I'm guessing Andrew got sick of mom and pop?

gets excited

that's great! i only recently got into dead moon and was gutted when they split.

My knickers have melted, I'm that excited!

If I was wearing any...

too much information

this is great news kinda. sucks that they broke up on the eve of an aussie tour. hopefully pierced arrows tour.... would be a weird gig seeing poison idea sans pig and toody and fred under a different name.

Hmm...anyone know anything about Defiance?

BY JASON SIMMS | jsimms at wweek dot com
[May 23rd, 2007] [GARAGE] For the first time in a long time, Fred and Toody Cole were nervous. Six months after the breakup of their legendary garage-rock outfit, Dead Moon, the Coles were about to debut a new group—something they haven't had to do for 20 years. And their new trio, Pierced Arrows, had only six practices under its belt at showtime. But they were glad to be nervous. "We had everything in Dead Moon down to a pat art," Toody told me, excited by the sense of risk.

Pierced Arrows was the first of three bands to open for Poison Idea last Friday, but the Ash Street Saloon was already at capacity before Arrows appeared. The stage looked not unlike one from a Dead Moon show: Three members were up front—the third spot filled by drummer Kelly Haliburton (also the bassist for Defiance)—with the drum kit in the middle. And, clad in red Western garb, the Coles had not replaced their wardrobes.

But unlike the frenzied, sweating, drunken Dead Moon audiences of old, this crowd was stoic. The audience members looked like attentive subjects being told their futures by a talented psychic. They were electrically still, attuned to every sound and motion, purely perceiving, overwhelmed by the present moment and unable to give a thought to what might follow.

What they heard was, naturally, similar to Dead Moon's folk-influenced punk. Haliburton ground his sticks into the toms after each stroke, lending his simple beat a sense of relentlessness. His playing was brave and well executed considering that the shadow of Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis was on many minds in the house—most of all Haliburton's: "I was first and foremost a Dead Moon fan," he told me later that evening.

But as Toody led "Shades" with a sped-up bass line that could have been ripped from a Miles Davis record and, later, sang softly over the marching beat in "Clouds," it became apparent that Pierced Arrows is its own band. Near the end of the set, the band did give fans one Dead Moon song, though: The trio played a fierce rendition of "Over the Edge," a track that Dead Moon hadn't performed in a decade. The crowd inhaled together and then went wild, collectively realizing that Haliburton, the new songs, the mild experimentation—everything—was great.

And the band was equally relieved: "They were listening," Fred said afterward, "really trying to pick up on what we were doing." It was an intense experience that the Coles—and their longtime fans—hadn't shared in a long time.

er poison idea? i mean yay but what?

I just discovered Fred and Toody's previous bands on myspaz. If anyone's interested:
- The Rats
- The Range Rats
And their current band:
- the Pierced Arrows
No songs have been posted yet for the Pierced Arrows, but you can hear their previous bands on their respective pages.

The first Pierced Arrows single has come out and you can check 'em out and buy it here...

good work springo.

Thanks, cranks!

touring aust late dec/early jan.

should be tops.

i have a live set they did on the radio if you want me to upload it..

dates?

this could be HUGE!!!

touring Australia??

yee ha!

I was listening to Nervous Sooner Changes yesterday, great LP

Their website says 'jan. 2/16 Australia-New Zealand'.

Woo F*cken Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!

jan. 03 Ding Dong Lounge Melb
jan. 04 Jive Adelaide
jan. 05 Karova Lounge Ballarat
jan. 06 The National Hotel Geelong
jan. 07 3pbs radio show
jan. 08 The Tote Melb
jan. 10 Annandale Hotel Syd

You'll kick yourself forever if you miss these.

jan. 03 Ding Dong Lounge Melb

jan. 04 Jive Adelaide

jan. 05 Karova Lounge Ballarat

jan. 06 The National Hotel Geelong

jan. 07 3pbs radio show

jan. 08 The Tote Melb

jan. 10 Annandale Hotel Syd

Bloody formatting

There's a Pierced Arrows live to air on the International Demo Gate Drive site for free download.

Heaps of songs...

www.dgdinternational.blogspot.com

i take that dinner invitation back sorry richie, i didn't notice the cricket comment.
i'll be trying to stay awake.

HAHA!

does that mean bakelite age at... 7.30? 7.45?

fuck this. i'm going home.

see you tonight kids.

The Tote website seems to be selectively stating when doors open.

i'm going.

good show!

yeah, it was good. excellent encore. :D

It's a pleasure watching people who know rock'n'roll like the back of their hand.

Better than those who think it lives on the top of their shoes so they have to gaze at it all night.

what a lovely night.

god i love toody. she's the biggest sweetheart in the world.

live set on pbs up in a minute...

just started...

Annandale show was great. They played Mr Soul waaaaaay better than the boring Buffalo Springfield version. And the encore was 54/40 or Fight and Evil Eye

ah, evil eye! didn't get evil eye in melbourne. tote encore was it's okay, 54/40, dead moon night...

oops, it weren't evil eye at all, it was dead moon night.

Just got my hands on a recording of the rats from 1980 (downloaded)

its great!

Very much enjoying this band at the moment.

New single on Fred and Toody's label

Mississippi records has reissued the first three dead moon records on vinyl.