YOUR BAND CAN PLAY PUSH OVER!
Thanks to triple j Unearthed your band could be playing at Melbourne’s infamous Sidney Myer Music Bowl as part of Push Over on Monday March 10 (Labour Day public holiday) along with the already announced stellar lineup including Deez Nuts, Dream on Dreamer, Chance Waters, Remi, Pez, In Hearts Wake, Buried in Verona, Cub Sport and many more! To be in the running get your music up online at triple j Unearthed before Sunday February 16 and you will automatically be in the running to play at this year’s Push Over Festival! The winner will be announced late February. Push Over is also running a huge competition to head along to this year’s festival VIP style with a VIP ticket for you and one mate to head backstage at Push Over and smash the Push Over Llama Pinata with the Smith Street Band. While you’re there you’ll get to feast on sweet confection while having a chat with the Smith Street Band before they hit the stage – festivale style! And to sweeten this amazing prize even more, the folks at Polaroid Australia are also going to throw in a Z340 Polaroid Camera with 30 pack film, valued at over $470 so you can take photos of yourself backstage. All you need to do to win is simply head to the Push Over Facebook page at facebook.com/pushovervic and let them know why you should win. Be as creative as possible. Entries close February 16.
VISTA CHINO MEET & GREET
Does Kyuss sound as sweet by any other name? We’re about to find out, with Vista Chino, aka John Garcia, Brant Bjork, Bruno Fevery, and Mike Dean. They have an incredible new album called Peace, and they’ll be doing a meet and greet at the legendary Beyond The Pale Posters, 25 Carlisle St, St Kilda, on Thursday January 23 from 12.30pm onwards (doors open at 11am). Posters, t-shirts etc. will be on sale for the guys to sign. Contact John at Beyond The Pale Posters for further info on (03) 9593 8900.
NEW VOYAGER SINGLE
After a roaring start to 2014 with their Kickstarter campaign reaching its 10K target in three days, Voyager have big things planned, including a new album to be released around mid-year. The first single is a true Voyager-style heavy anthem, Breaking Down: a driving, catchy, heavy and melodic track which features some tasty screams by ex-Tesseract/Skyharbor frontman Daniel Tompkins.
AC/DC + RABBITS + ALCOHOL = BIDDY O’LOUGHLIN PLAY
Biddy O’Loughlin performs her one-person play Funny Rabbit at The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine on Thursday January 30. Funny Rabbit is the darkly comic tale of an existential AC/DC-loving rabbit who becomes an alcoholic stand-up comedian. Biddy debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011 with The Girl Who Thought She Was Irish, and her new show is a poignant story about loneliness, ambition and the elusive art of stand up comedy. Entry is $10, doors at 8.30pm.
AGHONYMN AT THE BRIDGE
Agonhymn are a sludged-out power duo who marry big jazz chords and extreme downtuning to ”stretched-time” doom rhythms. Mostly instrumental, but the guys don’t let you get sleepy, and constantly change up tempos, moods and soft/loud dynamics, and incorporate elements of black metal, droner post-rock, stoned fuzz and flat out crushing doom. Heavy. Catch Agonhymn perform at The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine on Friday January 31. Supported by Child. Doors at 8.30pm.
METAL AT THE BENDIGO
On Sunday February 26 catch Belakor, Claim The Throne (WA), Orpheus Omega, Okera and Heisenberg at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood.
WANNA BE ON A PROMO CD WITH WORLDWIDE DISTRO?
DS Enterprises is looking for bands that want to be on a promo CD that will be released to the FReeZA underage committees in Melbourne, the heavy music club at Melbourne Uni and via the pub/club scene in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth. It will also be released in a small amount through regional Victoria and a large portion will be distributed through the club scene in the USA, UK, Canada and Romania. If you’re interested email [email protected]
RIP DOMINIC MITHEN
Indie/folk band Nice Boy Tom is probably not the kind of music you regularly see covered in Crunch but I’d just like to take a moment to remember Dominic Mithen, who passed away last week following complications from a heart transplant. Dom and I went to the same high school and I bumped into him years later when I happened across a Nice Boy Tom gig in Fitzroy. He was a sweet guy with a natural talent for music, and he will be greatly missed.
