And the full line up...

Here's how the rest of it pans out. Honestly, I have had a lot of time on my hands recently. And I am aware that no one gives a shit. Over.

Favourite Albums
1. Art Of Fighting – Second Storey [Trifekta]
2. 78 Saab – Crossed Lines [Ivy League]
3. Rocket Science – Eternal Holiday [Modular]
4. The Wagons – Draw Blood [Spunk!]
5. Audiophile – Notes And Errata [independent]
6. Dappled Cities Fly – A Smile [Smash Music]
7. Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males - Sing The Tabloid Blues [In-Fidelity]
8. The Sand Pebbles – Ghost Transmission [Raoul]
9. TZU - Position Correction [Liberation]
10. Dallas Crane – Dallas Crane [Albert Productions]
11. Oneironaut – Pure Through Evolution [Low Transit Industries]
12. Decoder Ring – Somersault OST [EMI]
13. Grey Daturas – Long Dark Night [Crashing Jets]
14. New Buffalo – The Last Beautiful Day [Dot Dash]

Favourite Songs
1. Alex Jarvis – Seconds [Luxury & Denial EP: Pharmacy Records]
2. The Casinos – City Lights [City Lights EP/7”: Low Transit Industries]
3. Dr Invisiablo – Pop Song [demo: independent]
4. Wolf & Cub – Spirals [Wolf & Cub EP: Dot Dash]
5. Tobias Cummings – Your Eyes [You Incomplete Me EP: In-Fidelity]
6. The Rumours – If I Could See You [We Are Happy LP: Cavalier]
7. My Disco – In Figures Of Speech [Language Of Numbers EP: Crashing Jets]
8. The Morning After Girls – Chasing Us Under [2 EP: Fly Music]
9. The Grates – Trampoline [The Ouch The Touch EP: Dew Process]
10. New Buffalo – Recovery [The Last Beautiful Day LP: Dot Dash]
11. The Spazzys – Zatopeks [Aloha! Go Bananas LP: Fur Records]
12. Gyroscope - Midnight Express [Sound Shattering Sound: Mushroom]
13. Love Of Diagrams – In The Red [We Got Communication EP: Unstable Ape]
14. Sinking Citizenship – Last Minute Intervention [Broadcasting Germs: UXB]
15. The Fragments – You Saw Me Fall [single: independent]
16. Faker – Quarter To Three [Addicted Romantic LP: Inertia]
17. The Crayon Fields – Do It First [The Good Life EP: Cavalier]
18. Presets – Cookie [Blow Out EP: Modular]
19. Infusion - The Careless Kind [Six Feet Above Yesterday LP: Audioriot]
20. Intercooler - If I Try [Dance Of A Thousand Promises EP: Reverberation]
21. Darren Hanlon – The Unmade Bed [Little Chills LP: Candle]

NB: I made a point of trying not to include bands that featured on the albums list, for broadcast purposes. Lots of those albums have multiple songs that would have dominated the songs list. So there.

Favourite Live Bands
The Casinos
The Blacklist
Midnight Juggernauts
Rocket Science
Bird Blobs
The Drones
Wolf & Cub
78 Saab
The Wagons
Colditz Glider
Remake Remodel
My Disco
Kicks
Dirty Three
Deep Where All Drown

That's about it. I have a couple of favourite gigs, but simply, I love seeing bands, so it's kind of like splitting hairs. Thanks for getting this far - and have a great Christmas. Might see you at Mistletoe at Ding Dong this Christmas night.

2004: A Tyranny Of Distance Vanity Project

Today I present my favourites of 2004. It's also APRA week, so my sub bands get a look in too. Here is the projected line up - a playlist, if you will:

Two Thousand Mavericks – Hey Captain [single: independent] (subscriber band)

Favourite LPS
Decoder Ring – Somersault OST [Inertia] Snowflake
Oneironaut – Pure Through Evolution [Low Transit Industries] Flown Away
Dallas Crane – Dallas Crane [Albert Productions] Wrong Party
The Sand Pebbles – Ghost Transmission [Raoul] The Day Summer Fell
Dappled Cities Fly – A Smile [Smash Music] Corpus Kinaesthesia
Audiophile – Notes And Errants [unsigned] Untitled
The Wagons – Draw Blood [Spunk!] This Is What Death Looks Like
Rocket Science – Eternal Holiday [Modular] See The Sun
78 Saab – Crossed Lines [Ivy League] Beat Of Your Drum
Art Of Fighting – Second Storey [Trifekta] Along The Run (subscriber band)

The Crayon Fields - Do It First [The Good Life EP: Cavalier]

Favourite Songs
New Buffalo – Recovery [The Last Beautiful Day LP: Dot Dash]
The Grates – Trampoline [The Ouch The Touch EP: Dew Process]
The Morning After Girls – Chasing Us Under [2 EP: Fly Music]
My Disco – In Figures Of Speech [Language Of Numbers EP: Crashing Jets]
The Rumours – If I Could See You [We Are Happy LP: Cavalier]
Tobias Cummings – Don't You Know? [You Incomplete Me EP: In-Fidelity Recordings]
Wolf & Cub – Spirals [Wolf & Cub EP: Dot Dash]
Dr Invisiablo – Pop Song [demo: independent]
The Casinos – City Lights [City Lights EP/7”: Low Transit Industries]
Alex Jarvis – Seconds [Luxury & Denial EP: Pharmacy Records]

Sinking Citizenship - Last Minute Intervention [Broadcasting Germs LP: UXB Recordings]
Love Of Diagrams - In The Red [We Got Communication EP: Unstable Ape Records]
Fire Underground - Just Do It [Chase Scene EP: independent] (subscriber band)

Playlist

Todd Sparrow: Enough About Me (What Do You Think About Me?) (Here's To The Start Of Something Beautiful LP)
The Crayon Fields: Do It First ( The Good Life EP)
Royalchord: Through The Trees (Through The Trees EP)
The Gin Club: Wylde Bitch (The Gin Club LP)
The Spoils: Come Down (Goodnight Victoria forthcoming LP)
The Spoils: Warmington St (Goodnight Victoria forthcoming LP)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Breathless (Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus LP)
Tobias Cummings: Your Eyes (You Incomplete Me EP)
The Morning After Girls: Always Mine (2 EP)
Gaslight Radio: One Kid
Oh! Belgium: Cold Cold Kiss (7")
The Grates: Sukkafish (The Ouch The Touch forthcoming LP)
Night Hour: The Doldrums (single)
Night Hour: Maths & Magic (The Doldrums single)
The Raylenes: Never Play The Dane
The Fragments: Go Back (Obvious single)
After The Fall: You + Me = Breakdown (After The Fall LP)
The Scare: Stop! (Masochist Mimes EP)
Regurgitator: I Was Sent By God To Get You Off (Mish Mash LP)
Barrage: Marceline (SBS Whatever Sessions 2 compilation)
The Head: Onimba (demo)
Chasm featuring Mantra: Metamorphed Tongues (Chasm EP)
TZU: The Horse You Rode In On (Position Correction LP)
Cut Copy: Saturdays (Bright Like Neon Love LP)

Thanks to Sean of the Spoils and Josh of Night Hour for guest appearances as well. Kudos guys...

Gig Guide

TUESDAY DECEMBER 14
Ash Naylor @ Rainbow
Matt Handley @ Green Room
Ned Colette (CityCityCity) + The Sea Peoples @ Old Bar

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15
Faker + Riff Random @ Ding Dong

THURSDAY DECEMBER 16
Faker + The Bites @ The Espy
The Fray CD launch @ The Evelyn
The Casinos CD launch @ Shake Some Action, 161
Osterberg + Jape Squad @ The Tote
My Disco + Die Die Die @ Ding Dong

FRIDAY DECEMBER 17
Sojourn + The Hampdens + Night Hour @ Revolver
Tranquilizers + The Glass Age + Talk Show Boy @ Rob Roy
The Fragments @ Pony 2am
New Here Now Christmas show w/ Those Bloody McKennas + The Raylenes + Sophie Koh + Emma Heeney + Surrogate Turnip @ The Empress
After The Fall + Wishful Thinking + Tiltmeter + Behind Crimson Eyes + Porkers + Mesablanka @ Mooroolbark Community Centre (Freeza) $10

SATURDAY DECEMBER 18
Bird Blobs @ The Tote
A Ghost Devotion + The Beings + Night Hour @ Duke Of Windsor
Gaslight Radio + The Fragments + Alex Jarvis @ The Rob Roy
Whatever Sessions 2 launch w/ The Emergency + Sparrow Hill + ii + Artifishal Limb + The Rich @ The Empress
Bird Blobs CD launch @ The Tote
Regurgitator + Wolfmother + Macromantics + Dr El Suavo + Lucas Abela @ HiFi

SUNDAY DECEMBER 19
Dynamo + British India @ POW
Regurgitator + Ponyloaf + Pre Teen Braves + The Grates @ Corner
TZU @ St Jeromes
The Spoils @ Town Hall
Cut Copy @ Honkytonks

Live Music Week

No playlist as such this week, just lots of live music from the Midnight Juggernauts, Gelbison and Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males - who were the only ones fresh as a daisy. Put the rest of us to shame. Thanks heaps to those boys, and also to the guys from Faker, we all needed more sleep this morning.

Thanks also to all the good people that rang in to pledge and pay - we are grateful for everything, it is all much needed and much appreciated. Thanks to all our supporters!

Live Muic Week continues till Friday so keep those donations and subscriptions coming in... and keep listening!

Next week on Tyranny Of Distance, Josh Pyke of Night Hour will be calling about his new single 'The Doldrums' and I'm hoping to have a chat to Ben Lee, and maybe Regurgitator. Fingers crossed.

GIG GUIDE

TUESDAY DECEMBER 7
Ash Naylor @ Rainbow
Faker + CityCityCity + Tranquilisers @ Tote
PBS Festival Of Song Grand Final @ The Corner

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8
New Buffalo @ Gertrudes
Tobias Cummings & The Long Way Home @ Ding Dong
Fire Underground + The Harvest + The Penelope Project @ Kashmir

THURSDAY DECEMBER 9
Art Of Fighting @ Famous Spiegeltent
Wolfmother + Wolf & Cub + Die Die Die @ 161
Joni Lightning + The Hovercrafts @ Ding Dong

FRIDAY DECEMBER 10
22-20s + Dan Brodie @ HiFi Bar
Wolfmother @ Ding Dong
Jape Squad @ Pony 2am
Two Thousand Mavericks @ The Rob Roy

SATURDAY DECEMBER 11
Ben Lee + Laura Jean @ Ding Dong

SUNDAY DECEMBER 12
Spazzys @ St Jeromes
The Wagons @ The Marquis Of Lorne

MONDAY DECEMBER 13
Tex Perkins @ The Famous Spiegeltent

And not forgetting the massive line up at Meredith Music Festival December 10-12, featuring the following Aussie bands:
Dirty Three; Dexter & Shook Daily Crew; Rocket Science; Spiderbait; Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males; Red Eyes; Wolfmother; Dallas Crane; Hilltop Hoods; My Disco; Xavier Rudd; CW Stoneking; True Live; Dynamo; Ground Components; 67 Special; Wolf & Cub; Always; The Redsunband; Die Die Die; Digger & The Pussycats

See you there (if I am not blind)!

This week...

Aside from anticipated live sets from Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males and Midnight Juggernauts; Faker - the Sydney quintet behind that great track Quarter To Three - will be in for a chat. Talk then...

And just added, a live set from Sydney's Gelbison!! Listen in!

Playlist

Regurgitator: If This Is The Blues Why Do I Feel So Green? (Mish Mash LP)
Faker: Quarter To Three (Addicted Romantic forthcoming LP)
Gelbison: Keep It Clean (See The World LP)
Old Man River: Your Side (Sunshine single)
Denvar: What You Want (Work Sleep Die EP)
Alex Jarvis: Seconds (Luxury & Denial EP)
Ill Bravados: Hall Of Annexed Records (Singles Club: Low Transit Industries Split 7" Collective)
Presets: The Girl & The Sea (The Girl & The Sea EP)
Presets: Kitty In The Middle (The Girl & The Sea EP)
Ben Lee: Desire (Gamble Everything For Love single)
Mid State Orange: Casualties Of Casualties (Singles Club: Low Transit Industries Split 7" Collective)
Architecture In Helsinki: Do The Whirlwind (single)
The Casinos: Street On The Beat (City Lights EP)
The New Black: Away
The Avenues: Gold & Grey
Gyroscope: Confidence In Confidentiality (Sound Shattering Sound LP)
Black Level Embassy: Noradrenaline (Fear Like Young LP)
Jape Squad: The Lighthouse Lies (single)
The Spazzys: Zatopeks (Aloha Go Bananas! LP)
The Casanovas: One More Time (The Casanovas LP)
The Tremors: Dry Cleaner (Cash Up Front No Kissing LP)
Royalchord: What's Been Going On Around Here (Through The Trees LP)
Laura Jean: The Hunter's Ode (The Hunter's Ode EP)

Thanks to Julian of the Presets who are playing several shows in Melbourne this weekend and their single The Girl & The Sea is out now through Modular.

