September is a busy month for us....before we do a couple of shows with the amazing Battles from New York, MY DISCO are playing a couple of all ages shows in Melbourne and Sydney as a Bon Voyage before going to Chicago, Illinois to record Album number two at Electrical Audio with Steve Albini....
MELBOURNE: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH @ THE OLD BALLROOM, TRADES HALL (corner of Lygon and Victoria sts Melbourne City)
SYDNEY: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14TH @ BLACK AND BLUE WAREHOUSE, 267-271 CLEVELAND ST. REDFERN
both shows are all ages and will be around $15, a little bit more than we usually charge for our shows, but doing dedicated all ages shows in non-venue type spaces is costly! times and bands and more deets coming soon, hope to see you there.....
MD.
Do you have romance?
albini, eh? nice.
YES.
sweet..
awesome work, Benneth! Good luck with it all!!! See you at the shows.
practice your poker skills. dudes a fukkin shark
Ok guys, sounds like we've got a full house. Just pull an ace & ante up for the next track
Fck yeah.
hey ben - what is the extra cost involved with these warehouse type shows? curious, not critical.
anyone know this black and blue warehouse?
$1000 PA hire
$2-3per payer venue hire
coupla hundred security (venue insistent not my idea / preference)
diy promo
isn't all promo diy?
yeah, I was gonna ask where this Black & Blue is. Is it in lieu of Lan Franchis?
not if someone else (ie labels etc;) is paying for it dude.
$1000 bucks for a PA? Is it hewn from solid platinum by Tibetan artisans?
GOOD SOUND COSTS $$ WE LIKE GOOD SOUND.
guess so, i've never thought about someone else doing my shit I guess. Anyway, your costs, how much you charge & other financials are no ones business! Do what you need to to let you play shows.
well said! totally agree, i guess i only included the price and overheads disclaimer to be transparent about our ideals regarding booking our own shows etc; make people aware that it can be quite a costly venture....but very worthwhile of course!!
My Disco are kool! la la la la
hello Ben!..meghan from relics/ampere passes on her regards!
Yeah, it gets old eating shit financially whilst being called a sellout.
ampere rule dude!
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what happened?
Heaps of cops came, but I left before they came so I can't tell you first hand.. apparently there were like 20 of them, batons and all, and they arrested some guy who was taking photos.
Anyway the bands were grand, it was all LOUD and full of goodness
my disco had their van broken into as well..
cops were getting really agitated about people congregating around the exit to the building as they were leaving.. aggressive, confrontational.. one guy took a pic of the agro cop's badge and copped a physical request to 'remove the photo'.. ie up against the wall, now.
weird, seemed really unnecessary.. only people agitating for a fight seemed to be the cops and some drunk locals who weren't even coming from the show anyway..
complaints have been lodged about the police behaviour....
Fuck this city.
Melbourne show was one of the events of the year.
great review emmy. when are you going to introduce yourself!?
I'll introduce myself one day
introduce yourselves by buying stuff from my distro :-)
I have things selling in there anyway..why oh why oh why the money perpetuates
ok why the hell were the cops there? was it because of the noise?
damn sydney-post APEC sure sucks hell.
just cos there was a few people hanging out on the kerb after the show had finished. as my friend pointed out, if the cops hadn't arrested someone for taking photos everyone would've just left without any trouble
The police getting touchy about being identified is really fucking unnerving
The police are always touchy about being identified. They hate it, that's why they take their ID badges off at every single protest - not a new or APEC-related phenomenon, by any means.
And kabukiboy, eventually! I promise to say hello next time I spot you at a show.
you should both be at Always on thursday, or I hope so anyway.
hey shaun, if you are coming to Bttls, lets sort the rest of the distro cash then eh?
hey ben - no worries - if i can't scam a way in i'll meet you outside somewhere
Nice review, emmy!
Oh by the way Ben, thanks for playing Patterns Surgical at the melbourne show, that was the fucking BEST.
..and the new AOA shirts aswell haha.
just how old is this phenomenon I wonder? Would cops have been doing it in the 60's during civil rights marches and race riots etc.?