SHAMZINE #2

Issue #2 - August 2011

EMDEE

CURCUMA Mark Hilton

Hate for fate Aborted jesus milkshake

Unbroken EXPANSE Jeg rock outta tennant creek

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Hello youse

By Wilburr Welcome to Issue #2 of SHAMZINE! Many many happy vibes on the way to you for checking out this, and other local music.

The Territory is such a unique place. The music here reflects that.

On any weekend you can hear all sorts of diverse sounds and acts.

From metal to funk, roots to world, from dub glitch noise to melodic songwriters. And Burrfoot. Its all here. Knowing where to start is where we come in...

SHAMZINE is a place to get your local music fix. Looking for a show?

Hit up the Gig Guide. Looking for some crazy piece of gear that Cashies just won’t get? Check out the Classos. Interested in hearing about what bands have been doing here lately? Check some of our interviews. Don’t know what that new bands EP sounds like? Wander on over and read some of our reviews.

This issue we listen to some music by local bands Hate For Fate and Unbroken Expanse. Steve-o speaks to Curcuma and Mark Hilton, and tells us a bit about the enigma that is Aborted Jesus Milkshake. As well as the ‘totally legit’ Letters to Ed and Classos.

There’s something happening in our little town and surrounding areas. Something fun and loud and positive. SHAMZINE invites you, no, strongly urges you, to come and join us. You’ll be glad you did.

Jimmy & Jackie Photo by Steve-o Lees

CJ & Zac Photo by Steve-o Lees

US MOB Zac East - Cringeworthy humour, questionable opinions, meaty chops.

Wilburr - Editor, writing, layout, Nico Liengme - Photos, layout, heavy tones. writing, belligerent drunken abuse.

Steve-o Lees - Writing, photos, putting up posters, convincing people to do stuff.

Cover photo: Unbroken Expanse Liam Parry-Mills - Writing, @ TerrorFest 2011 design, photo manipulation, Photo by Nico Liengme Messianic milkshakes.

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Nooz snippets iNTune 2011 Music Conference There’s still spots available at this year’s MusicNT iNTune music conference, featuring 20+ high level music industry reps, 15+ panels and masterclasses and 30+ bands showcasing. Register at www.musicnt.com.au

HEAVYbyHEAVY tix available now HEAVYbyHEAVY 2011 is at Darwin Entertainment Centre on September 9th. Tix are available now via DEC’s box office, CMAX Palmerston, Nightcliff Newsagency and Tourism Top End.

Bastardfest tix available now

Sure, you could pay $40 on the door to see Darwin’s biggest ever metal festival on October 1st, or you could pre-order online now for $32.50+bf and buy yourself a couple extra beers on the night: www.trybooking.com/SSE

Letters to ed

I think Ed is a pretty cool guy.

Eh writes himself letters and doesn't afraid of anything.

Dear Sir/ Madam, If you were a police officer and I was a criminal and I was to say to you “what if I thought you were a knob end, go eat donkey puss”, would I be legaly in the wrong? Because im not actually SAYING that you’re a knob end, go eat donkey puss, im just THINKING it. And not even thinking it. I’m just asking what youd think if I thought it. And thinking isnt a crime is it? Therefore, I have done no wrong.

Ian Peter Freely Dear Peter, although you clim to have done no wrong, and I can’t really fault your logic, the fact remains that you will call a police officer a knob and tell them to go eat puss. Donkey puss in fact, which is far more offencive than normal run of the mill puss in my opinion. I’m sure if you recorded the encounter and played it back in court you could maybe get away with it, but you’d most certainly “fall down some stairs” or “head butt a phonebook” a few times. Also, did you know your initials are I P Freely?

To SHAMZINE, Why do you always type SHAMZINE in caps? Does it mean Pimp your gigs when I read it I should be reading it as shouting? Are you photos, gig great some or up, If you’ve got a gig coming shouting at me? Why are you shouting at me SHAMZINE? and want SHAMZINE to know about it, drop us a line on Also, if you are reading this, I didnt actually write any of ShamZineNT@gmail.com or tag us in your event on Facebook. the SHAMZINE’s in caps so they must have edited them in after the fact. Which leads me to my next point, why SHAMZINE on Twitter? are you editing me? Why are you putting words, yelled amZineNT Why are we on Twitter? Twitter.com/Sh words, into my mouth? I’m a relaxed guy that doesnt yell at anything. Ever. What did I do to you? So in closing, stop SHAMZINE podcast bootleg edition putting words in my mouth and stop yelling at me. bootlega is podcast SHAMZINE the of edition latest No Name Given The Darwin great some of only affair, with live recordings Dear No Name Given, bands such as Faces in the Fire, ZedMajor, The Wicked IM VERY SORRY FOR YELLING AT YOU AND IT WILL NEVER Garden and Burrfoot. www.shamzinev2.tumblr.com HAPPEN AGAIN I PROMISE.

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Emdee IN CANADA

By Megan Spencer/MusicNT.com.au Well-known NT didge player Mark Hoffman (eMDee) is on his way home from being part of a spectacular and historic display of pyrotechnics and music in Canada.

Mark was front and centre with NT fireworks company Howard & Sons at the prestigious Montreal International Fireworks Competition in Canada on Saturday 16th July, 2011.

Collaborating as The Bang Collective, there they featured The Colours of Kakadu, a “brand new live pyromusical performance”, parts of which were premiered on July 1st, in the Magic Over Mindil Skyshow in Darwin, part of the special Centenary Territory Day celebrations.

Competing with teams from Europe, China and North America, the full fireworks display has been “choreographed around” a 30 minute set of eMDee‘s trademark music, for which they are well-known throughout the NT and at music festivals all over Australia.

eMDee‘s music features a highoctane didge performance – where Mark plays up to four at a time – and drum n’ bass, with the talents of seasoned Darwin percussionist, Lukas Bendel.

Using heritage-listed Kakadu National Park as their artistic inspiration, Howard & Sons say “in close collaboration with eMDee, Howard & Sons have crafted a pyrotechnic experience of highenergy didgeridoo, drum n’ bass, vivid colour and serene beauty, all choreographed and synchronised around the.. foot-stomping rhythms of an amazing eMDee performance”.

“With a live didgeridoo performance international audiences have never seen before, and pyrotechnics by Australia’s most innovative company, The Colours of Kakadu” delivered “a uniquely ‘down under’ explosive experience” at Montreal’s Lac des Dauphins.

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It is the third time that the 89 year- had been arranged especially to suit old fireworks company Howard & pyrotechnics, rather than taking Sons has competed in the prestigious conventional music and trying to international fireworks competition, make the pyro fit to that”. and it was also “the most complex Mr. Bensley said that the display display cue-wise to date in the 2011 was quite “un-traditional without competition”. cliches”, adding his favorite section Montreal the The NT News described was the “representing monsoon and performance as an “extravaganza… wind, as there would be lots of noise intended to replicate the wild scenery and interesting patterns used”. and seasons of the Territory’s world Eager to compete, prior to leaving famous national park in front of Mark Hoffman said “we can’t wait to pyro-fanatics in Montreal”. get to Montreal and give them a truly Reportedly it is only the “second time unique Top End experience”. in history” that a competing display The Bang Collective will have to has ever been “fired to live music”. wait to see how they fared in the In three sets or musical ‘movements’, competition, with the Festival not eMDee played live music which officially closing until July 31. was mixed into a pre-recorded Music NT wishes The Bang Collective the accompanying soundtrack and eMDee every success, and display. On the official Competition congratulations on this international website it is stated that “on three achievement. occasions, the soundtrack will yield to the live band [eMDee], who will Visit the Montreal International perform selections from its playlist Fireworks Competition website, and as an accompaniment to thousands find our more about eMDee at his official website. of different pyrotechnical effects”.

Interviewed on the Montreal International Fireworks Competition website, main designer of the show Stuart Bensley “noted the music

montreal-fireworks.com www.rawdidge.com

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UNBROKEN EXPANSE

By Wilburr I was there when UBX thrashed the stage at the Happy Yess 5th Birthday.

Then again at TerrorFest 2011.

And no wonder. They'd just been given a spot at this years Bass In The Grass. Which SOUNDS awesome, until you realise the set only goes for fifteen minutes. And five of those minutes are set up. And the next five THE GATES ARENT EVEN OPEN YET! But that last five, jeebus you should have been there. They played like they were headlining Wembley Stadium at capacity. They always do.

Whether it’s playing to ten people at BitG, or a full house at Browns Mart or Happy Yess (because they ARE different venues), UBX really do put on a show.

