AXEMEN (Flying Nun/Siltbreeze) first Australian Tour

RAD!

Yay! Meantime, can Satanic Rockers play some more Melb shows?

Sick

Satanic Rockers will be on the melbourne bill too

Heaps good

NEGATIVE GUEST LIST PRESENTS: POLKA BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE

SAT DEC. 10:
MAD NANNA (MELB)
WONDERFULS (RED HILL)
KITCHEN'S FLOOR (PADDINGTON)
BLANK REALM (INTERZONE)
MEAT THUMP (WYNNUM)
3 TOED SLOTH (NSW)
AXEMEN (NZ)

SUNDAY DEC. 11:
REUNION SACRED IBIS (MELB)
XNOBBQX/MUURA (BRIS)
GIRL SCHOOL REPORT (NSW)
EXILES FROM CLOWNTOWN (PARTS UNKNOWN)

The AXEMEN were all screen printers when they banged into each other while in Dunedin 1983. Lawrence Lens shot this Super 8 flick in which Stu Kawowski takes the punters on a journey down Screen Printer's Lane, demonstrating the process of making one (untypically tiny) poster for a peace gig where the AXEMEN played in Christchurch Cathedral (true) and were interrupted mid-set by the announcement that Nelson Mandela had been freed! (The AXEMEN had previously often included riffs from the ''Free! Nelson Mandela!'' song into their busking set around Christchurch streets on busy Friday nights). But to get back to the Screen Printing, check out myspace.com/nemexa for more examples of their artwork.

anyone got a download link for Derry Legend, or the track Human Hotdogs?

THIS FUCKING RULES

Yes! That super 8 film rules so hard...

fun times ahead!

Finalised lineup for Neg Fest:

NEGATIVE GUEST LIST PRESENTS: POLKA BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE

SAT DEC. 10
SPRING HILL HOTEL

WONDERFULS (RED HILL)
BLANK REALM (HIGHGATE HILL) (7'' LAUNCH)
MAD NANNA (VIC)
MEAT THUMP
3 TOED SLOTH (NSW) (7'' LAUNCH)
AXEMEN (NZ (7'' LAUNCH)

SUN DEC. 11

116 LATROBE TERRACE (AFTERNOON SHOW)

SCHOOL GIRL REPORT
REUNION SACRED IBIS
RAW PRAWN
EXILES FROM CLOWNTOWN
AXEMEN

Not final as far as I'm aware.. xNoBBQx should be on the Sunday show..

Well, it was more finalised than the one previously posted. NO BBQ addition would be sweet though.

yeah, substitute raw prawn for xnobbqx and that should be fine!

The Flying Nun label's 30th Anniversary parties are happening all over New Zealand and Australia this November, but it December Axemen (Flying Nun's outsider pop rats) bring the real party across the Pacific Ocean for this first time.

After forming in protest of the 1981 Springbok NZ tour, the group of screen printers played their cheeky swirls of hooky rock between Christchurch and Dunedin at homosexual law reforms, buskers conventions and on TV with as many as 15 - or as little as 2 - people on stage. When on tour in New Zealand Kurt Cobain saw one of these shows, then hunted down every Axemen release he could find. In the last few years the seminal Siltbreeze label has been reissuing lost Axemen classics, leading to the band reuniting in 2009, after a fifteen-year hiatus, to tour America with Siltbreeze/Matador act Times New Viking.

Thanks largely to Australian music houses like Sunshine & Grease and Negative Guestlist, Axemen have developed a small but intense following of ned-heads. These ned-heads will be able to pick up plenty of rare Axemen releases from the 80’s, along with the fresh-off-the-press Australian tour 7” at every show. Axemen will shoot heart bullets of free pop at the men and women of love at the inaugural Polka Before the Apocalypse (Brisbane) and Mrs Tapes (Sydney) festivals, plus watch out Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Batemans Bay.

Their ever changing lineup - which has included members of The Clean, Tall Dwarfs and The Terminals - for the Australian tour is original vocalist/guitarist Little Stevie Mccabe, original drummer Stu Kawowski, Slav guitar connoiseur Dragan Stojanovic (an Axeman since 1985) and Will Daymond in his mourning of youth. As Axemen scanty town ride around, staying in either big cheap motels or on your couch for beer und flinstones, filmmaker Fred Renata will be there, documenting the tour.

Here are the dates you can catch Axemen revealing their tragic tale of the rock 'n' roll legend:

10th, 11th Brisbane @ Spring Hotel
Polka Before the Apocalypse Festival
w/ 3 Toed Sloth, Exiles From Clowntown, Blank Realm, xNoBBQx, Meat Thump, Mad Nanna, School Girl Report, Raw Prawn, Reunion Sacred Ibis, Wonderfuls

14th Newcastle @ TBA:
w/ Cock Safari and Bare Grillz

15th Sydney @ the Red Rattler:
Mrs Tapes Festival
w/ Circle Pit, Alps, xNoBBQx, Mad Nanna, School Girl Report and Satanic Rockers

16th Sydney @ Black Wire Records:
w/ Silver Moon, Whores and Low Life

17th Batemans Bay @ Sister Smooth:
w/ xNoBBQx, Mad Nanna, School Girl Report, Satanic Rockers

18th Canberra @ The Phoenix
w/ xNoBBQx, Mad Nanna, Satanic Rockers and School Girl Report

19th Melbourne @ The Gasometer
w/ Paul Kidney Experience, Bum Creek and School Girl Report
+ Axemen recording workshop before the show

21st Melbourne @ The Tote
w/ Circle Pit, Mad Nanna and Satanic Rockers

23rd Adelaide @ Format Xmas Party
w/ School Girl Report, Men’s Health and No Action.

