White Cop
Smack Based
4 Track, EP (2010, Negative Guestlist)
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If you thought the music of Brisbane's Slug Guts or Kitchen's Floors was harsh wait for the head kicking that is White Cop. Claiming to be the city's “only punk band” they are unashamedly loud, obnoxious and not very good. They play a punk rock that is relentless in its quest to annoy, irritate and piss off. But that's the point. They are not looking to become your Facebook friends or get an invite to your housemate’s art exhibition opening. In Melbourne a band like this would be embraced. In Brisbane they are thrown into the river.
Featuring Kitchens Floor's Matt Kennedy and Brendon Annesley from Negative Guestlist magazine, White Cop’s debut cassette is a tough listen and, like the drugs they took when they recorded this, it doesn't last very long, but will fuck you up nonetheless.
Opener 'Gambling Banshee' with its line, “At the dogs on the gear”, is a song about getting monged at the dishlickers. 'Pure Shit'/‘Stoked (On Downers)’ is partly about the irrelevance of Nick Cave and X reunions and partly about getting monged. 'Blood Shirt', with its blatant rip of the guitar line from GG Allin's Die When You Die, is about getting period blood on a shirt.
Are you seeing a pattern here?
by Tim Scott
Pfff.. wake me up when Draft Dodger do something.
send some of these down to vox cyclops kthnx
rad.
white cop repel patrons!
again, rad.
Their myspace songs sound like pretty decent primitive meat-head punk rawk. They take ''stupid'' band photos like Slug Guts though, so I'm not sure I can endorse this band... I dunno, what do they put in the water up Brisbane way? Whatever it is, it makes weedy indie boys think they're shit-kicking bogans.
I'm not sure about that. Melbourne didn't buy Clockcleaner.
I enjoyed this review and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't benefit from ever hearing this music.
Clever Facebook linking, jose.
Music video for Gambling Banshee
That was so fucked.
If you watch the video linked above then the singer kicks the ground HEAPS!!! and I bet it was a bit dirty.
I liked it, but there's a bit of ''awww, bless 'em!'' element to that reaction I think.
Melbourne'll embrace 'em. Tell em to come down and we'll take 'em to Victoria street and hook up a taste. Their music sounds like it needs MORE Fleetwood Mac
I actually quite enjoy White Cop musically, but why do so many bands from Brisbane feel it necessary to point out that no-one likes them, especially when they're obviously playing to a room full of people who do like them.
Must be a QLD 'everyone else is a bogan' thing. I mean, admittedly you probably feel like you're gonna get bashed when you're trudging around the valley with your gear after the gig. Maybe that's why Brisbane's music is often so 'extreme' and 'full on' - a preemptive effort to scare off the boofheads.
Either that or they're just fucking bogans!
I just watched the video. Kinda funny how the singer is kind of tipping/kicking stuff over. Film clips are funny; such artificial scenarios. Imagine if your band decided to set up and play (to no audience) in the middle of a derelict vacant lot with a lot of trash around, then the singer started tipping/kicking things over while you were playing (with a fag hanging out of your mouth) and then in between bits, you stood around a car and posed in a group to noone in particular. Just saying. Funny setup.
Being ''hated and proud'' is a tedious Australian punk rock tradition that's not just confined to Brisbane. See also- Rupture, AVO and so many others that have fearlessly messed with our delicate hipster sensibilities over the years,
Must be hard to be liked when your crowd cheers for you and you scream 'Fuck you all!' in response!
can't believe the camera guy followed the bassist into the loo. cutting edge!
i like the title ''stoked (on downers)'', though.
album should be called WE DO DRUGS AND THAT, don't be coy!
but then i think the expendables should be called TOUGH MEN ARE TOUGH
Well, I guess they've achieved their aim in that we're talking about them. But somehow I feel there's a huge gap between a band like this, which is adopting a pose, and bands from way back when, like Grong Grong and Lubricated Goat, where you could tell that they couldn't possibly be (or play) any different.