Talk about a live show. Words like explosion, energy, power pop, melodic and punk sensabilities come to mind when seeing this band perform.

Not only are UBX a fun live show, the guys themselves are really down to earth and normal. No egos, no rockstar attitudes, just a bunch of guys from Tennant that really love playing music together. I got to hang out with Jason an Wheezy after the last TerrorFest. These guys are so fun and energetic that I actually had a good time at a place with a shit electro didge house club cover "band" blaring god awful electro didge house covers right next to us.

None of this “Stare At Your Shoes Til The Fat D-Chord Kicks In” for these guys. It’s straight up, grab-yourcollar-and-yell-in-your-face-whilejumping-up-and-down power punkrock. If you have ever seen them play you'll know what I mean. The show culminates in every single member of the audience up on stage dancing Recently I was also lucky enough and singing and jumping and just to score a copy of JEG ROCK - their debut album. A few in fact, ‘cause going crazy having a great time. we are giving them away as part of Here is a theme on UBX which is a a SHAMZINE comp. More on that constant: fun. This band is fun as! later. So I’ve had a chance to listen to Watching them play, and watching it a few times and I think you should other people react to what they are buy it (or enter our comp to win seeing on stage, everything about it!). It’s good. It was recorded down this band is fun. Every gig I’ve in Tennent Creek at a place called seen them at, they really touch the Winanjjakari Music Centre and Dr. crowd, and sweep everyone up in Fluride’s Lair, by UBX and Jeffery the moment, and everyone has FUN! McLaughlin. It was then transported People (myself included) leave a UBX in an air-tight bio-dome made of set on a massive buzz of energy and crystal to the subterrainian bunkers fun, grinning like mad from ear to of Subsonic Studios where audioear. Singing "Hey! Ho!" or "Oi!" or shaman Matt Cunliffe did forbidden something. I feel sorry for the bands rites and mystical rituals on it to that have to follow them (myself master it. included).

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The end result is an eleven song album called JEG ROCK. You should buy it. How else are you going to learn the words to Bootsrap Billy so you can sing it at the top of your lungs while on stage with them, and everyone else in the room, while bouncing like mad during the closing part of the set?

I hate having to pigeon hole a band’s sound. It’s shit. Being in a band myself, I know that its more than "sounds like X" when you write a song. There’s so much that influences a songs structure, feel, and composition, let alone lyrical concepts and the like.

Other bands that influence what you do can sometimes have nothing to do with what your own music sounds like. But also, there are obvious influences for different styles and genres of music. I would argue that if it wasnt for Black Sabbath, none of the bands I like today would exist.

So I fully understand and appreciate how much it devalues your creative vision to have some dick write it off as "sounds like X mixed with Y". But then again I also understand the need for people to relate something to something they already know so its not so scary and different SO, Jeg Rock sounds like a mix between old Green SHAMZINE

Day (but good!) and Frenzal Rhomb at a disco in Tennant Creek trying to blare out the shit electro didge house cover "music" by playing their set out the front on the back of a truck with the PA powered by a cigarette lighter adapter thingy, jerry-rigged to all the cars in the carpark.

You should buy Jeg Rock. And you should buy it from one of UBX’s gigs. You'll be buying it off the band themselves at one of their shows.

And seriously, you need to check out one of these shows. This is the thing we were talking about when we said our little town was exploding.

“Here is a theme on UBX which is a constant: fun. This band is fun as!

Watching them play, and watching other people react to what they are seeing on stage; everything about this band is fun.”

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Win a signed copy of Jeg Rock

ShamZine has 5 SIGNED copies of UBX’s Jeg Rock to give away to... let’s say the first five people to tag SHAMZINE on Facebook, or write us a Letter to Ed, or, I dunno, hashtag us on Twitter? What does that even mean? Okay, maybe just spread the word however you can, wherever you can, to whomever you can, and if we notice it, you’ll get a free UBX CD! DO IT! DO IT NOW!

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Curcuma

By Steve-o Lees So where are you guys at, at the moment?

Jingili

Any recording sessions?

Hopefully during the school holidays when Kylie gets a spare hour or so; if we can figure out how to make the drums sound okay in our spare room with concrete walls; and if we can borrow some recording mics from friends.

Are you writing any new material?

Nick always has something on the boil, but often forgets it before it becomes a song.

How is it going?

How was it?

