toilet Vietnam and Spacebong played. A pretty awesome place to watch a show.

Northcote Bridge

Tommy Gun of Pathetic Human & Bleak Infinity

L-R Bernie, (dawg), Tara, Nat, Nissa, Dan... rad folk.

Gauntlet (true grey metal)

Chillin'

True Northcote Black Metal!

Spacebong (not true Adelaide black metal)

True Radical Miracle

2008-04-25T03:47:00.001-07:00

Last night I headed down to Pony and took in a rare appearance from one of Australia's finest bands True Radical Miracle. If you haven't come across this band and you are a fan of bands like Pissed Jeans, Snake Apartment, Dry Rot, Born Against & the like then you need check this shit out.

They have a few releases from the most recent back we have "Cockroaches" on Missing Link, "Roaches Parts 1 & 2" on Sabbatical, "Some Songs For Shame" on Eerie Stratum and the "Taste The Rainbow" cassette on Fuckn Stoner.

Taste The Rainbow will see cd release, with possible bonus material on Sweat Lung at some point which makes me very happy.

Here are some shots of TRM in action:

Rahduuuuuuuuunes in the house!

2008-04-22T08:00:00.000-07:00

So yeah, I somehow vagued out in work world for a couple of months and lost track of where I was at with a couple of label releases. Snapping out of it I have finally got the covers to the awesome Rahdunes release, this is the CD release of the LP that came out on Emperor Jones last year and it's a fuckin' bliss filled journey that I never want to hear the end of. Available from Me and Missing Link as of now and more places as soon as possible. 6 panel, double sided, 2 colour, metalic ink printed covers on "bone" card stock with full colour printed pro-pressed disc. Mastered for CD by Greg Wadley. Limited to 500.

email getonthehorse[@]hotmail.com to order a copy or for more information.

Fabulous Diamonds

2008-04-22T07:38:00.000-07:00

So my housemate Jarrod and friend Nisa play in this great outfit Fabulous Diamonds and they have a great new CD out on Michael K.'s Nervous Jerk label vinyl to come soon on Siltbreeze. It's great and the photos rule!

I bet y'all jealous I get to see this mans hairy torso wondering to the shower every other morning while I'm eating breakfast.

Menche / MIBEM

2008-04-22T06:51:00.000-07:00

So the MIBEM Festival happened in Melbourne recently and was totally awesome thanks to Pateras, Fox, Annalee etc. There was killer performances all round but unfortunately my camera battery was not cutting it. I have only a couple of ok / average shots from a new point & shoot that I'm not used to yet.

Openers and Melbourne's loudest wall of destruction Y35.3 (above)

Daniel Menche total mind evaporation (below)

What I experienced at MIBEM was generally pretty awesome. Highlights, Sean Baxter & Valerio Tricoli Duo, Menche, all the collaborations at the Horse Bazaar closing party! had a blast unleashing some fury during the Collapsed Toilet Vietnam vs. Daniel Menche set.

Check out some MIBEM photos including the CTV vs. Menche shots HERE.

Cut Sick!

2008-02-17T03:39:00.000-08:00

Here is a couple of shots of Melbourne's Cut Sick. Always killer live shows and awesome guys.

Pathetic Human

2008-02-16T22:50:00.000-08:00

Definately my favorite Melbourne punk-hardcore band at the moment .. killer live energy great music, Pathetic Human

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam - 3rd Flush

2008-01-06T23:55:00.000-08:00

Sweat Lung vs. AWK

2008-01-06T04:37:00.000-08:00

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam 'Cistern Existence' Cassette Out Now

2008-01-02T03:21:00.000-08:00

The debut cassette from Collapsed Toilet Vietnam came together today. Limited to 75 copies. The tape is available for $5 AUD plus postage email collapsedtoiletvietnam[@]hotmail.com to order listen to two tracks from the release here.

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam 2nd Show.

2007-12-09T12:43:00.000-08:00

This weekend at Forepaw in Northcote!

(to be updated with some words soon)

2007-11-26T14:32:00.000-08:00

Would you jump of a bridge if he said so?

2007-11-26T13:59:00.001-08:00

So I met this guy at a metal karaoke night in Canberra maybe 5 or so years ago... maybe the most likely place to meet a dude with this tattoo in Australia I guess...

Flamin' Galah

2007-11-26T07:28:00.000-08:00

I took this photo at Footscray train station a couple of years ago.

THE FUCKIN' KILL!

