Artists
Mushroom Family
Simo Soo
Edwin Montgomery
Michael Crafter
Crab Smasher
The Snoozefests
Maxwell
Happy Phlegm
F’tang
Lucia Draft
Zounds
Halal, How Are You?
The (temperamental) Pocket
Kill A Celebrity
Anal Discharge
Good For Nothing
Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
Mushroom Family
Children’s/Folk
When she writes ukulele driven pop music she goes by the moniker Mushroom Family. When she’s enjoying the sound of teeth being tugged loose from gums she’s at work and goes by the name Sharnayla Page. If the occasion calls, Mushroom Family politely informs strangers that her ‘toilet is broken’ before doing anything behind a tree in her purple pyjamas. Her live performance is frequently bitten by Nathan Martin’s sweet teeth.
http://www.myspace.com/mushroomfamily
Edwin Montgomery
Experimental Music
“It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about… and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.”
— Werner Herzog
http://www.edwinmontgomerymusic.com
- Simo Soo is from Sydney, Australia
- Simo Soo has played shows all over Australia, in Spain & the USA with bands such as Abe Vigoda (USA), XBXRX (USA), Mincemeat or Tenspeed (USA), Realicide (USA), Hawnay Troof (USA), Toecutter, Jonas Reinhardt (USA), Crab Smasher, Sweet Machine (Peaches’ backing band, Germany), Curse Ov Dialect, Purple Duck, Justice Yeldham, Heavy Mental, Knitted Abyss, Yes Nukes, The Laurels, Ambor Grieko (Spain), Mickey Gloss & Alps.
- Simo Soo has released 1 album, 3 EPs and a remix EP (all independently) with a new album on the way in 2010. He will also appear on the upcoming Lesstalk Records compilation of TV theme songs covering the theme song to Daria.
- Simo Soo has remixed artists like Hawnay Troof (USA), The Death Set, Emergency! Emergency! & Tan Dollar (USA).
- Simo Soo has released 3 film clips, all of which cost absolutely nothing to make.
- Simo Soo is born on the same day as Lydia Lunch, Dez Cadena of Black Flag, B. Real of Cypress Hill & Dana Carvey.
- Simo Soo’s ‘Bike City’ EP is a teaser of his forthcoming album. Containing 2 tracks from it plus a remix by Phantasmagoria (which is made up of Louis of Sydney’s Whipped Cream Chargers & Aaron of White Ox). The track, ‘Bike City’ is an ode to Australian D.I.Y. Venues such as Marrickville’s Dirty Shirlows & the Red Rattler and others around Australia. It also features a film clip with nods to many notable living or dead D.I.Y. venues.
- Simo Soo is vegan.
- Simo Soo is a boy
http://www.myspace.com/pregnantwithawesomeness
Michael Crafter
Positive/Powerviolence
2-piece PosiViolence from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Drawing influences from xBraniax, Iron Lung, Agents of Abhorrence, Stand-up Barrels, Sun Tans and the Sand Castles.
Crab Smasher are a Newcastle-based pop noise duo recently turned big band harsh ensemble. Time has done nothing but good things for Crab Smasher, they have been releasing albums since 2003, making them one of the only noise bands to keep the same name for so long. They are currently working on their new album to be released 2010 on 12″ vinyl.
For lovers of Wolf Eyes and Alps of Hell.
http://crabsmasher.bandcamp.com/
The SnoozefestsA young bunch of dudes from the sunny Central Coast playing wacked out 60′s garage pop mixed with rock and blues. The Snoozefests released their debut album called “One way ticket to Snoresville” on Lesstalk Records which was recorded, mixed, mastered and released within the month coming up to their support show with The Stems for their final show.
MaxwellSimple Lo-Fi Folk music.
Max has released “The Life and Times of Rusty Emerton” out on Lesstalk Records. Sweet folk songs stripped back to tell their story. Maxwell can also be found playing bass guitar in Halal, How Are You?
www.myspace.com/maxwellissmart
Happy Phlegm
Visual Artist/Folk
Happy Phlegm is a writer, filmmaker, actor, artist, singer/songwriter.
Happy Phlegm’s first release is “naked people wearing clothes” – by Daniel Hogan, a series of short films concerning toenails, kites, urination, kissing, spontaneous human combustion, socks, babies, bullets, Spielberg, sunburnt rainbows and coughing underground.
F’tang is Tom Houlahan. As recorded by Jonathan Boulet.
Note his spanky well groomed beard and awesome brown jacket. He enjoys math/rock, math rock and long walks on the beach. An Aquarius he listens to a lot of American Football, Trail of Dead and about a million other bands I have not yet heard of.
In Tom’s spare time he can be found recommending awesome music in Beatdisc Records Parramatta or playing live in other bands such as Jonathan Boulet (the band), Zounds and Gorge.
Acoustic/Children’s/Melodic
Lucia Draft is a solo artist formerly known as Lucy Afarensis. Based in the Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia, this artist has previously been involved with bands Boys Club, The Night of Love, Rotted Crow and solo side project noisebear.
In 2008, she appeared as Lucy Afarensis on Lesstalk Records’ Artless Armchair compilation covering an Anal Discharge classic.
