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Freeking fuck!
There doesn't seem to be a thread about this yet (prove me wrong!)
The Primitive Calculators are reforming and launching their ace new comp at The Wintergarden Room (The Exford Hotel) in Melbourne on Thursday 8 March.
Well fuck me dead!
This is gonna be ace!
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wait, did i see them at cherry a while back ?
i forget
Is this for real, or was that just a mistake in Inpress?
Oooooh.
Match reports here please.
I thought Inpress fucked up and said they were playing, when really it is Fabulous Diamonds doing a covers gig
From Fabulous Diamonds' Myspace:
CAN'T STOP IT II CD LAUNCH w/ THE GLITTER KIDS (AUST PST PUNK COVER BAND FEAT. FAB D, LAKES, OH!BELGIUM, JEMIMA JEMIMA, CRAYON FIELDS ETC. MEMBERS) + FABULOUS DIAMONDS + DJ GUY BLACKMAN & DJ PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS (!!!!) FREE ENTRY., HOTTT>
Really? Fuck....somebody give me the straight dirt here! Because this clashes with David Kilgour gig at Prentice Street and I can't tear myself in two.
Gorn. Aren't Crayon Fields playing the David Kilgour gig. I'm confused.
Who knows... maybe i'll send FD a message and get them to set this shit straight!
Re-forming?! Y'reckon?
I know the Prim Calc / Can't Stop It vol. 2 launch is happening that night, but I don't think they'll be getting back together again. Denise isn't into playing music any more, for one thing.
yeah crayon fields are playing the David Kilgour gig
Do it Gorn, or I won't be able to sleep tonight.
whoah, I'm slow. Gorn's right I'd say - Glitter Kids played the last launch too. Sounds like it'll be awesome though, lotsa young'uns on stage, lotsa oldies in the audience...
mswahili.....way to shatter my illusions.
I picked up Inpress and got all excited and now I'm deflated.
There is no reformation, but there will be some fine bands providing music anyway ahem(clearing throat noise), though members of the Primitve Calculators should be DJing I believe. Anyway it is THE GLITTER KIDS and FABULOUS DIAMONDS who are playing live. Will be really good. Lots of oldies I hope to meet there. PS. The 2 new CD's out on Chapter are fucking incredible. As in they need to be owned, listended and pawed over etc.
It is still something to be excited about and uh .,.... enjoy. More so enjoy.
I am actually disappointed.
Really!
Dave Light still plays music live occasionally I believe in a group called The Moths...there used to be a page about somehwere
read it properly: DJ PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS
i don't think they're reforming.
shame.
hmpf
jeez handhell
AdamD, I based this on an Interview with Dave and Denise in Inpress which led me to believe it was a live show. I was wrong.
Nothing to see here. Move along!
hey dudes, here's my official word as the boss of everything - no prim calcs reformation, just glitter kids tribute band and fabby ds. but yes, dave light from prim calcs is djing, denise and frank will be there, as will a host of post-punk legends from bands on both can't stop it cds.
and if you wanna go see david kilgour, all the live entertainment should be over by 10.30 so you can scoot down after to see him. i wish i could see him myself, but i'll probably see him with yo la tengo anyhoo!
Thanks Guy. I'll try to make it to both. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Review of the new Chapter Prim Calcs album.
chaptermusic...live entertainment at the david kilgour will be over at 11pm. shame about the clash cos i would love to go to this too. sounds like its one or the other.
once i snuck up and pushed ringo starr into a jukebox and it was a Beatles DJ Set 4 Eva and I made a million bucks and you should have been there but you weren't because you suck but i'm sure this thing will be seminal anyway.
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
i just got a review copy of the album and it rips me in two.
THIS ISNT FUCKING FAIR:
i miss australia.
Great news!! Primitive Calcs music is incredibly beautiful....jesus christ HandHell you have good taste. Thanks for the newsflash mate.
Mike Horse you on the other hand are a non-musician jack off and your response to Rene's thread is puerile. Go hang out with your commie girlfriend Lokihanns.
I love you Charles!
It’s been nearly three decades since Primitive Calculators played their last show – but the post-punk legends have lost nothing in the intervening years. Words and photo by RENÉ SCHAEFER.
Nice review Frankie. Looking forward to seeing them at ATP.
where would i have seen denise hilton before? more recent bands?
Denise was really nice. I was talking to her for a bit before I realised who she was.... I think I came across as a bit of a fangirl as I was banging on about PC for a bit... oops.
I love that I was eventually proved wrong in this thread!
Pity I couldn't see the show on Sunday. And I won't be going to ATP either.
:(
anok - denise hasn't been playing in bands since the 80's. Dave has been in several different groups though. At least that's what they told me... both really nice people every time we've spoken.
Hmm, I'm guessing you don't mean her time in Thrush and the Cunts?
Friday 3 Sep 2010 9:00PM. + The Paul Kidney Experience + Adam Simmons vs Brian O'Dwyer feat Kris Wanders @ Yah Yah's, Smith Street, Collingwood.
What time d'youse reckon Calculators would be on? I'm trying to multi-task.
I reckon they'll be on from 11.30pm-12.10am (though it says ''12.10pm'' here). I also reckon The Paul Kidney Experience will be on from 10.30pm-11.10pm and Adam Simmons vs Bryan Dywer (with guest Kris Wanders) will be on from 9.30pm-10.10pm.
Doors open at 9pm and it will cost $8, with bands taking a $3, $2, $1.50 split. The venue will shut at 5am and has a capacity of 250.
Bands will be presented through various Shure sm58s, Beta 57s and DIs running through a 16 channel Allen Heath Mix Wizard mixing console with Klark Teknix DN360 31-band equaliser and 4 x Pro Series Sony compressors to a 1500 watt three-way PA (Nexo PS15s with Camco amps) and 3 x foldback wedges (Quest,RCF) on two sends. Could be the best night ever!
Thank you very much for this comprehensive information, Sir Ronald. Although you forgot to mention soundcheck time, rider and door list details.
I left the rider information out on purpose as it is a JOKE. As if a band of our stature should be forced to a) find some guy and then b) talk to some guy.
Soundcheck time, Primitive Calculator groupies, is 5pm.
OMG This is happening right now. I'm supposed to be there. Lucky I'm only three dorrs away right now... CU all very, very, very soon.
PS Ben is reading a book on Duchamp, which will no doubt flavour is playing.Me and Troy are sick in the head, Nell is perty, Don is On, everyone in the band will be there. I will be thinking of Dimitra. Good thoughts. You should too.
No Rain! No Rain! No Rain! No Rain! No Rain! No Rain! No Rain! No Rain! No Rain!
Great times last night. The Jackson cover was superb.
The Primitive Calculators were BLOODY FANTASTIC! They ripped into 2 covers. When I say ''ripped'', they STOMPED, through those songs against Yah Yahs' red walls and flushed them down the dunny! Starting with a total deconstructed version of Michael Jackson's Bad & also KC & The Sunshine Band That's The Way I Like It. Wanna see a HD Video of last night?
Primitive Calculators - Love @ Yah Yahs, Fitzroy (3rd Sept 2010)
http://www.vimeo.com/14683775
More videos here, including Bad
that version of bad is immense