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Puff 'n' Stuff.
Autumn must have truly arrived, since the new MISA directories have landed. Yes, all your South Australian musical contacts, plus a hugely expanded Victorian section (for all you artists thinking of doing a trip east), all in the one handy publication and all at the low, low price of $25! Dive into the dB Magazine office at 179A Hindley St (it's the one with the pretty orange door), or grab a copy at Borders in Rundle Mall.
Channel 31 is ramping up its local music
content with the announcement of Fusion, a brand new Thursday
night program dedicated to South Australian music and put together
by graduates from AIT Arts. They're putting out the call for
local bands to get their clips in, and then they're getting
viewers to vote on what clips they like the best! The first
show will be screened on Thurs 29 April - contact fusionshow@hotmail.com
for details on how to get your clip on the air. The whole shebang
is held together by hosts Nathanial March, Becks Hall and Simone
Dunstone.
They're not the only ones doing local music content on Channel 31: the good people at Student Radio on Radio Adelaide are now bringing us Student TV at 10pm of a Sunday night, and they'd also like your clips and short films: drop a line to Dan Murphy (dan.murphy@student.adelaide.edu.au) for all the details.
Some nasty news from the Rocket Science camp:
lead singer Roman Tucker suffered a serious head injury when
he fainted a few hours before their Melbourne show on Sat 10
April. He was rushed to hospital and kept in a medically-assisted
coma after doctors discovered that he'd sustained swelling and
two small blood clots on the brain from the fall. Word is that
he's likely to make a full recovery, but the band have been
forced to pull out of the remaining dates on their in support
of Sex Call, including Adelaide. Everyone at dB Magazine
wishes Roman a speedy recovery.
You heard this entirely unsubstantiated touring rumour here first: McLusky are possibly returning to Australia in July. Music Editor Andrew P Street reckons that they were the rockingest thing he'd ever seen when they played the Enigma late last year. Consider yourself warned.
They were on the cover last issue, they're
"We Liked It And You Will Too" this issue - they're Fur Patrol,
and they're rocking like rocking things at the Enigma Bar on
Sun 25 April.
Eskimo Joe have only just been here (in support of their From
The Sea single), but now they've let Puff they're coming
back with their brand new album, and they'd like you to come
to their show at Adelaide UniBar on Wed 26 May.
The Panics are feeling pretty chuffed with
themselves: they've scored the coveted support slot for the
upcoming Grandaddy tour, which will see both bands doing what
they do so well at Fowlers Live on Tues 11 May.
Puff would hardly be fulfilling dB Magazine's local music mandate by failing to inform you, dear reader, of a couple of imminent CD launches. First up, The Icons launch their debut at Jive on Fri 30 April (along with The Trafalgars), and the following night - Sat 1 May - The Seeds Of Babylon launch 'Indian Cabaret' at the Adelaide UniBar, along with A Tribe Is Forming, Atlantis Way and Lalotoa.
Kerryn Tredrea is in a launchy sort of a
mood too, except that she's launching her first book: it's called
'Adventures In Captivity,' it's out through the good people
at Paroxysm Press and the launch is at the SA Writers Centre
on Fri 23 April, with support from her fellow Paroxysm spoken
word artistes and music from Palky (featuring some of the former
La Russo chaps).
And that's not all: expect word soon on CD launches for the likes of Porthole, the Beat Smugglers, Bit By Bats, Andrew P Street and Enemy Of? Probably not the same gig, mind.
The artists formerly known as Pinguino have
decided, for predictable reasons, to change their name to the
less easily mis-spelled Colour-Coded World - and what's more,
they're playing at the Grace Emily on Wed 21 April.
More local changes: Mr Wednesday have released bassist Dan Cooper back into the wild, replacing him with Purple Hearts/Pseudo Models 4 stringer Luke Johnson. You can see the new-look band at their Jade Monkey show on Fri 14 May with Brunatex, or tune into Local Noise on Radio Adelaide on Tues 4 May to hear them live.
Get ready for another fight for your right
to live music, kids: Just as Puff was going to press Chris Beaumont
from The Austral called to let us know that the pub was just
about to begin renovations on their beer garden in order to
improve the soundproofing (and had a big last-bash-in-the-garden
show planned for Sat 1 May), but they've just had an injunction
slapped on them which not only prevents them having live music,
but also forces them to noise restriction levels not exceeding
65 decibels (a toilet flushing is around 50 decibels, for comparison's
sake). The pub are sorting out their legal position and preparing
for yet another fight and the renovations are still going ahead
as planned, but for the time being all live entertainment at
the Austral has been pulled. We've fought before, Adelaide,
and we might have to fight again...
It's been a while since we heard from Sir Gerbil, but they've broken their silence to let Puff know that they're alive and well, and playing at Jive on Sat 24 April with A Tribe Is Forming, Project X and Insect Seeking Technology.
Also returning from a rock'n'roll hiatus
is The Silvermine Tapes, who play for Patterns In Static at
the Jade Monkey on Sat 1 May, along with Ianto Ware, Straight
To Video and Iron Man & Skull.
Strictly speaking, Simone Says aren't quite local (although, like most of Melbourne, they're made up of former Adelaide folks) - but they're still coming back here to launch their 'Lift Your Head' CD at the Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat 1 May.