GIG GUIDE

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30
Ash Naylor @ Rainbow
Faun Fables + Guy Blackman + Laura Jean @ Wesley Ann
Faker + Mid State Orange + Daughter Boy Jao @ Tote
Matt Handley @ Green Room

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1
Pitch Black + Cornerstone Roots + Red Eyes @ POW
Two Thousand Mavericks + 1QA + Valley Of Nine @ Kashmir (Southbank)

THURSDAY DECEMBER 2
Presets + Midnight Juggernauts + Barrage @ Ding Dong
D4 + Tremors + Cannon @ Tote
The Hovercrafts @ The Evelyn

FRIDAY DECEMBER 3
The Tremors + Cyclones + The Presets @ Espy
D4 + Specimens + The Blacklist @ Ding Dong
Legends Of Motorsport + Black Level Embassy + Cockfight Shootout + Kamikaze Trio @ Evelyn
Gyroscope + Nation Blue + The Bleeders (NZ) @ Corner
Smallgoods + Casinos + Mid State Orange @ Rubys Belgrave

SATURDAY DECEMBER 4
Specimens + Blacklist @ The Espy
Royalchord video launch @ Wesley Ann in Northcote

SUNDAY DECEMBER 5
Clare Bowditch @ St Jeromes
Groovesmiths @ Old Bar

Presets will be calling in this week and rolling in to town for a couple of shows - at Cut It Out down at Ding Dong on Thursday with the Midnight Juggernauts and Barrage, and another at the Espy on Friday night with the Tremors and the Cyclones.

Preparations are under way for PBS' incredible Live Music Week which starts this Thursday. So many highlights, so much live music, so much fun. Don't miss out...

Meredith will soon be upon us too. The week following - Tuesday December 14 - features a couple of BLOCKBUSTER interviews with Regurgitator and Ben Lee.
Join me, and recover with the radio.

Playlist

Her Majesty's Finest: Debt Collector (single)
The Fauves: Weak Chin (The Fauves LP)
The Spazzys: Surfen Bird (Aloha Go Bananas LP)
Intercooler: If I Try
Tonjip: Selection Criteria (Nice Guys EP)
No Through Road: The Chelsea Theatre (The Chelsea Theatre EP)
Wolf & Cub: Spirals (Wolf & Cub EP)
My Disco: In Figures Of Speech (Language Of Numbers EP)
The Grey Daturas: Golden Gate Blues (Dead In The Woods LP)
selected by Robbie of the Grey Daturas:
The Gordons: Spik & Span (The Gordons LP)
The Golden Lifestyle Band: There Is No Me
The Grey Daturas: Your Kingdom Falls (Dead In The Woods LP)
Alex Jarvis: Luxury (Luxury EP)
Architecture In Helsinki: Do The Whirlwind (Haimi remix) (single)
Gelbison: I Don't Wanna Die Here With You (All The Rage LP)
Fourth Floor Collapse: Godspeed (single)
Regurgitator: My Friend Robot (Mish Mash LP)
The Fragments: Obvious (single)
The Fragments: You Saw Me Fall (single)
The Presets: Mia's Mouse (The Girl And The Sea EP)
Coda: Giraffe Girl (For All Our Animal Friends EP)

Much thanks to Robbie of the Grey Daturas and Piers of the Fragments for their time as well.

GIG GUIDE

GIG GUIDE
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23
Matt Handley (Pollyanna) @ Green Room

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24
The Fragments @ Duke Of Windsor
Tiger By The Tail @ Town Hall

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25
The Fragments @ The Empress
Gelbison + End Of Fashion @ Gershwin

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26
Wicked Beat Sound System + Maya Jupiter @ The Corner
Blacklist + Jed Whitey + Devil Rock Four @ Tote
Grey Daturas + Limited Epress (Has Gone?) instore @ Missing Link
British India + Exploders @ Ding Dong
The Fauves @ The Evelyn
Blueline Medic + Behind Crimson Eyes + Fire Underground @ The Espy
Queenscliff Music Festival (till November 28)

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27
Black Cab + Sand Pebbles + Rectifiers @ Revolver
The Fauves @ The Evelyn

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 28
Grey Daturas + Limited Epress (Has Gone?) + Young Professionals + Bug Girl @ Builders Arms
Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males @ St Jeromes

The Fragments and Grey Daturas...

...are special guests on the show this week.

From Sydney, Damian and Piers have been kicking round in various bands but have now settled into their roles as the Fragments. They have just stepped out of the recording studio with a new single - Obvious - and they'll be on the phone to tell me all about it tomorrow.

The Grey Daturas are a local instrumental trio that have been around for a few years and have just released a shredding instrumental album called Dead In The Woods, which, being that time of year and all, has just sneaked it in to make my top Australian releases of the year - if indeed I was to attempt a list. It's an awesome album on Crashing Jets, the label that brought you that incredible My Disco EP recently.

From their website:

This November, the Grey Daturas give birth to their 2nd album ‘Dead In The Woods’ on the CRASHINGJETS label (My Disco, Agents of Abhorrence); chock full of spaced-out jams, freak-outs and the usual noise you'd expect from the improvisational trio.

Since their earliest shows in 2001 the Grey Daturas have been celebrated as being one of the loudest and most uncompromising live acts gigging within Melbourne’s underground scene. The band’s main objective from their onset was to improvise live soundtracks to 16 mm films, however since losing a permanent projectionist the three core members of the Grey Daturas, Robert Macmanus, Robert Mayson and Bonnie Mercer, have had to adapt to performing without regular visual accompaniments. While there are no actual ‘songs’ in the Grey Daturas repertoire, all improvisations reveal common traits distinct to the band… from electronic drones, impromptu rock riffing, industrious drumming , and most importantly, noise. Their sound has already gained them support slots with the likes of Magic Dirt, Neil Hamburger, Kim Salmon, Bar McKinnon (Mr Bungle), and Clann Zu. In 2002 The Grey Daturas headlined a night at the Next Wave Festival. They have double-headlined two tours to Adelaide (once with Sir and again with Birdblobs) and also headlined two tours to Hobart.

From the 11th to the 12th of the September 2004, the Grey Daturas knuckled down with Melbourne sound engineer Neil Thomason (Ricaine), to record a series of improvisations for their latest album ‘Dead in the Woods’. The 16 tracks selected for ‘Dead in the Woods’ traverses electronic drone-scapes, one minute freak-outs, blissfully-heavy psych jams and in-determinant music games. While crammed full of the sounds the daturas have shaped into their own they are not shy to draw upon influences as varied as The Stooges, German 70’s electronic outfit Cluster, American doom-drone band Earth, and 20th century composer John Cage.

The band have a couple of shows scheduled with Japanese act Limited Express (Has Gone?). Friday November 26 both bands will be at Missing Link (in the basement at 405 Bourke Street) from 5.30pm and again on Sunday November 28 they'll both be playing with the Young Professionals & Bug Girl at the Builders Arms in Fitzroy.

Live Music Week

Check out the remarkable line up PBS has got coming up for Live Music Week this December. Truckloads of awesome artists...

Thu Dec 2, 7-10pm Transglobal Underground (UK) (opening night: Studio 5 Live/Planetary Chaos)
Thu Dec 2, 10pm-midnight Naomi (Syd) (Radio de Janeiro)

Fri Dec 3, 8-9am Music Vs Physics (The Morning After)
Fri Dec 3, 9-11am Dave Graney solo/acoustic
Fri Dec 3, 1-3pm Jeff Lang (Now Dig This)
Fri Dec 3, 3-5pm The D4 (NZ) (Shock Treatment)
Fri Dec 3, 8.30-10pm Francisco Foo (Under the Radar)

Sat Dec 4, 12-2am Field Trip (Hippopotamus Rex)
Sat Dec 4, 2-6am Casionova (Irvine Jump)
Sat Dec 4, 11am-1pm Logic? (Bitches Brew)
Sat Dec 4, 1-3pm Selfish Lovers (Soul Time)
Sat Dec 4, 3-5pm Higher Heights + special guest Traffik (Chant Down Babylon)
Sat Dec 4, 5-7pm Cold Sweat (Soulgroove '66)
Sat Dec 4, 10pm-midnight Mr Scruff (UK) (Breakfluid)

Sun Dec 5, 9-11am Alex Burns (The Gospel Show)
Sun Dec 5, 11am-1pm Louis King & the Liars Klub (Blue Juice)
Sun Dec 5, 1-3pm Los Cabrones (Dizzy Atmosphere)
Sun Dec 5, 3-5pm Moshtag Ensemble (Global Village)
Sun Dec 5, 5-7pm Hugo Race + True Spirit plus The Altamonts (Mystery Train)
Sun Dec 5, 7-8.30pm Sin City (No Frills)
Sun Dec 5, 8.30-10pm Sunwrae (Hybrid)

Mon Dec 6, 8-9am Mick Turner (The Morning After)
Mon Dec 6, 11am-1pm Blow It Out Ya Brass Band (Serious Fun)
Mon Dec 6, 3-5pm The Stabs (Makeshift Swahili)
Mon Dec 6, 10pm-12am Tom Fryer (Something Else)

Tue Dec 7, 12-2am Grey Daturas (The In Sound From Way Out)
Tue Dec 7, 9-11am The Church plus Ai Yamamoto (Coolin' By Sound)
Tue Dec 7, 11am-1pm Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males plus Midnight Juggernautz (Tyranny of Distance)
Tue Dec 7, 1-3pm The Railing Crossways (Southern Style)
Tue Dec 7, 3-5pm The Drones (Muscle Souls)
Tue Dec 7, 5-7pm Full Size Dwarf (The Bright White Land Of Comfort)
Tue Dec 7, 8-10pm Rene & Etienne (Africa # 1)
Tue Dec 7, 10pm-12am Crimsonfire (Screaming Symphony)

Wed Dec 8, 9-11am Fret Jockeys (Roots of Rhythm)
Wed Dec 8, 1-3pm Zydeco Jump (Jumpin' The Blues)
Wed Dec 8, 3-5pm Sand Pebbles (Bone Machine)
Wed Dec 8, 5-7pm The Cants (Sunglasses After Dark)
Wed Dec 8, 7-8pm Alex Jarvis (host Adrian Ockerby)
Wed Dec 8, 8-10pm The Diddley Daddies (It's A Gas)
Wed Dec 8, 10pm-12am The Blacklist (Burning Bitumen)
Thu Dec 9, 12-2am The Tea Party (Canada) acoustic (Low Grooves)

Thu Dec 9, 8am Konqistidor (The Morning After)
Thu Dec 9, 1-3pm T-Bones (Acid Country)
Thu Dec 9, 3-5pm Irrelevant (Syd) (Headwealth)
Thu Dec 9, 5-7pm Tex Perkins Dark Horses trio plus M Ward (US) (Totally Wired)
Thu Dec 9, 7-8pm The Unicorns (Canada) (Studio 5 Live)
Thu Dec 9, 8-10pm Secret Masters (Planetary Chaos)
Thu Dec 9, 10pm-12am Quantic w/- Alice Russell (UK) (Radio De Janeiro)

Fri Dec 10, 9-11am Saddleback (Syd)
Fri Dec 10, 1-3pm Jimi Hocking (Now Dig This)
Fri Dec 10, 3-5pm Young Heart Attack (US) (Shock Treatment)
Fri Dec 10, 5-7pm The Dirty Three (Beat Orgy)

PLAYLIST

The Cops: Dirty Little Rebel (Stomp On Tripwires LP)
Muscles: Fish Fingers (single)
The Zebras: Look Confident (The Zebras LP)
Paper Tiger: Late Night Washing (While You Are Gone EP)
Paper Tiger: One Drop Short (While You Are Gone EP)
Joni Lightning: Calling In My (Joni Lightning LP)
Joni Lightning: Love You Too Hard (live)
Joni Lightning: Makin' Mistakes (live)
Small Knives: Loss Leader (Paper Wings single)
Wolf & Cub: Targets (Wolf & Cub EP)
The RedSunBand: Dark Days (Peapod LP)
Dirty Three: Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Bacon (PBS 25 Years To Life: An Exploration Of Music & Crime 2CD - pick one up when you subscribe now)
Alex Jarvis: Seconds (Luxury And Denial EP)
The Fragments: Obvious (single)
The Smallgoods: Spending The Morning (This Is The Show EP)
Warde Elliott & Thin Man: All Good (Tall Stories LP)
Youth Group: Piece Of Wood (Skeleton Jar LP)

Big props to Dave and Paddy of Joni Lightning, Matt High of Meredith Music Festival and Alicia of Paper Tiger for making the show this week.
Toby of Youth Group will be on PBS some time later this week. Details to come.