2007-11-26T06:33:00.000-08:00

So this weekend sees one of the most anticipated grind shows in Melbourne's history with the return to the stage of The Kill. This return sees the band with new vocalist Nik, also of Super Fun Happy Slide.
It has been a few of years since I saw the unit of Jay (also of Fuck... I'm Dead, Identity Theft and Mid Youth Crisis, Open Wound etc.), Robbie (ex-Open Wound) and Neil (Undinism) play. Seeing this band with Neil as the vocalist was a terrifying experience, alway intense and often blood soaked. I have seen many a person flee a venue or vomit their dinner mid way through a set of The Kills blast ridden, riff-shredding, blood jetting performance.
After parting ways with Neil, Tony from Blood Duster gave vocal duties a bit of a whirl but that was a short lived line-up. The new line up is looking to be pretty killer Nik is a talented lad, though I think the blood-letting spectacle may be all in the past now so we will have to make do with the ultra-blasting and riff destruction of which no doubt there will be plenty.

There also looks to be a collection CD/LP coming out on No Escape/Torture Garden Picture Company and further releases to come.

The show line-up also features 3 more of Australia's best grind bands the legendary Captain Cleanoff, the raw styles of Roskopp and the young but terrifying bowel vocal extravaganza of Die Pigeon Die.

Here is a few of my old photos of The Kill with Neil in fine form:

Not to be missed!

Raw Duudes

2007-11-04T01:50:00.000-07:00

Rahdunes: Aaron & Nate.

I spent some time today with Greg Wadley tweaking at the Rahdunes master for release on the Lung. I'm really digging this material. If you are a vinyl freak you should definitely check out the vinyl release of this Rahdunes stuff on Emperor Jones.

With any luck this will be ready to go by mid December, just have to finish tweaking the master and finalize the artwork.

Also this Monday sees the first flush of Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, featuring 4 of 6 Whitehorse members. Tapes will be available in the next few weeks. The debut show takes place at Pony with our schedule slot being 8:30 to 8:40. Here is some words about the show:
"To celebrate the release of the Absoluten Calfeutrail / Y35.3 split cassette on Max Kohane's Idget Child label, Pony is hosting a launch show featuring a substantial lineup of Melbourne's best. Opening the show is the debut performance of Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, a scum bucket quartet made up of Whitehorse members. Armyish follow with a rare performance from the trio of Marcus Griffin, Justin Fuller and Emile Zile. Antisocial rock trio Deep Where All Drown then offer a set of ugly art, followed by Embers with their relentless grindcore in the late ‘60s free jazz tradition. Rounding out the evening is Absoluten Calfeutrail (Mark Groves of Whitehorse/True Radical Miracle) making a terse racket, and Melbourne's finest power electronics exponents Y35.3." (see the flyer a couple of posts below)

More posts soon.

Party lifestyle choices.

2007-10-29T08:18:00.000-07:00

Ok... So on my recent trip to the US my camera didn't come out as often as usual so there is not much totally awesome stuff going on here... but here is some photos I just dragged out.
This bummed me out as I almost always take my bird and snake to get burritos.

The Rahdude himself Aaron Coyes chillin with me and my mo.

Mayson and me long into the night sleeping on a piano in some big open space in the East Bay ... memories slightly hazy.

Bone Sheriff make an impromptu performance in Portland, OR opening for a Whitehorse show.

From what I understand this super dangerous fun thing in Philly has since been welded in place to stop people swinging themselves 3 stories in the air.

Pretty much the best karaoke night that ever did exist.

I believe this was during Sex Pistols "Anarchy in the UK"...

Sam made a bad food decision... (this was brunch for one).

Johnny my favorite bartender at Lucky 13 in Park Slope.

Javier hanging on Seldon's birthday at Lucky 13, when I get my shit together I will scan the photos of ME dancing on the bar and post them here...

Stefan my troubled friend... this is somewhere between annoying all our friends and moshing onto people we may or may not have known while they sat quietly on the couches upstairs at Tattooed Moms. Pretty much another awesome night.

After Chip and Lee kept telling me about their AK-47s this is about as close as I came...

Stefan and Justin chillin' after a mellow evening of Pink Razors and Drop Dead in a basement.

Me and the man Ryan chillin hard in Richmond.

The sign that made my day at the last day of Best Friends Day as I was about to start the long journey back to Melbourne... when I left the Drop Dead show the room had no roof left and the floor had sunk a whole bunch and DD couldn't play more than 3 seconds without the kit collapsing under a pile of people... total destruction.

Still Alive.

2007-10-29T07:40:00.000-07:00

Well thing on the Blog have been pretty quite of recent times.. sorry about that I will attempt to get more active here. News on releases is slowly drifting in. Riververb stuff is in the works check out some sounds here. Myrtu recordings are in the pipeline as are Pig Heart Transplant works. I have also been discussing releases with Y35.3, Absoluten Calfeutrail and the mighty Rahdunes.