Stuff from Puff: The release of Wilco's 'A
Ghost Is Born' has been postponed as frontman Jeff Tweedy has
checked into a rehab clinic (reportedly for an addiction to
the prescription painkillers he's used to overcome his chronic
migraines)... The New York Dolls are reforming for the Morrissey-curated
Meltdown festival in the UK (Mozza was president of the NYD
fanclub in the 1970s, fact fans), with ex-G'n'R guitarist Izzy
Stradlin subbing for the late Johnny Thunders and Gary Nolan
of The Libertines sitting in for similarly-late drummer Jerry
Nolan... Speaking of Morrissey, he's been confirmed for the
Lollapalooza tour through the US in July, alongside the likes
of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Gomez, Sonic Youth, The Polyphonic
Spree and the Flaming Lips... meanwhile, Izzy Stradlin's old
band Guns'n'Roses have pulled out of the headlining slot at
Rock In Rio due to the departure of guitarist Buckethead. The
Foo Fighters have taken their slot, and plans for the "release"
of the long, long, looooong awaited 'Chinese Democracy' have
been put into jeopardy... Joseph Simmons, better known as Run
from Run DMC, is campaigning to be the poet laureate of the
New York borough of Queens... and in the best melding of alterna-rock
and shape-changing robots ever, Regurgitator have composed some
of the score for Atari's forthcoming 'Transformers' game for
the PS2, including a remix of the iconic theme song, all of
which raises the question: could it be Optimus Prime that's
at the end of Satan's Rainbow?
The second War Room event is happening at the Enigma Bar on Fri 30 April with the regular DJs, live sets from Later That Night and Enemy Of?, as well as giveaways of new CDs from the likes of Anata, Soulfly and 100 Demons.
Sunk Loto have been so delighted with the
response to their 'Between Birth And Death' album from last
year that they've reissued it in a special edition digipack
with a bonus DVD entitled 'Five Years Of Videos' which contains
all of their clips to date. What's more, they're doing a lap
of the country which will see them at the Adelaide UniBar on
Thurs 20 May.
Saves The Day are so chuffed with their 'In Reverie' album that they've grabbed buddies The Get Up Kids, come back to Australia, enlisted Gyroscope, and are heading to Adelaide together for a show on Sun 2 May (with locals EdisonMusic).
It's seemed as though The Butterfly Effect
have been in Adelaide every week or so, playing to larger and
larger audiences each time - but now the US is calling them,
so they've warned Puff that their upcoming gigs will be the
last in Adelaide for 2004, so you've better get your fix at
the Adelaide UniBar while you can: they'll be rocking it like
rocky things on Sat 24 April and Sun 25 April.
H-Block 101 return for the first time in a good long while with a new independently-released CD-EP (entitled 'Burning With The Times' - yes, it was a song on their album a few years back, Puff's well aware of that) and a couple of shows: first up, they're at the Enigma Bar on Fri 23 April (with The Saucermen, Kamikaze and The Jerks) and the Crown & Anchor on Sat 24 April (with Star 10 Hash and Bombscare).
Puff had the wires a little crossed last
issue and uncharacteristically got a date wrong: please be advised
that Southpaw definitely launch their Nick Barker-produced CD
at the Grace Emily on Sun 25 April. What's more, they take this
issue's Seven Questions - Of Fame! challenge at dbmagazine.com.au
right this very minute!
Melbourne's Black Pony Express are coming to Adelaide for the first time in order to play a show at the Jade Monkey on Fri 30 April with the ever-charming Brillig and the elusive Brer Mouse (who are taking a break from the recording of their as-yet-untitled new CD).
More stuff from Puff: Washington punkers
Black Eyes have split up... Damon Albarn is a busy boy: he's
revealed that a) Blur are recording a new EP (and that he'd
like guitarist Graham Coxon, who left during the sessions for
last year's 'Think Tank' album, to rejoin the band), b) that
he's working on the second album for his other band, Gorillaz,
with collaborations from Dangermouse and The Bees, and c) he's
recording an album with the surviving members of Fela Kuti's
band... "Weird Al" Yankovic's parents were found dead in their
San Diego home on Fri 9 April, seemingly of carbon monoxide
poisoning. Yankovic was on the last leg of his world tour at
the time ... Jebediah are set to release their fourth album,
'Braxton Hicks,' on Redline Records (which they also own, conveniently
enough)... Elvis Costello is planning to release two albums
simultaneously mid-year: one recorded with his live band The
Imposters, the other with the London Symphony Orchestra... and
finally, Dolf de Datsun, frontman with The Datsuns, was hospitalised
after falling and splitting his head open whilst shooting a
video for Blacken My Thumb, the first single from their
forthcoming second album 'Outta Sight / Outta Mind.' What with
Roman Tucker's fall, it's clearly been a couple of weeks for
Antipodean rock and head injuries.
Pilot To Gunner are bringing their emo/punk/hardcore/guitar noisiness all the way from the US in support of their brand new 'Get Saved' - catch them at the Enigma Bar on Thurs 29 April with The Hot Lies and Hi-End Audio.
Get out that special pen with which you write
the names of bands that are coming to Australia but giving Adelaide
a big fat miss. Now write "July" on your most annoyed piece
of paper, underline it, and then write "The Who" underneath.
Yep, Messrs Townshend and Daltrey are returning to Australia
for the first time since the 60s - but just the Sydney and Melbourne
parts of it.
The Baggsmen (we don't have to mention that they used to be called The Hive anymore, do we? No? Phew) bring their 'Eleven Stages' CD to Adelaide, in live form, for two shows at the Crown & Sceptre on Fri 30 April and the Rhino Room on Sat 1 May.
Nickelback are on the touring trail - expect
large sounds booming off the back wall of the EntCent on Mon
20 May.
Come on kids - rock is the new rock, which is also the new rock, and you can only truly experience it in all its rockiness if you...
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