scene was amazing. I miss all the pub, warehouse, gallery etc shows. Listening again to all the good old underground stuff from down under lately. Thought I'd post some bands /mu/ might be interested in and hadn't heard, maybe there's other aussies floating around here that can post rarities and memories from this era too? Kiwis also welcome. Picrel is Alps of New South Wales LP (lofi downer pop from 2006) https://youtu.be/4EJkNrfq4eA?feature=shared

Garbage and the Flowers - Eyes Rind As if Beggars LP (1997 - since been reissued). Amazing band, watched them a ton of times. Highly recommended if you like post velvet underground heroin music, flying nun records, and anything sloppy/noisy/shoegazey/a bit folk. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpEoFjxAZWTOt1uEki_CJmu96o4t3ALJ2&feature=shared

Every time I look at this record cover I think of the Doomer Wojak. It's an incredibly doomer record, grungey downer pop. Some of you seppos will know it as it got released in America by Siltbreeze. Second LP by Kitchen's Floor - Look Forward to Nothing (2011) https://youtu.be/bOCllzdi04o?feature=shared

Horse Macguyer - Void CS (2010). Tim was one of the original "witch house" artists, was on the Disaro CDR from 2009 under the name Void (spelled with a bunch of triangles and slashes), which got him recognised a little around world, but he hated the "witch house" label and changed his name to Horse Macguyver to distance himself from it. Can't find the full thing online (I have the tape at home) so this is just one song, which is on the tape and also the Disaro comp https://youtu.be/yNxep8XnAwk?feature=shared

Oh Belgium! 7" (2005). Loose post punk with an incredible drummer. Synth player/male vocalist went on to do a band called Fabulous Diamonds who had a couple albums come out in American on Siltbreeze https://youtu.be/HgcXmb85QVY?feature=shared

Vincent over the Sink - 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers (2007). A masterpiece. RIP Chris. https://anotherdarkage.bandcamp.com/album/22-coloured-bull-terriers

Love Like... Electrocution (2002). I may be biased but this band was better than any other band in the screamo/skramz genre anywhere else in the world at this time. In the same territory as Level Plane Records stuff, Hot Cross etc. Incredible live. Record still holds up 23 years later https://youtu.be/xcn-M_AmGwg?feature=shared

Because of Ghosts - Your House is Built on a Frozen Lake (2004). Solid post-rock record for fans of Dirty Three & GY!BE https://youtu.be/h8qrHmHEuE8?feature=shared

Sandpit - On Second Thought (1998). You'll probably like this if you like Polvo, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf etc. Or if you don't. Great weird pop rock record. https://youtu.be/6SaJuBBK8QQ?feature=shared

My Disco - Language of Numbers 10" (2004). Imho this is the peak of the band's career, and when they were best live. Started as an Off Minor-ish "scramz" band, started introducing more Shellac and Jesus Lizard into their sound, then went pretty post rock. Ended up releasing a couple albums on american labels and a split 7" with Young Widows. https://youtu.be/bSkwVkx4Wrk?feature=shared

The Paddington Bear Affair 7" (2005). Exceptionally good short-lived noodley screamo/skramz/emoviolence band from Adelaide https://youtu.be/xGakmTilpOA?feature=shared

Look!Pond (2006). Matt Kennedy's band before Kitchen's Floor. A lot more angular, mathy, screamy than his later stuff https://youtu.be/kV0vCWlBIG8?feature=shared

Straight Arrows - First two 7"s (from 2007 & 2008, reissued 2012). Garage rock, I guess. https://youtu.be/WrOej9I8MU0?feature=shared

Bird Blobs - Stihl Life (2003). A blues record, sort of, while somehow fitting in with weird filthy aussie bands like The Birthday Party, Lubricated Goat & Venom P Stinger. Can't find the full record online, here's the opening track. https://youtu.be/gwF0PLwNcJs?feature=shared

