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19 August 2009 @ 06:36 pm
Cabaret Nocturne Fri 21st August  
DJing this Friday at Cabs, 1:30 to 3:00 at their new venue "The Mercat" 456 Queen Street, Melbourne CBD. Multi rooms (I'll be in the fun dancey ebm/industrial room of course).


Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132476179202

"Come help Cabaret Nocturne break in our exciting new venue THE MERCAT on August 21st!

2 floors of your favorite DJs playing [Goth | Indie | Alternative] and [EBM | Industrial |Electro], giveaways courtesy of VnV Boutique and happy hour 10-12! We're also going to hopefully have some cool visuals with stuff like Nosferatu, Metropolis, Dracula and FAust etc. playing on the giant 'ghost screen'

Drinks specials and DJs announced soon.

About The Mercat:


* 2 Large rooms
* Huge smoking balcony
* Chill out area with pool table
* Reasonably priced drinks
* Loads of free parking
* Handy for trams (19,55,57,59) and trains (Melbourne Central or Flagstaff)

We'd also appreciate it if you can help us keep Cab Noc getting better and by spreading the word. Tell you friends, blog it, share it and click 'invite people to come' on the Facebook event :D

((copied from the FB event))
 
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25 June 2009 @ 09:27 pm
Room to Read  
Work had fancy morning tea doohickey about the company's chosen charity for his term.

Room to Read http://www.roomtoread.org/

It's a great cause, it really is. The 15 minute video almost made me cry...

But there are so many charities out there, and I mean there are hundreds if not thousands. Almost all of them are worthwhile.

I get asked for money at least twice a day because my workplace is within the central CBD (if I took public transport this would be 5-8 times a day). On top of that I get stopped by young kids on their first job, or backpackers, trying to usher me aside and tell me why animal cruelty is, well, so cruel - and I should pay for this.

By OECD standards I earn a pittance - my heart goes out to most of these charities, and homeless on the road asking for money. So how should I feel when presented with a slick presentation from the company I work for?

But this is a good cause... one of the fundamental tenants, which strikes a very strong key with me, is that it's about breaking cycles of poverty which takes generations - not a simple bandaid.

But it is another charity - and there are to many charities out there that I tend to shut them out.
 
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30 April 2009 @ 09:26 pm
FIEND Podcasts  
Back in the day (not even sure what year or how long ago it was) but FIEND Magazine attempted a monthly podcast... did 5 in total, the idea got lost among the work to do... but I've just found copies of them and playing them now... hot digidy this shit is awesome, its edgy, funky and cool - even the stuff that you might not like had intro's done by the bands or a FIEND writer... its very cool.

3 tracks in and theres an inro from Collide, edgey Stark track that I forgot about and has just blown my mind again (what? 5+ years later?!?!) and an intro by Mandy Kane who was a big thing on the Australian scene for 2 weeks at one point.

This stuff was awesome - who's doing it now?
 
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11 April 2009 @ 02:18 pm
At Long Last ... QFGII Remake  
For a couple of years I've been tracking a fanbase remake of QUEST FOR GLORY 2: TRIAL BY FIRE - One of the best classic Sierra adventure games, and even of this awesome series it was my favourite. I remember hanging out for months and months before this game came out back in 1990... and it was the last of the "old style" of 16 colour EGA type-command games.

Now I don't want to say "amateur" because these developers AGD Interactive have done damn impressive remakes already of Kings Quest 1 and 2 (and someone else has been working on KQ4 for a while, not sure if that will ever eventuate though) and have their own commercial game out... I'm still downloading QFG2 but I'm just so excited I had to share! I'm not 100% sure, but I think I read somewhere that these guys had contact with the original creators of the game and were able to add a few small things in that they never got around to at the time. In 1992 a VGA remake of QFG1 (originally Hero's Quest) came out and ever since I've been hanging out for the VGA remake of QFG2 - 17 years later its happened!!!

Oh - and its free :~D

www.agdinteractive.com
 
 
Current Location: Clarinda
Current Mood: excited
 
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28 February 2009 @ 06:08 pm
Gary Numan ticket for sale  
Got 1 x Gary Numan ticket for Sat 7th March show at The Forum in Melbourne.

$90 (retail is b/w $90-$100 i think)
 
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06 February 2009 @ 08:35 pm
(no subject)  
hNo idea how to embed stuff - but heres some potent comments, and a heart-breakingly good protest against some new legislation in California-USA not only trying to ban gay-marriage, but to nullify the gay-marriages that have been previously carried out by law.

http://vimeo.com/3089746 (warning - heartbreaking video within)

petition is here
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/divorce
unfortunately you need to be American to sign (or alternatively just enter a random 5-digit post code!)
 
