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Puff 'n' Stuff.
So, nominated your favourite Adelaide artists in the 2005 dBras yet? No? Well, you'd better get on to www.dbmagazine.com.au and do so, hadn't you? Go on.
Change: word has it that it's as good as a holiday. Sounds unlikely
to Puff, but you can check with Everest, since they've announced
that from now on they wish to be known as Kasavett. It seems
that a German band already had dibs on the name and made Teutonically
legal threats against our boys, so rather than take on the EU
they've decided to adopt a new moniker. But why Kasavett, boys?
If you're going with the K-thing but want to maintain the whole
Everest vibe, why not Kilimanjaro, or K2, or Kosciuszko? Local
bands, take note: Puff knows what you should be called.
On with the CD launches! They've got a punka punka burnin' love:
they're The Jerks, they've got a brand new CD all ready to go
(entitled 'Waiting For The Breakdown') and they'll be launching
it at the German Club on Fri 11 Nov with Stolen Youth, Standard
Union, The Brews and The Assailants.
Peter McIver has a CD to launch too, which he's doing as part
of SCALA's Sat 5 Nov showcase at the Joiners Arms. He'll be
flanked by his titular band, and supported by the charming likes
of Unjay, Leigh Stardust and Soursob Bob.
Brenton Manser is also launching a CD: specifically, at the Grace Emily Hotel on Sat 12 Nov.
And it keeps on coming! Squeaker launch their new disc at the
Gov on Thurs 10 Nov.
Local gothic stalwarts Beltane might not be launching, or indeed gigging in any form, but they have completed a new CD: it's called 'Spell Of Harmony', it's a collection of remixes of tracks from the band's back catalogue, and it's out now.
Manic Distortion also know that CDs won't launch themselves,
which is why they've gotten Melbourne pals Fire Witch and Spider
Goat Canyon to come over to help them launch their new 'Fuct
Fashion' (and that sound you hear is a thousand monocles falling
into soup upon reading that ribald CD title) at the Crown &
Anchor on Sat 12 Nov.
And the hot, saucy launch action keeps on a-coming: The Fraud Millionaires are launching their debut single Las Vegas at the Duke Of York on Sat 12 Nov, with the returned and re-energised A Tribe Is Forming and special guests.
Fear In Dakota are also up to their necks in CD launch at the
moment, but hope to extricate themselves in time to set their
To My Knees single free at the Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat 5 Nov,
with acoustic songstress Ellie in support.
The going was hard and the competition fierce, but mad props to The Preytells, the Western Australian band who took out the 2005 Jim Beam National Campus Battle Of The Bands at on Adelaide UniBar on Sat 29 Oct. slightly less mad props also to the other competitors, especially SA's Mr Fiction who came in second. Yay.
Like a whole lot of people who like Australia, Dan Kelly wasn't
all that chuffed with the last Federal Election. Like a lot
of other people, his response was to try and blot it all out
with alcohol and bitter, bitter tears. Unlike most other people,
he also captured it in song as Drunk On Election Night, the
single from his new CD-EP 'Pirate Radio' - which he's supporting
via a tour with The Alpha Males which will bring him to Jive
on Fri 11 Nov, along with Souls On Board and Augie March's Glenn
Richards.
Sure, we might have gotten the Foo Fighters to pop over (without Kaiser Chiefs, but with The Nation Blue) for a show at Thebbie on Wed 30 Nov which sold out in under 40 minutes, but plenty of acts couldn't care less about our fine little burg. It's not official yet, but you can rest assured that Ian Brown - late of the Stone Roses - will be ignoring Adelaide on his upcoming Australian tour in January. See, Puff can even get pre-emptively offended.
US pop punk legends The Queers are coming to town, courtesy
of friends Mach Pelican: both bands will be tearing up the Crown
& Anchor on Sat 5 Nov with locals La Femme La Fever - and what's
more, the show is free!