Flesh vs Venom - Tales from the Parrot House (2006). Still not sure if this is a post punk or post hardcore band, or something else. Criminally underrated. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nCBHIs1HiK9vERPWWZmOt-arP-yeYDDoI&feature=shared

Schifosi - Ill Winds From Outopia LP (2003). D-beat/crusty band from Melbourne like His Hero is Gone, The Holy Mountain, etc. My favourite record in this entire genre

Forgot the link. Schifosi: https://youtu.be/XYQNStnrWsg?feature=shared

>>127293486
this is so good, any more like this?

https://youtu.be/QZIhKiWeQwc

>>127294239
Sure is, if the thread doesn't die I'll post more of Sandpit's closer contemporaries (pretty much everyone I've posted so far knows each other or played together despite genre differences, the scene here, like the population, was small). Here's Purplene - s/t (2004) - they flew to America and recorded this with Albini. The first Purplene album (2001) is a bit faster and more fun though

>>127294671
Forgot link again. Purplene: s/t - https://youtu.be/JXYyhwHY1LY?feature=shared

An actual good thread. Cheers OP

>>127294239
2 Litre Dolby – El Caballo Rojo (1999). Sort of along the same lines but drifts into slowcore & June of 44 kinda territory. https://youtu.be/_5AK1kh8RiM?feature=shared

>>127293819
>>127293574
>>127293126
used to listen to these bands about 10 years ago, saw Henry Rollins once at a Straight Arrows house show with Ausmuteants in Melbourne

gonna share the band Den, synthy cyberpunk terrorism, great sound. See also Low Life and Constant Mongrel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qyzEV0YWio

>>127294239
>>127294671
Adam Said Galore - Domino Comfort (1997) https://youtu.be/szbwdCp2JZU?feature=shared

>>127294671
>>127294808
>>127295008
def giving all of these a download, despite being australian i've never listened to any aus music but i guess better late than never

>>127294813
Low Life got caught up in pizzagate. One of their record covers looks very suss (dude on the cover does look like a kid but isn't and the angle is VERY sugestive) and ended up in a bunch of infographics and schizo threads. Very funny. I have met these guys and can confirm they are not connected to the DNC, Comet Pizza, or any alphabet agencies lmao

>>127294239
>>127294671
>>127295019
Sea Scouts - Beacon of Hope (1998) also highly recommended Tasmanian band https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_njY1Fz78BksHvUf7v9ih9uzEazNL6nCxU&feature=shared

bunch of bloody drongos

>>127293486
>>127294239
Not exactly like Sandpit, and not at all underground - this band was massive in Australia - but this is the bassplayer from Sandpit's other band and I have a soft spot for them for being a gateway, I heard of Sandpit through them and a lot more underground bands through them. I still listen to this record from time to time. Something for Kate - Elsewhere for 8 Minutes (1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLar7r54IIkWAxzaOUCOZlLmnp8zHHF5c&feature=shared

>>127293015 (OP)
Telemetry Orchestra is some of the best stuff to come out of sydney during this era..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBAtdZUkVTg&ab_channel=MrEatStatic

Total Control - Paranoid Video 7" (2010). I think a few seppos heard this band, they did a split 12" with Thee Oh Sees and ended up on Sub Pop. I still like this 7" the best https://youtu.be/AfPJz-pbm3Q?feature=shared

A tad newer than the other records in this thread, but this a great jangley pop band from Melbourne

Pop Singles: All Gone (2012)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l175aAVLffi4bshA7z7JU0oirqk8BG_Ws&feature=shared

>>127293015 (OP)
I can't find any of the other alps records online but I found someone upped one of the best songs on the last record to yt https://youtu.be/OpudV70lky4?feature=shared

Brand Disloyalty demo (2004). Emo band. Members went on to start Royal Headache https://youtu.be/xU_4B6O6_us?feature=shared

Blank Realm - Deja What (2010). Psychedelic garage pop from Brisbane https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbYF_dRfmUeAntdkp-Ezs_r6Qy0VBFRsg&feature=shared

thanks OP i like this thread a lot

Am I doing this right?