In 2009, Lesstalk Records released her debut ‘A Pile of Skeletons’.
Lucia Draft is currently working on a new release.
Zounds is the studio project of Dave Drayton. For a change of pace from previous musical endeavors he sat down with a wider array of instruments and wrote some songs that were a little slower, a little more layered, and entirely self-indulgent. Cheekily titled “Delusions of Grandeur” the debut e.p features five tracks of piano laden acoustic indie pop. They were written late at night after too much wine, with too much time on hand.
Now a 6-piece band Zounds are blowing people minds.
Halal… How Are You?
Garage/Pop/Dirty Surf
Dirty garage pop music. Sounds like Big Star on Mescaline…The Birthday Party playing a set of Undertones covers. They also once played with No Age, it was rad.
Halal, HowAre You? are Sydney’s answer to garage party music, where everyone can get together and rub sweat on each other whilst dancing to some real great music.
The (temperamental) Pocket
Pop
The (temperamental) Pocket is a pop band.
The (temperamental) Pocket is a project that starts off with simple pop songs and with the use of a full band twists them into something completely different. With so many different influences and characters within the band it can leave the audience feeling confused as to what they had just witnessed.
The (temperamental) Pocket has been off to a quick start with his first gigs already under his belt playing with the likes of Defiance, Ohio, Fear Like Us, Tyre Swans.
They are currently recording their debut album, of stompy confused rock aptly titled ‘I Have Cast’.
The (temperamental) Pocket Blog
Kill A Celebrity = Grind.
Sydney Grind freak trio make some fucking fast and violent music. Every time I see them they are only getting better and better. Kill A Celebrity don’t care much for political correctness or any sort of tact in their music or lifestyle, openly making enemies wherever they play. Their music makes you want to tear out your eyeballs and fuck your own eye sockets.
To date they have played with some immensely talented bands including Insect Warfare, Captain Cleanoff, Agents of Abhorrence, The Day Everything Became Nothing, The Guantanamo Bay City Rollers, Maximum Perversion, Pod People, Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Twin City Faction, Rather Be Dead and Dining In Tuscany as well as at Slaughterfest 2007, East West Death/Grind Fest 2007 and Scumfest 2009.
www.myspace.com/killacelebritygrind
Anal Discharge is the greatest emogrind xskateedgex band on the east coast of Australia, creating intense messgrind, skatecore together with a disgust for themselves and the rest of society within that. Anal Discharge are bias but at the same time hate all minorities equally. In their off time Anal Discharge enjoy looking down on people and getting their brown wings. We only take beer donations, if you want us to ruin your 14th birthday party, give us the address 3 days in advance, and we will just show up and steal all your beer, and might play a diddy or two.
Anal Discharge have been on a rad mad burm slide since 2005, born from the seedy underbelly of South Bay. We live to chill, ill, kill, thrill and occasionally play music. We have probably been banned from your favourite venue and/or impregnated your youngest sister. By regularly touring Albury they have grown a very weak interstate fan base of fuckwits. Played with the likes of Savage Garden, Bardot and Nancy Vandal. We have released a demo and a 13 song EP called “Show us where you poo from”.
“Speaking of laughing, I was pissing myself at Anal Discharge. These guys were not playing any form of metal, nor dressing up as metalheads. They did fit in with their pants down shennanigans, but the hilarious bit was how much they made fun of themselves for being gay, having melody and being sloppy but getting away with taking the piss out of the grindcore crowd at the same time. By this time though I was beginning to get drunk.”
www.myspace.com/analdischargeband
The Good For Nothing revolution took over in late 2003. They started out at the end of year 10 playing gigs at school and loved it so they kept going, drawing influence from the music of their teen years, their style is familiar, their stage show is just ace! The band have been going from stride to stride in forming their patented southbay middlecore brand of dual vocal lead medolic punkrock sound.
Good For Nothing made a self titled demo in ’05 and sold heaps at their gigs. Since then they have recorded several demos. The garage that was their practice room has been transformed into their own recording studio (Cavilier Studios), where they have now created their debut EP ‘Straight to your head’, produced by Pati and mastered at Sonomax Studios.
Good For Nothing have played with some big Aussie bands such as: Unpaid Debt, Something With Numbers, Angelas Dish, Draw The Line, Kid Couragous, Mighty Men Of Steel, Cog, The Dragline Cartel…
Get along to their shows, bring an openmind, a beer drinking belly and your dancing boots cause these cats can shred! peace!
www.myspace.com/goodfornothingband
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Punk Hardcore Thrash
Skippy The Bush Kangaroo might be a new name to the (central coast/ world), but the individual members of this extraordinary punk/thrash/hardcore group are far from being band virgins; they have all been involved in the central coast music since an early age, and they have all played a major role in a number of previous bands that have stood out in the locally and interstate. These varieties of bands have helped them form a range of influences and they have used this to their advantage to create and single mind on what they like, good music. So who names their band after an Aussie iconic television show? Lead vocalist JP Fung explains – “Dave and I had been talking about starting a hardcore band called Skippy for some time, but when we found out that it had already been taken by several NON-AUSTRALIAN bands, we decided to go with Skippy The Bush Kangaroo instead.”
