Remember when The Treetops, Ground Components and Riff Random were the most talked about bands in Melbourne? When Muscles made Idle use of his time on certain internet forums? And you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing The Strokes’ ‘Last Nite’?
Notorious indie dance night Shake Some Action is hoping to relive those heady days when it hosts a “reunion” in Melbourne at 161 tonight (November 20). Miami Horror will make their live debut, lo-fi duo Learn the Splits will play some acoustic folk, while Muscles and members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring will show off their DJ/bubble blowing skills.
But there is a catch. The event is open to “old crew” only, so you’ll have to email your full name and myspace/facebook profile to hughwaters@me.com for admission.
It’s certainly not like the old days, when all you needed was a fluro vest and those magic three words: “Scobes is cool.”
Did anyone actually go to this?
devilwillride and josejones.
raises hand in shame
points at sting-bono
hahaha.
hehe, now there's some names i ahven't seen in awhile...
how was it hugh?
Oh my
i would've, but i got too drunk at the duke across the road and went home.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
i thought this was going to be a flaming groovies reunion.
is James rumors going to be mixing? are the beers going to be $2 again?
haha
Aw, why didn't I hear about this?? Damn.
Hey, it was all about the sea breezes back in the day...
looks around for CubaPubic
I couldn't go, I had theatre tickets. I'm a mature now. I'm a theatre-goer.
didn't make it either. like violet, i had season tickets to the met.
Did devilwillride go, jones?
were the now older folk still posing for photos like they used to?
LOLOLOL
''Old crew'' only... that almost makes me want to grow a cock so I can tell you motherfuckers to suck it! Heeheehee!
oh yeah- what's Cuba up to?
were vinnyvegas and tonytrujillo there?
No-one posed for photos circa 2003, it was all ''random''.
I had a huge crush on TonyTrujillo.
Cuba is doing responsible adult shit like getting books published, etc. Though I did see him at the Charlatans, looking as handsome as ever.
I went.
Idle's wild and lustrous beard was a surprise.
Was full of kids! Reunion my ass. No Shebangs, no scobes, no mixcd swap.
no vinny vegas either.
tony t might have been there but i can't for certain.
scobes is cool
would have been there, but i'm a little far away these days.
IS SCOBES STILL COOL?
Enquiring minds want to know.....
i dj'ed and had the most awesome night!
not much old crew, most attendees were 4th-5th generation 161'ers (2005-2006)
besides sting, tonyt, i dont think i saw anyone from the era i attended, 2nd-3rd generation (2003-2004)
ah, i just figured out who judy dickslap is.
you always had a perculier grudge with me from the start, did i say something offensive to you or something?
I went to one of those once (in 2004, I think). It was the only ''indie'' night I've ever been to which played only daggy/trashy 80s top-40 and R&B booty anthems. The only two songs that could be remotely called ''indie'' I heard that night were The Cure's ''The Love Cats'' and New Order's ''Bizarre Love Triangle''.
Was munt there?
I was going to go but forgot I was going out to dinner.
Did anyone play spin the bottle?
i would've gone if i was in town.
I would've gone if I thought streetparty needed some more money.
you never know.
it was good that half of you didnt come, bunch of jerks
Us jerks? You're the one advertising your blog all over Melbourne!!!
Makes me realise how old all us chats now are! Next thing you will be talking about mono.net & all the bands who tried to look/sound like Tim Rogers.
how does that make me a jerk exactly?
only jerks have blogs
but clem and hollyc are not jerks?
i went to shake some action once, to see eddy current. it took me and the band half an hour to convince the bouncer to let me in. fuck that place.
you should have dressed as slipknot
i was!
You should have just told him you were there for wicked DJ action, like someone told me in the queue that very night.
i just read about this. nice to know about it after the event. particularly that it was posted on the day of event.
if high jinx and viviano were playing, it might have been interesting.
so who was playing - Get Bored and Stylaga?