Talkshow Boy - Watch As I Perform My Own Tracheotomy (2004), awesome Bit/Glitch Pop artist from Melbourne. Recently came out with a new album in 2022 which was pretty good. Think a few of his songs got popular on Tumblr because some fandoms were using them for animations.
https://talkshowboy.bandcamp.com/album/watch-as-i-perform-my-own-tracheotomy

>>127295746
No way I forgot about this guy completely. Remember seeing him at some dirty Melbourne club in like 2004, 161 was it? They sold longnecks and whole bottles of passion pop over the bar

HTRK - Nostalgia (2005). I heard this band got pretty big in the end? I don't know if the later stuff is good. But I have a fond memory of seeing them play to well under 100 people and buying this CD https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mx6SYFE2j-hytTL1wJ4uyXYu4wnN1dY5Q&feature=shared

Tv Colours / Assassins 88 - split 7" (2011). The TV Colours song is incredible, and sounds like the best Negative XP song he never wrote almost a decade before Negative XP started: https://youtu.be/YrHLkICxOZk?feature=shared

>>127295909
Fucking love HTRK, I'll never forgive them though for going half an hour late in their stage setup at a festival I saw them at in Perth in 2012 and cutting into Xiu Xiu's set time, think Xiu Xiu only got 20 minutes coz htrk came on late lol, love their stuff though

>>127293309
Naked on the Vague - s/t 7" (2006), no wave/synth/gothy band featuring Matt from Vincent Over the Sink, they had some records come out in the States on Siltbreeze and Sacred Bones but I think the early stuff is better https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nOTVWXiL5diXTtT6gW9bn8n_PaBneL1Gw&feature=shared

>>127295909
HTRK's newer stuff is even better imo. So gentle and full of space. Really compliments Jonnine's amazing voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvCZRe8bRYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzsunXFwR3w

>>127296110
That's crazy you saw HTRK & Xiu Xiu in Perth in 2012. I thought no one went to Perth? & didn't HTRK move to UK or something ages ago, like before that? & I didn't know Xiu Xiu was still making music by then. Haven't thought of him in years. Saw him play in Brisbane in like 2006 with Alps & I can't remember who the other band was

>>127296237
HTRK relocated to the UK and Berlin I think for a bit, think they came back to Australia when they went from a trio to duo when one of the guys in the band died in 2011, they're definitely Melbourne based now. Haha Xiu Xiu is probably more well known now than ever, didn't they just do an Australian tour earlier this year? Saw them last year in Manchester
The festival I saw them at also had Tortoise and Grails on the lineup, organised by the guy who ran Life Is Noise who think I went to nearly ever band they toured in Perth in the early 2010s, shame the guy turned out to be a massive creep and was metoo'd never to be heard of again

>>127296328
Damn. Ever hear a band from Perth called Mental Powers? I have the LP, it's great, can't find any of their music online though. This is the only other Perth band I can think of: Extortion: Degenerate (2006) https://youtu.be/iSWwqbKG6Zk?feature=shared

Speaking of Perth... gotta give a shout out to some absolute legends of slowcore Bluetile Lounge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiGEKdm97do

>>127296414
The name rings a bell but think they were a bit before my time, bands I liked though that I saw a shit ton would be Drowning Horse, French Rockets, Helta Skelta, Mt Mountain, saw Extortion a few years ago in Melbourne, really liked the band Cold Meat, new EP came out a few months ago

https://youtu.be/Rn8MGquVCbE

>>127296493
Beautiful track. Sunny Day Real Estate vibes

>>127293015 (OP)
Bump

>>127296496
Nice

is it easy to track down members of an australian band? i have a demo tape but it only has the band name and none of the members

munt chucks were alright, pic rel. I kind of hated the whole era tho. Zoomers are way less fucking gay than the millenial era was

>>127299361

>>127299244
Looking for their page on discogs qouod probably get you the members names. What was the band?

>>127299556
*would

>picrel

>>127299361
Mint Chicks were good. Are you kiwi anon?

>>127293486
This is sweet so far. Cool to see (the band formerly known as) 2 Litre Dolby mentioned too >>127294808. Tons of this sounds really interesting. Purplene, Kitchen's Floor, Alps and My Disco are all going on my list. That description of My Disco makes me really curious.

>>127295746
Talkshow Boy also gets my rec. Can't remember how I came across him (wasn't more than a two or three years ago), but I have a couple of his albums in my library. Really fun.

This thread makes me want to start one up about my local scene (Montreal). There are some terrific bands here, and at least a couple I know that haven't released full albums yet but I know they have stuff in the works.

Muffincore 3" CDR comp (2003 - skramz/emoviolence/etc)

1. Organ Doner Kebab - Take Me Out Tonight
2. Dot Dot Dot - Emo Therapy
3. The Night Crash - [unknown]
4. The Paddington Bear Affair - Words Like a Descending Hatchet to the emotional Hemophilliac
5. Guns Boys Guns - Go Slow
6. Brand Disloyalty - Sold For Sleep
7. The John Wayne Gacy Trust Fund - Ronald Regan Is Dead Part 2
8. Breeds There A Man...? - 5 Day Weekend

https://youtu.be/5Y88Tw-mV5M?feature=shared

>>127299770
yeah. saw them a few times around the end of high school / early post high school. then i started smoking ice and the rest of my early 20s is a blur

>>127296493
w for posting bluetile lounge, double w for posting perhaps their best track
Steeped is a serious contender as well
https://youtu.be/FQBlKZJV0jA?si=wkBj0-h9PEhf7yNq

>>127296493
>>127300701
It's their song Passenger off a comp that does it for me.
https://youtu.be/pPIKqDg8h3o

Australian music sucks

>>127293015 (OP)
the scene in canada was good too. then feminism and DEI ruined the scene, then the country.

>>127301956
Where are you in Canada? Montreal still has tons of good bands.

Found this album by chance like a year ago and became obsessed with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_PcC7_UoT4

>>127300345
I liked watching Die! Die! Die! too. They came out here a lot around that time. I don't know much else good that was happening in nz around then

>>127293015 (OP)
This Alps album is terrific. Listening to it for the sixth time now.

>>127302541
Fantastic album

Chrome Dome - s/t (2010) - dark synth punk from Melbourne

https://youtu.be/ZS9q68sieYg?feature=shared

>>127293574
Days of Iris - s/t (2003). Earlier emo band from a couple of the My Disco guys. Sounds like an aussie version of something in between Hot Water Music & Mineral.

https://youtu.be/oavp8QpVH_0?feature=shared

>>127299775
Do it. Board needs more interesting threads. Would be good to see other anons do their city/state/country too

>>127300345
Was ice big in NZ then? Is it now? Know any bands that got into it? Do the Maoris hit it?

>>127293015 (OP)
Got some more recs including what's for my money the best jangle/twee outfit to come out of aus The Cat's Miaow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyzqSUbOt4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wk-zOcjvwE

Also don't sleep on Essondon Airport. A funk/jazz/minimal wave group from the late 70s who've since reunited. Had the pleasure of seeing them last year and they were excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpZm7r7GVaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTN0CSGRuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrG00w1iszg

Outing my age on the younger side here but my dad was involved in the Adelaide scene in the 90s. He was in Taxed, Kultral Kompost and Painkiller.There was some decent shit around.

>>127301945
fuck off we're full

>>127293486
Damn, this is actually pretty good. I thought we only made slop like shitty hiphop and pubrock.

have people ever had copyright issues/strikes from uploading obscure music?

