Tonight I headed to the Retreat to see Ratcat frontman, Simon Day, play a solo show with Suzie Stapleton. Arriving just 5 minutes before Simon took to the stage, it was indeed good timing. Truth be told, I have never been a huge fan of the Retreat though because I don’t like the way the [...]
Archive for August, 2010
SIMON DAY @ THE RETREAT, AUGUST 29th, 2010
Posted: August 29, 2010 in Gig ReviewTags: 2010, Melbourne, Ratcat, Retreat, Simon Day, Suzie Stapleton, The Drones
THE DEVIL DOGS – Bilbao, Spain, 1991
Posted: August 29, 2010 in Random RantTags: Crypt Records, Devil Dogs, New Bomb Turks, Radio Beat, Saturday Night Fever, Spiral Objective
Hunting through all my video tapes, I came across this little gem of a video of the almighty Devil Dogs. I remember the day I discovered the Devil Dogs, I ordered some records by the New Bomb Turks and also a 7″ called “Radio Beat” by the Devil Dogs all cos the review that was in [...]
Episode 115 – Today My Podcast, Tomorrow The World
Posted: August 28, 2010 in Long Gone Loser PodcastTags: Backyard Babies, Burlesque, Dank Films, Eddie And The Hot Rods, employment, GG Allin, Heaven The Axe, Jennifer Connelly, Johnny Casino, Little Girls, Los Chicos, Missing Link Records, No Sleep Til, Radio Birdman, Ramo Records, Ratcat, Screamin Furys, Simon Day, Slush Puppies, Smudge, The Domnicks, The Only Ones, The Real Kids, The Replacements, The Shazam
This week’s show is full of great songs and rants. I am in a damn good mood for scoring a job that I actually want and I think it shows. Granted, the week had a bit of a downer to it but still, I am staying positive and optimistic. It’s all good, right? Yeah, thought [...]
THE DOMNICKS – The Spanish Club, Melbourne, August 27th, 2010
Posted: August 27, 2010 in Gig ReviewTags: Clash, Dom Mariani, Domnicks, Howard Shawcross, Marz Frisina, Melbourne, Nick Sheppard, Off The Hip, Spanish Club, The Cortinas, The Stems, Western Australia
So tonight I saw The Domnicks. For those not in the know, The Domnicks combine the guitar twangin’ talents of Dom Mariani (The Stems / DM3 / Someloves) and Nick Sheppard (The Cortinas / The Clash) and together with Howard Shawcross (The Elks / The Jackals) on bass and Marz Frisina (DM3 / The Calhoons) on drums, they make [...]
OFF THE HIP RECORDS 100th RELEASE BBQ
Posted: August 22, 2010 in Gig ReviewTags: BBQ, Buried Horses, Frowning Clouds, GOD, Johnny Casino, Little Murders, Los Chicos, Mass Cult Suicide, Melbourne, Midnight Woolf, Of The Hip, Powder Monkeys, Russian Roulettes, Sole Stickers, Spain, Spencer P Jones, The Cheats, The Living Eyes, The Tote, Wrong Turn
For any small time label to get past release one is a feat in itself but when you have 100 releases under your belt and a shitload to follow, that’s commendable. Melbourne label Off The Hip Records has done just that. They have stuck with their product, stood by it through thick and thin, rejected [...]
RAMONES – Performing a Medley for the MTV Awards, 1995.
Posted: August 22, 2010 in Random RantTags: 1995, Awards, Dee Dee Ramone, Elton John, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Madonna, Marky Ramone, MTV, Neil Diamond, Ramones, Stone Temple Pilots, Warren G
Back in 1995, the MTV Movie Awards was not something I would usually sit down and watch, mainly because I knew the likes of John Waters, Russ Meyer and Herschell Gordon Lewis weren’t going to be receiving any awards for anything anyway but before the program started, there was a comercial break. During this commercial break, [...]
The 5.6.7.8′s and Japanese Culture
Posted: August 17, 2010 in Random RantTags: 5.6.7.8's, Boris, Estrella 20/20, Estrus, Gasoline, Guitar Wolf, Jackie & The Cedrics, Japan, Jayne Mansfield, Jet Boy, Kill Bill, MAD 3, Puffy, Quentin Tarantino, SBS, Sit & Spin, Supersnazz, The 5678's, The Pebbles, The Switch Trout, Thrash Grind Grunge
I love Japan, it’s as simple as that. I have been there a number of times and you really can’t beat the awesomeness of the place. It’s like one giant amusement park with lots of bright lights, nice people and great music. This video below was a segment from a TV show on Japanese culture that was [...]