Stuff from Puff: Welcome to Splitsille, Alfie: the UK indie
kids have announced their breakup on the admirably accurate
grounds that not enough people care. Bassist Sam Morris told
nme.com "We have always endeavoured to stay true to ourselves
musically, and we perhaps somewhat naively thought that this
would be sufficient to catapult us into the upper stratosphere
of the popular music world. It wasn't."...Speaking
of such things, rumours abound that Biohazard are calling it
a day after their next record... The Dead Boys, meanwhile,
reformed for a concert marking the 30th anniversary of their
formation in Cleveland on Mon 31 Oct. The only Dead Boy absent
was frontman Stiv Bators, who's actually, well, dead (he died
in 1990 after being hit by a car)... Vale
Nick Hawkins: the former Big Audio Dynamite guitarist died on
Mon 10 Oct after suffering a heart attack. He was 40... Rock
stars: always with the injuries and illnesses. Take Sleater-Kinney,
for example: they've just cancelled their European tour after
Carrie Brownstein suffered severe allergic reactions that landed
her in the emergency room. While they've been advised not to
tour for a bit, there's no word yet as to whether this will
affect their Big Day Out appearances... Disturbed
have also postponed their European tour while doctors check
out frontman David Draiman, who seems to have damaged his vocal
cords... Meanwhile Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson
keeled over at a UK gig on Sun 23 Oct - apparently he was a
bit tired, but he's fine now... Not so Jim
Root, guitarist of Slipknot: he's sitting out the band's US
tour at the moment, after rather inconveniently breaking his
wrist in a mountain bike crash the day before the band hit the
road... Actually, it's not been a good run for the 'Knot:
a few gigs have been postponed and one cancelled as Shawn Crahan
(aka Clown) returns to Des Moines to attend the funeral of his
father, who passed away last week... After
being out of print for three years, Nine Inch Nails' debut album
'Pretty Hate Machine' will be reissued by the hard-rockin' party
dudes of, er, Prudential Securities. Yes, the investment house
owns the album (along with the rest of TVT's industrial catalogue)
as the label used them as collateral against a $32 million loan.
The label went bankrupt, Prudential got the masters, and now
they've cut a deal with Rykodisc to release NIN, with KMFDM
reissues set for early next year... Speaking of unusual
routes for record labels, it seems that Rupert Murdoch is getting
in on the act. Since his company now owns MySpace, where a billion
unsigned bands post sound files and debate the definition of
emo, his people are able to monitor the web traffic and see
what bands are the most popular, eliminating the need to do
messy things like see gigs or listen to music. He's reportedly
cut a deal with Interscope and made the label's first signing:
a metal/hardcore/hip-hop collective called The Hollywood Undead...
Oh, that Courtney Love: her adorable habit
of not paying for things has gotten her in another legal stew.
This time it's the people she hired to fight Krist Novoselic
and Dave Grohl over rights to unreleased Nirvana tracks: the
Seattle based law firm Hendricks & Lewis reckon she still owes
them $US340,000 for getting her the publishing rights to the
tracks (netting her around $US7 million in advances), and are
seeking a lien on all of Love's papers that are still in their
possession, including some of Kurt Cobain's works... And
finally Low have announced that bassist Zak Sally has left the
band after 12 years. Sally, whose wife gave birth to their first
child earlier this year, issued a statement saying "I sincerely
hope that someday we can sit in the basement and make music
together, but for now, there are more important things than
music". His replacement is Matt Livingstone, who's played with
Low before (and is part of Retribution Gospel Choir with Low's
frontman Alan Sparhawk).
The madmen of Blank Tapes, Chastity Records and EC Productions
have joined forces for a terrifying night of rock at the Lizard
Lounge on Sat 5 Nov, presenting Spindickle, Home For The Def,
Raw Sex and GG Alan Bindig. What's more, every attendee gets
a few compilation CD which will only be available on the night,
full of a bunch of unreleased collaborative efforts by the above
artists, plus the gloriously named Colostomy Bag Lady. Consider
yourself advised/warned.