>>127305060
I had no idea Essendon Airport were playing again. Cool. I saw Primitive Calculators reformed - wasn't really impressed desu

>>127306024
I haven't seen any of the channels I follow go down but I'm sure it happens

>>127304933
1. Yes that was the start of the "meth epidemic" as the media was calling it. The hysteria in the papers was crazy. A few of my dad's shady mates were into it beforehand but '04, '05, '06 it started blowing up.
2. Yeah, parts of NZ have the highest per capita consumption in the world. It all used to be cooked in labs from pseudo pills but now it comes over the border in bulk so its way cheaper
3. Uhhh yeah loads lol but mainly in the welly metal / crust punk scene. It's just kind of normalised to some degree
4. Fuck yeah they do

>>127303307
Yeah they were alright. I just could never stand the David Grr (now convicted fag date rapist) art school wannabe fashion blogger type people at the shows haha

>>127308135
Also giving myself a (You), so many good crust and metal bands in Wellington and some in aucks if we can fast forward a bit for the purposes of the thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD3Fs33y4-E -> Trepanation, these cunts were amazing live. The last show I went to they hate a very ripe goat carcass that got chucked at the crowd lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZa_nN5x_gE Stress Ghetto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SpdygPFNug Unsanitary Napkin, singer had so much charisma

Not Australian but I discovered Gerling a couple of years ago. Death To The Apple Gerls is a certified BANGER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5qfFO1ba1U

>>127308270
Certified banger, correct. Gerling was a very big band here for a while, on the radio etc, but they did have ties to the underground scene and would still turn up to smaller gigs. If my memory serves me correctly, Darren from Gerling was the engineer who recorded this Naked on the Vague 7" >>127296145

>>127308135
NZ is fun. I was over there for Camp A Low Hum years ago. Best festival I ever went to. A lot of drugs going round but didn't run into any meth

>>127308206
Not a crust band, but did you ever see This Night Creeps? They toured with Love Like Electrocution >>127293363 and did a split EP in 2004 https://youtu.be/Ke_tEW-qZlI?feature=shared

>>127305060
Someone offline recommended The Cat's Miaow to me yesterday. Wild. I don't mind it, but I hate how they've spelled "meow" "miaow"

>>127308942
Camp a low hum isnt the meth demographic. I went to one in 2016 or 2017 and found the atmosphere a bit grim. Try go to twisted frequency in the Takaka valley if you like nz festivals bro. Usually a cool mix of people. I didn't have a ride last time and had no issues getting all the way to Takaka and back from the ferry hitching

>>127293574
saw them live opening for Young Widows a while back. good shit

>>127311861
When? They never play shows here anymore

>>127293015 (OP)
>>127295363
>>127303492
Found the Alps demo on youtube. Still looking for the other albums https://youtu.be/Lu95Sbgye8o?feature=shared

Halo - Body of Light (2003). Came out on Relapse Records. Melbourne doom/industrial/sludge band that sounded like early Swans meets Khanate. Had a split 7" with Agoraphobic Nosebleed

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kn9LxF95FUb3GD471SBOqC6c75_WIyViE&feature=shared

>>127313419
ha. didn't realize how long ago it was. back in 2011. time flies

>>127293363
beat me to it! everyone in my local aussie scene praises this album, u will not find a screamo band here that doesnt say its one of their top influences lol

>>127293574
Pretty cool seeing this band getting some love on here.

Quiet Steps - Quiet Steps (2007) pretty decent emo/screamo ep. they definitely sound aussie https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nwFJfyQJ9toOIUqFmOYxwbPKMNZWPxsPU

>>127315949

>>127293015 (OP)
Awesome thread. Ill add one of my favorite jangle pop albums.
https://youtu.be/B66nbTgf0mg?si=HCqsJCkxHcZodwiv

>>127296414
i saw Extortion open for Sunn O))) here in melbourne in 2016 and they rocked. the vocalist was wearing a Demon's Souls shirt

in terms of aussie music i also saw Jonnine Standish (of HTRK) and YL Hooi collaborate live under the name Queens Of The Circulating Library, some Coil reference, when they were opening for Croatian Amor's tour some years ago, and it was great. but afaik they never actually released anything

>>127316367
Wild bill. Did Striborg appear? Heard he'd been on stage and collabed with Sunn O))) a few times.

