Hey All
Yesterday someone online was posting a list of punk and otherwise experimental bands from China.
Interestingly, in the list the earliest punk bands dated back to the mid 90s. Punk fans would know that in Australia, the earliest punk and proto-punk bands date back to the early-to-mid 70s.
Anyways, this chap had published a bunch of myspace links for bands, and the ones that interested me got checked out.
On one of the Myspace pages was a link to some distro/band thing in Singapore. Turns out that there are some pretty serious grindcore and hardcore bands in SIngapore. I had heard stuff to that effect before, but had never been properly blown away before. Seriously, these kids play with a viciousness and intensity that seems to have been lost but pretty much all of us in the West.
Just for fun I checked out a link to a band based in DC called Magrudergrind, who turned out to be on tour in Europe.
Take a wild guess where they were scheduled to play last night?
Bingo.
Someone had organised a crusty-grindcore show at Madame JoJo's, a gay hipster bar right in the middle of Soho that usually specialises in Electro acts and other hipster-loved things. (For those that have seen it, Madame Jojo's was where Stanley Kubrick shot the nightclub scene in Eyes Wide Shut).
All in all it turned out to be a pretty good show, and I ran into a few random ex-Brisbane people.
All interesting.
Anyways, stuff to do today.
Among other things, I need to make an appointment to get a doctor to look at this cough.
Over and out.
-J
Interestingly, in the list the earliest punk bands dated back to the mid 90s. Punk fans would know that in Australia, the earliest punk and proto-punk bands date back to the early-to-mid 70s.
Anyways, this chap had published a bunch of myspace links for bands, and the ones that interested me got checked out.
On one of the Myspace pages was a link to some distro/band thing in Singapore. Turns out that there are some pretty serious grindcore and hardcore bands in SIngapore. I had heard stuff to that effect before, but had never been properly blown away before. Seriously, these kids play with a viciousness and intensity that seems to have been lost but pretty much all of us in the West.
Just for fun I checked out a link to a band based in DC called Magrudergrind, who turned out to be on tour in Europe.
Take a wild guess where they were scheduled to play last night?
Bingo.
Someone had organised a crusty-grindcore show at Madame JoJo's, a gay hipster bar right in the middle of Soho that usually specialises in Electro acts and other hipster-loved things. (For those that have seen it, Madame Jojo's was where Stanley Kubrick shot the nightclub scene in Eyes Wide Shut).
All in all it turned out to be a pretty good show, and I ran into a few random ex-Brisbane people.
All interesting.
Anyways, stuff to do today.
Among other things, I need to make an appointment to get a doctor to look at this cough.
Over and out.
-J
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