photo of david yow with his cock out on the wall.

buying magic dirt eps. buying something for kate demos. browsing thru all these cds by bands i'd never heard of before, but thought they must be orright cos au go go stocked em.

i bought a bitchin MC5 shirt there once

it is a rag now but i can't throw it out

Im the same as whatwhat... Cos AuGoGo stocked things, I knew they were worth giving the time of day to check them out.

One time I gave money to my dad when he drove down to Melbs to pick me up the 2 Magic Dirt EPs.. Later I saw Signs of Satanic Youth on 2x7'' and picked that up.

I always loved upstairs in the LtBourke st shop... with all the rare stuff

Nostalgia for cool Au Go-Go instore shows. A Nunbait one springs to mind. Also, the 7'' singles carousel. Always great stuff to be discovered. And they always seemed to have plenty of copies of Venom P Stinger's ''What's Yours Is Mine'' floating around upstairs. I bought Pussy Galore, feedtime and Mudhoney 'Superfuzzbigmuff' t-shirts from Au Go-Go.

the 7'' singles carousel

YES !!

that and the endless persuing upstairs of rarities and dodgy videos !

everytime i came to melbourne for the bdo in mid 90's, my friends and i would go to au go go on little bourke and have a look. mostly at nick cave stuff. upstairs i would admire the smiths vinyl and pick up a copy of street press.

i was sad when that store turned into rd madden.

how many buildings did augogo live in? i only knew the little bourke st store and then up the side lane?

patrick donovan's mourning article.

i remember readying this being just shocked and so, so sad. such an important part of australia's musical past.

the website is still alive.

is where the name came from bruce?

first location was a hole in the wall at the back of an arcade in little collins (?) st

The first 20:

ANDA 001 Two Way Garden - Overnight 7'' (1979) D
ANDA 002 Clint Small - Crack in the Wall 7'' (1979)
ANDA 003 Little Murders - Things Will be Different 7'' (1979) D
ANDA 004 Scapa Flow - The End 7'' (1980) D
ANDA 005 Clint Small - On the Fourth Floor 7'' (1980)
ANDA 006 Little Murders - High School 7'' (1980) D
ANDA 007 Crackerjacks - Long Blonde Hair 7'' (1980) D
ANDA 008 Marching Girls - True Love 7''(1980) D
ANDA 009 Z-Cars - Is There Someone Out There? 7'' (1980) D
ANDA 010 Wrecked Jets - Can I go home? 7'' (1980) D
ANDA 011 AEIOU - Brainwashed (1980) D
ANDA 012 Dance Set - Melody Smiles 7� (1981)
ANDA 013 Champagne Edge - In My House 7�(1981)
ANDA 014 Little Murders - She Let�s Me Know 7�(1981) D
ANDA 015 Moodists - Where the Trees Walk Downhill� 7�(1981) D
ANDA 016 The Zorros - Too Young 7�(1981) D
ANDA 017 5.15 - Fuck Art, Let�s Dance 7''(1982) D
ANDA 018 Moodists - Gone Dead 7''(1982)
ANDA 019 Dorian Grey - The Emporer�s New Clothes 7'' (1982) D
ANDA 020 Informatics - Self-Titled 7''(1982)D
ANDA 021 Plays With Marionettes/People With Chairs Up Their Noses 7�(1982) D

I think I have 12 of these.

Au Go Go was always the mecca of melbourne indie for me. As I mentioned in the other thread, I had a japanese Au Go Go t-shirt that I loved dearly until it basically fell apart. Interestingly (or maybe not), one of the very first techno albums I ever bought was from Au Go Go (probably post-bruce) - Steve Stoll presents The Blunted Boy Wonder. Still a fucking great album. Completely different to the rest of the rock nostalgia, but as you were..

Oops, first 21.

i always presumed it was in tribute to whiskey a go go (not whiskey au go go, the brisbane pub that got blown up).

what no's were spiderbait and magic dirt? they were the first au go go bands i remember.

