FROM THE VAULTS!

I have finally uploaded something that I highly doubt anyone has heard. other than those of us cool enough to get into it on its original release.
There used to be a guy called Kevin Stewart panko who wrote for Terrorizer and some other things. He is still alive, so don't worry. he had a band in his home country of Canada called Association Area. They had 2 bassists, released a 7" and EP, lost a bassist and then created this piece of "art".
Lothsome Deco is a strange beast indeed. Not aligning itself with any particular style. They have a free form approach to song structure. Mixing a huge noise rock element with snippets of grind, surf rock, white noise and whatever they fancied, leaving you with one of my most prized finds. As far as I know its still knocking around on some ditro's here and there and Lunasound Records may still possess copies. other than that, finding any information about them is pretty hard.



ASSOCIATION AREA - Lothsome Deco

Give it a listen, absord it and throw it up again.
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WAR JOURNAL

I used to love skating when I was a kid. I never tried so hard at something for so long to be so shit at it. Worlds worst skater me.



One of my favourite parts from a Skate vid. Jason Dill and a sweet Radiohead song from the Under-rated Airbag/How Am I Driving? EP. The video is from Alien Workshop's "Photosynthsis" video from way back.
Also from way back is this effort from Cherubs. A fine example of retarded, noise-rock if there ever was. I know people who saw them a round this time. And it makes me sick knowing that. Noisy, ugly rock incarnate.

Cherubs - Heroin Man

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VAULTS....

Finally I got round to uploading these. Despite being sick with the flu and waiting imaptiantly for The Last Dragon and the Rodney Dangerfield Boxset to turn up, I got these uploaded.

CARMEN - 2 Track Demo


From down south ( Kent way), Carmen have been a band that never got anywhere to be hoenst, not for want of trying. We came across them years ago in the Narcosis days. I had known the vocalist Chris online for a while and finally bumped into him at a Doomriders show they ended up playing. They where awesome, a complete car crash. After that we played together quite a few times until Narcosis was put down, then we asked Chris to be the vocalist in Ergon. As far as I know this is all they ever recorded, 2 tracks of noisy, chaotic, screaming fury. Sorta like Breach mixed with Deadguy, sorta. Best making up your own mind.
Secondly, I dug out this little gem. Ix hailed from Scotland and Narcosis played with them quite a few times over the years. First time was in a shop front/anarchist space in Glasgow after a venue mishap. They where using a plant pot as a mic stand.
They played some pretty sweet, drawn-out doom/post-rock. On paper its hard to make this sorta thing sound interesting but if you dig the sounds of Mogwai mixed with Burning Witch then I reckon you fill like it.

Ix - Mythopoeia



Go enjoy dickheads.

A DISGUST FOR DETAILS!

Coalesce tonight. Corperation in Sheffield.
So in honour of said event, I am putting the live set back up. Awesome sound quality.
This is from 2005 somewhere in Philly, USA.

Track Listing.....
1- Harvest of Maturity
2- One on the Ground
3- cowards.com
4- Blend as Well
5- Burn Everything That Bears Our Name
6- What Happens on the Road
7- A Safe Place
8- Jesus In The Year 2000 / Next On The Shit List
9- A Disgust For Details
10- 73-C
11- You Can't Kill Us All
12- My Love For Extremes

What More Do You Want From Me.........

Albums that shaped Oliver #1

This is the album that set me off. Released in 1991 by Warner Brothers, mostly due to Mike Pattons day job. They unleashed one of the most schizophrenic albums in the alternative rock climate. Mr Bungle took every single style of music they could think of and constructed one of the most musically dazzling, and head fucking bizarre albums I had ever heard. I loved Faith No More, but Bungle took that a step beyond. Every note is so perfect and needed. The instrumentation is beyond approach. I spent a long time learning all the basslines to this album until I got to the stage where I could enarly play along to it track by track. Sadly that talent is no longer with me. its gone downhill since then.
Bungle wore costumes and odd masks long before Slipknot and those chumps. Mr Bungle had John Zorn produce the album..case closed.
Well here is the self-titled debut by this amazing band. Influential without a doubt, especially to me.

Mr Bungle

Get involved. Let Bungle into your life.

We played a gig in Manchester last night with Melt Banana and Kong. Both bands where sweet. We sucked due to fighting each other onstage. Something that I imagine was pretty funny to watch. So as a ode to fighting here is some top notch fighting music....

Bracewar - Self Titled LP

Angry, mosh-tastic, fast hardcore. Members of Trash Talk included.
Being in a band is so ace/shit.
We are playing The Old Wharf in Birmingham on Sunday 17th ( this week) with Battletorn and Throats. both good. Lets hope we can make it as far as finishing a whole set this time.


FUCK YOU ALL.