In other actions 731 is getting active interstate having just played shows in Adelaide and about to head to Sydney and Brisbane (fill in drummer Christoph of Roskopp in toe) with the great Schifosi. See dates and flyers below.

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam is a new project of free-punk-grind with formed by accident at Whitehorse rehearsals they will be playing their first show on the 5th of November at Pony (see flyer below) and have a tape release in the works.

Space Bong from Adelaide and Fattura Della Morte from Sydney are in Melbourne this week here is a flyer I put together for the shows. Attendance is recommended for Melbourne residents who like sludgy, heavy sounds and party atmospheres.

Sweat From The Lungs

2007-07-30T16:35:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I am still in the USA post-Whitehorse tour which was a wild and crazy time. I have been meeting plenty of great people and seeing many a killer band.

So the great man that is Scott Slimm over at Archive CD now has stock of all the Sweat Lung releases as does Aquarius Records in San Francisco. You may also find copies of select releases via Misanthropic Agenda and Blossoming Noise.

Sweat Lung has a couple of releases in the early stages of planning check back for news over the next few months, with any luck the second half of the year will see releases by Pig Heart Transplant from Seattle and Riververb from San Diego and maybe even the Malakat CD!

Another couple of great things you should check out are Rahdunes who totally rule and 1/16th Headed which is the works of the lone sheriff Simon Taylor.

Aquarius Records threw up a review of Justice Yeldham "Cicatrix" this week and recently the Chris Smith Justin Fuller CD (see below) they also mistakenly labeled a review of the Blarke Bayer / Black Widow "Arctic Blast" CD as the Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff "Split" CD I recommend buying both. The Black Widow split was released by Heathen Skulls (McManus of Grey Daturas) and is a great release:

YELDHAM, JUSTICE (Sweatlung) cd
What initially sounds like a super distorted overblown recording ofHendrix playing his wild "Star Spangled Banner", or a super grinding fuzz drenched synth noise psych rock blow out, or some insane ultra processed Japanese psychedelic solo guitar freakout, is in fact, a 40 something man, covered in blood, holding a huge piece of contact mic'ed broken glass in his mouth. Huh?
Such is the musical world of Mr. Justice Yeldham. We weren't sure what to expect actually, conceptually we were definitely intrigued. A guy who records himself smashing his face against panes of glass, moaning and humming into the glass resulting in all sorts of bizarre alien sounds, and often ending up with the glass shattering and much blood being shed. He had us at glass and blood. The cd sleeve is even a patchwork of bloodied band-aids (euwww).
But when we finally got the disc, the sounds were just as amazing, maybe even more so than the process, which is definitely a rare occurrence. How many records have we gotten, where the story of the recording was way more fascinating that the resulting music? Way too many. The thing with this Yeldham disc, is it's actually quite listenable as well. Ostensibly a noise record, the sounds here are anything but run of the mill noise, they range from strange fuzzy drones, wailing streaks of coruscating feedback, crumbling synth like blasts (parts of this almost sound like samples from the Justice record!), grinding gnarled squalls of super distorted buzz and every strange fuzzy buzzy stop in between. And every once in a while you have to remind yourself that THIS IS A GUY WITH HIS FACE PRESSED UP AGAINST A PIECE OF GLASS! A piece of glass that just may shatter at any second. And the more feverish and frenzied the sounds become, the more strain is placed on the glass, and the more imminent shatter and bloodshed becomes. So weird, and so goddamn awesome.
Comes in a cool velour lined cd sleeve, adorned with images of band-aids and blood, inside a full color booklet with tons of photos of Yeldham performing live, amazing and intense, some weird, some strangely beautiful, some super disturbing, most of them really bloody!!

SMITH, CHRIS & JUSTIN FULLER (Sweat Lung) cd
We're huge fans of Australian guitarist Chris Smith, but until now had only ever been able to get a hold of the split 12" he shared with the Ivytree. There have been plenty of other releases, but the only proper stateside release has been out of print for ages. So finally, we managed to get a bunch of these, Smith and fellow countryman Justin Fuller's first full length collaboration, a full 7 years in the making, and it's quite nice.
Hard to discern exactly what the instrumentation is, there are most certainly guitars, and according to the liner notes there is also piano and accordion, but with records like this, it's not what you're playing, it's how you play them and what you do with the sounds once you've made them. These two wrangle the various sounds into long stretches of slow shifting ambience. Some tracks are delicate and dark, barely there shimmers of crumbling low end and distant glimmering high end, while others are massive walls of guitar, churning chaotically, but smoothed into warm thick whorls. The heavier tracks definitely remind us of Sunroof! or Vibracathedral Orchestra or even a less mangled Wolf Eyes or a way prettier SUNNO))). The prettier tracks have a bit of Tim Hecker going on, all blissy and fuzzy and beautifully blurred. The whole record is quite dreamy in fact, whether buzzing malevolently, or drifting languorously, a gorgeous chunk of blissed out guitardrone. The usual suspects will definitely need this...

Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff & Magnetics CDs now available.

2007-06-15T03:22:00.000-07:00

This week sees the release of 2 new Sweat Lung titles:

Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff "split" CD

Blarke Bayer is the solo project of Ben Andrews who also plays guitar in Magnetics (see below), Agents Of Abhorrence and My Disco. This release finds him exploring a wall of drone subtle drifts and waves of noise.

Bone Sheriff is the drunken ramblings of Simon Taylor (Whitehorse / EOH / Malakat) and Rob Mayson (Grey Daturas / EOH / It's Is / Whitehorse etc). Fueled by a cocktail of ginger wine and sparkling ale BS shudder to life rattling bones and burning souls. An awesome follow up release to "Moonee Ponds" (Sabbatical)

Magnetics "We Are The Mountains, We Are The Fields" CD

Magnetics is the Melbourne duo of percussionist & vocalist Sarah Heyward (The Focus) and guitarist Ben Andrews (Blarke Bayer / Agents Of Abhorrence / My Disco). Layering guitars and percussion Magnetics drift from sparse soundscapes to melodic passages of melodic guitar and dreamy vocals. Jarrod Zlatic of Fabulous Diamonds makes a guest appearance wielding his sax on one of the tracks.

Both CDs are available post paid in Australia for $12 AUD for prices outside Australia or to find out who's stocking Sweat Lung titles near you please email getonthehorse[@]hotmail.com

Future releases from: Malakat (apparently by Xmas they tell me), Y35.3 and more.

Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff split CD launch

2007-06-09T01:17:00.000-07:00

Check this out ... CD available on the night and then on from Sweat Lung, Missing Link and other awesome records stores. Also out soon Magnetics 'We Are The Mountains, We Are The Fields'.

Justice Yeldham "Cicatrix" CD

2007-03-26T01:24:00.000-07:00

Fresh from the pressing plant I got the covers for the Justice Yeldham "Cicatrix" CD.

Cicatrix is the first full length outing from Justice Yeldham and is presented in four parts:

Part One: Studio - The first studio recordings of Lucas playing his pieces of glass.

Part Two: Digital Soundchecks - Recently recovered sound files from his one and only digital tour at the end of 2005, these tracks were recorded soundchecks that Lucas used to play back and eq.

Part Three: Live - Live recordings from Zurich, Sydney & Toronto.

Part Four: Video - The video that youtube rejected for inappropriate content filmed in Bologna, Italy.

These will be available to order in the next few days. Please email getonthehorse[@]hotmail.com (remove brackets) to order.

Also still available, Ian Wadley - three uneasy pieces, Chris Smith & Justin Fuller CD and Whitehorse - Live in Japan.

Coming Next: Magnetics - CD & Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff - split CD.

Label News.

2007-02-19T00:54:00.000-08:00

Ok... here is a text heavy posting. It's been a while so I thought I would throw down a Sweat Lung Label update.

First of all Ian Wadley will be headed to the US for SXSW and a bundle of other shows, keep an eye out here for dates.

Both the Chris Smith Justin Fuller & Ian Wadley cds will be available soon at Aquarius Records in the US and are available now at Missing Link or email getonthehorse[@]hotmail.com to buy them direct.

The release scheduled as Sweat Lung 005 (Malakat) is traveling in the space plain of Simon & Edryan which Will at sometime in the future connect with the Sweat Lung time line but at this point visual confirmation has not been confirmed.

Next up on Sweat Lung will be the following release:
Sweat Lung 007: Justice Yeldham - CD
Bloody noise from the red spattered glass of Lucas Abela.

Sweat Lung 008: Magnetics - CD
Ben Andrews (Blarke Bayer / My Disco etc) & Sarah Heyward (The Focus) produce shimmering sounds from guitar & percussion with beautiful vocals. An amazing duo.

Sweat Lung 009: Blarke Bayer / Bone Sheriff - Split CD
Blarke Bayer is Ben Andrews exploring drone & harsh tones, with a previous 3" cd release on Numerical Thief BB on this outing finds himself accompanied but the primal alcohol fueled sonics of Bone Sheriff, Rob Mayson (Grey Daturas / EOH / Maggoted) & Simon Taylor (Whitehorse / Malakat).

