Super Wild Horses

Another awesome Melbourne band! What is it about that place that creates such great music? Personally I think its the climate but that's another story for another time. Anyway, here's Super Wild Horses. I saw these gals a couple of times and they never failed to impress me. I'm pretty sure there's a name for this kind of music but I'm not really in touch with that sort of thing anymore. Is it shit gaze? I really don't know. But what I do know is that Super Wild Horses were splendid every time I saw them including when they played the Lithuanian House were the room was filled with what I assume were pictures of former Latvian Presidents or Prime Ministers. Very strange venue. That night I had a slightly awkward encounter with one of them. Oh, what could have been.

And yes, I have a crush on both these girls. One slightly more than the other.

Pets With Pets

On my first weekend in Australia I was taken ended up seeing Pets With Pets. On paper there really was no reason for me to like this band. I was kinda cringing when they were setting up as I was sure I was not gonna dig them at all especially as Walshe who brought me there told me they were balls (can't help but wonder why we stayed now that I think about it). We hung around anyway and within a few minutes I was wondering how Walshe could have been so wrong about this band. They were fantastic! My language isn't pretty enough to describe their sound so just watch the video and hear for yourself.



We got talking to Zayd and Johnno after the gig (Zayd is the one who looks like he's called Zayd and Johnno is the one who looks like he's called Johnno) and it turns out that they're lovely fellas to boot.

Oh, and they had a different drummer when Walshe first saw them which might explain why they were better when we saw them again.

Rat vs Possum

I wasn't sure what to expect when I was first brought to see Rat vs Possum (another Melbourne band btw). My good friend Deformative had told me about them and reckoned I might like them. How right he was!
He can probably describe them better than me...
"...a joyous, harmonious atmosphere amongst the audience that you kind of feel that instead of playing their whacked-out, tom-heavy psychedelic anthems, these four misfits are actually the good witches of Brunswick casting blissful spells on us all, intent on converting the world to their doctrine of love for heroic apes, glitter, and communal fruit." 
Hmm, that seems more hippy than his usual work but it still sums them up.
 
And yes, that is backwards singing they're at.

Ouch My Face

So here's another Melbourne band I discovered on my antipodean adventures. I wanted to see them as soon as I hard their name but never got the chance to check them out until a week before I left. I was not disappointed. I just wish I'd got to see them more than once.

Graveyard Train

During my time in Australia I discovered a band called Graveyard Train. I read a review of their album in one of the free local music papers and while I thought it was the most pretentious piece of music journalism i'd ever read I was intrigued by it. It was essentially a four paragraph horror story that had no mention of the band, their music, nothing. Just a story. Anyway, I went to see Graveyard Train at their album launch and was blown away by them. They play 'horror country' and as soon as they started playing I tried to work out how I could rip them off. Not just rip them off a bit but totally.

I had never saw a band who's lineup included two guitars, banjo, upright bass, slide guitar, washboard, crucifix, and hammer and chain. At one point they had twelve people on stage and they were all singing. It was pretty amazing.

Well, here's their video for 'The Balled of Beelzebub'. Enjoy.



And I really want to get a read of that review again.