Striborg - Embittered Darkness / Isle De Morts (2006)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k__xiPn0_-fp2v49koo6wiVVfUk794Mbo&feature=shared

>>127293015 (OP)
>scene was amazing. I miss all the pub, warehouse, gallery etc shows

>was

zoomer here. do they still have any traces of that around? where did it go?

>>127316808
A lot of us old gen x/millenials stopped going out much and the bands stopped playing as we all had kids, got trapped in wage cages, etc

I'm sure there's still plenty of pub shows happening in every city, maybe less now though because a lot of pubs seem to be going for the boomer fine dining dollar these days, but idk, I don't go out much anymore

In Sydney in the early 2000s you could pretty much guarantee any weekend there'd be a good show or two in a warehouse space or some independent art gallery/studio in Surry Hills, Marrickville, etc. I'd assume development, gentrification, rents, etc had an effect on all that

Maybe zoomers are doing good shit somewhere and I don't know about it though

>>127316808
>>127316980
Members of at least 3 bands ITT also an heroed/overdosed (4 if you count the covid vaccine)

>>127317058
Actually 4 (or 5). And that's just the ones I know of

>>127315949
Speaking of screamo/emo bands that definitely sound aussie

The Nation Blue - A Blueprint for Modern Noise (2001)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lq_18Kaz539vkM24awXapEaOvzKD4ZVRg&feature=shared

>>127302277
it's all one toxic scene

>>127295646
this is the best blank realm song https://youtu.be/ibNun8fuAgw?feature=shared

>>127293240
Fabulous Diamonds - II (2010)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lv0bGvCkKSY7SEyGaZirDyeHyAF2xhk5M&feature=shared

Crime & the City Solution are from Australia and Paradise Discotheque came out in 1990 but I think they lived in Berlin then. Killer album tho https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsq37WHm6P3c4o_RNvmu9ACoC7rn499cy&feature=shared

The Stabs: Dead Wood (2009). Melbourne band that reminds me of The Birthday Party but more listenable (I hate Nick Cave)

https://youtu.be/yQAix99lATg?feature=shared

>>127318218
>Crime & the City Solution
>Berlin
that makes sense now why they were in that Wim Wenders film Wings Of Desire set in West Berlin

>>127320047
Great film. Yeah I'm pretty sure that whole Melbourne crew moved over together at the same time. Cave and the Bad Seeds also in the film for the same reason

>>127293015 (OP)
>Aussie underground 90s/00s
pill me
i only know about the little band stuff, so 70s/80s

always liked how unabashedly aussie this shit was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0IiBRHG0RQ
sry its not 90s tho opie, i hope you can forgive me
i just see a thread about actual music and not about simping for some popstar and i have to bump it

>>127320034
>I hate Nick Cave
its funny how birthday party/nick cave were the only ones who made it big out of the little band scene, in spite of being by far the most boring forgettable shit in that whole scene
and there was some real retarded/half-baked shit in that scene too, so thats actually saying something

>>127316980
im in the states, but here zoomers are seemingly too scared to set up their own DIY spots/shows anymore
theres a few, but 90% of the DIY spots near me are still run by the same dudes who were running them like 10-15yrs ago.
i think thats the biggest problem with music/art today.
theres no alternative anymore. you got pop shit, and then nothing. theres no outlet for your shitty 15yo kid band to open up for some mid-level touring band. theres no spot for your artfag friends to come in and do some art installation/punk show in a warehouse.

and not to be too cynical, but i dont see it getting better any time soon. theyre all in their 20s now. you usually dont start a punk house in your mid/late 20s. you start it when youre 17.
its bad man. a lot of stuff is getting lost without that physical "passing of the torch", and were getting basically nothing in return

>>127320633
Rowland S. Howard's first solo record is incredible though, and came out in 1999, so it goes in the thread

https://youtu.be/_F5krxCnLnI?feature=shared

>>127293015 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_eb0vVo0k

upwards

>>127316567
did not see Striborg there but swear I saw him once at a record store lol

>>127321654
I ain't clicking that

based aussies

>>127293015 (OP)
Bump

>>127316980
You can scrape a couple of decent bands but we aren't doing shit.