Thanks all.

GIG GUIDE

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16
Ash Naylor @ Rainbow Hotel

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17
Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon @ Duke Of Windsor
Matt Walker & Ashley Davies @ The Vic

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18
Crayon Fields + The Zebras + Blessington @ Ding Dong
78 Saab + Intercooler + The Kits @ Espy
Fourth Floor Collapse + The Hampdens @ Duke Of Windsor
Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon @ The Empress

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19
The Cops + Red Riders + Todd Sparrow @ Ding Dong
The Hovercrafts + The Zebras + Paper Tiger + Sound Platform @ Pony with 1QA at 2am
Youth Group + Ross McLennan + Mid State Orange @ The Evelyn
Black Level Embassy + Grand Fatal (double CD launch) + Colditz Glider + True Radical Miracle @ Arthouse
Fourth Floor Collapse + Fur Patrol + Goldenhorse + Charles Foster Kane @ The Espy
Joni Lightning (CD launch) + CW Stoneking + Ben Birchall @ Gershwin Room
Warde Elliott & Thin Man + Sophie Koh @ Cornish Arms
The Suits (CD launch) @ Tote

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20
78 Saab + Ben Birchall & The Corrections @ Ding Dong
Wagons + Marcel Borrack + The Vandas + Happy Lonesome @ Espy
Deloris @ Tote
Casanovas + 67 Special + Osterberg @ Corner
Blueline Medic @ The Arthouse
Guild League + Tugboat + Paper Tiger @ The Vic
Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon @ Kingfisher Festival, Ceres Community Gardens
Sin City + Mach Pelican + Nunchukka Supafly + Gels + El Bruto @ Green Room
Charles Foster Kane + Special Patrol @ The Empress
Charles Foster Kane @ Pony 2am

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 21
Architecture In Helsinki @ St Jeromes

From the sublime to the ridiculous...

After a solid ONE WEEK's break from interviewing, this week sees the motherload of special guests. Jesus, can't a girl get some rest!!!

This week, not only is Joni Lightning set to serenade us live in the studio, but Paper Tiger call in from Adelaide, Youth Group jump on the telling bone from Sydney and Matt High - he of Meredith Music Festival which is creeping up oh so quickly - is coming in for a yarn as well.

PBS is where the action is.


And here's a whisper....

Live music week is happening at PBS in December - stay tuned for more details - but Midnight Juggernauts AND Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males are all raring for a live set on Tyranny Of Distance. I'll keep you posted.

Lightning, Tiger. Grrrrr...

I'm having a break from idle (idol) chit chat and even constructive chit chat this week with all new releases. Just the music. If you heard the show last week you'll agree that it's a relief.
Maybe one week too late.
He he. Oh well. My head has stopped hurting now and my beer breath is gone. Just.

New stuff just in includes Osterberg, Mexico City, Black Level Embassy, Genshen, the Grey Daturas and a couple of great local compilations. But there's more more more, loads more - I have some definite catching up to do - listen in and hear it all.

Next week will feature Joni Lightning - aka Dave Ong from Motor Ace - in acoustic mode live in the studio, with Adelaide darlings Paper Tiger calling on the phone too.

Inanely, Paper Tiger always get me thinking about Little Black Sambo. I think it shares the same thought path as the Love Of Diagrams song Tiger Pancakes. Hmmm fascinating.

What more do you want? Talk soon.

The Morning After playlist...

I filled in for Todd James this morning on The Morning After. 'Twas nice for a change to be playing stuff not of this nation. Here's what I played.

Infusion: Daylight Hours (Six Feet Above Yesterday LP)
School Of Emotional Engineering: Redline (School Of Emotional Engineering LP)
Broken Social Scene: Ambulance For The Ambience (Bee Hives LP)
Faun Fables: Poem 2 (Family Album LP)
Tom Waits: Rose (Real Gone LP)
The Delgados: Keeping On Breathing (Universal Audio LP)
Ken Stringfellow: Death Of A City (Soft Commands LP)
Elliott Smith: A Fond Farewell (A From A Basement On The Hill LP)
The Clientele: House On Fire (The Violet Hour LP)
Holly Golightly: In Your Head (Slowly But Surely LP)
Harry Belafonte: Did You Hear About Jerry? (Original Seeds Volume 2 compilation)
Nancy Sinatra: Don't Let Him Waste Your Time (Nancy Sinatra LP)
Giant Sand: Cracklin' Water (Is All Over The Map LP)
Frausdots: Contact (Couture, Couture, Couture LP)
Karate: Tow Truck (Pockets LP)
Xiu Xiu: Clowne Towne (Fabulous Muscles LP)
Cut Chemist: (The Litmus Test LP)
Fila Brazilia: Kiss My Whippet (Dicks LP)
The Rapture: I Need Love (Playgroup remix) (Reproduction LP)
The Faint: Birth (Wet From Birth LP)
The Phoenix Foundation: Let Me Die A Woman (Horse Power LP)
The Hidden Cameras: Music Is My Boyfriend (Mississauga Goddam LP)
The Concretes: You Can't Hurry Love (The Concretes LP)
Fiery Furnaces: Birdie Brain (Blueberry Boat LP)
The Unicorns: Child Star (Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? LP)
Mouse On Mars: Mine Is In Yours (Radical Connector LP)
Beans: (Shock City Maverick LP)
RL Burnside featuring Lyrics Born: Goin' Down south (A Bothered Mind LP)
The Church: The Illusion Mysteries (Beside Myself LP)
Interpol: Length Of Love (Antics LP)
Silkworm: Something Hyper (It'll Be Cool LP)
Remake Remodel: Jellybean Remodel (Ransom mix) (12345 Accelerate EP)
Action Action: Drug Like (Don't Cut Your Fabric To This Year's Fashion LP)
The Cops: Wallet/Puffer/Smokes/Keys (Stomp On Tripwires LP)
Dynamo: Don't Stop Dancing (Buckets Of Fun LP)
Thee Shams: You Want It (Please Yourself LP)
Les Savy Fav: Meet Me In The Dollar Bin (Inches LP)
Hot Water Music: All Heads Down (The New What Next LP)
The Radio Dept: Where Damage Isn't Already Done (single)

You Can't Stop The Music...

Just a reminder that this week is the last ever for live music as we know it at the Rob Roy. Get on down there all this week... there are some great line ups, particularly on Saturday and Sunday nights. Natalie and the Oh Traveller! crew along with the rest of the staff at the Rob have given us so many great nights - countless cold pots of beer and shots of schnapps, awesome bands and their bar staff rates right up there with the nicest in this old town. It's all over too soon, and we will sorely miss the Rob as a pivotal venue these past couple of years. I only wish I had experienced it more.
So this week, join me in holding up the bar - drink your fill and be wildly entertained at the Rob Roy. These bashes are gonna be mad. See the gig guide below for details, and see you down there at the Rob.

GIG GUIDE

TUESDAY OCTOBER 26
Kamikaze Trio + Tri State Lovers + Zombie Sex Gang @ The Tote
Ash Naylor @ The Rainbow

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27
Morning Birds + Damien Fitzgerald @ The Rob Roy

THURSDAY OCTOBER 28
Motor Vehicle Sundown + The Cyclones + Reverend Scream + DJ Karate @ Rob Roy
Qua + Grey Daturas + Al Yamamoto @ Ding Dong

FRIDAY OCTOBER 29
Streetkid Vandal + Cannon + Fire Underground + Sojourn @ Gershwin Room
Dynamo + The Holy Soul + The Clappers @ Rob Roy
Bluebottle Kiss + Registered Nurse + Crayon Fields + PBS DJ Chris Ionnidis @ Tote

SATURDAY OCTOBER 30
Dave Brown (Bucket Rider) @ 3pm Rob Roy FREE ENTRY
Snap! Crakk!! + Love Of Diagrams + HTRKTR + Mo-Fo-Rah @ Rob RoyHigh Pass Filter Trio +
Joel Silbersher (3pm) + Rootbeer (launch) + Dr El Suavo + Bored! + Filthy Dreamers + DJ Viktor @ The Tote
Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side @ Greyhound Hotel
Deloris + New Buffalo + Wolf & Cub @ The Corner
Bluebottle Kiss + Sand Pebbles + Season + The Roys @ Espy
Ruteger + The Hijinks @ Public Bar North Melbourne
Cockfight Shootout (launch) + Legends Of Motorsport @ Ding Dong

SUNDAY OCTOBER 31
You Can’t Stop The Music (last show at the Rob Roy) with The Wagons + Sinking Citizenship + Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side + Ground Components + The Smallgoods + The Stabs + Dr Invisiablo + Ninety Nine + Flesh vs Venom + Das Butcher + Jess McAvoy + Qua + Emily Ullman + Royalchord @ Rob Roy $10 on the door, midday
Hor Rock Ula with Bit By Bats + Further + Snowman + The Fangs @ The Tote
Godnose (Bris) + Uptown Killers + Twitch Of The Death Nerve @ Green Room
Hallowe’en Punk Rock Karaoke @ Ding Dong

MONDAY NOVEMBER 1
Nation Blue + The Drones + Deep Where All Drown + The Sons Of Marvin Lee + DJ Jacqueline Dee @ The Tote
Girls Rock The Gersh with Kitto + Fur Patrol + The Follow + Remake Remodel + The Cyclones + Bam Bam + Devil Dolls + Baby 8 + Teddy Royals + The Amazons @ The Espy
The Models + Midnight Juggernauts + Sneaker Trio + Hijinks + Jamiesons + The Wellingtons @ The Espy
You Am I + The Spazzys + The Vandas + Holy Soul @ POW

CHICKS BATS AND CRAKKS!! SPOOKY!

Hallowe'en, Cup Eve, The Rob Roy's Last Stand.
It's a busy weekend. We've got loads of guests to match.

Snap! Crakk!! are Melbourne's finest new wave rock upstarts and they recently released their debut 8 tracker And The Sea Closed In Over Us on Unstable Ape Records. They're coming in to talk about it. Hear it on your radio tomorrow.

Peapod is the new album from The Redsunband. It's been a favoured release on the show for a while now, but the trio will be in town on the weekend. Tune in to hear the very beautiful Sarah talk about the album, which was recorded here in Melbourne with help from Dean of Magic Dirt. Pity it's only radio...

...and don't have high expectations. It was an accident.

Bit By Bats are celebrating Hallowe'en with a special show next Sunday night at local haunt the Tote. More details here. It's a dress up night!! Prizes! Music! Spooky! Hear Pete tell scary stories on Tyranny Of Distance this week.

The Amazons are coming! Tuesday October 26 will see Amazonian Yolanda in the studio to chat about the girlie show that is Girls Rock The Gersh this Cup Eve - Monday November 1.

Don't miss it. Talk to you then...

Breaking news...

Rocket Science. In the studio. October 19. Tyranny Of Distance.

Listen up.

durbeyfield

I got durbeyfield coming in this week. They haven't been around all that long, but they have a very confident selftitled ep and a very nice website. Go see for yourself. Some of them will be in for some tunes on Tuesday October 19, so listen in.

Here's more about durbeyfield:

Mark and Tom met in a room at high school. Four weeks later they found Antonio in another room. They then found Simon and James, who were led to believe they shared the same parents. Through the successful use of doors and instruments they all played in the same room, revelling in the intoxicating process of creating music.