All three of these release are not too distant from being completed, with any luck they will be available over the next couple of months.

More soon

SL /PH

731 - Are You Ready To Grind

2007-02-11T04:19:00.000-08:00

Okay so a little self indulgence here. 731 is my new band, the music we play is on the punk end of the grind scale, you can check out a couple of tracks here. The band features current and ex-members of Odiusembowel, Sense Of Purpose, Terror Firma, Fallout and Whitehorse. The first four photos were taken by Duncan of awesome long running Melbourne death-grinders Shagnum on his phone camera. If you look carefully you can make out Extraordinary G, playing guitar and I Quit drumming away at the back.

It was a killer first show playing with Damage Digital (Japan), Agents Of Abhorrence, Dad They Broke Me and Aeroflot.

This picture show a clearer story and was taken by The Budge (who rules) when we played at the Greenroom (RIP) with Guantanamo Bay City Rollers, Dad They Broke Me and Pisschrist.

Limp Wristies

2007-02-11T03:36:00.000-08:00

So, a good portion of my summer revolved around the Limp Wrist tour of Australia that with a bit of help from a bunch of friends and a amazing show of support from fans all over Australia was a ripping good time and more fun than you can poke a stick at.

I only have a couple of photos to put up.. so here goes.

DX "Distort" and Scott.

Martin ass up at the Manacle, Sydney.

Scott wrestling the guitar at the Manacle, Sydney.

3 'Sweet Melons' somewhere in northern New South Wales: Scott, Pete (me) and Paul.

'MEOW' Andrew gets catty at Maggotsville, Syndey.

Ian Wadley - three uneasy pieces cd

2006-12-23T05:20:00.000-08:00

Wadley at The East Brunswick Club 21.12.2007

Things have been a little crazy of late, that time of year, so I have only just got around to getting my head around adding a post about the Ian Wadley - three uneasy pieces CD release on Sweatlung. After a year or so coming together this disc is finally back from the press.

3 tracks from Ian who has spent time performing with such acts as Bird Blobs, Small World Experience, Minimum Chips and Function. These track find Ian alone with his guitar.

Ian is performing live around Melbourne at the moment some shows with Simon Taylor (Whitehorse / EOH / Bone Sheriff etc) and he will also be performing at the upcoming All Tomorrows Parties curated by the Dirty Three.

Regulations in Melbourne

2006-12-23T04:14:00.000-08:00

So Regulations from Sweden just toured Australia with Straightjacket Nation and the ruled pretty hard. Here are a few shots from a show they played at The Greenroom for Missing Link & Siren Visual end of year party with True Radical Miracle, Fabulous Diamonds and 731

Otto

Robert

Marcus

Jens

Marcus, Otto, Al (Straightjacket Nation), Robert, Jens

Dad They Broke Me

2006-12-15T04:36:00.000-08:00

One of my favorite Melbourne bands at the moment are Dad They Broke Me. Ultra heavy and totally crushing. Think Unsane, Jesus Lizard, Zeni Geva a touch of Eyehategod and and blasts of grind.

They have a s/t cd out on thier own label Broke Me Records, who also released a killer s/t cd from long running and totally awesome death-grinders Shagnum who feature 2 members of DTBM. They have also just recorded for a release on Missing Link Records.

Definately check out this band. They destroy!

Guantanamo Bay City Rollers

2006-12-15T03:23:00.000-08:00

Here is a hand full of pics of a killer grind outfit from Adelaide, South Australia. Check out thier shit HERE. They have a killer demo and with any luck before too long the will have more. If you get the chance to see these guys I would highly recommend doing so.

Chris Smith Justin Fuller CD

2006-11-11T19:43:00.000-08:00

Melbourne residents Chris Smith and Justin Fuller have been creating and documenting various forms of music together since the late 1990's.

Over seven years in the making, their new eponymous long-player takes in pre-occupations with austere, shimmering textures, maxist shuddering walls of noise, and many things between.

A broad and compelling approach in terms of sound-source and recording technique, any aspect suggesting theory or intellect is already overcome by brut physicality and lilting tear-jerkers.

That's right now available, if you would like to purchase a copy direct please email me at getonthehorse[no spam]@hotmail.com (remove the no spam). Copies will also be available in stores soon. I will update with links soon.

Ian Wadley's "three uneasy pieces" CD will also be available sometime in the next week or so. Just waiting for the covers to return from the printer.

The Whitehorse CDs scheduled for release on Sweat Lung have now been scrapped as 20 Buck Spin Records will be releasing the material as a part of a 2 cd collection of Whitehorse material sometime early 2007.

