This weeks Australian Music is Fucking Weird email came through yesterday. They seemed to have dropped the Abo renaming of place names. Good job!! This may be because the featured act this week are a fairly old band called the Cosmic Psychos. They were around in the 80’s and it looks like they are still going. I did a show with them with my band “Go Wild In French” in Melbourne somewhere.
They were on before us and after they had finished, one of them burst into the small dressing room we were in and violently kicked the wall. One of the “Go Wild” singers was pregnant at the the time and didn’t really appreciate it at all. Their publicity blurb says, “Since first emerging in Victoria’s punk scene in the mid-80s, the internationally revered Cosmic Psychos have been instigators of the maelstrom that shaped the sound of Australian rock.
Yes, a man can be pregnant
From the surge of 90’s guitar bands to today’s vanguard of underground chaos.” I did not know they were internationally revered, but who am I to argue? Good luck to them. The Psychos are about to embark on a regional tour and have a new album out called “I Really Like Beer”.
They have made a music video for this song, but I’m not going to post it here. The lyrics are literally “I like beer, I really like beer” for 3 minutes and 36 seconds, which is the entire song. I don’t get it at all. This isn’t satire, it’s just fucking stupid in my opinion. They’ll probably hate me for saying that, but what’s the point? That is the fucking point. Be as annoying as you can. It worked!
Bleak Squad – don’t look at the camera!
Another other band that were mentioned this week (there were several) were some serious old insects who go by the name of Bleak Squad. They describe themselves in their bio as “a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty. Featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque) Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on Bleak Squad’s brooding, noir-rock debut LP, Strange Love.” True Art Rock Royalty eh? Is there Art Rock Royalty that isn’t true?
I watched one of their videos and it did in fact, sound like “spur of the moment jam sessions” as described in their bio, but not in good way. Let’s face it, I’m never gonna like anything much, and I bear them no ill will at all. At least they’re still out there doing stuff. Even the Psychos with their endless I Like Beer. I tried listening to some of that album, but it’s not my kind of thing. It’s yobbo pub punk rock, and I’m sure there’s a big audience for it. I’d lose the beer gut, but I think it’s too late now, it’s a feature not a bug.
What has Palestine got to do with this?…….never mind
On Monday Rick and Jon were all gung ho about playing again today, but so far I have heard nothing. When I picked Rick up on Monday night he looked like a hobo standing on a street corner. His clothes emanated strongly of fried chicken, like he had been spent the entire day sitting in a cheaper version of a KFC, poor guy. Anyway he’s back drumming again. Jon was having trouble remembering some of the songs. I get it. They’re my songs, why should he remember them? I have trouble remembering them myself.
Colonel Sanders
Yesterday afternoon I spent a couple of hours with my new found friend, who also happens to be a Rick. This guy has just retired from driving trucks for the film and TV industry. As it turned out he had worked on that stupid Four Seasons show that I was talking about last week. He would have been working on this new series, but they took to long to get it going, so he just quit for good.
The Four Seasons (not those ones)
The new Rick has built a brand new recording studio in his basement. It’s quite impressive, but it is yet to be fully wired up. He can write some good songs and sing them too. Rick seems a little bit of a neat freak, (a complete opposite of the other Rick) so he’d probably have a seizure if he came over to the Fortress. I guess we might find out one day, but I’m not going to rush it.
The Deaflympics are coming. Guy on the right of the screen struck mute as it were
I’m not talking about the news of the day today. We all need a break from the bullshit for sure.
Thats all for now.
Good Day
Another group from yesterday’s pile – Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers…..they aren’t kidding about the jeans