ANDA 167 Magic Dirt - Signs of Satanic Youth CDEP/2x7�(1994)
ANDA 180 Magic Dirt - Life Was Better CDEP (1994)
ANDA 202 Magic Dirt - I Was Cruel 10�(1996)
ANDA 206 Magic Dirt -�Friends in Danger� CD (1996)
ANDA 211 Magic Dirt - Sparrow CDEP/2x7�(1997)
ANDA 235 Magic Dirt - Rabbit With Fangs CDEP (1997)
ANDA 237 Magic Dirt - Young & Full Of The Devil (1998)
ANDA 240 Magic Dirt - She Riff CDep (1998)

ANDA 124 Spiderbait - Circle K 7� (1991) D
ANDA 139 Spiderbait - P�tang CD/10� (1991) D
ANDA 147 Spiderbait - Shashavaglava CD (1992) D
ANDA 165 Spiderbait - Run CDEP (1993) D
ANDA 171 Spiderbait - Jesus 7�(1994) D

getting King Bozzo to sign my band Aardvark's demo tape. he wrote ''Stay High''

Man, you must be so old.

Getting a copy Bored's - Feed the Dog pre-release, the shipment was on the floor for pricing so I just grabbed one.

i loved the little bourke st store. having downstairs with new stuff and upstairs second hand worked so well.

whenever i had a day off school i would come in from the suburbs and do a circuit of heartland, missing link, gaslight, au-go-go and greville, but typically only end up buying something second hand at au-go-go cause it was all i could afford. got some absolute gold too...

Looks awesome, letterbox.

i like my hits.

I'm really happy about finding this thread. So many like minded souls.

I just emailed Spiderbait to see whether P'tang yang kipper bang still existed anywhere, I'm guessing it doesnt. I remember when they played fast and hard in the very early nineties.

Au Go Go was like a religion to me back in those days, we'd visit and gawk every time we came into ''the city''.

Sigh

Does anyone know if there is a way to order music from their catalogue? the online store is obviously no longer operational but maybe there is another way... Im after Venom p stinger, GOD, the saints etc.
I miss you AugoGO!!

I got this Au-Go-Go tote bag (is that what you call those cloth bag thingys). I use it to carry whatever my current book I'm reading around in. It use to be white now it's the colour of tea.

i have one of those white au-go-go tshirts with the japanese script that is now basically a patch, though i haven't sewn it on to anything

On a trip to Japan last year picked up Au Go Go issue Sonic Youth - Evol & Sister LP's cheap and in reasonably good nick.

As a kid I too sent my old's to Au Go Go to pick up stuff when they took trips to Melbourne mainly for Magic Dirt and Something for Kate albums/EP's. Think they paid nearly $100 for the Live At The Falls CD, which you can now pick up for around $10. The 90's hey......

Im after Venom p stinger, GOD, the saints etc.
I miss you AugoGO!!

i could be imagining things but i think that the missing link chumps - just kidding! champs may have had a small amount of the augogo releases available. it's hard to check because their website seems to be not working.

just can't remember how long ago that was. think they had the venom p. stinger ep (cd).
don't recall them ever releasing any saints stuff. if you're not aware of it Scotti who still works at missing link as far as i know and used to be one of the augogo crewsters has a label called afterburn which last year put out a kickarse double cd of all of GOD's releases. i guess if you're looking for augogo stuff he'd be a good person to talk to.

As far as I can tell they do have a lot of old Augogo stock
in storage somewhere every now and then you find really find really hard to get
7 inchs from the label brand new

au go go is where i got my lou barlow live at the waterfront CD

1st 10 people through doors receive a free pot

I plundered back racks upstairs in the cheap vinyl section - got every band i could find any way related to R.E.M., Athens, DB Records etc. got some gems! and some duds!

It's gonna be fun to see some of the old Au go go folks at this.

And I hear rumour of some very interesting special guests

Can't believe I never noticed this thread before. I do miss Au Go Go records, my favourite memories of the place usually involve cool records that I picked up there, I also remember a fantastic instore that Mark Hosler from Negativland did downstairs at the Bourke Street store.

i miss au go go. going to captains of industry makes my heart ache, being in that same space. i think it's the floorboards that get me first.

Can anyone with old photos of the shop/s please scan & post them? I have a couple somewhere. I remember (and I hope Bruce has copies or negatives or something) there being 'candid' photos of some of the staff stuck to a wall (uh, the photos, not the people).
(PM me a link if they turn up, anyone). Some VERY good people worked there. And the other record shops, of course. It has been a long-standing fantasy project to compile a 'Rock Family Trees'-type flow-chart of Melbourne (for starters) record shops, while most people still have a modicum of their memory/are alive, plus a ''sealed section'' for all the goss, slander, hearsay and behind-the-scenes machinations.
Who wants to help me get an arts grant funding for that? Historical importance.

This one was taken in the upstairs toilet at the Lt Bourke St store: