SHAMZINE #5

Issue #5 - November 2011

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Sietta

KIng Bong The Black Wreath Reviews, GIG REVIEWS & GIG GUIDE

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sup you mob

By Wilburr A little birdy told me about a guy who was reading our beloved publication. As he got to the second paragraph of the first intro, he had encountered 2 f-bombs and maybe even a c-word. He wasn’t happy. He was offended even. And proceeded to tell Our Steve-O all about it.

While the facts are true, there was 2 f-bombs and a c-word within the first paragraph, I think I should (try to) justify our casual approach to profanity.

First. People give words power.

When YOU hear an f-bomb or c-word it’s YOU that makes it offensive by being offended by it.

Having said that, some words are very powerful, and have a long history of negativaty, (like racist slurs) and no amount of irony will change the fact you sound like a bigot if using them. But thats not what I’m talking about.

I think that in context, f-bombs and c-words have a power that, when used properly, can really convey a sense or feeling.

And we here at SHAMZINE are VERY passionate about our little town and it’s really exciting and fun scene thats growing from stranth to stranth. And make no mistake, we really love the input and feedback we get, but the reality is, SHAMZINE, Happy Yess, MusicNT and places like that became things because none of the mainstream commercial places on [Street That Wont Be Named] ever gave a shit about developing a vibrant community of artist and art and culture, EVER! And you know what? Thats fucked.

So fuck them. And if you don’t agree, don’t read SHAMZINE.

US MOB

Adam tries (and fails) to entertain the Psycroptic lads at Bastardfest

Wes and Lauren at Bastardfest... hiding.

GIVE US A SHOUT EDITORIAL ed@shamzine.com ADVERTISING ads@shamzine.com ABUSE helveticunt@shamzine.com RING A DING DING 0424 670 149

OUR MATES

SHAMZINE is pretty much by:

Wilburr: Whip-cracker, dolphin tyrant.

Steve-o Lees: Young achiever of the ear, foodie critiq.

Liam Parry-Mills: Dunno, hey.

Zac East: Man with plan, lister of lists. Also words.

Nico Liengme: Vegan pelican, pages ‘n pics.

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Becky, Jason, Dan & Steve... oh lord.

Lachlan West: Jive translator, hiphopapotamus.

Lyon Mann (Jimmy R): Avid shirtwearer, stall bitch.

Cover photo: Miazma bassist Dom @ Bastardfest Darwin Photo by Nico

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Nooz snippets Shamarkets Hey so SHAMZINE is at the Rapid Creek Markets on Sunday mornings now. We’ve got juice and local band merch for sale with local musos busking to some groovy jams, proceeds of which go back into helping SHAMZINE kick more arse (that is to say, help us afford the paper it’s printed on). Come down and say g’day!

Radio Roy

Letters to ed To Ed, I was at Frenzal Rhomb at the Ski Club. While I was there I saw these guys throwing stubbies and beers etc at the band on stage.

When I was dancing in the pit, I saw gross guys gropeing girls and angry guys smashing into one another like rams during mating season.

Whats THAT all about?

Elise Steamer Dear Elise, Yeh I reackon. The pit used to be about community and sharing an experience together. I remember the first time I truly experienced a pit in all it’s communal positive glory. I was crowd surfing, stage diveing and going mental. Everyone was. And if anyone fell down or there was a push/ surge, everyone just helped everyone up and made sure we were all ok. It was just what you did. Nowadays it’s more about how aggressivly you can smash into someone else.

I blame Limp Bizkit and the like.

Local mainstays Roy Mackonkey are doing quite well at getting tracks from their upcoming album on radio stations around the country. 7BOD St Helens Tasmania, 103.7 Great Ocean Radio, Port Stephens FM 100.9 in NSW, 88.7 Coast FM and a bunch of others have included songs like Sleep Tonight, Go Steady and Abonment Issues. Hey Ed you douche, Top notch work lads, now to convince the local stations I frikkin LOVE Limp Bizkit! Me and my footy team tackle the SHIT to stop playing exclusively shit music. out

Gurrumul does well

of each other while listening to Rollin. Screw you eliteist dickhead wanker. Learn to kick a football.

Geoff “Tan Your Hide” Tanner Hey Geoff, how’d you get this magazine?

Current AIR charts place Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s debut album “Gurrumul” at no. 5, having having just hit triple platinum accreditation. His latest album, Rrakala, To SHAMZINE and Ed, is no. 2 on the same charts. Not bloody bad, mate!

You should like totally do market stall at the markets and stuff.

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We’d love to keep you updated on the the ongoings of local original music, but even having Facebook and Twitter pages isn’t enough these days. We’ve got a mailing list with a monthly newsletter you can sign up to! Details are on www.shamzine.com, get onto it!

Classos FOR SALE (really) - Uber gaming system with massive screen, 5.1 surround sound UPS and uber mega gaming spec PC. Contact Wilburr at Shamzine for deets. Would make that special geek in your life very very happy this xmas.

Also RC nitro Buggy. 2 speed, 4WD. Goes fast. As new cond. $250. Contact Shamzine for deets.

FOR SALE - Cages for pigeons. Used. Full of plasitc bags. May contain the odd pigeon. I really want to sell them, but the transaction may involve me shouting angrily at you for no reason.

WANTED - Red pillows for my dog Tinkerbell to hump. Her old one got left in the rain and is sooo manky. Sooo manky.

I had to throw it out. Shes really sad cause she cant hump anymore, so please, for the love of Tinkerbell, donate a big red pillow to SHAMZINE.

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It’d be sweet. I couuld go get my hangover juice and then come chill at the SHAMZINE stall and read an issue, listen to some local tunes, and jusat be all round awesome.

You should totally do it!

Dennis Fowler G’day Dennis, It’s funny you should say that mate, because this Sunday 6th November, we are doing just that. We will be at Rapid Creek markets, all day, giving out SHAMZINEs and selling local artists CD and other merch. We are even deep in negotiation with the local organic fruit/ veg shop to make some awesome healthy juices and such. Come check it out.

WANTED - Garden hose. For some reason, when I moved into my house it could reach around the front yard. Now it’s barely three feet long.

WANTED - Money. For SHAMZINE. You can either advertise with us (email us), or just donate some money to us. You too can have Entitlement Complex and sit on a high horse poking holes in mainstream everything.

FREE | GIVEAWAY - Your self esteem after patronising [Street That Wont Be Named]. Thank god that whole ToT thing isn’t a thing anymore. And the dreadful butchering of songs that is the cover scene. Although it’s a worry that that crowd now has nowhere to go.

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The Red centre's

Black Wreath

Newly-formed Alice Springs metal collective The Black Wreath have launched a studio.

“Sick” of relying on others for opportunities they have decided to create their own.

Totalling 13 in number, the collective’s spokesperson says that the group is “made up of musicians from Alice metal bands The Horror, Miazma and Uncreation”, many of whom are also filmmakers, artists and producers.

Other local creatives are also involved in the project.

By Megan Spencer/MusicNT.com.au

Territory original live music venue Happy Yess and interstate hotels The Squatters Arms (Adelaide) and (Sydney) are reportedly on board.

Unbroken Expanse from Tennant Creek).

The Black Wreath studio is reported to have taken “three months” to set up with many people volunteering Annie’s Place in Alice Springs has their time and services to support offered to be the host venue for the the venture. launch gig, with Pirate promising a Often facing isolation and restricted “multi-camera” set up for webcast resource s, the metal scene in the to the participating venues, straight Northern Territory – like so many from The Black Wreath website, other music communities – has a currently under construction. reputation as being a tight-knit, supportiv Short films are also planned to be e DIY community, which screened, with the event to be ‘edited creates its own culture, actively promoting gigs and bands. live’ on the night.

“The ultimate aim is to have a With the collective currently In a recent email to Music NT, screening in every capital city in bunkered down in the studio putting the finishing touches to the 6-track Pirate Australia,” he says. spokesperson collective compilat ion EP (2 tracks each by the The of members says (Uncreation), In themusic.com, Pirate says three bands involved), and venues EPs Black Wreath aim to record he believes the multi-state, in Perth, Hobart, Brisbane and and albums, produce music clips simultaneously-streamed joint EP and promote and organise live and label launch, makes the event Melbourne “90% confirmed” for the online launch, Pirate’s wish to have a performances. “the first of its kind in Australia”. national launch seems close.

They also have an ambitious Along with several members of simultaneous label and compilation Miazma, Pirate was a delegate at Hopes are also high for a ripple effect CD launch planned for online the iNTune Music Conference in to be created from the event, felt streaming at various venues around September in Alice Springs, and will right around the Territory and the the Territory and interstate, on the participate in the six-band line up rest of the country. auspicious date of 11/11/11, to be of Halloween III in Alice Springs on Stay tuned to the Music NT website webcast at the same time.

October 29. (The gig also featured for more Black Wreath launch details as they come in!

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Sietta: ON and off THE ROAD

By Zac East Zac caught up randomly with Caiti Baker from Sietta whilst she was being awesome and doing some door hours at the majestic Happy Yess. I was lucky enough to ask her a few Q n’ As about our favourite Electronic Soul duo. Please, go on...

How was the tour with The Herd?

The Herd was awesome. It was so much fun. They’re such great people.

And were you in the bus? Where you with the Herd the whole time or?

No, because half of The Herd actually work for Elefant Tracks, so their day jobs is to be in Sydney...It was a lot of flying in and flying out for them, whereas James and I would just fly to the cities we were playing in and stay there for a week until we played, and then move onto the next one.

Cool. Have you done that much?

Like, have you done many tours?

What was going through your mind?? Like, you get in the car and you turn the engine on and it comes on and you’re like “Ah.. this is my song”?

First time, I flip out and think “Have I just put my CD in the car, if that was in there before?”, which I don’t generally do, and then.. I realise that it’s Triple J, and get a little giddy, and text James...It’s really nice to know that people are requesting it and enjoying it, ‘cos it is quite different to ‘What Am I Supposed To Do’ – it’s not such a Dance-orientated song.

And with the post I saw on your Facebook, what was it.. one of the Top Ten most exciting voices?

Oh yeah, the Rolling Stone (mag), that was a little surprising. We weren’t expecting that. Our manager just took a photo and sent it to us, and I was like, “Oh wow, maybe we should go and buy the Rolling Stone today!”. Yeah, Top Ten Antipodean Female Voices to look our for, which is quite exciting, because the list is quite big...of big names...which is really nice. Very surprising.

No, this is our first national tour. And I’d never been to Perth before so...it was lovely, it was great, it was great to chill in Margaret River for a bit. We spent one day kind’ve, cruising the town and yeah quite a bit of walking. Have you had the chance to meet anyone you idolise yet or someone That’s very cool! ...I know you don’t close to the person you idolise? spend a lot of time thinking about (your success), I mean, talking to you now, it’s like, no different to talking to... that guy (points to random gentleman)

In terms of, I guess, personalities... meeting Lindsay McDougall (Frenzal Rhomb – turn to Page XX for a review on their gig at the Darwin Ski Club, also written by me!)...I briefly met him in Brisbane during the Triple J Unearthed Launch parties that were going around the country. I dropped in, just for about an hour and saw Emma Louise – she was great...yeah hanging out with him was really awesome and it was good because he had just come back from Darwin and was able to comment on the town... he’s quite a supporter of our stuff, and he’s an awesome musician...

What would you call your stuff?

Um... I always break it down to: Blues-drenched Electronic-Soul HipHop. There we go, that’s like, about 8 genres in there.. (laughs)

My next question was... you’ve just done a clip for ‘No Longer Hurt’?

Yeah...It was good fun. It was really good fun. That was the Round 3 crew doing it all again for us, they’ve done ‘Silence’ and ‘What Am I Supposed To Do’ and they will also be doing The Herd’s next clip for ‘A Thousand Lives’.

Awesome. Awesome. And how is it doing film clips?

(laughs) It’s because we’re all people!

* stops briefly to serve a eager patron arriving at the door of HY *

How do you feel about it all, I mean, you were on high rotation on Triple J for a while there?

Yes, they’ve just picked up our second single. It’s not on “high” HighRotation but it got requested...I got into my car the other day and it was on in Super Requests and I got all excited and giggly..

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extension of the music, and it’s fun to kind of, maybe bring in our personalities through a bit more – because a lot of people have heard the music but probably don’t know who we are and sometimes it’s mistaken that I’m Sietta and James is just the back-up DJ... which is not the case at all. I’m Caiti, he’s James and together we’re Sietta. So yeah, it’s nice to have visual representation like the clip, and James plays a bigger role in this clip as well which is good. Equal.

And when can we expect the clip?

Monday (24th of October).

Cool. Random question - When you’re up on stage, has there been any shenanigans, like a crazy fan jumping up?

I love film clips. It’s kind of a contained performance, because you have to be, obviously, depending on the shot, mimicking, you know, or performing..it’s just, it’s a visual

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No, that hasn’t happened, but sometimes I get yelled at to rap.

To freestyle rap. And I think that’s because of obviously who we’ve

been billed with, some people don’t know who we are, and that’s totally expected, and I think that some people think that I rap, which I don’t, and James doesn’t rap either. He’d be a lot better at it than I would be though, so...that’s probably about the extent of shenanigans, really.

Very cool. Do you ever secretly rap? In the shower or standing in front of a mirror?

Oh, I wrote a few raps when I was younger – it’s not that I can’t, I probably can, but I will leave that to all the other feMC’s out there, like Naomi from The Last Kinection, who is actually my favourite MC in country right now..

Sietta will be releasing an EP featuring 5 minimalist tracks from the Seventh Passenger album, plus a remix and a brand new unreleased track and apparently will be out “shortly”, and will be performing awesome at this year’s Peats Ridge Festival at the end of December. Check out www.sietta. com for more dates, or follow them on twitter and Facebook.

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King Bong

By Zac East Zac recently caught up with Louis from the the newly formed groove-rockers, King Bong (being the stringed-section of young psychedlic rockers, Faces in the Fire, who will be performing for the last time at The Big Sleep on November 25). With a name like that, our hopes are as high as our editor...

Tell us all mighty men - where did the name come from? How did it come about?

That would be mine and Jacksons doing (laughs). We’d just formed the day before, and basically we were just fucking around with all these ridiculous stoner names, when somehow one of us just blurted out King Bong. It sounded good at the time so we just stuck with it (laughs).

Who’s in the band and what part do they play?

It’s just me, James and Jackson. I play guitar, James on bass and Jackson on drums.

Is there one songwriter or more of a collaboration?

We’re instrumental, so a lot of the songs are guitar based. Basically I’ll just make up all my guitar parts at home, get a nice solid rhythm going and show it at the next practice. If it’s liked by all, I’ll usually show James how all the chord progressions go so he has a grasp on what to play and Jackson will work out his own drum parts. Then we’ll just stick it all together and hope it actually sounds good (laughs). So I guess it’s a collaborative effort, as we all make our own parts.

How did the band form?

It started off with me and Jackson in Music class last year – we’d been jamming, realised we liked the same stuff and thought, “Fuck it - let’s make a band!”

After several months of doing absolutely nothing in terms of

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So there’s actually a movie called King Bong.

It’s the sequel to Evil Bong. Seriously. It’s also the best image we could find for this article.

actually making music, we recorded a quickly improvised jam session and realised we needed a bassist sharpish. So I asked James, who I also play with in another local band, Faces in the Fire, to join. He agreed thankfully, and King Bong was complete.

and Curcuma have influenced our sound immensely, so I wouldn’t say that there needs to be more bands like us, as I believe Darwin bands all have a unique similar style; shitloads of mind-crushing distortion and power.

King Bong has just kind of taken that and melded it into something we find interesting to play.

How would you describe your music?

What are some of your favourite A mix of everything I guess...Thus far original artists in the NT? I would describe it as a mix of stoner, Burrfoot, Curcuma, the Wicked sludge, alternative and minimalist. Garden, Zedmajor, Celador, Miazma, It’s basically just really low-tuned AJM and Unbroken Expanse to name guitars plus a mega-shitload of a few. distortion, bass and melody.

Where do you see King Bong in the Do you feel that there needs to be next 6-12months? more bands similar style to you?

Still together (hopefully) and playing Well I barely even know what our gigs round Darwin. style actually is yet (laughs), but so far we’ve been influenced from what Awesome. Cheers for talking we’ve already seen in the Darwin to Shamzine and we’re looking Music Scene. Bands like Zedmajor, forward to your first bonethe Wicked Garden, Burrfoot, Celador crunching gig at The Big Sleep (Nov 25)

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Unbroken Expanse’s debut Jeg Rock is nothing short of kick-ass. Blazing punk riffage and massive, memorable break downs galore. UBX undisputedly have claimed their place as the ultimate kings of Territory punk-rock. It’s nothing but high stamina from start to finish, your feet will seem to have a mind of their own and you will be horrified at all the red splotchy bruises on your thighs that can only come from the hardcorest of legdrumming. But that’s nothing compared to the damage you inevitably do to

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Unbroken Expanse - Jeg Rock yourself at a UBX live show. That shit’s brutal. I was disappointed to discover that the mad, monster energy that UBX embody wasn’t really captured on the album like it could of been. I felt it could of been so much bigger. A fucking brilliant piece of audio porn nonetheless, every track is anthemic as all hell, especially the closing track,’ Two Worlds’ which is as heavy as a stomping stone giant one minute then as frantic and chaotic as Tassie Devil on crack the next. UBX also show an introspective side with ‘World, People or Me’, one of the two songs written and sang by lead guitarist, Jimmy James R. Jimmy has a softer, smoother voice than front man, Wheezy Helmond who possesses more of a serrated snarl, but it works so well and adds another dimension to an album of many, many sexy dimensions.

Jeg Rock was recorded in UBX’s home town Tennant Creek, engineered and produced by Jeffrey McLaughlin at Dr. Fluoride’s lair and Winanjjikari Music

By Lyon Mann

Centre. The finished product was then sent to Matthew Cunliffe at Subsonic Studios in Darwin. Guitars are a big focus with mega-driving power chord rhythms and screaming lead lines that rip through the cosmos. The bass is as vicious and chest pounding as you’d expect but also deep and calm during those huge breakdowns. The drums are super solid, with a kick-drum like a left hook and a sharp furious snare

Unbroken Expanse is the quintessential high-stamina punk band you will find this side of the decade. These guys will rip your goddamn head off and send it into the stratosphere. And once you’ve experienced the intensity and sheer chaotic extremeness of a live UBX show and replaced your raging, ravaged cranium upon your aching shoulders, you can sit down and light a cig and come to terms with the pure and relentless energy that you’ve just fallen witness to. Jeg Rock is a must listen-to album and UBX are a must see band for any self respecting Aussie punk-rock fan.

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The Loop movement 2 Words & photos by Lachlan West While my fellow zinesters were running amok at Frenzal Rhomb, I was doing very much the same over at the Happy Yess, at original hip-hop showcase The Loop Movement #2. I had missed the first one so I was extremely excited about this one! And in fact it had been on my mind the whole week before; I had caught myself thinking, “Can it really be true?

Another local hip hop gig, with another killer line up?! Is this music scene just getting better and better and BETTER or what?!” And it must be, because I felt something in the air that night.

And the Happy Yess that night was incredible! I walked in and was greeted by the usual warm, ever-accepting Yess vibe, mixed in with a background of chilled-out hip hop. I looked around for 5 minutes took a mouth full of Cooper’s and did the whole aww-yeahhhh,-this-is where-I-belong stretch.

After talking hip-hop for another 15 minutes or so, Deep MC hit the stage. As soon as he started rhyming I was front row, nodding my head to every word he spat, giving a “hell yeah!” to the mad lines he dropped.

Sono and Cynic were on second, the host’s set was great, wth massive energy bouncing with those smart catchy hooks to yell along to, they were something sharp as well! Although they did have some technical problems with the mic dropping Sono out but Cynic kept the flow charging along, Sono jumped back

Requiem MC

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Oct 8 K-Fuzz

in without any trouble, and then true to form Beat Box master K-Fuzz busted out insane renditions of some hip hop classic’s. This cat can seriously beat box!

Next Sono and Cynic called out for all performing MC’s to hit the stage for a Cypher (fella’s I was so glad that you did this, much respect!) without any hesitation all the MC’s were on stage, K-Fuzz continuing the insaneness, leading to some crazy freestlying! A perfect precursor to Northbound Records, one of the most energetic, in your face Aussie hip hop acts around! All of Northbound were smashing up the stage, and with an MC like Kaotik-D how can they not?

After Northbound B e l l e e delivered some true Darwin style hip hop! Drink in one hand mic in the other.

Last to grace the stage was Requiem MC. People, this is next level hip hop, the kind that inspires well over-due change.