FACTOTUM BOOKS
Posted: August 16, 2010 in Random RantTags: Adelaide, Art, Blood Sucking Freaks, Campbell McInnes, Charles Manson, Dominator Music, Factotum Books, Grunter, John Wayne Gacy, Kami, Paintings, Postcards, records, Serial Killers, The Mark Of Cain, Thrash Grind Grunge, Today Tonight, Truth Corroded
Sometime in the mid to late 90′s, there was this awesome record store in Adelaide called Thrash Grind & Grunge. It was also home to Dominator Records; a label that was home to such bands as The Mark Of Cain, Bloodsucking Freaks, Grunter, and Truth Corroded, just to name a few. Each week I’d go there [...]
MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Posted: August 15, 2010 in Random RantTags: Art Chantry, Astro-man, Estrus, Instrumental, Man Or Astroman, Maximum Rock N Roll, Sci-Fi, Undertone, You Am I
I remember the day I discovered Man Or Astro-man? The singer of Undertone, Grover, and myself were record shopping in Adelaide sometime in the mid 90′s and he purchased a 7″ record called “Inside The Head Of Mr Atom” (Estrus, 1995). Grover always had mixed tapes playing in his car and one time Man Or Astro-man were playing [...]
THE HELLACOPTERS ON THE “HEAVY SHIFT” ON CHANNEL V
Posted: August 14, 2010 in Random RantTags: AC/DC, Australian Idol, Boba Fett, Channel V, Gluecifer, Heavy Shift, Hellacopters, Kiss, Nicke Andersson, rock, Sweden, Tym Guitars
I was going through my old video tapes and stumbled across this. After re-watching this I knew I had to upload it for all to see. Right here we have a classic interview with Nicke and Boba from Sweden’s greatest rock n roll band, The Hellacopters, being interview by Australian Idol host, Andy G. Why [...]
Episode 113 – The Tiredest Podcast Awake
Posted: August 13, 2010 in Long Gone Loser PodcastTags: Alice Cooper, Bad Religion, Fifteen, Gwar, Hoss, Iron Maiden, Les Annees, Meanies, Powerchords, Rory Gallagher, Tegan and Sara, Urban Junior
This show I talk etched records. You know the ones, those records that have drawings on one side of them. Yeah, of course you do. Anyway, I spin one of those. I talk about my current unemployment status and my continued search for work, failing job interviews and other such stuff. I also talk about Iron Maiden’s [...]
Episode 112 – Super Wild Podcasts!
Posted: August 7, 2010 in Long Gone Loser PodcastTags: Ash, Big Day Out, Billy Gaz Station, Degrassi, Harry Sons, HoZac, Iron Maiden, Jesus Lizard, Johnny Casino, Kicking Records, Los Chicos, Muscle Car, Sixtyniners, Soundwave, Super Wild Horses, Testament, Violet and Anya
On this show, I gotta say, I was fired up. So much great new tunes to play and so many cool things to tell… like seeing both Ash and Testament in the same week. Awesome! In news I talk tours of Iron Maiden and Super Wild Horses, there’s a bunch of Soundwave news, Big Day Out and festival [...]
Episode 111 – Don’t Blame Your Troubles On Me
Posted: August 6, 2010 in Album Review, Long Gone Loser PodcastTags: Alex Chilton, Beat, Big Star, King Of Power Pop, Nikki Corvette, Paul Collins, Ramones, Romantics, The Nerves, The Yum Yums
Following on from what I wrote on this blog last week with the review of the new Paul Collins album, this episode I go through the album, play tunes from it and talk about it and give you my biased review of his new power pop opus. Just click here and you will be able to [...]
ASH – Billboards The Venue, August 4th, 2010
Posted: August 5, 2010 in Gig ReviewTags: 2010, 4th, Arcadia, Ash, August, Billboard, Burn Baby Burn, Girl From Mars, Goldfinger, Ireland, Kung Fu, Mark Hamilton, Melbourne, Mudhoney, Rick McMurray, Tim Wheeler, We Are Scientists, Weezer
Arriving early to the venue, I was greeted with an aftershow pass much to my surprise, which is good because I took along a piece of history just in case I had the chance to bump into Tim and Co. while at the show; a poster from their very first Australian tour in 1995. I [...]
Reviews for the 1st of August, 2010
Posted: August 1, 2010 in Album ReviewTags: A Year To Remember, American Uprise, Amphead, Billy Gaz Station, Black Zombie Procession, Boomtown, Crud!, Dangerous Summer, DND, Hellbats, Hipbone Slim, Hopeless, House Vs Hurricane, Joystix, Kicking Records, Kill Teen Angst, Lame Excuse, Lauren Harris, Les Annees, Movie Star Junkies, Newtonheath, Off The Hip, Periah, Shimmys, Sixtyniners, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Stark, The Blacklist, Uncut White Noise, Urban Junior, Vanity Ink, Voodoo Rhythm
Heaps of reviews today. Some of these were written at the time the album arrived and some of them were written over this last week. Still, here we go with another batch of music that was sent in for review. Songs from these releases can be heard on the Long Gone Loser Rock Show. Enjoy! [...]