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10 January 2009 @ 07:01 pm
Gary Numan tickets for sale  
I have 2 tickets for The Godfather of Electro GAZZA NUMAN playing at The Forum, Sat 7th March in Melbourne.

premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx

Retail is $95.50 (+$6.95 post from ticketek.com.au early-bird tickets at $85.50 well sold out)

Who wants in ?

(and they're not my tickets, I'm definately going!!!)
 
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07 September 2008 @ 10:09 pm
Worn Wild  

Had a squiz at Worn Wild today, a goth-fashion designer market... wasn't to sure how it would spruce up but I was very pleasantly surprised.  Good size, good crowd, everything looked smoothly organised and very professional.  Congratulations to all involved, I hope Melbourne and the rest of Australia gets a lot more of this type of thing happening... the only things I can think of to compare it to is Under the Blue Moon in Sydney (which presents as much more haphazard than Worn Wild did, although this year spanning Fri-Sun could make a big difference) and the big shopping-sheds at European festivals.
 

 
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28 August 2008 @ 06:04 pm
Resurrection Eve & Angel Theory gig tonight!  
TONIGHT (Melbourne)
Don't miss the first (and only!) Resurrection Eve live show in 2 years, playing with Angel Theory tonight Thur 28th Aug @ The East Brunswick Club (280 Lygon St. East Brunswick) doors open 9pm $10 entry (bands will be finished well before 12 and public transport still running!).
East Brunswick has some great meals (inc. vegetarian & vegan) from 6pm. check www.eastbrunswickclub.com for the menu.
 
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23 August 2008 @ 05:17 pm
Not Quite Hollywood  
Saw this new Australian documentary with a very interesting Q&A with the director and producer last night... awesome doco, thoroughly interesting on Australian cinema, culture and modern history.... I highly recommend everyone see it (especially in the opening weeks at the cinema which determines a lot of a films successful or not future).

trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGRtbyrD50

imbb info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996966/
 
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19 July 2008 @ 02:56 pm
(no subject)  
last night, i think i played...

retrosic - the storm
destroid - friend or foe
assemblage 23 - naked
angel theory - human
and one - military fashion show
mind in a box - what used to be (short storm)
front 242 - happiness
project pitchfork - timekiller (and one)
seabound - breathe
front 242 - tragedy for you
edge of dawn - black heart
haujobb - boom operator

very much so not in that order.  and i think that makes 2 songs i actually had an intention of playing...
 
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16 July 2008 @ 09:28 pm
Start conducting, stop fining!  

Stolen from the link given on p_cat's LJ

Catherine Deveny on the issue of Tram Conductors being reinstated in Melbourne:
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/it-would-lift-our-spirits-if-connies-came-back-20080715-3fko.html

"Let's have a public holiday to celebrate the arrival of Captain Obvious! To celebrate the possibility that the tide is turning back to little people with beating hearts and blinking eyes and away from economic rationalism, spiritual poverty and the practice of emotional bonsai."

 
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15 July 2008 @ 11:13 pm
spinspinspin that deejay  

spinning tunes with mediocre mixing, and songs that most people will complain about because they're not doof enough... or old enough...

Fri 18th July 2008 @ Cabaret Nocturne
Downstairs - 1:30 to 3:00

I'm so at a loss as to what to DJ to the crowds these days... all they want is doof... while I want solid songs and electro and industrial... and stuff released in the last 6 months rather than the last 10 years...

New stuff I want to play... Fixmer/McCarthy, Ayria, DBS (woooo Spetsnaz!!), KLOQ (maybe), Nachtmahr (forget all your Noisuf-X and Soman!), maybe the new Glis and Nebula-H stuff and if I get desperate the new Combichrist....  But it still leaves room for all that new stuff over the past 12 months I maybe or maybe didn't get the chance to play and none of the other DJs played (because they're lamo pricks looking for dull doof-doof rather than good dance and electro)... like Pride + Fall, Destroid, Mind.in.a.box, Ashbury Heights, Edge of Dawn, Dismantled, Din-a-tod, FLA, Necro Facility, Rotersand, Seabound,   ... and I'll even add Reaper for all your techno-dance-a-philes (although I put them up/down there with Combichrist myself.... but the last EP was pretty good, guess its why it never sold!)

 
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15 July 2008 @ 03:09 pm
nuh-nuh-nana-DARK KNIGHT... Dark Knight... dark knight...  
wooo!  it was super!

it was gritty, had a complexity that most comicbook/superhero films lack... went for 2.5 hours and it definately wasn't long enough :)

as a batman fan, theres lots of things i would have loved to it have had (including another 30 minutes ... although i can cross my fingers for extended dvd version haha) but nothing i would take out!!!

hard to talk about it and not spoil anything, joker was superb - but i'd be willing to say even better than the acting job, was how well he was written - he was a highlight certainly but so was everything else about the film :)

it had everything you could want in a film, so worth everyone seeing it - but if your a batman fan like me you'll want to see it at least 2-3 times in the cinema (next up; IMAX!!!)
 