Lano & Woodley want to show they're not just about the comedy: they're also about the comedic songs. Hence they're doing two nights at the Gov on Thurs 3 Nov and Fri 4 Nov with their aptly titled 'Lano & Woodley Sing Songs' shows.
Note that L&W's Thurs 3 Nov show is early, as that night the
Gov also plays host to The Beautiful Girls: all tickets for
the show's original venue of Heaven are still valid.
Billy February and fiddlin' sidekick Richard Tonkin are all
set for a couple of shows with pals The Yearlings: first they're
at the Singing Gallery in McLaren Vale on Sat 12 Nov (with Thom
Burns) and then they pop into the city for a show at the Grace
Emily on Sun 13 Nov (with the Huckleberry Swedes).
Sure, The Falls have completely and utterly sold out and there
are no tickets to be found anywhere, but that hasn't stopped
them rubbing it in by announcing a slew of artists that you
won't get to see (unless you were smart enough to buy tickets
back when there were tickets to buy). So Ugly Duckling, The
Cat Empire, Eric Bibb, The Rolling Blackouts, Kelley Stoltz,
Little Birdy, Ash Grunwald, Mia Dyson, Katalyst, Offcuts, Dappled
Cities Fly, Youth Group, Dan Sultan & Scott Wilson, True Live
and Rob Sawyers join the already-announced likes of The Dandy
Warhols, The Shins, Pete Murray, Hoodoo Gurus, The Zutons and
many, many more in Tasmania and at Lorne. Rad.
The Underground Sounds band competition at the Lizard Lounge
kicks off on Wed 2 Nov with Ezulai, Poly & the Statics, A Family
Card Game, Lady Strange Love and Free Masons making battle on
the field of rock. The on Wed 9 Nov we have the second heat,
with Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, Dead Friends, Red Baron, The Peaves,
Third Best - so if you haven't gotten your band involved yet,
get in there now!
Remember kids: No Use For A Name will be totally rockin' the
Adelaide UniBar on Wed 2 Nov, which is the very day this issue
hits the streets.
The Crown & Anchor's monthly Daggerz Sound System show will be a-happening on Thurs 3 Nov with Meat Wallet and a couple of new(ish) faces; F Scott Fitzgerald (formed from the ashes of Eyes Like Black Stars) and Guantanamo Bay City Rollers playing their first ever gig (and who are made up of members of Manic Distortion and the late Slackjaw and Keeth).
Lovers of the pop will want to be at the EntCent on Sun 6 Nov,
since that's when Kelly Clarkson - inaugural winner of 'American
Idol', as you're no doubt aware - will make with the song action,
supported by Rogue Traders.
They enjoyed it so much they're doing it again! The folks behind the 'Coombyah' Peter Combe tribute a few months back have gathered up some faces old and new - Leigh Stardust, Matt's Little Brother, Tom Barnes, Aviator Lane and Team Drum Kit - and will be playing all the Combey favourites in a special, early, all-ages gig at the Lizard Lounge on Sat 12 Nov.
Speaking of tributes, the Gov's thinking about having one for
Bob Dylan on Sat 10 Dec, so if you reckon you'd like to be part
of it, drop W. Shane Forster a line at w_shaneforster@hotmail.com
about how you can get on the bill.
Lovers of drums and the drumming arts are advised to be at the Governor Hindmarsh on Tues 15 Nov, since that's when ace sticksman Michael Barker (him out the John Butler Trio, don't you know?) will be giving a special clinic on all things percussive.
It'll be just another manic... er, Wednesday, on Wed 9 Nov,
when three-quarters of The Bangles play at Thebarton Theatre.
Whither bassist Michael Steele, asks Puff? She was the powerhouse
at the heart of the band, dude...
Look, with all this going on, and a city filled with Feast to boot, don't make Puff come over there and force you to...
Get Out Of The House!
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