All tickets available at the door

this is gonna be brilliant. Sam is a man you can trust!

I'm looking forward to the melbourne show if i'm still in the country and catching up with School Girl Report

I'm looking forward to the melbourne shows if i'm still in the country and catching up with School Girl Report

Gasometer!

so hobart's out?

sorry wormwood we couldn't afford it in the end and it was too tight with getting to Adelaide in time x

There are TWO venues in Batemans Bay now? That place is ''going off''.

xNoBBQx just added to the Tote show. North Street is finished as a venue. The moving club Sister Smooth is the only place now.

SamuelMiers said 8 days ago:

The Flying Nun label's 30th Anniversary parties are happening all over New Zealand and Australia this November, but it December Axemen (Flying Nun's outsider pop rats) bring the real party across the Pacific Ocean for this first time.

After forming in protest of the 1981 Springbok NZ tour, the group of screen printers played their cheeky swirls of hooky rock between Christchurch and Dunedin at homosexual law reforms, buskers conventions and on TV with as many as 15 - or as little as 2 - people on stage. When on tour in New Zealand Kurt Cobain saw one of these shows, then hunted down every Axemen release he could find. In the last few years the seminal Siltbreeze label has been reissuing lost Axemen classics, leading to the band reuniting in 2009, after a fifteen-year hiatus, to tour America with Siltbreeze/Matador act Times New Viking.

Thanks largely to Australian music houses like Sunshine & Grease and Negative Guestlist, Axemen have developed a small but intense following of ned-heads. These ned-heads will be able to pick up plenty of rare Axemen releases from the 80’s, along with the fresh-off-the-press Australian tour 7” at every show. Axemen will shoot heart bullets of free pop at the men and women of love at the inaugural Polka Before the Apocalypse (Brisbane) and Mrs Tapes (Sydney) festivals, plus watch out Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Batemans Bay.

Their ever changing lineup - which has included members of The Clean, Tall Dwarfs and The Terminals - for the Australian tour is original vocalist/guitarist Little Stevie Mccabe, original drummer Stu Kawowski, Slav guitar connoiseur Dragan Stojanovic (an Axeman since 1985) and Will Daymond in his mourning of youth. As Axemen scanty town ride around, staying in either big cheap motels or on your couch for beer und flinstones, filmmaker Fred Renata will be there, documenting the tour.

Here are the dates you can catch Axemen revealing their tragic tale of the rock 'n' roll legend:

10th, 11th Brisbane @ Spring Hotel
Polka Before the Apocalypse Festival
w/ 3 Toed Sloth, Exiles From Clowntown, Blank Realm, xNoBBQx, Meat Thump, Mad Nanna, School Girl Report, Raw Prawn, Reunion Sacred Ibis, Wonderfuls

14th Newcastle @ TBA:
w/ Cock Safari and Bare Grillz

15th Sydney @ the Red Rattler:
Mrs Tapes Festival
w/ Circle Pit, Alps, xNoBBQx, Mad Nanna, School Girl Report and Satanic Rockers

16th Sydney @ Black Wire Records:
w/ Silver Moon, Whores and Low Life

17th Batemans Bay @ Sister Smooth:
w/ xNoBBQx, Mad Nanna, School Girl Report, Satanic Rockers

18th Canberra @ The Phoenix
w/ xNoBBQx, Mad Nanna, Satanic Rockers and School Girl Report

19th Melbourne @ The Gasometer
w/ Paul Kidney Experience, Bum Creek and School Girl Report
+ Axemen recording workshop before the show

21st Melbourne @ The Tote
w/ Circle Pit, Mad Nanna and Satanic Rockers

23rd Adelaide @ Format Xmas Party
w/ School Girl Report, Men’s Health and No Action.>

The Newcastle show on the 14th is w/

Polyfox Vs. Alps
Cock Safari
The Nugs

@ Emma Soup
Hunter St

nice

xNoBBQx just added to the Tote show.

Oh fuck yes. If Circle Pit drops out it'll be perfect.

anyone got a download link for Derry Legend, or the track Human Hotdogs?

GUTTED about no Hobart. GUTTED.

I will find a way. I bloody will.

No Garbage & The Flowers = No Hellza

buy the album instead.

gonna be so great. but which show?

buy the album instead.

fucken reissue it then

tour diary

tour diary good

The Axemen have arrived.

new single is great

I think I'm not going to miss this.

axemen slayed at the ngl fest, also 3 toed sloth were tops!

Second Axemen slaying at both shows and they party like champs as well.Three-Toed Sloth were easily the fest highlight for me.

interview

Adelaide next week

Back stage at the red rattler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqkLnJwwNZU&sns=em

Great interview, great dudes.

Back stage at the red rattler

''Puff Daddy, aye.''

looking forward to this tonight.

same!!

AXEMEN (Flying Nun/Siltbreeze/Sleekbott)
w/-
Paul Kidney Experience
Bum Creek
School Girl Report

• recording workshop @ 6PM
  meet the AXEMEN and chat about recording shit...
  digital recording, software, apps, etc.

AXEMEN's first ever Melbourne show!
http://theaxemen.org/

amazing show. Great work Dan and Sam. My xmas heros. go to the tote.

yep Axemen were great fun last night... do yourself a favour people!

Any idea on how many $$$ and playing times for the Tote tomorrow night?

yeah