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NEGATIVE GUEST LIST PRESENTS: POLKA BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE
Festival de la Negativity
SAT DEC. 10
THE PRIMITIVE
... SPRING HILL HOTEL (100 Leichhardt St)
$12
BLANK REALM (7" launch) Brisbane's family cult psych/rock extravaganza. The group will be unleashing their 'Falling Down the Stairs' 7" (NGL021) on the night.
MAD NANNA (VIC) First time in QLD for Melbourne's best band! A revolving line up that includes members of Silk Ears, Bird Blobs, White Altar and more.
MEAT THUMP (TINGALPA) NGL house band. "Downer country" jams meets VU inspired blooze w/ fried anything goes Oz punk spirit.
3 TOED SLOTH (NSW) (7" LAUNCH) Refined purveyors of primo grunt, featuring Tom from feedtime on drums and Andrew o the great Greatdividing records. This will be the springboard for the second NGL "Jukebox single" (NGL024), wherein 3TS cover Pere Ubu and Gary Glitter to typically grouse effect.
AXEMEN (NZ (7" LAUNCH) Maiden Oz voyage for fantastic New Zealand DIY coffee wine brewing punks. A tour single, entitled 'Nutsack b/w Nutshack Redemption Song' (NGL/Sleek Bott 1) will be available on the night, as well as their recent LP reissues from Siltbreeze Records.
+ MORE TBA
NGL will be also be launching the WATERY LOVE 'Two Thrills' 7" (NGL022) and LOST DOMAIN 'Drunken Sailor' 7 (NGL023)
SUN DEC. 11
116 LATROBE TERRACE
Afternoon show
SCHOOL GIRL REPORT
REUNION SACRED IBIS
XNOBBQX/MUURA
EXILES FROM CLOWNTOWN
+ SPECIAL GUESTS
AXEMEN Press: "The Axemen started in Christchurch in 1981, a time when New Zealand and Flying Nun records in particular were stirring up a major musical waves (ones that were felt in countless 1990's US indie bands and are still being felt today especially disciples like TNV), yet the sweeping, strummy pop element that was evident in many of the Nun's stable was only a part of the fuzzy picture that was the Axemen. The band's central core of (Little) Stevie McCabe, Bob Brannigan, and Stu Kawowski recorded in both cheapo home mode and in traditional studios, but setting had little to do with the wide-swing of directions that are evident wherever you drop a needle (or cue up a tape). There's tons of basement weirdness nodding to the more antisocial Velvets and Swell Maps moments, scatterings of drunken White Album recreation attempts, even moments where they sound like Royal Trux way before their time. When they played at Union Pool in Brooklyn last week I could swear they were going for a Stackwaddy/Doors thing, but then they became Half Japanese with Stevie playing sax solos on guitar. In Axemen recordings, they have one song about Elmer Fudd that sounds like Psychic TV, and another that is totally inspired by Grandmaster Flash. They even did a full album of Elton John songs. I have a feeling that if Flying Nun gave them the giant studio budget like they did Straitjacket Fits they would have come up with an album just as great as their Big Cheap Motel and Scary! Part III cassettes that Siltbreeze thankfully reissued in 2009." - Brian Turner/WMFU
"Originally seeing the light of day on the Flying Nun label in 1985, 3V?s ('Three Virgins' 2xLP) is a broad canvas of sound, seemingly channeling other likeminded cornerstones of fringe rumble such as ?Trout Mask Replica?, ?Exile On Main Stree?t & ?Tago Mago?." - Siltblog
"Normally, when people use the phrase ?a musician?s musician,? it?s meant to describe some Les Claypool nightmare whose dexterity and technical skill can only be properly appreciated by people who have also dedicated themselves to a life of fretless guitars and sweep arpeggios. That being said: When New Zealand?s Axemen want to be, they?re musicians? musicians. It takes some effort to crack the self-serving exterior of their approach (getting drunk, recording off-the-cuff songs with whoever was hanging around, and releasing as much of it as humanly possible) but, as anyone who?s ever tried this approach themselves can attest, it?s completely intoxicating as long as you don?t muck it up by throwing in any pretensions of sophistication. By making their methods obvious and leaving very little to the imagination, Axemen have created a bunch of music that perfectly encapsulates the feeling of fucking around creatively with your friends. " - Dusted
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