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Puff 'n' Stuff.
Well, Puff would like some sort of explanation as to where 2005's gone. According to Puff's calculations it was only a week or so since it was April 2004, and now all of a sudden it's mid-December 2005! At this rate it'll be 2010 by mid-next year, and the new century by November. Explain that with your fancy relativity, Einstein! These numbers don't lie and Puff's checked and double-checked the figures, using the same calendar, calculator, set of filthy playing cards and bottles of gin with which they were calculated. And yes, Puff would very much like another tall one, if you're pouring. Anyway, the fact that we're barreling towards some sort of explosive singularity should give you all the more impetus to get out to the many fine events taking place in our town over the next week - yes, WEEK: not the more traditional fortnight. What with all time spiraling into some sort of vortex as outlined above, and the whole "Christmas" thing, dB Magazine will be coming out again in a mere seven days (which should take about 90 minutes at the current rate).
The first of such fine events of which Puff would like you be
made aware is the Christmas Extravaganza from The Dairy Brothers,
Dexter Jones, Soursob Bob and The Beards; not only have they
all joined forces to release a joint CD (entitled 'Naked Christmas
2005') but they'll be launching it together with a special Christmas
gig at Jive on Fri 16 Dec. Here's Dexter Jones, looking neither
naked nor particularly Christmassy: but Puff's sure that will
all change on the night...
Before The Aftermath reckon they'd better launch their CD before the end of the year, but they're cutting it pretty fine since it's happening at the Jade Monkey on Sat 17 Dec (with Mirrorline and Mr Wednesday).
Most of the members of Melbourne's True Radical Miracle have
got family to visit in their former hometown, so they're popping
over for the festive season, have a brand new CD-EP in their
hands and figure they might as well do a gig to promote it while
they're here: and specifically, they're doing it at the Rocket
Bar on Fri 16 Dec with Pharaohs and Brutal Snake.
You know who hates Christmas? Heather Frahn, Kyri, Jess Lewis
and Tristan Louth-Robins, that's who. Puff knows because they're
joining together to play the Escape From Christmas show at the
Lizard Lounge on Fri 23 Dec, which immediately puts them off
Puff's present list. You can't bah a humbug around Puff and
not expect some coal in your stocking come the 25th, Frahn.
Of course, lest the festive season have you feeling rich with
goodwill to all, be reminded that bands as diverse as Deerhoof,
Ozomatli, Rufio and Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers are all
missing Adelaide on the tours they hilariously call "Australian".
Ho ho freakin' ho.
And while we're talking about things not coming to Adelaide, you can add AFI to the list. Of course, they're also not coming to anywhere else in Australia, since they've pulled out of the entire Big Day Out because apparently their album's taking a little longer to record than they were expecting. So what, we're expected to miss out because you can't get your amp sounding like you want it? Thanks for nothing, guys.
Those instrumental improvisational whizzes Badger might play
every Monday night at the Exeter, but they're playing a very
special non-Monday non-Exeter show to show off some of the material
they've been recording: they'll be at the Jade Monkey on Sun
18 Dec, with Before The Aftermath supporting in acoustic mode.
David Ross MacDonald, perhaps best known as "that bloke what drums in The Waifs" is heading to the Grace Emily with an acoustic guitar and a bag full of heartfelt tunes on Sun 18 Dec, joined by Taasha & Tristan from The Audreys.
Stuff from Puff: New Order's Peter Hook has formed what seems
likely to be the best band ever: it's called Freebass and apparent
criteria for membership seems to be that member must be a) a
bassist and b) from Manchester, since the other members are
Mani (Stone Roses/Primal Scream) and Andy Rourke (The Smiths)...
Melbourne trio The Bites have announced their split -
their final show/CD launch was on Sat 3 Dec... Cult
legend Daniel Johnston has been hospitalised: the mentally-fragile
singer was admitted to hospital by his parents after becoming
incoherent and unable to walk. Daniel's father Bill reckons
that it's likely to be lithium poisoning brought about by Johnston's
medication and that they're trialing safer meds... Jack
White's set to be a daddy: wife Karen Elson is expecting to
drop the couple's first bub around autumn our time... Perhaps
emboldened by Courtney Love's efforts with regard to Nirvana's
rights, Becky Derminer made an attempt to claim an ownership
over the rights to the material of the MC5, the band fronted
by her late husband Rob Tyner. However, unlike Nirvana's case,
the judge threw her suit out, much to the relief of surviving
members Wayne Kramer, Michael Davis and Dennis Thompson... And
what's this? Pete Doherty has been arrested? Puff's in shock
at the claim that the high-profile smackhead and occasional
singer of Babyshambles was arrested on suspicion of possessing
Class A drugs when his car was pulled over by police on Tues
29 Nov. Doherty? Drugs? Puff says this is the most insane witch
hunt in history... After having its lease
revoked, putting on a huge kerfuffle about staying put and intervention
from the Mayor of New York, legendary NYC club CBGB's has announced
that it's definitely closing its doors on Oct 31 next year.