Okay but slowly......... I cannot work out how to use Pro Tools I think it is a program designed for young whippersnappers not elderly people.

(Nick)

Scary.

Where did the music start?

In a treehouse in Coconut Grove.

How did you all form?

A common interest in Shellac and doom metal.

Where was your first gig?

Happy Yess last year with Burrfoot.

I think it is time for something to eat. Shamzine endorses eating pizza while doing this interview.

I hope it’s home-made and not some crap from a multi-national chain store that tastes like shit.

I make good pizza......

Favourite gig you have played?

The gig that Will recorded without us knowing that time. The Big Sleep?

We actually played alright that night.

Every other gig we’ve been really nervous and stuffed up bad.

What inspires the band’s music?

Feedback, volume, inspirational stuff.

and

other

What do you listen to during the week?

Every week is different. This week it was Inquisition, Suffocation, John Coltrane, Wu Tang Clang, Earth, Rapeman, Neurosis, Bongripper, Slayer, Superchunk, Syndicate, Rot In Hell, Richmond Fontaine, Nails, Ensign, Within Blood, Uncle Tupelo, Built To Spill, Company Flow, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Cash, Scratch Acid, Def Wish Cast etc etc all I do is listen to music at work all day! (Nick)

Where can I see you if you were to play a live gig?

Happy Yess, Terrorfest, 25 June 2011.

(Ed: Ah, obviously this is a bit old. Next Curcuma shows are October 1st and November 26th.)

Anything you would like to add?

KEEP SUPPORTING YOUR LOCAL LIVE MUSIC SCENE/VENUES BY GOING TO GIGS , BUYING STUFF AND THINGS ETC ETC – ESPECIALLY HAPPY YESS!!!!!

Thanks for talking to Shamzine.

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Thank you for the support. We will see you at a live gig for sure.

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Hate for fate

By Wilburr

Hey nice package Hate for Fate! I havent bought a CD, I mean a real life COMPACT DISC in a cover, with glossy pics in, and linear notes, and a cover that folds out with all the lyrics on the inside, in years. YEARS! I thought they were outlawed by iTunes or something. When I got the Hate for Fate EP Without Light, I was taken back to those Good Old Days. Then I remembered tapes!

Does anyone remember tapes? What about cassingles?

Cassingles used to be $1.99 and had the single on one side, and a B SIDE on the other (and it only cost thruppence-hapanney to ride the tram!). Just like the old records!

And most the time the B side was unreleased or rare or something cool like that. One of the earliest awesome cassingles I had was "Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. The B side was a song called Even In His Youth and it was just about the best thing in the world at the time. I used to play the shit out of that on my tape player walkman. Crowded House was also on high rotation back in those days.

And Midnight Oil.

“This is a great thing, as it is fucking hard to walk the line between having a defined sound and every song sounding the same.”

of course, Cal Williams at the Seedy Ewe (CDU). The sound is definately heavy. I dont know which sub genre of "heavy" would be appropriate, and I dont think its important. The band has a firm grasp on rock dynamics and can go from a single melodic guitar to a full massive chorus with all band members firing on all pistons. Without Light is Hate for Fate’s Bob Brozman (Google him RIGHT first EP. It has 7 songs on it and is NOW if the name doesnt ring a bell) available at their gigs or from their said something along the lines of websites. Really though, what would "We get so caught up between whats you rather? Going to some corporate Alt Punk, Punk, Rock, Metal, Grunge, shrine to consumerism and buying Whatever, when really, it doesnt even a copy off Some Guy who probably matter. We should be focusing on hasnt even heard of the band, doesnt listening to the music rather than like loud music, and is Too Old For pigeon-holeing and catagorizing it". This Shit anyways, OR see a great live show from HfF, then afterwards go Very wise words. meet them at the merch stand and Having said that, listening to buy a copy FROM THE BAND? Its a Without Light I can hear influences no brainer. Live gig = awesome. Buy from bands like Tool to Pantera to CD from the band themselves, prolly Deftones in the loud bits, and all sorts even get it signed if that kind of thing in the quite bits. The band definatley tickles your fancy, ask them about have a groove or feel they lock into the music and really get to know a that sounds like Hate For Fate in local artist = WAY awesome. Massive every song. This is a great thing, as shopping centres = perpetual it is fucking hard to walk the line suckness. between having a defined sound and every song sounding the same. In my Check out Hate For Fate on teh humble opinion, I think HfF have a internetz... www.hateforfate.com. defined sound. I love that they take Also, they play gigs a lot and you their time to get to it, and that they should go watch one. get to it in so many different ways.