Other releases scheduled for release on Sweat Lung in 2007 include works from Malakat , EOH, Justice Yeldam and more.

Cooper / Baxter & Justice

2006-09-06T15:03:00.000-07:00

Last Friday night I headed down to Pony to catch performances by Rod Cooper & Sean Baxter and the always amazing Justice Yeldham here is a few photos of the event.

Rod Cooper appears in a film called Sticky Carpet about the Melbourne music scene which should be released in the not too distant future by Siren Visual.

Sean Baxter and a pile of percussion.

Rod Cooper manipulates his sound device, this produced some amazing sounds.

Justice Yeldham. (below)

Totally amazing.

Mass Traumatic Saturday Night.

2006-09-03T02:20:00.000-07:00

Ok. So Sydney's Masstrauma were in town and I went down to catch them play at a house in Coberg. These photos are a handful from the night that only begin to hint at how ridiculous the night was.

MASSTRAUMA

Fingers managed to get smashed with a raw sausage. This is just one of the photo I have of him smeared with snag. More may appear over time.

This is some Gummo shit going on here.

NOTE: The death of this cat was due to being run over by a car, none of the people there are sick enough to kill a cat, unfortunately Fingers is sick enough to pick it up and pose for photos with it.

MATTRESSTRAUMA

The fun times. After the show the lounge room was briefly turned into a mattress wrestling event TJ and Aleshia amongst others went hard out. This was much more out of control than it appears in these photos... fun times.

Fuck... I'm Dead

2006-09-03T01:59:00.000-07:00

Gore grind seriously is a silly genre of music... I am a fan of Fuck... I'm Dead but I have to laugh at dudes in thier mid thirtys behaving like this at thier Missing Link instore.

Jay jerkin' it.

Pisschrist in the flesh.

2006-09-03T01:41:00.000-07:00

While up in Sydney I ran into artist and frontman of Smash n' Grab, Spider. He now has a crazy Pisschrist logo tattoo'd on his neck. Brutal!

Municipal Waste Ripping Through Australia.

2006-09-03T00:33:00.000-07:00

When I got back from the Pisschrist tour it was straight on to a few shows with Municipal Waste. They had some awesome shows and it was a blast. Unfortunately I only got a couple of site worthy photos...

This Sydney crowd shot seems dated already.

Phil gets brutal.

Ryan unleashes the axe.

The Waste stop off at the Giant Koala for a battle... the Koala got wasted.

5 Things I'm Listening To.

2006-08-20T05:36:00.000-07:00

Ok, with very little explination this is what I have been listening too (note: this is about 5 of 50 things currently on rotation in earshot of my head).

Dialing In - Cows In Lye
(Pseudo Arcarna)
Some killer drone, thanks AM.

Saviours - Crucifire
(Level-Plane)

This shit is cheesey as all hell but after seeing these guys a few times earlier this year these riffs have been staying with me.

The Focus / Amateur Party - Split CD
(Missing Link Records)

Ok, so I had a pretty big part in this release coming together so I am totally bias. Killer melodic indie punk half from Melbourne, Austraila, half from Philly, PA.

Criminal Damage - Criminal Damage
(Feral Ward)
For some reason this has become my favorite punk album of recent times. Catchy stuff.

Comets On Fire - Avatar
(Sub Pop)

Well, I seriously didn't think I would like this at all, even hesitated on listening to it and even though i do refer to it as Kravitz On Fire I gotta say it's great.

Pointless Fest 2005... ahh the memories...

2006-08-20T03:16:00.000-07:00

For the past couple of years I have been a very happy attendent of Philly's Pointless Fest. I was kinda bummed that I was missing this years Fest but my compensation was that I had Municipal Waste down here on tour and I was seeing some of the most fun shows Australia has experienced in a while.

So, while at this great Melbourne show with Municipal Waste, Blood Duster, Agents Of Abhorrence and Dad They Broke Me at the wonderful Arthouse we recieved news that Pointless Fest had been shut down. Which totally sucks, there is an account of sorts of the events at the R5 Productions site if you want to read about it (note: you should visit this site to see all the rad shows that Sean and the R5 crew put on in Philly).

So... the photos, from Pointless Fest and surrounds 2005:

Municipal Waste tearing up the stage at the Church.

Scott Moore of Limp Wrist sexing it up on the dancefloor after one of the shows.

Tristan (Schifosi) and John (Fighting Dogs) hitting up the Mexican and cheap margaritas after the show (note: they are both wearing Forward t-shirts that match the colour of their drinks!!!)