Owner Hilly Kristal is already looking for a new location for
the venue... Yes, Puff knows that one of the things about
having a trademark or copyright is that you have to be prepared
to fight their infringement at every turn or risk losing it,
but even so: former pro wrestler Diamond Dallas Page is using
the court's valuable time to sue Jay-Z for using his trademarked
hand gesture he's called "The Diamond Cutter". Puff doesn't
want to appear to take sides by printing a photo of either Mr
Page or Mr Z performing the act in question, but humans can
perform it for themselves (assuming they have explicit permission
from Mr Page) by putting one's forefingers and thumbs together
to make what geometricians call a "diamond" shape. DDP trademarked
it in 1996 but Jay-Z has been using it during gigs, presumably
in the part of his show dedicated to demonstrating the shapes
of various polygons through shadow puppetry. Anyway, in the
interests of protecting trademarked intellectual property, Puff
would also like to inform Mr Page's lawyers that that same hand
gesture was performed brazenly and illegally by Mia Howland,
the adorable two year old daughter of contributing writer Wade,
when she sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to Puff recently.
Puff would also like to alert the copyright holders of Twinkle
Twinkle Little Star that Ms Howland's performance of said
song was as part of an illegal mash-up with Baa Baa Black
Sheep... Eminem's found a new love -
his, er, old love. Specifically, his ex-wife Kim. Speaking on
Detroit radio the Emster confirmed that they'd reconciled and
were "probably going to remarry" (this, incidentally, is the
same Kim that he rapped about murdering on the ambiguously titled
Kim on 'The Marshall Mathers LP'). Of course, we all
know that art doesn't imitate life - unless you're obsessed
UK Eminem fan Christopher Duncan, who pleaded guilty in a London
cournt on Thurs 1 Dec to beating law student Jagdip Najran to
death and stuffed her body in a suitcase in a manner not entirely
dissimilar to that of the Stan video.
Adelaide's rock scene is a living, breathing, fluid creature, isn't it? Take Soft White Machine: on the face of it they'd appear to be a new band, but they are in fact constructed out of members of Ungkas, Quantum Kaos and Sir Gerbil (oh, and they're playing at the Jade Monkey on Fri 16 Dec, incidentally, with Borderland and Fear In Dakota). Then there's 200 Motels, who are playing at the Best Of Local Anesthetic showcase at the Gov: they're actually the Kim Roberts Band under a new Zappa-inspired name. You can quiz them all about it on Thurs 22 Dec, when they play with Swayback , Fire! Santarosa Fire!, Poetikool Justice and The Fraud Millionaires (who are themselves made of former members of New White Sneakers and Seeds Of Babylon! Where will it all end?).
Don't forget that The Church visit Adelaide in complete acoustic
mode on the very day this issue hits the rock'n'roll streets
- known to diary-lovers everywhere as "Wed 14 Dec" - for a show
at the Gov with Curio.
Glen & The Peanut Butter Men thought they were just too damn
cool for Adelaide when they relocated to Melbourne a few years
ago - and yet they think they can just come back here every
year or so and play gigs like nothing had happened. Sure, you
open those old wounds, Glen, play at the Crown & Anchor on Sat
17 Dec with Standard Union and then again the following afternoon
with The Jerks, Bombscare, Dominik & The Tuff Cunts and The
Assailants, see if Puff cares...
How much electro can the Grace Emily handle? Find out on sat
17 Dec when The Scarfs, The Casio Brothers and Frequent Seahorse
get all programmed up in your grill. Cass on, Brothers, cass
on.
Our regional readers should make their way to the Westies Football Club in Whyalla on Sat 17 Dec, since that's when a busload of Adelaide bands - Tidal, Double Dragon, The Borderland, A Red Dawn, Locura and Deafening Silence, to be exact - are coming to rock you. And oh, you'll be rocked.
Or maybe you'd prefer something a little more gentle, a tad
more touchy-feely: something more like the acoustic fiesta that
Bliss Organic Cafe are holding from midday on Sun 18 Dec with
Glenn & John, Leanne & Andy and Leelu making with the songcraft.
Awwww! Scorpion Entertainment head honcho Craig Armstrong might
have tour managed the rockingest bands on the planet and be
the hard man of Adelaide promoters - as anyone who's turned
up at the Enigma Bar when the door list has gone astray can
attest - but he's as human as the rest of us when confronted
by his heroes. Heroes such as Motley Crue's Tommy Lee, who signed
the big guy's arm when their paths crossed at Sydney Airport
last week.
Sure, leave it to the last minute Wolf & Cub - you pop home
for a quick pre-BDO show at the Rocket Bar on Sat 17 Dec with
your pals Artax Mission and you don't even tell Puff until the
very last second. You're just lucky that Puff's proud of the
whole Adelaide-band-gets-deal-with-4AD-and-plays-in-the-UK-with-The-Breeders
thing, otherwise you'd be whistling Dixie.
Nothing says Christmas like slamming your body into those of other sweaty youths, so it's handy that Fowler's Live should be holding a special all-ages show dedicated to combining the festival and slamming arts: Christmas Mosh kicks of at 3pm with an all-rock lineup of Through Closed Eyes, Wish For Wings, The Red Shore, 50 Lions, The Jonestown Syndicate, A Thousand Nightmares, With Dying Words and Screamtrigger.
Oh look, we'll be back in a week - stop crying and...
Get Out Of The House!
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