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12 June 2008 @ 05:27 pm
white walls  

whats the best way to clean/wash white walls ?

 
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04 March 2008 @ 01:20 pm
international beach volleyball  
"He tells us that a daredevil launched himself across the border in a cannon a while back, but that ours was, in fact, the first-ever game of international border volleyball."

http://www.laweekly.com/columns/a-considerable-town/viva-border-volleyball/14095/

fantastic!
 
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04 February 2008 @ 09:46 pm
SEKT: Undead 8th Dec 2007 Playlist  
Its amazing the tidbits you find in a dusty and unused CD case these days...

Faderhead - Houston
And One - Military Fashion Show
Combichrist - Electrohead
Covenant - Brave New World [Club]
Seabound - Traitor
Edge of Dawn - Black Heart [Alpha]
Rotersand - I Don't Remember
VNV Nation - Momentum
Auto Aggression - Reflector
PAL - Bang Your Box
Ivory Frequency - Today
Suicide Commando - Fuck You Bitch [Dope Stars Inc.]
Apoptygma Berzerk - Beatbox
 
 
Current Music: Dismantled - Breed To Death EP
 
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18 January 2008 @ 01:34 pm
Golgotha: Sun 27th Jan (Australia Day Eve)  
Just confirmed I'll be DJing at the next Golgotha - specially invited by The Brothers of Perversion (DJs BioDef + Tenebrous from Cybernoize) to engage in a 2 (or more) hour set (now dubbed The Triplets of Perversion).  3-5am (or until close if we keep going, which is very likely) upstairs, we'll be making it loud, noisey, cheesy, silly and messy with god knows what music.  We'll be rotating duties in the DJ booth, with forced Tequila shots upon loosing a dancefloor... it will be nasty (because we can't hold a dancefloor to save ourselves!!!)

Golgotha: Sun 27th Jan (Australia Day Eve)
@ Insignia (cnr King + Flinders St. Melb City)
 
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28 December 2007 @ 04:56 pm
Ass on 23  
Assemblage 23 playing tonight with Angel Theory @ The Corner (Melb)

will be fun, everyone should go, because everyone always whinges after a good show about not going because they hear how good it was on the night.  and the chance of A23 coming back to australia ?  0.01%  and the chance of you regretting not going ?  99.99%

also DJing is John from the legendary LA club Das Bunker!

December 28th - Melbourne, Australia @ The Corner Hotel
December 29th - Sydney, Australia @ The Gaelic Theatre
January 4th - Brisbane, Australia @ The Globe Theatre
January 5th - Perth, Australia @ Gilkinsons
 
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20 December 2007 @ 04:33 pm
music purchases  
i've got the thrill back!  i haven't bought specific CDs for myself in ages, often its GUP stock that i know and have heard and after the initial sales have slowed down or i nab something for DJing is the main way my collection has grown outside of promos.  but the last few shipments i've immediately put aside stuff i've ordered for myself - and its an exciting part of music that i haven't felt in years!

especially those odd titles that i haven't heard and knew very little about, but bought blindly because of a recommendation, a compilation track or something i read in a review... latest being...

Necro Facility
The Room [Progress]
Easy (and quite unavoidable) to tarnish with the  Skinny Puppy clone-brush, but I think it would be more accurate to say these guys sound how Skinny Puppy should today.  Nice complex rhythms that have structure and sounds deeply embedded in the IDM-Beefcake world, the atmosphere sounds sparse but when its completed with the vocals, you've got some immaculate production, a true dark and nasty industrial feel.
GUP link

Din[A]Tod
The Sound of Crash [Out of Line]
With the post-punk staples of repetitive bass or guitar lines building a dense environment (often interchanged with simularly styled electronics), with those classic styled nasal vocals (which usually annoy the hell out of me, no batcave fan thats for sure!) finished with solid electronic production.  With a monotone-catchiness full of style and substance, this is a release that has an undefinable energy hard to find in most genres these days.
GUP link

Ashbury Heights
Three Cheers for the Newly Deads [Out of Line]
A very impressive debut of this Swedish-electro duo, its synthesizer a-go-go from this band not afraid of complex chord structures, dance electro and bold vocals - the strong cheese is so well written that its impossible to get some of the vocal melodies out of my head!  Definite nods to The Human League, some songs trigger fond memories of Depeche Mode while a couple other songs even remind me of Australia's own Immaculata.
GUP link
 
 
Current Location: GUP
Current Music: Various - Noise Terror Vol. 2
 
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