Oh man, the passion the aggression was amazing! And it sounded rawer than pouring salt flavoured vinegar on a fresh wound, then adding molten rocks.

Requiem dropped a truly killer freestyle, from rhyming traffic cones and tampons through to SHAMZINE itself! An MC who is going introduce anarchy to Darwin in a very fucking good way. And that’s when that feeling set in.

You know the one, right? It’s when you have the biggest smile on your face because you’ve finally had that special appetite filled? It’s when you see one of your favourite band’s smashing up a local stage or when you’re walking home with your mates at 3am still drunk, and one word sparks a freestyle/beat box combo that’ll be worthy of the Wu Tang Clan. But when you wake up you can’t remember as much as you’d like to but there’s that lingering feeling of “fuck yeah!” still in your stomach? Well, The Loop Movement was five stomach fulls of fuck yeah!

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Frenzal rhomb Words by Zac, photos by Nico

@Darwin Ski Club

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So were you at Frenzal? Pretty sure you were, and so were at least 1200 other people. And it was AWESOME. How awesome? Let’s reminisce together...

Burrfoot opened the night, and rightfully so. I remember hearing their soundcheck on the way in, and man, did it sound fat.

Like, first weigh-in on The Biggest Loser fat. The few of us that came in early enough screamed out to the four-piece whilst they made their entrance onto the mini-festival styled tent.

As Burrfoot rocked the fuck out, more people littered the Ski Club’s sweet setup, with solid numbers coming through the doors. Many of us who knew the words to their songs sung along with the front man, Will, and connected intensely with those around him. What a great set, and what a gargantuan sound. I don’t know who was doing the sound that night, I’m sure it would’ve been one of Frenzal’s crew, but fuck did they nail it. Burrfoot were as bone-crunching as ever, and I was loving it!

Next up, we had the notoriously NT News infamous, Aborted Jesus Milkshake. And I don’t know about you guys, but these fellas are so good at what they do it’s ridiculous. Literally. And my favourite part out of their show – to name a few – is when that drunk guy was getting really upset over the fact that AJM brought out a rapper for one of their songs. “Fuck off, get off the stage! This is a punk show

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not a rap show! Get off!” I heard him screaming only a few metres away from me. Apparently he was still upset an hour later. It was brilliant. The look on some people’s faces hearing the collaboration song: ‘Women Don’t Deserve To Vote’, was priceless. Their deathgrindcore metal was more or less indecipherable, but they didn’t care. These guys literally came out all guns blazing, thanking “Sum 41” for the opportunity to play. Man, I was in stitches. I love how they taunted the crowd over and over again! What can I say? I’m a fan! Who else has the balls be a requested-by-the-band support act and the first line upon entering the stage is a blatant tongue-in-cheek poke in the ribs? Only in the Territory. And possibly some parts of northern USA... anyway, read on.

Two words: Tennant Creek. Two more words: Unbroken Expanse. These motherfuckers ripped up the stage, bled all over it, got the crowd to dance on it, and continued to crowdsurf like living legends way after their set. It was ULTIMATE. As they appeared on stage, separately and one-by-one, the crowd were ready and waiting, like they knew what they were in for. And it was ballistic.

The bassist, Chris Parker, affectionately known as “Parko”, was rocking so freakin hard he cut his brow open and had to go to the hospital. But that wasn’t until after the show! Their frontman, Wheezy “Headbangin’” Helmond, locked in the

crowd, and gave them what they wanted.

To hear them (and myself) repeating his words whilst playing on his guitar with that mean-arse look on his face, it was pure Rock. Those guys really know how it’s done, and the sooner the rest of the country finds out, the more people are expected to get their UBX-fix!

Now, please keep in mind, this next bit gets a bit hazy: ‘cos most of us were in the Mosh Pit, and a brutal one at that!

By now, the whole area allocated for the crowd was now borderline full, and the “We eat people like Jackie-O and Kyle Sandilands for breakfast” punk outfit, Frenzal Rhomb, isled out and onto their the miniature arena, for the tasty ears of fellow Territorians. As they opened up to the crowd with their first song of the night, the sound of the roaring crowd was almost fucking scary. And man, I’ve walked past the Geelong Football stadium, and they had nothing on the Frenzal crowd. As they smashed through all their tracks, a mix of new and old, the Mosh Pit was alive and thickening!