This relates to HfFs EP Without Light on so many levels that me having to explain it would be patronising and a waste of everyones time. So I will continue...

The EP was recorded and produced by the band and their friends and,

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Mark Hilton

By Steve-o Lees How did you get into sound Talking Timbuktu – Ali Farka Toure recording, engineering and & Ry Cooder: recorded by Ry at his mixing? joint. Not as crisp as the Van Gelder has been Dad was an enthusiast. At the age stuff ‘cos a bit of reverb night tropical balmy a has but added, of 10, I used to fool around with his a bit. back are vocals tape recorder and then got my hands feel to it and the onto a cassette recorder somehow. Everything sounds gorgeous.

I played some piano and created ….and of course the Beatles White a soundtrack for a 3 minute epic Album: Geoff Emerick engineered comic animation movie I produced most of it and the production on Dad’s 8mm home movie camera. I team was George Martin (mainly used Spy Vs, Spy characters cut out of arrangements) and Chris Thomas MAD magazine. A tad precocious, but who also did some great work with I was just obsessed with anything AV. Procol Harum, Pink Floyd and the Sex Pistols. If an aspiring engineer What music inspires you? wants a good read, check out “Here, Lots. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ry There and Everywhere. My Life Cooder, Abba, T-Rex, Bjork, Ellington, Recording the Music of the Beatles.”

Kenny Burrell, Gillian Welch, Neil by Geoff. You get a beautifully biased Young, Bob Dylan, Beck, Johnny view on what a genius he was and Cash, Radiohead, Panic at the Disco, how George took all the credit.

Miles Davis, Emmylou Harris, Bach, record?

Hendrix, Jeff Buckley, Zeppelin, Peter Did you say ONE favourite Green, Muddy Waters, Brian Eno… Nevermind – Nirvana: when I first how Favourite record you listen to for heard it I couldn’t believe sounds Still LOUD everything was. its engineering and sound? great. Butch Vigg apparently. He Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell: did Siamese Dream (Smashing Jazz trio performing live in Rudy Pumpkins) as well.

Van Gelder’s loft. One of a classic series of Blue Note recordings that http://www.amazon.com/Here ere-RecordingThere-Everywh relied on good mic placement, good Beatles/dp/1592401791 performance and one take.

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Do you play any instruments and in any bands?

Lately it’s mainly acoustic guitar in my own band (Mark Hilton & the Two Few). I used to play a lot of electric guitar in a whole variety of styles from Metal to Afro/Reggae and occasionally electric bass. I’ve also spent a bit of time on tabla, harmonium, and piano but very rusty now. My harmonica playing is akin to an asthma attack.

What was your best concert/gig you worked in the NT? Memory is deceptive. The most important gig I guess, was playing the Lighthouse at the Darwin Festival a couple of years ago, but the most enjoyable was probably a trio gig at the Darwin Railway Club one lazy Sunday afternoon recently.

Favourite live gig you went to?

Pink Floyd at Knebworth 1975 http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=5FX7vwwOQ4Q

How do you find your job to be interesting?

My real job or my music job? Let’s talk about the interesting stuff then.

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Music addiction has often been likened to having a relationship with a woman (yes – yes - I now it’s politically incorrect). She seduces you in myriad ways, tells you how wonderful you are, gets you hooked and then slowly it begins – the nagging. Somehow you are not quite as good as you started out thinking. But seriously – I wouldn’t swap her for anything. Frankly I find musicians to be amongst the

between the 50s and 70s, all we had was brilliant microphones and plate reverbs combined with simple desks with excellent components and huge knobs – what more could you ask for?

Now we have the best of both worlds – analogue sound with digital editing capabilities. That’s why albums take forever to make now – too many options. The best creativity often comes out of having limitations.

“Frankly I find musicians to be amongst the most interesting people. They are often multi faceted and generally sensitive and kind.” most interesting people. They are often multi faceted and generally sensitive and kind. Sometimes the sharks around them (managers / record company types / booking agents / promoters…) are too much to bear. They love the industry more than the music. Anyone who takes up music as a career with money in mind, is a ninkumpoop. As Hunter S. Thompson said “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”

hard work. Opportunity is made.

There are lots of pretenders too. The rat with a gold tooth factor. They take up valuable space.

Any advice for people who are interested in getting into the sound engineering field?

Don’t jump on a desk and pretend.

You’ll fuck up a musician’s mix and make the gig a disaster for them. If you are just learning with your mates at a backyard gig, then that’s ok. Before you start seriously, get some hands on experience by watching a pro and asking questions. Do a course. Read books. Listen. Listen more. For live mixing in Darwin, Colin Simpson and Toby Robinson are the best I know.

They are helpful guys too – so don’t be shy. For studio nouse – check out Marine at Subsonic, Cal Williams and Peter Houtmeyers at CDU, plus Andy Mison at NT Music school. These guys have a lot of experience and as far as I can make out – don’t have cloth ears.

Why is it so hard to break into the Thank you for taking the time to industry as a sound engineer or talk to Shamzine. Anything you would like to add? live promoter?

It’s never been easy. To be excellent at anything you need a bit of talent, a lot of hard work – then some more

Thanks for listening and hope it helped somehow. Keep twiddling those knobs.

What is one common mistake you find working with live music?

Getting cocky and not doing a soundcheck.

How has technology today changed compared to what it was 10-20 years ago?

Back then we just had black boxes that devalued instantly on leaving the showroom and fooled us temporarily into thinking they sounded good. I guess I’m referring to early 80s digital reverbs and the like – but that’s 30 years ago!

Now if you go back to somewhere

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Gig photos Got some snaps of a recent gig? Tag ‘em with ShamZine on Facebook or email ‘em to ShamZineNT@gmail.com with your name for credit.

Sietta @ The Railway Club Photo Steve-o Lees

FEMA @ TerrorFest 2011 Photo Nico Liengme

Kris Keogh in Brisbane Photo Nico Liengme

UBX @ TerrorFest 2011 Photo Nico Liengme Enth Degree @ TerrorFest 2011 Photo Nico Liengme

Aborted Jesus Milkshake @ TerrorFest 2011 Photo Nico Liengme

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Burrfoot @ The Chippo Scifi Night Photo Nico Liengme

Adam LT @ TerrorFest 2011 Photo Steve-o Lees

Sietta @ The Railway Club Photo Steve-o Lees

In Malices Wake @ May Day Massacre Photo Nico Liengme UBX’s Jason Foran @ TerrorFest 2011 Photo Steve-o Lees

Calabria’s Fall @ TerrorFest 2011 Photo Ellen Musk

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Aborted Jesus MilkshakE By Steve-o Lees Where is your music going? Did I offend you!

Fuck the police! Once a common saying from 80’s rap group N.W.A (who where obviously running out of rappers to dis in their songs, so lashing out at 70’s white reggae group the Police was the next obvious step) now it is a regular quote in Aborted Jesus Milkshakes live show.

Now, if you have any high moral standards and don’t want to degrade yourself lower than 2 girls 1 cup, tune out now. Don’t read on. If your curiosity kills you so much inside, and you’re one of the many people that has to read on to see what kind of f***ed up shit will be written, then do so at your own sick pleasure. And if you are reading this to see what kind of f***ed up shit (you can say shit these days, yeah?) people are writing, why haven’t you been to a fucking Aborted Jesus Milkshake gig?

(let’s face it) influencing pop music today e.g. Lady Gaga.

AJM doesn’t worry about prop or costume changes. Just fucked up song titles like ‘Stop Crying I’m Losing Wood’, ‘Anal Birth’, ‘Legal in Dog Years’, ‘Abattoir of Retard Children’, ‘Begging My Parents for Sex’ and ‘Kiddie Pool of Menstrual Blood’. They abuse you and they abuse themselves.

think AJM’s music would be better suited for a bad German porn movie (or good porn movie, just depends on how you look at it) but no. The music had a group of ‘too much energy teenagers’ jumping around the front, getting some sort of stress release out that only teenagers have.

Australia’s premiere Brutal North Coast Blackened Deathgrindslamcore band, Aborted Jesus Milkshake doesn’t want fame, an ARIA, or recognition of being the best band.

Your money? Yes, but none of that useless shit. They are musicians that think and make you think. Ha!

