all ages?

oh shiiiit.

w00t!

is it that shallow/sharrow one thats opened up recently?

Dirty Shirlows Warehouse!

knew i'd get it.

whoo

Yes all ages.

hooray!

yes, the space is Dirty Shirlows.

Sydney kids better front!!

woooo chimps!

how much fun will this be!

i want to go.

When Chimps Attack!! they're rad :)

hmm.. this is the day after We Love Sounds Festival in Melb... but I'm keen to come up..

yes. it's gonna be heaps of fun. You kids should come!!

im excited for this

note to self... letting someone take XTC while manning the BBQ does NOT equal sales.

Oh I didn't eat drugs till after the cookery session. Whomever took over after though, well, that may have been a different story.

...i'd like to see the Touch Typist one eventually

Yep me too.. only the song I want to cut is that 9 minute trumpet epic :)

that was the one i was thinking of too

qua and alps of nsw audio done.. on its way

nice!!

looking forward to it :)

tucker bssssss.

nah.. not til a new album lands in my mailbox :)

i'll help mix the castings shit (is that a double-negative?) if ya want al. i promise not to get too stoned. i promise...

thanks Al! got the QUA!!

tucker b's now?

here's another review..

The Super8 Diaries Project (Trainwreck 20/20)
Published by Dom Alessio at October 3, 2008 in DVD Reviews.

Compiled over four years between 2004 and 2007 by Melbourne-based film producers (and obvious rabid music fans) Matt Richards and Jeremy Rouse, The Super8 Diaries is a snapshot in time of Australia’s independent rock scene. Filmed (surprise, surprise) entirely on Super8 cameras, the DVD compiles live footage from 11 bands: My Disco, Love of Diagrams, Tucker B’s, Colditz Glider, Mukaizake, Aleks And The Ramps, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Bang! bang! Aids!, Die! Die! Die!, The Tigers and Baseball. The low budget visuals complement the anarchic and lo-fi sensibilities of the bands captured here.

Filmed entirely in Melbourne, the Super8 Diaries is more or less a documentation of a burgeoning Victorian scene breeding bands that amalgamate a punk ethos and a rock’n'roll vibe. My Disco are filmed from the days when they were peddling vinyls, their songs more raw but their structures stilted and clunky, lacking the organic flow of their recent material. Surprise ARIA nominees Eddy Current Suppression Ring explode with ebullience, captured succinctly even on black and white film. The inclusion of the now-defunct Makaizake makes for some wonderful reminiscing, as does the footage of instrumental whiz kids Colditz Glider, who cram so many ideas into one song it’s amazing the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down around them.

Rough interviews with each of the bands are included, though this is where the disc comes unstuck. What was initially a celebration of underground Australian rock turns into an Us Vs Them situation as Matt and Jeremy continually press bands about Australian Idol and their thoughts on mainstream success. Belittling the mainstream doesn’t lend credence to the underground, and this tact makes the experience slightly unsettling.

On the menu front, the division of live footage and interview footage means you can cut the proverbial and move straight onto what makes the Super8 Diaries a fascinating experience. It would have been nice to have an option to watch all the footage, but this isn’t a film, this is a diary, and it highlights the ad hoc approach the filmmakers undertook to creating this DVD.

Ultimately, the Super8 Diaries will only serve to self-perpetuate the scene and won’t bring these bands to wider attention, although acts like My Disco, Tucker B’s and Eddy Current are doing it for themselves anyway. Which, by the way, isn’t a bad thing.

Extra Features
Live footage from the Super8 Diaries fundraiser - not shot on Super8 film!

I wonder if he just cut and pasted the M&N review?

allow me to dissect..

Filmed entirely in Melbourne wrong... that's why there is a booklet with the DVD.. 2 bands were shot in Perth.

Makaizake - Mukaizake... as in morning drink...

My Disco are filmed from the days when they were peddling vinyls, their songs more raw but their structures stilted and clunky, lacking the organic flow of their recent material.. Wha?? in what way is there anything organic in the precision machine that My Disco are now??.. if anything the old my disco was raw, organic and semi-unpredictable.

Belittling the mainstream doesn’t lend credence to the underground it was never meant to and we never set out to lend credence to the underground.. just to highlight how fucking dumb the commercial music machine is.

It would have been nice to have an option to watch all the footage second run has this option... we just never thought anyone would actually want to watch the whole thing from start to finish in one sitting.

Ultimately, the Super8 Diaries will only serve to self-perpetuate the scene and won’t bring these bands to wider attention.. umm.. do we look like a promotional vehicle??.. without a distributor and a press run of 500 I don't think we were really aiming for anyone too far removed from the 'scene'.

As you were..

here's a little review I missed from a young kid who WILL remember this shit in years to come.

here are some points that every review has missed..

The super8 diaries examine issues such as the digestion and consumption of music in a changing climate and raises questions as to how the concept of an ARTISTS album will change in a culture that now demands to buy individual tracks..

It asks how much penetration a single piece of music van have on the listener in the current climate of ipods with 50plus gigs of music.

It deals with filesharing and distribution of music...

all pretty interesting topics compared to whether or not Australian Idol is rubbish.. but yunno..each to their own..

ANYWAY..

screening in some music fest in France next month and some pirate TV channel in the UK.

Second live Digital Video DVD of one song each from all the bands who played the fundraiser and the launch shows in the works for early to mid 2009...prolly about 25 tracks.

Those themes aren't particularly overt though. I see Super8 as celebratory of a culture rather than critical of the environment it is at odds with. I think the issues pertaining to modern forms of dissemination, and how albums are a supposedly dying form, could be applied to almost any discussion of contemporary music.

Syd & Melb launch?

I'd like to get another reminder of what the tuckers were like that night.

Those themes aren't particularly overt though. exactly.. none of the themes are, it's a diary and a conversation..not a thesis... but they do recur in almost every interview.

Syd launch, Melb launch and Melb fundraiser.. so yes Tuckers beertickle.. I'll try and include you in the edit :)

I'd rather not get a reminder of myself though thanks, ff has pleasure in reminding me frequently