I was told afterwards of people being thrown into the ‘Pit by others and the intensity of the patrons almost caused many to be trampled on! And to top it off, Wheezy from Unbroken Expanse, had his crowdsurfing activities in full force, launching himself from corners of the shared stage of Frenzal Rhomb.

It was crazy, it was ear-achingly loud, it was punk, and it was fun. And Frenzal were kind enough to stick around for a few photos and some signage.

So, all the memories of that night flooding back to you? Like the AJM boys and their uncomfortably short shorts? Or Wheezy throwing himself mid-song into a semiprepared group of punters? Or maybe Frenzal completing their night with their classic intendedly-superfast version of Home and Away? Good. Because there will be more of it coming through in the next 12months, and promises to be just as awesome, if not more, courtesy of Shamzine and many other hard workers in the Darwin music scene. Got your ticket?

P.S. I don’t care what anyone says – I HAD to piss in the shower.

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November GIG GUIDE We'll include your gig in this guide for free if you email the details to shamzinent@gmail.com. True story.

Thursday 3rd Happy Yess Karaoke @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 9pm | FREE

Fri 4th

Enth Degree, Bear Essence and Chasin’ Aces @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 9pm | $5

Live Music @ Casuarina Library - Danny Ammon @ Casaurina Library | 12:00pm | FREE

Sat 5th

Black Can Clan ‘Delusions of Grandeur ‘ Limited Edition 2011. Album Launch w/ Black Can Clan, Yalakin Batji, My Boys Are Good Boys. @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 10pm | $25 with CD, $7 without

Friends of PNG Benefit Night. Featuring a traditional pig on the spit, traditional dancing and music @ Railway Club | All Ages | 6pm | $15

Thur 10th

Don’t Do It Johnny and Flugendorf! @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 9.30pm | $7

Fri 11th

Two Fists Tour w/ Unbroken Expanse, The Wicked Garden and Burrfoot @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 9pm | $10 Live Music @ Casuarina Library w/ Emma Stocker, Danny Ammon @ Casuarina Library | 12pm - 1.30pm | FREE

Sat 12th

eMDee Parallel CD Launch @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 8:00pm | $10

Darwin Blues and Roots Club Blues Brothers tribute @ Darwin Entertainment Centre | All-ages | 7.30pm | $25/20

Thur 17th

Red Plum and Snow plus Kris Keogh plays his ‘Chrysanthemum’ album in its entirety. @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 9.30pm | $7

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If you ain’t from ‘round here...

Happy Yess: 12 Smith St, Darwin (in Brown's Mart courtyard) Railway Club: Somerville Gardens Rd, Parap Darwin Entertainment Centre: 93 Mitchell St Darwin

Fri 18th Shout It Loud All Ages (No Alcohol) – Darwin High VET Music Night @ Brown’ s Mart Theatre | ALL AGES | 7.30pm | $10

Live Music @ Casuarina Library - Mark Hilton, Alan Beazley @ Casuarina Library | 12pm | FREE

The Moral High Ground & Jasmine Revolution @ Darwin Railway Club | 18+ | 8pm | $TBA

Sat 19th

Megabass! With Kris and Sime @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 9.30pm | $7

Wed 23\

The Dynamites feat. Charles Walker @ Railway Club | 18+ | 7.30pm | $42.35

Thur 24

Pride Week - Sista Girls @ Railway Club | 18+ | 8pm | $35

Fri 25th

The Big Sleep w/ Faces In The Fire, Curcurma, Burrfoot, King Bong and Mammoth Jesus @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 9pm | $10

Live Music @ City Library - Emma Stocker @ City Library | 12.30pm | FREE

Live Music @ Casuarina Library - Alan Beazley @ Casuarina Library | 12pm | FREE

Sat 26th

Reggae Fever @ Happy Yess | 18+ | 9pm | $7

Sun 27th

Jeff Lang w/ Mark Hilton, Dave Spry, Dave Garnham and Kim Orchard @ Railway Club | 18+ | 3pm | $30

Most of these event listings were aggregated from online resources such as MusicNT, Off the Leash, Happy Yess and Darwin Entertainment you Centre. They are subject to change at short notice and we suggest INE SHAMZ check the venue website closer to the date to be sure.