To compare AJM’s music to anything would be like comparing blue waffle to Twilight. No one cares about the songs. Why? No one listens. Fuck it, they just make people laugh and forget about their own personal Two years on the Darwin music shit. Leave your dignity and crap at scene and AJM have continued to the door, mosh your stress away and push the boundaries and the art of make sure you don’t bring a date to screaming into a microphone with the show. Because A. She is either a backing band that is controlled by as fucked up as you and that can’t a computer or Ollie or both. They be weird? or B. Well actually I don’t and their music can be found like know. Moral of the story is, don’t most places under your foreskin or in a tube of toothpaste and MySpace bring your date.

2011. Music genres have evolved and which has a lot of space under its mutated further than any brother I first got to see AJM earlier this year foreskin. Like them on Facebook and sister love fest baby and then that at Browns Mart and if you have ever even if you don’t like them. Just do it baby grows up and ends up having been to a Browns Mart Theatre live because their parents will hate you. sex with its 1st cousin, then they end show or performance you would up with a child that had a kid to the goat/fish/dog next door, which ends Those crazy kids up circus child celebrity and because In order to alienate and bewilder their existing fans, Aborted Jesus of the fame of the disgusting goat Milkshake are working on a hip-hop/dubstep/grindcore EP with an childman fishdog, it would mate with anticipated September release. all Charlie Sheen like characters until will be performing material from this release at Bastardfest at Brown’s producing a daughter who would AJM th on Oct 1st and Halloween Holocaust ay Happy Yess on Oct 29 . give Amy Winehouse singing lessons Mart and Madonna dance moves which is www.facebook.com/AbortedJesusMilkshake

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All-ages mixed bag @ Happy Yess | 9pm | $5

Saturday August 6

The Last Gig On Earth w/ Calabria’s Fall, Broaden City, Burrfoot & Hate for Fate @ Happy Yess | 9pm | $5

Friday August 12

Santos Opening Concert (Darwin Festival) w/ Young Guns, Dewayne Everettsmith & Tjupi Band @ Amphitheatre, Botanic Gardens, | 6.30pm | FREE

Eddie Obara (Black Clan Can) & Don’t Do It Johnny @ Happy Yess | 10.30pm | $5

Saturday August 13

June Mills & Red Plum and Snow @ Happy Yess | 10.30pm | $5

Malak Attack w/ Calabria’s Fall, Hate for Fate, FEMA & Abysm @ Chambers Crescent Theatre, Malak | 7pm | $10

Thursday August 18

Wicked Garden with Sono and Cynic @ Happy Yess | 10.30pm | $5

Tracey Bunn & Anne McCue (Darwin Festival) @ The Lighthouse, Civic Park | 7pm | $32/26 Tiffany Cornell (Darwin Festival) @ The Lighthouse, Civic Park | 8.30pm | $25/20

Friday August 19 National Indigenous Music Awards (Darwin Festival) w/ Dan Sultan, Warumpi Band, Coloured Stone & No Fixed Address @ Amphitheatre, Botanic Gardens | 6pm | $25/20

Train Wrecked w/ Burrfoot, ZedMajor, The Wicked Garden & Enth Degree @ Parap Railway Club | 7pm | $5

Mark Hilton with The Groupie Funkers @ Happy Yess | 10.30pm | $5

Saturday August 20

The Jasmine Revolution and Rising Star @ Happy Yess | 10.30pm | $5

Sunday August 21

The Herd w/ KOJO (Darwin Festival) @ Amphitheatre, Botanic Gardens | 6.30pm | $36/32

Jigsaw Collective (Darwin Festival) @ The Lighthouse, Civic Park | 9pm | $26/22

Thursday August 25

Vintage Vinyl Reggae with the Harbourview Selecta @ Happy Yess | 10.30pm | $5

Kris Keogh & Red Plum and Snow (Darwin Festival) @ The Lighthouse, Civic Park | 9pm | $26/22

Friday August 26

Reggae Dave & Dave Spry @ Happy Yess | 10.30pm | $5

Saturday August 27

Barry Brown and the GetDown (Darwin Festival) @ The Lighthouse, Civic Park | 9pm | $26/22

Black Clan Can & Special Guests @ Happy Yess | 10.30pm | $5

Most of these events were aggregated from online resources such as MusicNT, Off the Leash, Happy Yess, Darwin Entertainment Centre and Darwin Festival.

They are subject to change at short notice and we suggest you check the venue website closer to the date to be sure.

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