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SPK, PBS, MARCH 29TH, CLUB IT TO DEATH.

https://pbsfm.org.au/node/64052 Tune into PBS 106.7FM Where Peter Bramley will play an exclusive special broadcast of legendary industrial/synth group SPK on his weekly radio show Club it to death. Taken from the PBS reel-to-reel tape archive, recorded live at the Seaview Ballroom on January 28, 1984. This unique document showcases SPK exploring a more accessible synth-pop sound distant from the more discordant avant-noise of their earlier efforts.

SPK were an industrial and noise group from Sydney Australia, who relocated to the UK in 1980. The band momentarily returned to Australia for a string of shows in 1983. According to Music Historian Ian Mcfarland SPK were "at the forefront of the local post-punk, electronic/experimental movement of the late 1970s ... [their] music progressed from discordant, industrial-strength metal noise to sophisticated and restrained dance-rock with strange attributes".

Images of SPK in Germany 1984, taken by Thomas Myer (via Source: Flickr / franzwalsch)

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Here we go again...

My New years resolution is to further utilise this platform to improve my music writing. Now that 2017 is now firmly underway, I’d like to post more impressions of the shows that I have seen over the course of the year. 

I moved to Melbourne from the small coastal city of Newcastle at the beginning of last year. Over the course of the year I was exposed to the amazing culture of art and music that is available in Melbourne. I put a back seat to my a lot of my hobbies and interests with the hopes of settling in. I now feel I am ready to be an active participant within Melbourne’s music scene.  

The stage manifests itself to the attitudes of the performer. Ultimately musicians all have human experiences. Some choose to Personify and posture as a means of expression, while others choose to perform in a way that is perceived as being earnest or ‘real’. All are equally valid, and there is neither a right or wrong way one should choose act.

I believe that music is an experience everybody can engage with in one way or another. I place a great deal of value on those individuals who do not hold any particular mastery or virtuosity over their respective instruments. There is something very unique in exploring a DIY practice to music making. Some one who would typically be regarded as a novice guitar player for example may show a style of playing that is more idiosyncratic to a their classically trained counter part. This is what is so exciting about punk music. Its  ‘Raw’ ‘Gutteral’ and ‘preformative’, a characteristic embraced by the Australian underground. 

I hope everybody’s year has gotten off to a good start in these trying times and I wish you all the best for 2017.

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Fast Forward Cassette Magazine issue 004 April 1981. Featuring Shivers by The Young Charlatans. 

All the ‘issues’ of Fast Forward, an Australian cassette magazine created by Bruce Milne and Andrew Maine, were digitised in 2010 and available for download right here: SPILL-LABEL

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Soggy Porridge were a band at the forefront of the Australian Post-Punk movement. They formed in 1982 from the ashes of Sydney punk band’s The Kelpies and Suicide Squad. The lineup included Mark Easton on Vocals, Paul Spooner on guitar, Cornelius Murphy on bass, and Tony Cardinal on drums. Their first single "How Can I tell You" was released after only a hand full of shows. The single was critically acclaimed and picked up major airplay on Triple J. In 1983 Soggy Porridge released a 5 track EP "Slurp Track", after which guitarist Paul Spooner passed away. The band pickup a new guitarist Jonathan Purcell in 1984. The band went on to release "Call my Name” in 1985. The band would eventually split in 1986 with Mark Easton going on to form the Candy Harlots.

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Minimalist electronic, post punk group from Melbourne Australia. Active Between 1978 - 1983, began as an instrumental duo with David Chaseworth and Robert Goodge, an offshoot of experimental music project → ↑ →. The Lineup would later include Paul Flectcher, Ian Cox and Barbara Hogarth ( All three were also former members of → ↑ →)

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shoutout to connie for writing a song about me and exposing me as the piece of shit i am

https://vedicardi.bandcamp.com/album/oen-night-in-basement

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VENOM P. STINGER

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Moving images of ladies of ‘70s/’80s punk & post-punk, part thirty-nine: Reesa & the Rooters - “Guru Eye”

(Reesa & the Rooters ultimately morphed into the great, supremely underrated Suburban Wives Club, who took this song with them & reimagined it as an even more angular, minimalist post-punk ripper on their 1982 single, which was the band’s only proper recording. Eternal favorite.)

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Shark Toys “Something Something Else” Official Video

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One of my favorite albums of 2015. I feel very privileged to have been able to have seen these guys live so many times. Guttural, Mutated Sydney post-punk, Ghastly Spats’ Spinozism Exorcism is a must listen.