Steve of Inepsy busts out his penis tattoo "abuse".

Look Back & Laugh playing a awesome basement show with Drop Dead, Asshole Parade & Schifosi. This was a little ways out of Philly (I forget the name of the town). LBAL are so damn good!

Briushanah & Ryokuchi

2006-08-19T23:43:00.000-07:00

I have just a couple of good photos from when these awesome Japanese sludge bands came to town.

This one is of Ryokuchi they are a two piece, and they play killer epic sludge songs with Eastern scales.

This one is of Birushanah, they play sludge, noise rock with 2 metal percussionists which makes for a amazing live show.

Piss Stains Across Europe Part 5: More Random Moments

2006-08-19T06:26:00.000-07:00

This shot of Dave is the best i got of him in Europe.

Piss stop in Switzerland.

Sunburned from a day at the beach in the Basque Country.

Jimmy sparking joints after a long night.

Jimmy the janitor in Spain after Yeap made a mess mid show.

Piss Stains Across Europe Part 4: Spain in Black and White

2006-08-04T04:37:00.000-07:00

Some black and white shots from Spain...

Yeap in full effect.

Jimmy strikes a wicked pose.

Yeap passes the mic to Marko and Andreas while in the air.

Lost pants.

The dance

Piss Stains Across Europe Part 3: Some Random Shots

2006-08-04T04:07:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I am back from Europe and i have some spare computer time... so here is some more Pisschrist Tour photos over a few posts.. Random shots:

At the Yellow Dog Festival in Germany, Tristan and Brenton have a good laugh at Marko the driver because he is very drunk, covered in mud and about to pass out on the merch table.

It's like a South African drunk crusty Christmas angel

Yeap's foot all blue from a pit accident. This slowed him down for a few days, thanks Brussels, Belgium... brutal show.

Swiming holes in Italy are rad.

Cool squat in Chemnitz, Germany. Some of the best food of the tour was here.

Piss Stains Across Europe Part Two: The Party Continues

2006-07-12T18:09:00.000-07:00

Here is the second lot of photos from the tour. Note that this stuff is not in chronological order. I missed out on taking photos of a bunch of stuff due to being drunk or filming stuff with the video camera... with any luck we will be able to salvage enough footage from what I have filmed for some sort of video/dvd release.

Anyway... to the photos...

Pisschrist's first European show at the Kopi Squat in Koma F, people went nuts it was great.

Me, Jimmy and Tristan the tag-a-long in the van.

Timmy Stix gets all saucy on the kit (somewhere in Sweden).

Fresh full of seitan steaks tonight the guys drink the worst beer that Sweden can provide. Note: If you are well into good beer when you go to Sweden you will not find anything that even remotely resembles good beer so prepare to be disappointed.

Jimmy getting all metal on us in Sweden.

Grey Daturas

2006-07-12T12:39:00.000-07:00

These photos I took at Grey Daturas first show back in Melbourne after their recent US tour. It was great night at the Tote Hotel with Grey Daturas, Birchville Cat Motel, Whitehorse, 1/3 Octave Band and Blarke Bayer.

Birchville Cat Motel & 1/3 Octave Band

2006-07-12T12:25:00.000-07:00

More of the photo's I have had trouble getting to go up... finally... We had a bunch of fun having these lovely gents in Melbourne recently. My photos of them are a little lame but the sounds that Birchville and 1/3 Octave produced at the shows were fantastic. Can't wait for them to come back to Australia.

Birchville Cat Motel

1/3 Octave Band

Zond

2006-07-12T09:45:00.000-07:00

This night Zond (featuring Justin Fuller from the Chris Smith & Justin cd that I will be releasing on Sweat Lung September-ish) along with members of The Stabs, On etc. total shreaded heads.. one in particular which was shreaded on a brick support by the side of the stage (see bloody ground & busted glass). Raging noise rock, totally overblown. The set was too short and they were angry as hell... Justin shows the love.

It's Is & the Dancer

2006-07-11T18:01:00.000-07:00

I was having trouble uploading photos for a while... it seems to be back on track now so soon there will be more getting banged up.

Here are some photos of Rob Mayson's (Grey Daturas, EOH, Diagnosis Don't Label) solo project It's Is was a great wall of drone this night, a show with 1/3 Octave Band (NZ), Bad Cop Bad Cop, Zond and Birchville Cat Motel (NZ). Paul Kidney the local fluro psyche head definatey was feeling the groove this night.

Piss Stains Over Europe Part One: The Cast

2006-07-11T17:17:00.000-07:00

I'm currently traveling around Europe with Pisschrist on a six week tour.