If you're gonna cite GG Allin as an influence, there better be some real shit flying.
i reckon that grong grong and the goat were both pretty funny though, their music could pulverise heads but the presentation/lyrical content often didn't take itself that seriously - neither would ever have made that video for instance - and if they didn't have a sense of humour they both would have been second-rate bands
(unless the white cop video is a masterpiece of hanging-faux-tough satire, in which case i acknowledge that i'm unable to read the cultural nuances of the young'uns and should just stick to live at pompeii)
100% INTERNET BUZZ BAND
I agree completely, __v. The whole Black Eye / Aberrant scene had a wicked sense of humour. Wicked and fucked up. But maybe I'm just old and jaded...
scumwave?
I wonder what Block would reckon...
watching those two videos posted here, i would say they are being intentionally funny. it's probably most funny to those who are involved though. i mean, it's not very funny
i like the standing in the sink photo
Yeah, but it's not a patch on the way Stu Spasm used to stand in a sink, man. I mean, when that guy stood in a sink, it stayed stood in. The kids nowadays have no idea.
The Fighting Amish were tougher and sexier.
I agree though that Brisbane has a long history of this attitude.
But it also has Gutterball Pete.
So yeah, its a fucked place all round.
I haven't bothered listening to it. Which may tell you something.
RUPTURE are untouchable.
fuck AVO.
i dig WHITE COP.
it's pretty decent shitpunk though, however a minute or two too long.
the Fightin' Amish were a shit spectacular
I heard White Cop are giving up drugs and moving to Melbourne to focus on their music?
...Introducing White Cop!
so much talk about a band who don't exist.
good music but.
good.
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sweet!
Their myspace songs sound like pretty decent primitive meat-head punk rawk. They take ''stupid'' band photos like Slug Guts though, so I'm not sure I can endorse this band... I dunno, what do they put in the water up Brisbane way? Whatever it is, it makes weedy indie boys think they're shit-kicking bogans.
I think this image is presented with a fair whack of irony, mayte
they call it Bundy Rum....
they were when they were playing the swedish blurcore (''righteous fuck'', ''corrupture'', etc), but that later kbd-style stuff was pretty ordinary.
there's no-one in australia remotely like gutterball pete.
Can you explain Gutterbal Pete to non-Brisbanites please?
it's not really possible. you just have to stand back and watch.
Imagine there is this dude, he lives on your stoop, and jerks off onto the steps all day, every day. Over the years his cum becomes slightly more putrid and what was at first an annoyance then becomes intolerable, but you can't move this cunt on as everyone else on the street likes to lick up his cum and discuss the nature of it's shitiness. Then one day you come out and this pile of spasm jizz has turned into a stargate and the only place it takes you is the
Railway Hotel for Tuesday night battle of the bands... for eternity...
Gutterball Pete = Mattpheonixxx?
guess people have more chance of hearing lubegoat and grong grong this century, realizing how much fun it all is
Does that sentence make sense?
swedish blurcore?
Swedish blurcore would be a way of classifying all the awesome early 80's Swedish bands that played fast raw hardcore punk e.g. Bombanfall, Headcleaners, Dtal, Shitlickers, Mob 47 ets...
Rupture covered Huvudtvatt/Headcleaners on Righteous Fuck
Recent Terminal Boredom review of White Cop's 'Smack Based' Cassette:
Recorded live-and-direct demo from these Aussie fucks. Where this Brendon kid found time to be in a band inbetween writing issues of Negative Guest List, I have no idea. There's like two issues every month for fuckssake. Four tracks, barely competent, 100% punk rock. ''Gambling Banshee'' stumbles into a Gories-meets-Unholy Swill swirl, and tries real hard to keep it together. Primitive and loose like stool. He yells ''Let's Rock!'' and they just bang away for two minutes. ''Blood Shirt'' is a fucking mess. Out of tune guitar player might not even know how to play a chord, the drummer just bangs on the things with little regard for actual rhythm. There's supposedly a bass player too. ''Pure Shit/Stoked (On Downers)'' is a real fucking sore thumb. Cacophonous. That Icky Boyfriends feature in NGL makes a lot of sense now. They keep making the racket long enough to just about make it unbearable. ''W.E.A.P.'' is as close to a real song as we're gonna get here, slathered in cowbell and bored hate. Guitar solos are directly influenced by Snuky Tate's ''Can You Dance To It'', but played at half speed and half drunk apparently. Death march hoarseness. Barely listenable yet attention grabbing. Accidental art punk. The start of something good? Or have they already broken up? (RK)