Soon after, they began playing in pubs in Melbourne. Before one of these gigs, a boarder of Scottish descent from the same high school, asked if he could come and drink the band's beer since he had run out of money. durbeyfield declined but he showed up anyway and successfully drank the rider. He kept this form up, gig after gig, until it was found out that he played trumpet. To this day he is still trying to play off his debt.

durbeyfield are…

Tom Flatman - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Rhodes and Mandolin
Mark D'Angelo - Backing Vocals, Lead Guitar, Clarinet and Piano Accordian
Antonio Sanciolo - Backing Vocals, Cello, Piano and Organ
Simon Lawrie - BassJames Lawrie - Drums, Egg and Glockenspiel
Kevin Lavery - Backing Vocals, Trumpet, Harmonium and Keyboards

Playlist

Halfday: You Make Me Wanna Clean My Room (single)
The Grates: Trampoline (single)
Dr Invisiablo: Pop Song (Dr Invisiablo EP)
The Cops: Wallet/Puffer/Smokes/Keys (Stomp On Tripwires LP)
Two Thousand Mavericks: School (single)
My Disco: In The Benelux (Language Of Numbers LP)
Audiophile: Drifting Westward (Notes And Errata LP)
School Of Emotional Engineering: Redline (School Of Emotional Engineering LP)
The Winter Ship: Winter's Lament (live in the studio)
The Winter Ship: Not Real People (live in the studio)
Little Birdy: Tonight's The Night (Big Big Love LP)
The Specimens: Head Straight (The Quick And The Deaf LP)
Bird Blobs: Nothin' At All (Bird Blobs LP)
Jape Squad: Bug Spawn (7")
Dappled Cities Fly: Make You Happy (A Smile LP)
Love Of Diagrams: No Way Out (Dutch Boys mix by Cut Copy) (We Got Communication EP)
78 Saab: Beat Of Your Drum/Come On/We All Get By (Crossed Lines LP)
78 Saab: Sound Of Lies (Beat Of Your Drum EP)
Icecream Hands: Three Minute Song (You Can Ride My Bike: The Best Of The Icecream Hands 2CD)
Snap! Crakk!: City Of Reuben's (Paris) (And The Sea Closed In Over Us EP)
Street Kid Vandal: Cool As The Dead (Cool As The Dead EP)
Nation Blue: Blackout (Damnation LP)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abbattoir Blues (Abbattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus 2CD)
Because Of Ghosts: Hello Darkness (live 12")

And very special thanks to Ben of 78 Saab. Their brand spanker Crossed Lines is out now.

Also to Sunny, Cat and Chris of The Winter Ship who came in for a beautiful live acoustic set. Find out more about The Winter Ship here and come along to the launch this Friday down at the old Rob Roy. Season and Laura are supports. See you there...

Automobiles and Snowmen

78 Saab - with their wonderful chimey guitars and romantic and moody melodies and a sublime new album called Crossed Lines - will be in for a chat this week, and you can also look forward to a live acoustic set of melancholy urban soundscapes from The Winter Ship. I know I am! Talk then...

Gelbison: All The Rage (single)
78 Saab: All A Lie (Crossed Lines LP)
Denvar: This Is Where Time Ran Out (Work Sleep Die EP)
The Fragments: You Saw Me Fall (single)
The Panda Band: Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town (single)
Fighting For Alaska: Simple Plan (The Long Way Home EP)
Riff Random: Hot Kids
Full Fathom Five & Topology: (Future Tense LP)
Oneironaut: Allan Smithee (Pure Through Evolution LP)
Audiophile: Untitled (Notes And Errata LP)
Machine Translations: She Wears A Mask (These Are Our Children: Best Of Spunk 2CD compilation)
Dan Kelly & Gareth Liddiard: River O' Tears (live)
Gareth Liddiard & Dan Kelly (live)
Dan Kelly: Summer Wino (Homeland: Music For A Just Australia 2CD compilation)
Darren Hanlon: The Unmade Bed (Little Chills LP)
Decoder Ring: Snowflake (Somersault OST)
The Phoenix Foundation: This Charming Van (Horse Power LP)
Wolfmother: The White Unicorn (Wolfmother EP)
Wolf & Cub: Thousand Cuts (single)
My Disco: In Figures Of Speech (Language Of Numbers EP)
The Nation Blue: To Return To The Sea (Damnation LP)

Thanks very very very much to Shane of Oneironaut and Dan Kelly and Gareth Liddiard for their visits as well.

The return of Dan Kelly, Gareth Liddiard and Oneironaut!

My oh my! This week is a corker! On Tuesday October 5...

I am honoured to host Dan Kelly (he of the Tabloid Blues and multiple ARIA award nominations) and Gareth Liddiard (acclaimed Alpha Male and Drone) for a wee chat and some tunes. The boys are back in town and playing some shows that have been too damn long in coming. So if you're as impatient as I am to hear these guys again, tune in to welcome them back and get an early taste of the tabloid blues.

Catch Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males with the Drones on Thursday October 7 (with the Vandas too) and Friday October 8 (with Midnight Juggernauts) at the Tote. And I'll be on decks too. I can barely contain myself!

And...

Oneironaut pay a dreamy visit to Tyranny Of Distance. Lord how I've missed them... but they are back in venues and shops with their new release, the stunning Pure Through Evolution out now on Low Transit Industries.

Here's more on Oneironaut:

Melbourne four piece Oneironaut have been around since 1996. Following the release of two independent EP's and 2001's 'Antipodean Dream' album on Sydney's Comrade Records, the band has played extensively in Melbourne and has made regular visits to Sydney and Adelaide.

Oneironaut have been playing with the likes of Further, High Dependency Unit, Machine Translations, Disaster Plan, Decoder Ring and International Karate. The addition of a cello player has seen the band embark on a solid year of writing and recording. The resulting album 'pure through evolution' is a melting pot of sounds and ideas, this time utilizing a vast array of musicians. From horns to theremins, operatic vocals and strings, the band has produced 11 new songs expanding on their trademark guitar sound and lush arrangements.

Oneironaut launch new album Pure Through Evolution at the Rob Roy on Saturday October 9 with Disaster Plan and Colditz Glider.

But wait - there's more! Here's what you can look forward to on Tyranny Of Distance in the next couple of weeks too...

• Tuesday October 12: The Winter Ship (live acoustic set)
• Tuesday October 19: Durbeyfield (live acoustic set)
• Tuesday October 26: The Amazons

More details soon!

Playlist today...

The Spazzys - Zombie Girl (Aloha! Go Bananas LP)
The Specimens - Head Straight (The Quick And The Deaf LP - forthcoming)
The Blacklist - We Want Blood (Electric & Evil LP)
Wolfmother - Woman (Wolfmother LP)
First Time Hookers - You Got Me Wrong
The Tremors - Capital T (Cash Up Front, No Kissing LP)
The Boat People - Tell Someone Who Cares (single)
Joni Lightning - Peaceful Life (Joni Lightning LP)
Dappled Cities Fly - Cream (single)
The Smallgoods - 8 Times (This Is The Show EP)
Faker - Quarter To Three (single)
Red Riders - We'll Be There Soon (Red Riders EP)
The Rumours - If I Could See You (single)
Marcus Teague - A New Tree (live)
Marcus Teague - Playing The Spaces (live)
Marcus Teague - Feather Figure (live)
Deloris - Local Antarctica (Fake Our Deaths LP)
Durbeyfield - Burnt Out (Durbeyfield EP)
Darren Hanlon - Winter Takes Fall (Little Chills LP)
New Buffalo - It'll Be Alright (The Last Beautiful Day LP)
Grand Silent System - Did
Epicure - Self Destruct In Five (Self Destruct In Five EP)
Decoder Ring - Alpine Way (Somersault LP)
Decoder Ring - Somersault (Somersault LP)
Oneironaut - Intrepid Flight (Pure Through Evolution LP)
Riff Random - Calm Down

Enormous thanks go out to Marcus - of locals Deloris - and his guitar for the wonderful serenading they delivered, Dan from Epicure of Ballarat for one of two interviews (thank you thank you thank you) and Tom of Sydney's Decoder Ring - there is every chance that more of that interview will get a look in on the show in coming weeks.

Deloris play: Manchester Lane, Wednesday September 29

Epicure play: Prince Of Wales, Friday October 1
and Korova Lounge, Ballarat, Friday October 22

Decoder Ring play: The Corner, Saturday October 9


GIG GUIDE

Tuesday September 28
Pan Am + Silver Night Drive @ The Tote
Ash Naylor + friends @ The Rainbow

Wednesday September 29
The Kits + Origami + Fire Underground @ The Rob Roy
Deloris + Because Of Ghosts @ Manchester Lane

Thursday September 30
Souls On Board + Slight Of Build + Marcus (Deloris) @ The Rob Roy
Her Majesty's Finest + Pretty Mess + The Suns @ The Espy
The Blacklist + Uptown Killers @ Ding Dong

Friday October 1
Epicure + Love Outside Andromeda + Durbeyfield @ The Prince Of Wales
Art Of Fighting + Ground Components + Heligoland @ The Corner

Saturday October 2
The Spazzys + The Suits + British India @ Gershwin Room
The Anyones + The Pictures @ Ding Dong

Deloris, Epicure & Decoder Ring

After last week's brilliant live set from 67 Special, the live action continues on Tyranny Of Distance.
This week - Tuesday September 28 - Marcus of Deloris will bring his guitar in for a performance, this time of the acoustic kind. Deloris have just dropped Fake Our Deaths, their third LP featuring gorgeous tracks Playing The Spaces (the soundtrack to last Summer) and the new single Dead Drunks. It's been a little while coming but it's finally arrived and Deloris will be showcasing it at an intimate show at Manchester Lane on Wednesday September 29. Tune in for our very own intimate preview live on the airwaves this Tuesday.

And, hear what Decoder Ring have to say about their new album Somersault. It's the soundtrack to the best new Australian film in years (unless you ask Jim Schembri) and the debut feature film for director Cate Shortland. It screened at Cannes, received standing ovations, has everyone talking and includes one of the most starkly beautiful soundtracks you'll ever hear. Find out all about the film here, and find out all about the soundtrack next Tuesday on Tyranny Of Distance with Tom of Decoder Ring.

On top of that Dan from Ballarat band Epicure - famous for the song Armies Against Me - will be on the blower for a bit of chat too.

Tune in... it's fucking jam packed. Packed. Jam like.

APRA WEEK!

This week is APRA week, which means it's one of four random weeks every year that APRA (the Australian Performing Rights Association) takes a look at our playlists and uses the sample as a representation of what we have been playing recently - there's more about it here.

Then money gets shelled out. So it's all about ♥love♥ and keeping it local. Hey, it's the least I could do. So...
I present to you my APRA play list. To the following artists, buddies and genii - look out for that little old APRA cheque in the mail...

New Buffalo - No Party (The Last Beautiful Day LP)
Art Of Fighting – Real Time (Second Storey LP)
Fire Underground - Guilt Trip (Car Chase EP)
The Amazons – 4 2 The Floor (The Amazons EP)
Spod - Country Of Sweden (Eternal Championz albumette)
Spod - Nerdz (Eternal Championz albumette)
The Spazzys – Surfen Bird (Aloha! Go Bananas LP)
Kicks - She’s Only Your Lover (Pussy Power EP)
The Grates – Holiday (Nightstick/Grates 7”)
Nightstick – Trampoline (Nightstick/Grates 7”)
The Tremors - Bad Teenage Poetry (Cash Up Front, No Kissing LP)
Wolfmother – Woman (Wolfmother LP)
Kamikaze Trio – The Hit (Kamikaze Trio/Immortal Lee County Killers 7”)
Bit By Bats - Dance The Dance (Bit By Bats EP)
The Kits – Good Time (The Kits EP)
Your Wedding Night - White Hott (Your Wedding Night EP)
Bird Blobs - If I Could Kill (Bird Blobs LP)
Rocket Science – Connect Me (Eternal Holiday LP)
The Specimens – Kiss On The Lips (PBS Lobotomi Sessions LP)
Dollar Bar – House Of Cards (Dollar Bar LP)
Screamfeeder – Bunny (Introducing: Screamfeeder LP)
Screamfeeder – Dart (Introducing: Screamfeeder LP)
Decoder Ring – Heidi’s Theme (Somersault LP)
Iron On - Watch Me Stumble (Everybody Calm Down EP)
67 Special – Live from Studio Five

This week's show is brought to you by the letter S

It's drag racing with 67 Special on Tyranny of Distance!
67 Special will be back to visit, this time for a live set from Studio Five. Hey There Bomb! is their five track EP featuring the title track and latest single Last Drag. Straight from a massive East Coast tour with rock lords Dallas Crane where 67 Special strutted and posed like they were born for the big stage in convincing rockstar style, they'll be bringing you their own take of soulful r'n'b rock on Tuesday September 21. Live is where they do it best, so listen in.

Not just that! Spod - the oh so secksy and pink Spod, he of inimitable spazz electro mutant rock fame - will be calling from a phone somewhere. Hiz new albumette Eternal Championz, out now, will be a feature of hiz show at the Evelyn on Brunzwick Street September 24.

And the always lovable Screamfeeder who are celebrating the band's age (around about 12 years) with a collection of very old and rather new tunes and lots in between on Introducing: Screamfeeder. Don't miss Screamfeeder when they tell me what's happened and what's happening this week on Tyranny Of Distance.

