Poison City Weekender 2013 highlights: The John Curtin being grossly underrated as a live venue in Melbourne. How everyone realised Cheap Girls were amazing about an hour before Weekender started. Clowns’ cocksure stage antics and smashing party anthems. Hoodlum Shouts and that feeling in my gut every time they play Guns, Germs, Steel. Red wine, how good is it? The Nation Blue and how no one has managed to create a gutsy fuzz quite like them. Every time Tom from Nation Blue swings his guitar around his throat and I’m convinced he’s about to decapitate a band mate. Cory Branan being a stupid goddamn dream boat.
Someone convincing me that Jägerbombs are still a ‘thing’ at about 10am. Lucy Wilson having best voice ever. Luca Brasi playing to the wildest crowd ever and how that’s really saying something because #tassie. The Smith Street Band packing out a Corner Hotel and how we all just felt a little bit sad and proud and drunk. The Corner’s front bar DJ playing heaps of Limp Bizkit. Jen Buxton’s fucking lyrics. The way every band thanked Poison City’s Andy Hayden about eight times and how I’m genuinely unsure how he remains so modest and lovely. The Bennies and the way they win over about a 100 more people every time they play live. Jules from The Bennies just because. Lincoln LeFevre’s new song and how it laments the cute girls being dumb and how despite finding the sentiment deeply offensive I don’t care because wow. Lincoln LeFevre’s best live set ever. Blueline Medic.
Japan’s Palm will team up with Gold Coast outfit A Secret Death to nail a massive run of dates across the country.Things are going to get wild when they arrive in Footscray on Friday September 27 to play at The Reverevce.
FOMO is a disease that strikes us all from time to time. Never worse than when Florida’s The Fest takes place. That’s why dudes in Melbourne are putting on Not Fest! At The Reverence on Friday November 1 – Sunday November 3. Go see bands like Super Best Friends, Up and Atom, Foxtrot, The Shadows League and more and drown your FOMO sorrows.
Calling All Cars are back with a new album, new single and new tour. The much loved trio will chuck a lap of the country in support of new track Werewolves and they’ll be at The Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne on Saturday October 19 with Super Best Friends and The Sinking Teeth.
This week in rad local signings: Resist Records have taken Iron Mind under their wing and will release the band’s second album in the coming months and Poison City Records have teamed up with Nation Blue singer Tom Lyngcoln to release his new ensemble Harmony’s new album next year.
