As someone who didn't know Sean personally, I feel a bit weird about going to the Toff thing, though it would be nice to show some support for the buddies and family he leaves behind.

as i think Ben mentioned in the other thread, props to Portraits of Hugo Perez also. I always dug that band.

As someone who didn't know Sean personally, I feel a bit weird about going to the Toff thing, though it would be nice to show some support for the buddies and family he leaves behind.

Same.

nigel asked us to post the details of the tribute on M+N, so it's not exclusive to family and friends.

I've had the same thought, black wasp

Sean was someone i met, like most of us have done, through the Melbourne music scene. i first saw POHP at the north melbourne town hall probably in 2000, with Limit of Shunt, another great and highly underrated long defunct band. I remember his humorous, at times violent approach towards playing live - Portraits usually detested sound engineers and opted instead to play without the use of the club's PA. to me this added to their intensity, both Sean and Nigel would sing / shout and still be heard over the music. one of HTRK's earliest shows was at the much loved Good Morning Captain! - a place any band at any given time over a weekend could play. i heard their drum machine / instrumental bass noise from the front room and ventured on in to check out what the now defunct POHP members were up to sonically. this is was before Jon had joined the band, and they turned into what their recorded material is more representative of. It always interested me how they were a group of musicians who didn't really have a scene, they played whatever shows came their way, for better or worse. And i respected them for it. I particularly enjoyed one night at Pony, during an early phase of HTRK's laptop / guitar / bass / effected vocals sets, whereby a mixer tried to tell the band that there must be a plug in over the mix that he could not control, and was sounding undesirable. Sean yells at him ''Your a Plug In!'' i always get a smile out of that one to this day. I don't think POHP recorded material ever saw a release, which is ashame. i recall Sean telling me once that it was because they had recorded for a 7'' and their songs were too long, getting cut off by the needle a good 30 seconds or so before the song was done. Both personally and musically, sending my respects.

Sean yells at him ''Your a Plug In!''

i'll never forget that either. was so funny!

He explored pleasure and pain with an intensity so rare.

i was going to make a completely tasteless hutchence/carradine joke here, but decided against it :)

Good for you!

Anyone know what time this is happening?

8pm

Sean yells at him ''Your a Plug In!''

i would never have remembered this had you not bought it up, but now i do