And of course the AFL finals will come to an interstate end this Saturday. After the formalities, parties and beer, head on down to the Espy's Gershwin Room for some rock and roll with this week's guests 67 Special and a great line up including The Hovercrafts, Bad Girls of the Bible, 1QA, From Hell, Wax Mannequin, Season, Doctor Invisiablo, First Time Hookers and me, on the decks from 5.30pm. Go the Lions!! And only $5 for subscribers!

Playlist this week....

The Rumours: If I Could See You
Little Birdy: Raised In The Day
Acre: Private Ocean World
Darren Hanlon: Service Station (Little Chills LP)
Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males: Tabloid Blues (Sings The Tabloid Blues LP)
The Daybridges: Vixen Of Vinyl (Losing Control EP)
Cockfight Shootout: Eat Your Own Kind
Kamikaze Trio: The Hit
Betchadupa: Aiming For Your Head (Aiming For Your Head LP)
Los Dominados: Waggy
Nightstick: Push It Away
Nightstick: Fullfazi
Nightstick: Getaway
Nightstick: Sack
Panel Of Judges: Permanent Holiday (7")
Crayon Fields: Sweet Little Kids In Your Sad Little Town
Midnight Juggernauts: Jump The Gun
The Cops: Foxtrot Yankee (Stomp On Tripwires LP)
Rocket Science: We The People (Eternal Holiday LP)
Sneeze: When Honey Snaps (Just The Blues Sped Up LP)
The Kits: Good Time (The Kits EP)
The Kits: Let's Get Romantic (The Kits EP)
Gazoonga Attack: Disko #69 (Sex Nerd LP released October 4)
The Spazzys: Steal A Kiss (Aloha! Go Bananas LP)
Baby 8: I Want To Spend (single)
Frenzal Rhomb: White World (Rock Against Howard LP)
Givegoods: Collar To Colour (Rock Against Howard LP)

Thanks to Nightstick for their fancy fun fast and all too fleeting live set, I think i missed a couple of songs in the playlist, but you get the idea. If you need the whole tracklist you can find the band here - they treated us to a bunch of new stuff that's not on the EP!!
Also thanks to Jay and Kit of the Kits for coming in for a chat - listen out for their EP over the coming weeks, brand spanking and fresh to you from Tyranny Of Distance.

GIGE GUIDE
Gigs Tyranny Of Distance tips this week....

Tuesday September 14
Ash Naylor & friends @ The Rainbow

Wednesday September 15
The Cops (album launch) + Midnight Juggernauts + Osterberg (featuring Ben from Warped) @ The Tote
Royalchord + Momo Benchseat Band + Sam Schnazzi (C-Minus Project) + Andy Calvert (Givegoods) @ Rob Roy

Thursday September 16
Gyroscope + Kiss Chasey @ Ding Dong
Screamfeeder + The Suits + Electrico @ The Rob Roy
Special Patrol + Silver Night Drive + The Sparrows @ Espy

Friday September 17
Kurts + Fire Underground + De Ja Groove @ Duke Of Windsor
Jape Squad + Clinkerfield + Kathematics + Momo Benchseat Band @ The Green Room
Grandville + Joni Lightning + Ground @ The Tote (with DJ Jacqueline Dee)
TZU @ Revolver
Screamfeeder + Cannon + The Suits + Electrico @ The Espy
Augie March + Deloris + City City City @ The POW
Your Wedding Night @ The Evelyn
Streetkid Vandal @ Pony 2am
Tony Biggs Benefit w/ Conway Savage + Tendrils + TISM + Ron Peno + Kim Salmon + The Moodists + Lisa Miller + Brian Hooper + Ian Rilen + Spencer P Jones @ Gershwin Room

Saturday September 18
Salmon @ The Tote
Spazzys + Mach Pelican @ Ding Dong
Blacklist @ The Green Room
Legends Of Motorsport + The Styles @ Town Hall
The Casinos + The Kits @ Dance MF Dance 101 Smith Street

Sunday September 19
Nic Dalton + Bill Gibson (both Sneeze/Lemonheads) + Bernie Hayes @ Rob Roy 8pm
Darling Downs + Rob Snarski & Dan Luscombe @ Rob Roy 3pm

Nightstick Bludgeon Studio Five

Next week expect a dynamite set from Studio Five from Brisbane's insane and brilliant trio Nightstick (featuring Heinz, ex Not From There; Martin, ex Regurgitator; and Tam, from The Standing Eight Counts and Full Fathom Five among others).

As well as Nightstick, Kit and Jay from the Kits will be heading in for a chat and they'll be bringing in some brand new tunes they just laid down - new and exclusive to Tyranny Of Distance!!

Here's more on the fucking 'Stick....

The frantic and frenetic NIGHTSTICK return to Melbourne next weekend for 4 shows!!
Conceived in a Brisbane carpark in early 2003 by former ping-pong adversaries Martin and Heinz. Tam’s presence was demanded because he could play the bass guitar better then all the single-gloved street punks out there. He accepted the challenge on the condition that he use Martin's Fender bass guitar, the one previously owned by Duff McKagan. Martin said yes.
They locked themselves away and began to write a short, fast and gleefully manic set of songs. They liked it that way.
Inspired by the sheer precision of the mechanics who perform in Formula One pit lanes, the band trained themselves to set up their drums, amplifiers and guitars in less than 10 seconds. They claimed the Nightstick title because an old friend said it sounded both sexy and violent.
Nightstick have already cracked Triple J’s playlist, performed at this year’s Big Day Out, and have just released their debut ep on new label DOT DASH.
Nightstick’s urgent, direct and electric music make them one of the most exciting live bands in the country.

Nightstick play:

Thursday 9th Sep – Cut It Out @ Ding Dong
w/ Sinking Citizenship + Group Seizure
Friday 10th Sep - Mischief @ Volt Nightclub (cnr Heaths & Derrimut Rds, Hoppers Crossing)
w/ Remake Remodel
and 2am @ The Moser Room
w/ Vegas Kings
Sat 11th Sep – Dance Motherfucker Dance @ 101
w/ Love Of Diagrams + My Disco + Colditz Glider + Jemima Jemima

This week's playlist...
Music Vs Physics: Dot To Dot (MKB mix)
Devoted Few: Nothing Ever Changes (Billboard Noises LP)
The Sand Pebbles: The Day Summer Fell (Ghost Transmissions LP)
Tim Oxley: Weeping In Love (Flipside: A Candle Records Collection LP)
The Rumours: If I Could See You
The Chris Chapple Method: After The Scales Have Fallen (Melbourne Water Volume 1 LP)
Andrew McCubbin & The Hope Addicts: Is It You? (Steer LP)
Eskimo Joe: Older Than You (A Song Is A City LP)
Second Dan: The City
The Suits: Peppermint (International School Of Dance EP)
The Pictures: She Brought It All Back (Singin' It Just To See EP)
The Smallgoods: Round And Around (This Is The Show EP)
The Smallgoods: Spending The Morning (This Is The Show EP)
The Wagons: I Pray (Draw Blood LP) as selected by Shags Smallgood
Sneeze: Ain't That Kinda Party (Just The Blues Sped Up LP) as selected by Ben Smallgood
Rocket Science: Pop Lover (Eternal Holiday LP)
Gaslight Radio: Stranger Glue (Magic Castle Broke Songs LP)
Gaslight Radio: Your Parents Are Weird (Magic Castle Broke Songs LP)
Gaslight Radio: Don't Think Loudly/Goodtime No.9 (Z-Nation LP)
Nightstick: Saints
Kicks: Give It As Good As You Get It (Pussy Power EP)
The Mint Chicks: Opium Of The People (Anti-Tiger EP)
Brunettes: Mars Loves Venus (Mars Loves Venus LP)
The Crayon Fields: Good Ship (The Good Life EP)
The RedSunBand: Ol' Mexico (Peapod LP)
The Spazzys: My Car Doesn't Brake (Aloha! Go Bananas LP)

Kudos to Ben and Shags from the Smallgoods for their invaluable contributions, and to the inimitable Marty of Gaslight Radio for a kind chat about his world. Check out their gigs below....

GIG GUIDE

Tyranny Of Distance recommends...

Tuesday September 7
Ash Naylor & friends @ The Rainbow

Thursday September 9
Music Vs Physics + Macromantics + MKB @ The Evelyn
The Pictures + The Four Fifths + The Suits + The Vandas @ The Corner
Nightstick + Sinking Citizenship + Group Seizure @ Ding Dong
Rock ‘n’ Roll Wrestling with SixFtHick @ The Greyhound
Amo + Amplifier Machine + J Walker @ The Rob Roy
Laura + Sound Platform + The Winter Ship @ The Empress

Friday September 10
The Pictures + The Vandas @ Rubys Love Lounge Belgrave
Six Ft Hick + Vegas Kings @ The Tote
67 Special + The Hovercrafts + The Cyclones + The Bankers @ The Espy
Smallgoods + Dappled Cities Fly + The Tranquilizers @ The Corner
Nightstick + Remake Remodel @ The Volt Werribee
Nightstick + Vegas Kings @ Moser Room 2am

Saturday September 11
Nightstick + Love Of Diagrams + My Disco! @ Dance MF Dance 101 Smith Street
Gaslight Radio + The Soldiers + Ill Bravados @ The Rob Roy
The Redsunband + Crayon Fields @ The Tote
The Specimens + Vegas Kings + Remake Remodel + Uptown Killers @ The Espy
‘Melbourne Water’ CD launch with New Estate + The Bites + Panel Of Judges @ The Vic

Subscriber shouts...

I did want to send out an almighty big thank you to the following for their subscribing generosity through out radiothon. We really truly appreciate your support, so thanks heaps and heaps. Here's to independent radio!!

Big thanks to these people...

Sandra (of Balwyn), Rob (of Carlton North), Paul (of Glen Iris), Isley (of South Yarra), Clare (of Abbotsford), Kevin (of Northcote), Joanne (of Elwood), Robert (of Williamstown), Pamela (of Niddrie) and especially you too Anthony.
Also to Tyranny Of Distance band subscribers the Amazons and the Art Of Fighting. And if you are subscribers Burden Of Hope, please get in contact with me and let me know who you are. Please!

Thanks so so so much for helping to keep us on air.

Panel of Judges

Next week I will be joined by Melbourne's long serving and ultimate indie band Panel Of Judges for a live to air. The band features Alison Bolger (of Sleepy Township, ex Clag) Dion Narnia (ex Golden Lifestyle Band) Paul Williams (of Jaguar is Jaguar, ex molasses) and Mike Nichols (ex Crabstick). Hear it on Tuesday August 31, along with an interview with Steph Ashworth of Something For Kate. Talk then, J.

Playlist for today

Cut Copy: Future (Chromeo remix)(Saturdays single)
Dsico That No-Talent Hack: This Is Not A Love Song (Re-Fashioned 2: British Airwaves compilation)
Kicks: Can't Wait To Leave School (Pussy Power EP)
Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Fashion Police (Repeat EP)
Dilli Allstars: Innocent Child
Dom Mariani: Homespun Blues (Homespun Blues & Greens LP)
The Dumb Earth: Sing On
Panel Of Judges: Faux Park (Melbourne Water Volume 1 compilation)
Dollar Bar: I Choose Danger (Dollar Bar LP)
Her Majesty's Finest: Straight Jacket Democracy
Love Of Diagrams: What Are You Waiting For? (Made In Melbourne: Our Venues Our Bands compilation)
Cannon: Hell (Made In Melbourne: Our Venues Our Bands compilation)
Dr Invisiablo: Pop Song
The Fuzz: You Must Be Dead
Snowman: Zombies On The Airwaves Of Paris
Jebediah: Nothing (Braton Hicks LP)
Betchadupa: Who's Coming Through The Window?
Darren Hanlon: The Unmade Bed (Little Chills LP)
Deloris: The Unbroke Part Of It (Fake Our Deaths LP)
Screamfeeder: Above The Dove (Introducing: Screamfeeder - Singles & More 1992-2004 LP)
Paper Tiger: Try To Kep Warm (While You Are Gone EP)
Decoder Ring: More Than Scarlet (Somersault OST)

And special thanks to Rebecca Barnard for coming in to play one of her fine new tunes and filling us in on the marvelous work that the Mirabel foundation are doing. The gig is on tonight at the Night Cat in Johnston Street Fitzroy, kicking off at 8pm with performances by the Models, Tim Rogers, the Dili Allstars, Rebecca Barnard, Dave Graney, Clare Moore and more. It's $20 but all proceeds go straight to Mirabel. Check out the exhibition at Mario's as well - it starts August 24 till 13 September at 303 Brunswick Street and features photos from the foundation's cookbook of loads of Australian musical icons, and food!

Playlist for today...

