Six bands with mindwarping and brain-slashing abilities.
FEAT: ESP MAYHEM, POLTERGEIST 9000, BOUDICCA, BODY MELT, MODEL AUDIO, RÖTWÜLF
Details
Friday, August 22
6 PM | $25 | All Ages
Sun Street Studios – 246 High Street Maitland
$ 25
100% No booze, just vibes.
Snacks and drinks available: GF / DF / veg / vegan friendly.
Tickets
This event is part of The End of Maitland –
A mid-Winter dystopia of Mondo Morbid, Morose, Macabre, Maniacal and Mystifying Art, Music, Movies & Miscellanea
3 venues. 3 nights. one wayward High Street.
The Bands
ESP MAYHEM
Mindbending the neural link between cybercore and synth grind. Three synths (fuck guitars, thats for IRL not in cyberspace) that hack into the cortex of your mind, while being jackhammered with a cyborg drum machine and verbally punished by inhumane vocals. Grindcore being pummeled to death by machines.
FOLLOW: @ESPMAYHEM
LISTEN: https://espmayhem.bandcamp.com
POLTERGEIST 9000
“Some of the most insanely energetic live shows since forever! The duo Jaxon and Callan moved from Tasmania to Newcastle and with that move they have evolved past their noisecore and skram roots to some of the most absurdist futuristic take on Geocities and MySpace era cybercore, it’s a bastard mix of hip-hop, digital hardcore and electroclash EBM, imagine Atari Teenage Riot / Ho99o9 / Death Grips in a neon fever dream.
If late ecstasy fueled 80s house music at The Haçienda was the counterpoint to “rock music” then Poltergeist 9000 is the counterpoint to whatever the young pretenders of the mainstream have.” -Benson
FOLLOW: @POLTERGEIST9000
LISTEN: https://poltergeist90001.bandcamp.com/album/warhols-kiss
BOUDICCA
Boudicca is a thrashy hardcore punk band from Muluubinba Newcastle, informed by representations of women in folklore, myth, and history, Mad’s paint-stripper vocals lead the band in tearing stories from dust-covered books and relating them to their audiences both locally and abroad through a very cheeky, staunch, but still distinctively contemporary lens.
Featuring ex members of Dispossessed, Rort Menace, and Family Values, with that comes a varied list of influences from 80s US hardcore, d-beat, crust punk, anarcho, death metal and thrash.
Boudicca are without a doubt one of the workhorse groups coming out of the Newy hardcore scene today, they’re able to engage and surprise well-acquainted heavy music fans and unsuspecting punters alike with their unique brand of rage-fueled music.
FOLLOW: @BOUDICCA_AUS
LISTEN: https://boudicca.bandcamp.com/music
BODY MELT
Squelchy (Arms Reach, Elbow Deep), Frenchie (Crab Smasher, Obat Batuk), Luke Wright (John Howard) and Edo (every band in Newcastle), are familiar names in the circles of Novocastian underground music. In this incarnation for this specific purpose these individuals form a vicious barrage of old school sludgy grindcore. Brainoil meets Carcinogen and Dystopia meets Noothgrush.
FOLLOW: @BODYMELT
LISTEN: https://bodymeltgrind.bandcamp.com/album/body-melt-cerebral-erosion-split-cs
MODEL AUDIO.
“$8.50 each for VHS TAPES
90 Min. stereo — color. The MODEL AUDIO CLUB TAPES, as heard on radio. “Model Audio” speaks through his Sequencers; he speaks to YOU. Documentary, propagandoid Lessons far beyond any present medium .. a TOTALLY NEW GENRE. Good for over 75 close listenings. Fast-paced, dense with shocking special effects. Makes New Wave even older than it is. Unbelievable sequences from;
1) THE REAL WORLD (radio & Television)
2) THE MODEL AUDIO CLUB (excerpts from Model Audio radio and TV interviews, songs, chants, rants, and preaching), and
3) LURID ENTERTAINMENT (A 1-MAN AUDIO VISUAL ASSAULT). Savage; joyful; monstrous. Useful for seductions.”
FOLLOW: @MODEL.AUDIO
VISIT: OFFICIAL SITE
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsQOUO8X6jU
RÖTWÜLF
Black. Metal.
Sun Street recommends
The Pourhouse for pre-show dinner and drinks,
Be sure to let the staff know when you are ordering that you have a deadline to meet & they will be able to assist.
Pre-booking is best.
Friday Hours 12 – 12 (Lunch 12 – 2 pm & Dinner 5 – 8:30 pm)
