we at aaarrrghtt!!! records are totally pumped and stoked to be releasing a best-of MOTO cd and bringing them/him out to australia for a tour.
MOTO started in new orleans, louisiana in the very early 80s. paul caporino is the main guy who writes all the songs. everyone else in the band comes and goes without too much fuss while paul sits at home and continues writing and recording hit after hit after hit on his four track, with a cheap-shit guitar, a transistor amp (crate or peavey) and a four track. he moved to chicago a while ago, where MOTO have been ever since.
over the years MOTO has has thirty odd band members, released 20 albums on cassette, roughly the same amount of 7''s singles and half a dozen lps. he's a compulsive genius pop and punk rock song writer, really personal, idiosycratic and unique. MOTO are easily in my top ten favourite bands of ever. even super seminal australian bands like the cannanes and joel silbersher are big MOTO fans.
so, aarrrrght! has compiled a cd called BATTLE OF THE BAND, compiling 31 songs from all eras and formats for a handy introduction/overview to MOTO. and we're bringing him out for a tour. just paul is coming, he'll be backed up by a few local goons. we're cheap like that.
tour dates:
friday 29/8 - espy front bar, melbourne
w/ the ooga boogas, spazzys & the twerps
saturday 30/8 - excelsior, sydney
w/ the pink fits & the escapes (wipey's latest & greatest)
sunday 31/8 - music farmers cafe, wollongong
w/ the pink fits
tuesday 2/9 - step inn, brisbane
w/ roshambo, boondall boys, shrewms, lobster prophet
wednesday 3/9 - hamilton station hotel, newcastle
w/ dragstrippers & the crashing planes
thursday 4/9 - gangbusters at bar 32, canberra
w/ someone or other, it's canberra, does anyone have any idea? not me.
friday 5/9 - newmarket hotel, bendigo
w/ the spazzys & the killerbirds
saturday 6/9 - flip out festival, corner hotel, melbourne
w/ all the great bands that are playing flip out. sick.
i've uploaded some MOTO songs to the aarghty website so you can download and check 'em out for yourself.
dance dance dance dance to the radio
MOTO RULES!!
whole damn tour's worth it just for another escapes show
wipey rules almost as hard a moto. maybe even harder!
Was this band in your list of your favourite 100 albums, rigid?
I think the Canberra supports are The Fighting League and The Cherry Marines.
thanks pc. i'll check them out right now.
they have an album called ''kill MOTO'' which is in my top 100. their singles are the best though. ridiculously great string of 45s in the 90s. you can get a singles comp called ''single file'' which is unbeatable. a lot of those are on the aaaaaarght!!! cd.
Maybe I'll just get the Aaaaaaarght CD. Record shopping is way too hard for me.
hah the fighting league
that's the idea modi. you're a good consumer.
sweet!
Where can I read your top 100, rigid?
is wipey playing rock and roll again?
i thought he chucked it all in for the stand-up comedy circuit
pretty sure he handles both
I think it's in this thread, blake
I thought wipey's music was comedy
Blake, the original Punk / Garage / Trash thread, featuring Rigid's Top 100 (and a few other clowns)
Speaking of top 100s, anon, where's that top 50?
not in this thread.
i wonder if the spazzys will play their MOTO cover when they support MOTO? and if they do, which im sure they might, i wonder if that will be frowned up by the melbourne garage punk community?
the spazzy's can play whatever they like and it will be more than fine by me. that said i'm hardly a leading figure melbourne garage punk community. on the other hand the melbourne drunken retard community will down with it
For Canberra you need the Vee Bees to play
Soooo glad Paul is making it down there.
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its the non 'humorous' ones that get me the most, some sort of combination of naivety and intentions and the bittersweet vibes and the simplicity and catchiness of it all seems to cut through all my cynical jaded musical listening coolness and leave me sorta stunned and reflective (and humming along, of course)
bah, words not working.
i've got that Pnau song stuck in my head
Dick About It is the one that is stuck in my head
he's coming back!
Friday 11 Feb -- PONY
w/ Woollen Kits
Saturday 12 Feb -- TOTE
w/ BBQ (USA), UV Race, Wipey & The Wipeouts
see ya there. maybe. tote gig is gonna be great.
No Sydney?
Will there be an actual BBQ at the BBQ (USA) gig?
no sydney, sorry.
there might be an actual BBQ. i don't think anyone has talked about it. i'd like to do one.
thank you for your input.
looks like presales for tote are available now from front bar or corner website (to answer the question i was just going to ask)
yes, they serpently are.
What happened to Rodney and the Rumours?
i think he was m+n'izing the band name?
i thought that in the context of m+n, ''wipey and the wipeouts'' might have more drawing power.
Poor me
More drawing power:
(dunno if this will work)
Oh well.
It's not 2006 anymore, Ron.
Ronnetty Ronnetty Ronetty.
Cock it down a notch
ANSWER HIM
Fuck up, Sook
BUCKA BUCKA BUCKA BUCKA
Sorry I forgot to put the bins out
I saw a MOTO poster at the Marquis of Lorne last night - MOTO unplugged?
also playing next thursday at YAH YAHs
didn't see him/them last time. like the songs that i've heard. will he/them be bringing vinyl/merch?
Marquis of Lorne tonite WISH i WAS THERE!!!!
tttttonite!
so psyched!