The Wagons: Lost My Mind (Draw Blood LP)
Erica Pringle: Sew Up My Heart (Wireless Compilation Volume 2)
The Red Sun Band: Got No Money (Peapod LP)
New Buffalo: Recovery
Laura Jean: The Golden Afternoon (Hunter's Ode EP)
The Winter Ship: Not Real People (Not Real People EP)
Blanche Dubois: Wake Up Light
Ground Components: Jackson
The Vandas: Things To Do
Even: So Good So Far (Free Kicks LP)
The Smallgoods: This City's Lights (This Is The Show EP)
The Basics: Call It Rhythm & Blues
Red Riders: We'll Be There Soon (Red Riders EP)
The City Lights: No End In Sight
The Devoted Few: Counting Cars
78 Saab: Sound Of Lies (Beat Of The Drum EP)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nature Boy
67 Special: Curious Mind (Hey There Bomb! EP)
72 Blues: Supper Is Waiting (Said I Would LP)
Special Patrol: Love That Holds Me To Ransom
The Tremors: Bad Teenage Poetry
Snowman: Lost In The Woods
The Celibate Rifles: Beyond Respect
The Grates: Message (Nightstick/Grates split 7")
Your Wedding Night: In/Out
Via Tania: On Sawyer (A Grape Dope remix) (Boltanski EP)
David McCormack & The Polaroids: If You Leave Me (I Will Hunt You Down And Kill You) (The Truth About Love LP)
David McCormack & The Polaroids: Hypnotist Of Lady (The Truth About Love LP)
Sunny Disposition: Howard Carter (Wireless Compilation Volume 2)
The Guild League: Shirtless Sky

TYRANNY GIG GUIDE
Recommended gigs this week...

Tuesday August 10
Betchadupa + 2000 Mavericks @ The Tote
Ash Naylor (Even) & friends @ The Rainbow Hotel

Wednesday August 11
Sunny Disposition + Chinless Kings + Cam Butler @ Builders Arms
Riff Random @ Ding Dong
New Buffalo @ Rob Roy

Thursday August 12
Small Knives + Richard Easton + Guy Blackman @ Rob Roy
Your Wedding Night @ Cut It Out, Ding Dong
Rock 'N' Roll Wrestling @ The Greyhound with Digger & The Pussycats and MC Evo

Friday August 13 (scary)
The Devastations + Conway Savage @ The Rob Roy
Blacklist + Mustang + Uptown Killers + Swedish Magazines @ The Tote
Magic Dirt + Spazzys + Bit By Bats + Pre Teen Brave @ Prince Of Wales
Legends Of Motorsport + Kamikaze Trio + Dr Invisiablo @ The Espy

Saturday August 14
Spencer P Jones + Street Kid Vandal + The Raylenes @ The Rob Roy
The Sailors + The Onyas + She's The Driver + Look Who's Toxic @ The Espy

Playlist for yesterday!!

Fire Underground: Chase Scene (Chase Scene EP)
Andrew McCubbin & The Hope Addicts: Wake To Find... (Steer LP)
The Devastations: Loene (The Devastations LP)
The Wagons: This Is What Death Looks Like (Draw Blood LP)
Coda: Giraffe Girl (For All The Animals EP)
The Winter Ship: Promises
Art Of Fighting: Sing Song (Second Storey LP)
Isidore: Musidora (Isidore LP)
The Gasolineros: Song For The Patient
The Kissingers: Higher
The Reservations: As Lonely As Me
David McCormack & The Polaroids: Who Could You Love? (The Truth About Love LP)
Two Thousand Mavericks: Stutter
The Fangs: Here's The Technique
The Double Agents: Action Swing
Cannon: Satisfy
67 Special: Hey There Bomb! (Hey There Bomb! EP)
67 Special: Last Drag (Hey There Bomb! EP)
Dallas Crane: Numb All Over (Dallas Crane LP)
Nightstick: 3 Way (Nightstick/Grates split 7")
The Grates: Holiday (Nightstick/Grates split 7")
Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Kickin' It (Repeat EP)
Dollar Bar: Certifiable (Dollar Bar LP)
Black Cab: New Speedway Boogie (Altamont Diary LP)
Hijinks: Oxygen
Sommerset: Say What You Want (Say What You Want LP) NZ

I think that's all.
Big thank you to Ash and Ben of the super 67 Special for a nice comfy wee chat about all things cars, alcohol and Benalla. Cheers guys, see you at the launch (this Friday at the Evelyn with Cannon and The Hovercrafts).

TOMORROW

Mad props to the very lovely Rina for babysitting Tyranny Of Distance last week. Check out her work in the latest issue of Easey - you'll find it round the traps at any great record store or cafe somewhere. Or just call into the station at 47 Easey Street Collingwood.

This week loads of catch up new releases including new albums from David McCormack & The Polaroids, the Wagons, heaps of other stuff and the guys from 67 Special will be in to chat about their brand spanking new single Hey There Bomb. Tomorrow, love you then... it's only a day away!

Playlist for today...

Darren Hanlon: 2 Days In A Foreign City (A to Z single)
The Fauves:  Smoking Again (The Fauves LP)
The Fauves:  Get Fucked (The Fauves LP)
The Fauves:  Shouldn't Have Read Your Diary (The Fauves LP)
The Tremors: Bad Teenage Poetry (single)
Regurgitator: Here She Comes (Bong In My Eye single)
The Vandas:  Beautiful Skin
The Architects: We Vanish (Shivers In The Dark EP)
Dallas Crane: Unlucky Star (Dallas Crane LP)
The Dangermen: Ship Wrecked
The Daybridges: She's A Liar
72 Blues:  Supper Is Waitin'
Paper Tiger:  Late Night Washing
Sun Hill:  Music For Modern Lovers
Golden Rough: Provenance (remixed by Jason Blackwell) (Flipside: A Candle Records Compilation)
Via Tania:  Boltanski (In A Different Sky LP)
The Redsunband:  Dark Days (Devil Song 7")
Art Of Fighting:  TwoRivers (Second Storey LP)
The Cops:  Rectify (The Cops EP)
Smallgoods:  Round and Around
The Sand Pebbles: Hanging Out (Ghost Transmissions LP)
Checkout Cutie: Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males (Sing The Tabloid Blues LP)
 
And thanks heaps to Teddy from the Fauves and Fire Underground for putting up with my ramshackle interviews and especially to FU for a smoking (pun not intended, truly!) live set from Studio Five.  Hurrah!!
 
Next week Rina Garner will be on the mic for another take on Tyranny Of Distance (while i migrate north for some Queensland sun and a Splendour bender) and she'll be joined by the Red Riders who are playing the PBS benefit on July 30 at the Gershwin room with Dallas Crane, Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males and Pan Am.  Be there!!
 
THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE GIG GUIDE
Recommended gigs this week...

TUESDAY JULY 20
The Kits + The Casinos @ The Tote
 
WEDNESDAY JULY 21
Bam Bam @ The Townhall Hotel
Islocal compilation launch with Blessington + Oliver Mann + Louis Richter (Mid State Orange) @ The Rob Roy
 
THURSDAY JULY 22
The Cops @ The Espy
Mess Hall + Tri State Lovers + Can Of Worms @ The Tote
The Restless @ The Evelyn
City City City @ Bar Open
 
FRIDAY JULY 23
British India + Grey Daturas + On + True Radical Miracle @ The Rob Roy
 
SATURDAY JULY 24
Spazzys @ The Espy
The Drones @ Ding Dong
The Fauves + The Cants + Cockfight Shootout + Cannon @ The Corner
Velure + Music Vs Physics + Blades Of Hades @ Revolver
The Amazons + Remake Remodel + True Radical Miracle @ Dance MF Dance, 101 Smith Street
 
SUNDAY JULY 25
The Hijinks + The Fangs @ Pony
 

Fire Underground Go The Distance

A live set!! By Fire Underground!! On Tyranny Of Distance!!

(to the tune of playschool)

There's guitar and drums
Clarinet as well
There's fun to be had.... and stories to telllll
Drop that frown
Come on down
Fire Underground!

It's happening on PBS this Tueday after 11am. Fire Underground are a local drums and guitar (and clarinet) two piece from Melbourne Town. They haven't been playing all that long, but they have earned a rather good live reputation and will be proving why when they enter PBS' Studio Five for a couple of songs this week on Tyranny Of Distance.

Here's more - you can find it all at this website

Fire Underground is a two-piece band currently living in Melbourne, however Daniel (guitar/vocals/clarinet) and Doyle (drums) both originally hail from the country growing up in Ballarat and Warragul respectively. They combine the unusual mix of acoustic melodic numbers, enthusiastic rock/punk riffs with electric guitars, and the use of a clarinet, to bring together a sound that can only be described as their own.

Drawing on influences like old school punk bands of the 70’s, swing music, modern acoustic acts and dirty rock and roll, Fire Underground have developed a style that is more than entertaining to watch live, is powerful but fun, and thoroughly danceable.

The genuine love for the music they play is blatant. Both vocalist/guitarist Daniel, and drummer Doyle put in such a performance on stage, making it clear to all watching just what their music means to them.

The band recently became a top 10 finalist in the punk category in 2003 at The Musicoz Awards, Australia's premier music awards for unsigned artists, and were finalists in the 2003 PBS FM song writing competition.

In the past year, FU have been developing their live skills playing in venues all across Melbourne with bands such as The Black Keys, The Pictures and The Cants.
In 2004 they release their debut EP - Chase Scene, and take their live show to Sydney and Brisbane mid year.

Playlist for today

Jebediah: You Oughtta Know (Braxton Hicks LP)
67 Special: Hey There Bomb (single)
The Fuzz: You Must Be Dead
The Basics: Baby Let Me In
The Smallgoods: Round And Around (single)
Death:Wolf!: Fuck You! I Am Russia (Fuck Danse Let's Art EP)
Ground Components: It All Catches Up With You (Curse Ov Dialect remix)
Plughole: Plughole
Durbeyfield: Captain Mason's Vertigo
Paper Tiger: Castle In The Sand
The Sand Pebbles: The Day Summer Fell (Ghost Transmissions LP)
The Fauves: Over The Line (The Fauves LP)
Red Riders: Tune In/Tune Out
Acre: You Will Come Around (In God's Car There's No Spare Seats LP)
Dallas Crane: Can't Work You Out (Dallas Crane LP)
72 Blues: Said I Would (Said I Would LP)
Rocket Science: Modern Life (Eternal Holiday forthcoming LP)
Purplene: The Battler (Purplene LP)
Halogen: Collide (single)
Art Of Fighting: Busted Broken Forgotten (Second Storey LP)
Art of Fighting: Come Round & Show Me (Second Storey LP)
Art Of Fighting: Where Trouble Lived (Second Storey LP)
The Wagons: Man Sold (single)
Redsunband: Devil Song (single)
Blackbird: Blackbird
Shiney: So Fine (7 Songs About Boys EP)
Bit By Bats: Sir! Beat Sir! (EP)
Collard Greens & Gravy: Worried Now (Silver Bird LP)

THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE GIG GUIDE
Recommended gigs this week...

TUESDAY JULY 13
The Kits + Bakelite Age @ The Tote

WEDNESDAY JULY 14
Midnight Juggernauts + Kiosk + Service Station + Maximum Awesome + DJ People @ The Rob Roy

THURSDAY JULY 15
Daughter Boy Jao @ The Greyhound

FRIDAY JULY 16
Registered Nurse + British India @ The Tote
The Pictures @ The Espy
Youth Group + Bit By Bats + I [Love] Space @ Ding Dong
Spencer P. Jones + Cold Harbour + The Kits @ The Greyhound
Full Scale + Bugdust + Switchkicker + Hinge + Portrait Elixer @ The Corner

SATURDAY JULY 17
The Bites + New Season + Oh! Belgium @ The Rob Roy
Art Of Fighting + Youth Group + The Small Knives @ The Evelyn

SUNDAY JULY 18
Collard Greens & Gravy + CW Stoneking @ The Corner

The Art Of Fighting the Tyranny Of Distance

Peggy and Marty of Art Of Fighting will be in on Tuesday (July 13) to chat about their new single Along The Run and highly anticipated forthcoming album Second Storey, recorded once again with Tim Whitten.
The show will also feature the new album from Dallas Crane and loads more. Hear it.

Time Travel 25 Years With Tyranny Of Distance

(a *rough* chronological A to Z of Australian music)

A very special Radio Festival presentation with extra special guests Bruce Milne, Mary Mihelakos and Wally Meanie (Kempton). Thanks to those guys for coming in with a lot more information than I could ever give and helping out for the massive week that is PBS FM's Radio Festival.