I have left myself out of this initial posting but here are some of the characters I have been spending time with over the past few weeks... this is the van crew:

Tim (drums) and Yeap (vocals) at Yellow Dog Records in Berlin while we were packing the inserts into the covers for the fresh holocrustic punk LP by Pisschrist

Dave (Guitar) and Yeap getting really fuckin' punk on the sreets of Berlin.

Tristan the tag-a-long getting all saucey with Rob at the Halford Bar (jacket supplied by Joel from Toxic Holocaust) while we were left behind for the first few days due to van failure.

Cookie in the van with "the saucey woman from the sky" his GPS that helps us on our merry way.

Andreas Thrash Bastard the man with the plan he booked the shows and sorts us out (ignore Dave) and Marko the Austrian Bomber who drives the fuck out of the van.

That's the main players of the Pisschrist tour I will post more photos as time comes to hand and maybe some tales of the happenings... the tour has been going really well .

Baroness

2006-05-23T07:29:00.000-07:00

I didn't get my camera out when I was last in the US anywhere near as much as I should have. I got a few alright shots... I managed to see this great band Baroness a couple of times. Some friends of mine had been raving about the cds for a while I guess I just didn't pay that much attention until I actually saw them and the blew me away. I also realised that I had met the bassist in 2005 at Best Friends Day in Richmond VA.

Summer on the "mosh bike" during the R.A.M.B.O. set at Best Friends Day.

Summer showing off his award winning mutilated Waste baby beer bong at Best Friends Day

Extortion

2006-05-23T06:54:00.000-07:00

I was blasting my ears with the ep these Perth lads release while I was on the tram this morning and it was making me real happy. Here is some photos from the show the played with Artimus Pyle in Perth a little while back. They have LP coming out on Deep Six

Corrupted

2006-05-21T06:26:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos of the monsterous Corrupted band that I took last year in Japan. Whitehorse played our first show in Japan with Corrupted, Birushanah, Ryokuchi and Palm. The line-up was great.

Boris at the Wizard's Convention in Tokyo

2006-05-21T05:54:00.000-07:00

I was emailing with Scott Slimm who has an awesome CD label, Archive and he was saying that he was off to see Boris, Thrones and Growing, which is an awesome show. I thought I might add some photos of Boris I took when Emile and I headed up to Tokyo for the Wizard's Convention after the end of the Whitehorse Japan Tour mid 2005.

Blarke Bayer Launch

2006-05-20T01:12:00.000-07:00

Ben Andrews (My Disco!, Agents Of Abhorrence, Clann Zu) launched his long over due solo cd, he goes by the name Blarke Bayer and is currently playing some pretty rad drone. The show was definately one of the best I have seen him do for a while.

The Blarke Bayer 3" cd is out now on Numerical Thief.

Playing the opening slot was Malakat with Grover (Whitehorse, True Radical Miracle) in as a guest... I will be putting out a cd by these guys later in the year... they also have support slots on the upcoming Birchville Cat Motel / 1/3 Octave Band tour and Wolf Eyes tour so check them out.

This is Simon (he also plays bass in Whitehorse)

This is Edryan and Grover.

Eddy Current Suppression Ring

2006-05-20T01:05:00.000-07:00

These photos are a few weeks old now... I will, as I begin to update more regularly include some photos from my archives... these were taken at Pony in Melbourne, the place was packed to capacity. If you ever have the opportunity to see this band don't think twice as they are damn awesome!

I will definately post some better photos of these guys sometime soon.

Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device

2006-05-20T00:43:00.000-07:00

Here is a couple of images of Lucas performing his world famous Justice Yeldham set. The sound he makes with his glass is totally obliterating... Pretty powerfull stuff...

After the performance and before buying a blood smeared 7" complete with large portion of blood soaked glass I took the opportunity to have my photo taken along side Justice Yeldam.

This is the 7" & glass smeared with blood.

The Beginning.

2006-05-20T00:30:00.000-07:00

Here we go... This blog will document two things. It will include photos, thoughts and tales of myself Pete Hyde and my journeys and it will also document the movements of my music label Sweat Lung. The first three releases on Sweat Lung were Whitehorse cds; LUNG001: Whitehorse - Oceans Turn To Black/West Of The Sun live CD (OOP), LUNG002: Whitehorse - Caverns, Japan Tour CD and LUNG003: Whitehorse - Live at Sinkagura, Osaka Japan. The next three releases which I will post about in more detail at a later date are; LUNG004: Ian Wadley - TBA cd, LUNG005 Malakat - TBA cd and Chris Smith & Justin K Fuller - s/t CD. These next three releases will go into production in August of 2006.

Return regularly for updates.