>>127320872
>all in their 20s
Either 15 - 30 or 12 - 28. Hasn't been settled yet. Still pretty fucking grim. Gen Alpha is probably gonna be the ones.

>>127320872
zoomers' parents don't let them wander outside like the 80s anymore and they have a lot of homework. no time to make a shitty kid band when parents want them to do all these extracurriculars

but at least i saw one of my classmates go into a band once he graduated

>>127327857
they werent particularly fond of us doing it in the late 00s either when it was my turn. 90s was the dawn of helicopter parenting. put ur kid on a leash and walk him around the mall lol
but its still a simple thing to overcome. you just act like a punkass and go do whatever anyways. mommy will get over it, and if youre lucky mommy wont even know.

i see a lot of concerted effort on zoomers behalf to dig through old shit to find something "new". and while that initiative is a good start, and we did the same with 70s-90s bands, its only half the battle. the most important step is that you go out and try to copy it, inevitably fuck it up, then accidentally a whole new thing of your own.
theres still time on the clock. you dont wanna end up like all the depressing do-nothing millennial cunts that ive had to deal with my whole life. they didnt go to the show, and now they have nothing and they know it.

my older gen x buddies taught me this:
sacrifices must be made in the pursuit of rad
you cant just wait around for it to happen, because it wont

>>127321654
Not even their best song. That would be Thrillology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBKWvu3exJo

>>127308270
Damn I love this song
Saw them on rage after school like 10 years ago
wish they had more songs like this instead of their electronic stuff

effigy

>>127328840
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gzInIxxR9OE

>>127316980
ALH/woolworths bought all the pubs and stopped the (good) live music mate

>>127320872
might be to do with no normal cunt can afford a bar anymore they're all bought out by conglomerates and no one who gives a shit about the local community would buy one..

>>127328921
couldnt have helped
you cant JUST rely on bars tho
you need some DIY spots to fall back on. to have the real crazy shows in some warehouse, art gallery, the roof of your friends apartment etc. even just renting a stupid park lodge is better than nothing. you just have to cycle through the whole scene on whos renting it since everyone usually gets b& eventually

but just hitching all ones hopes to the local bar scene isnt an ideal situation itself. you need options

>>127329194
I went to a show in a cafe last week. Going to a show in a bar tomorrow. There's a few good bands atm

Surprised no one mentioned Bloody Fist Records.

Nasenbluten - https://youtu.be/C9yIGeBPnyE?feature=shared

>>127328382
least underground band ever. literally topped the jjj hottest 100. boring normie trash

huh my instagram showed me a site for australian musicians looking for a band or other musicians. wonder if zuck can somehow see me looking at this thread

Bump

>>127329996
Nasenbluten - 100% No Soul Guaranteed (1995)

https://youtu.be/BgS0YmIQzKY?feature=shared

>>127329996
Syndicate also well worth a listen https://youtu.be/dLfG_Nvcc6Q?feature=shared

>>127299556
my friend had a tape for a band called "raw diamond". not sure if i liked it.

>>127337083
Unrelated punk band Syndicate

https://hometapingkilledmusic.bandcamp.com/album/since-now-all-is-lost

Great source for aussie punk/hardcore/etc from this era

>>127341194
Changed their name to The Stockholm Syndrome. Saw them open for Isis & The Dillinger Escape Plan. Epic band

https://hometapingkilledmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-stockholm-syndrome