AC/DC: Highway To Hell (Highway To Hell LP) 1979
The album that broke the band in the states and the last album recorded by Bon Scott before he died in London in February 1980.

Birthday Party/Boys Next Door: The Friend Catcher (The Birthday Party LP) 1980
Initially credited to The Boys Next Door, and issued as a 7”.
HM: Beasts Of Bourbon

Church: Unguarded Moment (Of Skins And Heart LP) 1981
The second single from the Church’s debut album.
HM: The Celibate Rifles, The Cruel Sea

Divinyls: Siren (Never Let You Go) (Desperate LP) January 1983
One of the singles that didn't make the charts from the Australian #3 album Desperate.
HM: The Dirty Three

Anne Cessna and Essendon Airport: Talking To Cleopatra (Talking To Cleopatra single) 1980
David Chesworth and Robert Goodge formed the duo in 1978. This one features Anne Cessna on vocals and was released in 1980. The band continued with several different line ups until 1983. Taken from the Corduroy compilation reissue Sonic Investigations (Of The Trivial) album.
HM: Even

Fun Things: Savage (The Fun Things EP) 1980
Featured on the Do The Pop compilation and recorded in a day for $100. Based in Brisbane with teenager Brad Shepherd (better known from Hoodoo Gurus) and his drummer brother Murray and broke up not long after recording the EP.
HM: Fungus Brains, Flaming Hands

Go-Betweens: Man O’ Sand To Girl O’ Sea (Spring Hill Fair LP) September 1984
Third album.

Hoodoo Gurus: Bittersweet (Mars Needs Guitars LP) June 1984
HM: Huxton Creepers, Hard Ons

I Spit On Your Gravy: Thursday Crawl (St Kilda's Alright LP) 1985
Reissued as St Kilda's Still Alright on Corduroy.

Johnnys: (There's Gonna Be a) Showdown (Highlights Of A Dangerous Life LP) August 1986
Reformed to play a triumphant show at the Tote – another institution celebrating a big birthday recently – just a week ago. Featuring Spencer P. Jones.

Ed Kuepper: Also Sprach The King Of Euro-Disco (Rooms Of The Magnificent LP) 1987
The album features Chris Abrahams and Melanie Oxley.
HM: Paul Kelly

Lime Spiders: Cherry Red (Beethoven’s Fist LP) 1990

The Meanies: Scum (Come ‘N See LP) 1991
HM: Midnight Oil, Magic Dirt

Not Drowning Waving: Crazy Birds (Circus LP) 1993
HM: The Necks

Onyas: Beergut (first 7”) 1995

Powder Monkeys: The Supernova That Never Quits (Time Wounds All Heels LP) December 1995
Featuring the sadly missed Tim Hemensley and also John Nolan who once played in Hoss and both of them were in Bored! Starting as a five piece, but for this recording were down to a three piece with Timmy Jack Ray. This single came out at the end of 1995 and was featured on the second album Time Wounds All Heels which arrived early in 1996.

Regurgitator: Track 1 (New EP) 1995

Snout: Li’l Pop Writer (The New Pop Dialogue LP) 1996
HM: Sandpit, Spiderbait, Smudge, Something For Kate

Tendrils: The Prune In Heat (Soaking Red LP) 1998
Second album produced by the collaboration of Joel Silbersher of Hoss and Charlie Owen of New Christs, Beasts Of Bourboun and the Cruel Sea.
HM: The Triffids

Underground Lovers: Towards The Skies (Cold Feeling LP) 1998
Features Merida Sussex of Paradise Motel on vocals.

Vivian Girls: X-Ray Eyes (Vivian Girls LP) 2000
Melbourne quintet.

Warped: Strychnine Girl (On The Make LP) 2001

You Am I: Who Put The Devil In You? (Deliverance LP) September 2002
Sixth studio album, starring Davey Lane.

Zebras: French Chicks (Zebras LP) 2004
Launching their self titled album at the Rob Roy this weekend!

With big apologies to the letters Q and X. Sorry guys, it was slightly flawed.

But a big super dooper thanks to the following people who helped out too: Phil, Zoe, Lisa, Sophie, Kene, James and Brett.

And of course to all subscribers, particularly the Amazons for their band subscription.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!

Playlist for today

Deloris: Dead Drunks (Dead Drunks single)
The Tulips: Blackhearted Valentine (In The Honeycone LP)
Disaster Plan: Age Of Consent
The Suits: Peppermint
The Sand Pebbles: Sioux City Falls
Dappled Cities Fly: Peach
Starky: Girl Talk (Mirror Signal Manoeuvre LP)
Starky: City Prison Doors (Mirror Signal Manoeuvre LP)
Cannon: Is It My Body (Satisfy 7")
Bluebottle Kiss: Spiders In A Jar (Last Playboy In Town EP)
Iron On: I Had To Read It More Than Once
Red Riders: Tune In/Tune Out
The Zebras: Lucky Pierre (The Zebras LP)
The Zebras: French Chicks (The Zebras LP)
The Zebras: The Forces Of Light (Preloading)(The Zebras LP)
Jolz: Just Doin It (Down Pressure LP)
T.I.S.M: Everyone Has More Sex Than Me (The White Albun LP)
The Fauves: Metrosexual (The Fauves LP)
Isidore: Ghosting (Isidore LP)
The Devoted Few: It's Over (Padded Remix) (Desolation Angels single)
Old Des Peres: Leaped High (Preserved LP)
The Spazzys: Hey Hey Baby (Hey Hey Baby single)
Collard Greens & Gravy: Mistreated (Silver Bird LP)
Marcel Borrack: If I Were An Ant (Help LP)

And special thanks to guests Nick Starky and Jeremy Zebra (or is that sloth?) for chatting to me.

And another thing...

This Tuesday (June 29) one of the guys from Starky will be talking to me from Sydney before their show here with the almighty Casanovas and the spunky Spazzys, and as well the lovely Jeremy Cole from Brisbane's The Zebras will be chatting about their album out on Lost & Lonesome Recordings - they'll be playing a few shows in Melbourne in a week or two.

Just a reminder that the annual PBS Radio Festival is coming up real soon - there are lots of show specials to listen out for and great radio happening all through July 1-11.
Celebrating 25 years of PBS on air, 25 YEARS TO LIFE is the theme in an exploration of crime and music.
Here's a few of the shows so listen up...

Friday July 2 & 9 at 5pm
Beat Orgy c.1979
Steve Cross goes low riding across the USA, Europe and the UK with a soundtrack courtesy of The Clash, The Who, The Specials, Blue Cheer, Patti Smith, The Meters, The Pop Group, David Bowie, The Undertones, Neville Brothers, Talking Heads, The Ruts and… ur… Wings. The full horror of the era.

Wednesday July 7 at 10pm
Kene Lighfoot of BURNING BITUMEN will be exposing rock and roll HAIR CRIMES of the last 25 years. From Dee Snider's weird blonde mane to Trouble's fuzzy mullets, from the excess hair spray of Pretty Boy Floyd to the duo afros of Melbourne's own Dynamo. Kene Lightfoot plays two hours of music from bands who should get 25 years to life for their hair styles on the Burning Bitumen 25 Years to Life special.

There's plenty more where they came from - click here and take a peek.

Tyranny Of Distance will be time travelling from 1979 to 2004 in an A-Z of Australian music from AC/DC to the Zebras, including the Go-Betweens and the Johnnys (who are reforming for a one off show to celebrate the Tote's 21st birthday this Sunday - after the Community Cup) and the Lime Spiders and Regurgitator... plus a whole alphabet more. Tune in on July 6 at 11pm.
PBS 106.7 fm

Playlist for today

The Smallgoods: Capricorn (Listen To The Radio LP)
Even: Maybe Love (Free Kicks LP)
The Fauves: Smoking Again (single)
The City Lights: Every Single Day (Escape From Tomorrow Today LP)
78 Saab: Come On (from forthcoming Crossing Lines LP)
Shiney: Never Fade Away (7 Songs About Boys EP)
Tim Reid: Home Movies (Any Given Day LP)
The Woods Themselves: Summer's Here (The Woods Themselves LP)
Bluebottle Kiss: Everything Begins And Ends At Exactly The Right Time (Come Across LP)
Bluebottle Kiss: The Record Company (Last Playboy In Town EP)
Black Cab: Angels Arrive (Altamont Diary LP)
Midnight Swim: Catacombs
Youth Group: Skeleton Jar (Skeleton Jar LP)
Deloris: The Point In The War Where We Knew We Were Lost (Dead Drunks single)
Boon Companions: I Smell Trouble (Fireflies soundtrack)
Cannon: Satisfy (7")
The Cops: Rectify (The Cops EP)
The Cops: The Shake (The Cops EP)
The Tranquilizers: You Can't Kill Kill (The Tranquilizers EP)
The Spazzys: Bye Bye Love (Hey Hey Baby single)
The Sailors: The Cockroach (Turn The Other Cheek LP)
T.I.S.M: DJ Trevor
Starky: Complicator (Mirror Signal Manoeuvre LP)

And special thanks to Ben Grounds of Bluebottle Kiss and Simon Carter of The Cops for having a chat - I'll be sure to catch them both on the weekend!

GIG GUIDE

Recommended gigs this coming week....

TUESDAY JUNE 22
ROCK AGAINST WORK with The Sailors + The Onyas + Hoss + Timid Joe + Japesquad + DJ Dr Teeth (starts around 5.30pm)
AND PBS live from the front bar (Phils Egan and Gionfrido from 3-7pm) at the pool table!! @ The Tote

THURSDAY JUNE 24
Dung + Mach Pelican + The Spazzys + Cat Rat @ The Tote
The Cyclones + The Threads + Roulette Dares @ Pony

FRIDAY JUNE 25
Love Of Diagrams + The Bites + Tranquilizers + Mick Turner @ Ding Dong (PBS Benefit)
Gersey @ Revolver
Magic Dirt + Fur Patrol + Origami @ The Tote
Velure @ Bar Open

SATURDAY JUNE 26
Bluebottle Kiss @ Ding Dong
The Cops + Wolf Mother + BritishIndia @ The Evelyn
Double Agents @ The Tote (5.30pm afternoon show – free!)
The Moodists + Teen Wolf + Muddy Spurs @ The Tote (night)

SUNDAY JUNE 27
COMMUNITY CUP XI with Magic Dirt + Paul Kelly + Killjoys @ Junction Oval St Kilda
The Johnnys + Corpse Grinders + Olympic Sideburns + The Amazons @ The Tote

Listen up....

Make sure you're listening in next week when I talk to Cop Simon - the Cops are playing for PBS at the Evelyn with Wolf Mother and British India on Saturday June 26. It'll be a great gig.
And it's the day after Jacob's fabulous Coolin' By Sound line up at Ding Dong with Love Of Diagrams and The Bites, the Tranquilizers and Mick Turner (from the Dirty Three).

I'll also be talking to Bluebottle Kiss - that's all next week - Tuesday June 22nd.

Right royal holiday...

My lord, what a fucking big weekend. Thanks to the queen - it was a fantastic birthday. I hope my hangover wasn't too audible this morning. Enormously super dooper big thanks go out to Brisband Speedstar for coming in and playing a couple of tunes today, and also to Richard Easton, father of Snowbird and the man responsible for an excellent little album called Two Thousand Demolition Songs, for also coming in for a chat, and to Ruari for his help in looking after Speedstar's fantastic on air live sound. Thank you thank you thank you!!

Playlist for today

The Dissociatives: Much Preferred Customer (Presets remix)(Young Man Old Man single)
Black Cab: Summer Of Love
Even: The Peasant Bar (Free Kicks LP)
The Devoted Few: Desolation Angels (single)
The Beautiful Few: One Month In Every Twelve (Interstate 40 remix)
I [love] Space: 6Phase
The Double Agents: Action Swing (single)
Love Of Diagrams: Tiger Pancakes (The Target Is You LP)
Iron On: Watch Me Stumble (Everybody Calm Down EP)
Gyroscope: Take This For Granted (Sound Shattering Sound LP)
After The Fall: Vacant Black Stare (After The Fall LP)
Hoodoo Gurus: Domino (Mach Schau LP)
The Casinos: City Lights (City Lights 7")
Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side: The Beginning Of The End (The Beginning Of The End LP)
Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males: Pregnant Conversation (Sings The Tabloid Blues LP)
The Tulips: Here Comes The Night (In The Honeycone LP)
Speedstar: Unbreakable (Forget The Sun Just Hold On LP)
Speedstar: Crying (live in the studio)
Speedstar: Are You Feeling Better, Angela? (live in the studio)
Richard Easton: Ballad Of Betty Cole
Richard Easton: Doug
Richard Easton: Evil 1
Tim Reid: World That's Made For Two
Lucie Thorne: Before The Cold (The Bud LP)
Laura: We Are Mapping Your Dreams (single)
Because Of Ghosts: Waltz For Berenice (Your House is Built on a Frozen Lake EP)

And of course, interviews with special guests Ben, Dave and Luke of Speedstar and Richard Easton!

Another big weekend to look forward to.... when will it all stop?
The shows to look out for this coming week....

WEDNESDAY June 16
Double Agents + Henry Wagons @ The Builders Arms
Slavetrader (NZ) + Cannon @ Ding Dong

THURSDAY June 17
Richard Easton CD launch + Royalchord + I Want A Hovercraft @ The Rob Roy

FRIDAY June 18
Beautiful Few @ Good Morning Captain
Velure @ Bar Open
Her Majesty’s Finest @ The Evelyn
Hoodoo Gurus + Spiderbait + British India @ The Palace (Inferno Thursday)
Old Des Peres + Mink Engine @ Revolver
The Casinos + Neon + Degrees K @ The Tote
Even @ Gaslight Music (6PM)
The Go Set + Sforzando + Mr Coffee + The Harvest @ The Corner

SATURDAY June 19
Rectifiers + Via Tania + Pretty Boy Crossover @ The Rob Roy
Sin City (ex-Local Pricks)@ Pony 2AM
Mach Pelican @ Ding Dong

SUNDAY June 20
Dirty Little Secret + At Sea + Gabriel’s Day @ Pony
Lucie Thorne + CW Stoneking + Monica Weightman @ The Corner

MONDAY June 21st – July 4th
The Tote's 21st Birthday bash kicks off this week. Look out for the Sailors, the Moodists, Magic Dirt, Dan Kelly and heaps more helping to celebrate the Tote's birthday with gigs over the next couple of weeks.

Hey hey hey!!

Action packed show this week - don't miss it...

Brisbane darlings Speedstar will be on the show this Tuesday - they'll be coming in for a special live acoustic performance and interview.... also tune in to hear a chat with the lovely Richard Easton. All very exciting - this Tuesday June 18 on PBS 106.7FM. Talk to you then!

Playlist for today

The Devoted Few: It's Over (Padded Remix) (Desolation Angels single)
Purplene: Love: Western (Purplene LP)
Laura: We Are Mapping Your Dreams (single)
Epicure: Twelve Months Of Winter (Firing Squad single)
The Tulips: Johnny Ray (In The Honeycone LP)
Groundswell: Stand Up (single)
Lancaster: Fairfield (Self Titled Debut LP)
Nations By The River: These Are The Times (Holes In The Valley LP)
The Suits: Good Girls (International School Of Dance EP)
No Through Road: Girls Are The Devil
Snowman: Lost In The Woods
The Fuzz: You Must Be Dead
Eskimo Joe: Life Is Better With You (A Song Is A City LP)
Lazy Susan: Sometimes (Never Better LP)
Lazy Susan: I Will (Never Better LP)
The Mome Raths: You Trip Me (Shake Your Pop Boomerang Volume 2 LP)
Sneeze: If It's Catchy It Means You Stole It (Just The Blues Sped Up LP)
Your Wedding Night: Crush (Your Wedding Night EP)
Season: Zero Crossing (Avatar LP)
TZU: Position Correction (Position Correction LP)
Interstater: Plastic Cup (single)
Gyroscope: Midnight Express (Sound Shattering Sound LP)
After The Fall: Raise The Dust (After The Fall LP)
Aampirellas: Devil's Song (Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory LP)
The Muddy Spurs: Sportsbag
Speedstar: The Saddest Summer On Record (Forget The Sun Just Hold On LP)

Plus interview with special guest Paul Andrews of Lazy Susan.


Recommended gigs this coming week....

WEDNESDAY JUNE 9
Jason Lives + Nurnberger + She’ll Keep @ The Tote

THURSDAY JUNE 10
Panel Of Judges + Minimum Chips + Breaking The Law @ The Espy – Front Bar (free entry)
Interstater + The Gels (SA) + El Bruto + Mighty Boy @ The Tote

FRIDAY JUNE 11
Speedstar @ The Evelyn
The Panics + Redsunband @ POW
Love of Diagrams + Your Wedding Night + Mum Smokes @ The Rob Roy
Sway + The Hell City Glamours @ The Espy – Front Bar (free)

SATURDAY JUNE 12
TZU + MKB @ The Espy

SUNDAY JUNE 13
Nations By The River CD launch @ Ding Dong
POPBOOMERANG 2 launch with The Suits + Sneeze + Paul Andrews (Lazy Susan) + Remake Remodel + Tamas Wells + Her Majesty’s Finest + The Sound Platform @ The Rob Roy (only $10!!)
GIRLS IN THE GARAGE with Slinkee + Town Bikes + Dollsquad + Muddy Spurs + The Minutes + Young Professionals + DJ Emma Peel @ The Tote

Anyone for Chinese?

Paul from Lazy Susan will be chatting to me on this Tuesday's show - he's gonna be here for the Shake Yer Popboomerang 2 launch this Sunday. The Fancy Boys were too busy kicking Melbourne's ass and being fancy and french and eating pizza to get them into the studio this time around but they'll be back, guaranteed, and when they do....

Remember to yell out if you want to tell me anything's fab or if something sucks or blows or you wanna make a request or wanna get on the show. Or wanna hear something again. Hope to hear from you...

And here's that postal address again:
Tyranny Of Distance
c/o PBS FM
PO Box 2917
Fitzroy MDC
Victoria 3065

Werd, J.

PINCH AND A PUNCH!!

Playlist for today....

The Zebras: Car Of Idiots (Singles Club #3 Split 7" b/w The Minders: Go Wave Your Wand)
Starky: Get Up (Mirror Signal Manoeuvre LP)
Midstate Orange: Casualties of Casual Ties (Singles Club #6 Split 7" b/w Ladybug Transistor: Jersey Streets)
The Double Agents: Action Swing (single)
Dallas Crane: Come Again (Losheen) (Dirty Hearts single)
Speedstar: Skyblue (Forget The Sun, Just Hold On LP)
Brindle: Fight You For It (single)
Fear Drive My Feet: Twisting Your Arm
Nations By The River: We Dance Every Day (Holes In The Valley LP)
Nations By The River: Boy (Holes In The Valley LP)
Gelbison: Kabana (1704 LP)
Nations By The River: Would It Be Nice (Holes In The Valley LP)
Even: 74 Crown (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)
Remake Remodel: Jellybean Remodel (Ransom Remix) (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)
Sneeze: Going For The Drive (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)
Tender Jealousies: Angels Wings Unfold (Goodbye LP)
Tim Reid: Dancing Girl (World That's Made For Two single)
Red Jezebel: Devil's Advocate (Revelations LP)
Fourth Floor Collapse: Surround Sound (From The Cold LP)
Fourth Floor Collapse: Stories Unglued (From The Cold LP)
Crow: Paper Eyes (Li-Lo-ing LP)
Purplene: The Battle (Purplene LP)
Sime Nugent & The Forefathers: Simple Plan (The Undertow LP)

Plus extra special thanks to guests Edo Khan of Nations By The River and Gelbison, and also Rhys Kealley of Fourth Floor Collapse (who selected Crow - and Adam Said Galore who will be featured on next week's show alongside more great bands from the West).


Recommended gigs this coming week....

WEDNESDAY JUNE 2
Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses + Mia Dyson @ Prince Of Wales

THURSDAY JUNE 3
The Herd + TZU @ The Corner
Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses + Mia Dyson @ Prince Of Wales
New Season + The Stabs + The Amazons @ The Espy – Front Bar (free entry)

FRIDAY JUNE 4
Butterfingers @ Ding Dong
Nightstick + The Cants + 67 Special + The Breakdowns @ The Espy
Nightstick @ Pony 2AM
The Double Agents + The Blacklist + Richie & The Creeps + Bakelite Age @ The Evelyn
Even + The Anyones + The Pictures + The Suits @ Hi Fi Bar
Deloris + Bit By Bats + Disaster Plan + Phoenix Foundation (NZ) @ The Tote
Jebediah + Jackson United + The Spazzys @ The Corner
Because Of Ghosts (CD Launch) + Folding For Air + Cam Butler’s Guitar Orchestra @ Rob Roy ($7/$15 with CD)

SATURDAY JUNE 5
Blueline Medic + Tiltmeter + Orchard @ The Rob Roy
Nightstick + Le Fancy Boys + The Bites + The Cyclones @ Dance MF Dance - 101 Smith Street
ROCK AGAINST CORPORATE ROCK with Sinking Citizenship + Deep Where All Drown + Remake Remodel + Swedish Magazines + Motor Vehicle Sundown @ The Tote
Specimens + Cockfight Shootout + The Blacklist + Lowride @ The Espy – Front Bar

SUNDAY JUNE 6
Nightstick + Origami + Your Wedding Night @ The Tote
Paul Kelly + Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males (last show of tour) @ Melbourne Concert Hall

MONDAY JUNE 7
Sime Nugent + Yearlings @ The Rob Roy (free entry)

HEY!!!

GOT TWO INTERVIEWS COMING UP ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK!!!
That's this Tuesday June 1....

Rhys of Fourth Floor Collapse is gonna have a chat about their latest album From The Cold. And Edo, who's usually seen out front of Gelbison will be filling us in on what Nations By The River is all about - that's his new collaboration with brother Nadav, Luke Steele of Sleepy Jackson and Ohad Rein, who have an album on the way called Holes In The Valley. Listen in yo....

Stay tuned cos there's a whole lot more on the way including some of the kids featured on Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2.... soon y'all.

Playlist for today

Minimum Chips: Black (Islocal compilation)
End Of Fashion: Anything Goes (Rough Diamonds/Anything Goes single)
The Casinos: Drive Me Home (City Lights 7")
Paper Tiger: One Drop Short (single)
No Through Road: Bandaids (Monkey On A Rock LP)
Richard Easton: Coffin (Two Thousand Demolition Songs LP)
The Woods Themselves: Watch It, Coach (The Woods Themselves LP)
Grand Silent System: Champion (single)
Spider Goat Canyon: Moment In Time (Shades Of Joy LP)
Ides Of Space: Reinventing Dream (Seeping Fractures LP)
Tonjip: Coolite (single)
Lazy Susan: Top Of Her Goodbye (Never Better LP)
Starky: Breakdance Glove (Mirror Signal Manoeuvre LP)
Hoodoo Gurus: Sour Grapes (Mach Schau LP)
Cockfight Shootout: Step In Line (single)
Degrees K: Worth It (single)
TZU: Bold Digger (Position Correction LP)
MKB: Positive Minds Attract (Onanothernote EP)
Good Buddha: Tightn (Futurhistrix LP)
Baseball: When Man & Machine Work As A Team (Gods and Stars Priests and Kings LP)
Bird Blobs: The Straight + Narrow (Make Mix Tapes Not War compilation)
The Casanovas: Break Your Heart (The Casanovas LP) PBS FEATURE ALBUM
The Suits: Girl (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)
Eskimo Joe: I'm So Tired (A Song Is A City LP)
Small Knives: Damaged (Rain On Tin LP)
Tamas Wells: We'd Play You At Checkers (Shake Yer Popboomerang Volume 2 LP)


Recommended gigs this coming week....

TONIGHT!! TUESDAY MAY 25
Mustang + Devil Rock 4 @ The Tote (Tight Arse Tuesday!)

WEDNESDAY MAY 26
The Vines + Youth Group + Treetops @ The Forum

THURSDAY MAY 27
Hoodoo Gurus + Spiderbait + Peabody @ The Palace
Tonjip + The Forgotten Ways + The Morning Birds @ The Green Room
The Suits + I [Love] Space + Ides Of Space @ The Espy - Front Bar

FRIDAY MAY 28
Hoodoo Gurus + Spiderbait + Peabody @ The Palace
Registered Nurse @ Pony 2AM
Gaslight Radio @ The Tote
Baseball + New Season + The Stabs @ The Rob Roy (also on Studio Five Live on PBS 7PM Thursday)

SATURDAY MAY 29
The PBS HEADWEALTH HARDCORE HELLRAISER with Blueline Medic + No Grace + Tricity + Horsell Common + Threshold + Day I Die + Cadence + Behind Crimson Eyes @ The Tote
End Of Fashion @ The Evelyn
Bird Blobs + Love Like... Electrocution + Snap! Crakk!! @ The Rob Roy
Eskimo Joe + Betchadupa + The Avenues @ The Hi Fi Bar
High Pass Filter @ Ding Dong
Grand Silent System + Casinos + Silvernight Drive @ The Espy