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  • buzzocock adlNick Spaulding photo

    Everyone, it seems, has seen The Buzzcocks. Usually many times. Why?

    The old songs always bring a smile or a rueful thrash as we contemplate our ghastly mistakes in love, and our splattergun rage at … the way things are. Dammit.

  • huxton creepers notch 40

    Beloved Melbourne band The Huxton Creepers have announced a vinyl re-issue of their debut album, “12 Days To Paris”, ahead of national tour dates. Cheersquad Records & Tapes will issue the LP on June 5 to mark its 40th anniversary and pre-orders are open here.

    The Huxton Creepers were one of Australia's most popular and hardest working guitar bands of the '80s, emerging as a teenaged version of both Sunnyboys and Hoodoo Gurus with a bit of Chris Bailey Saints thrown in for good measure.

  • johnnys toteLiz Pommer photo

    The Johnnys
    The Tote
    Friday 14 October 2022

    There’s some audio of The Johnnys live at Le Tote sometime in 1983, couple of years after the Doherty family had decided to host bands in the band room of The Ivanhoe Hotel in an attempt to address the pub’s precarious financial future.

    The set is good ol’ sloppy cowpunk fun, replete with lyrical signposts to The Johnnys’ inebriated schitck and irreverent celebration of country music. “You know why we’re having fun?’, guitarist-singer Roddy Radalj calls out rhetorically. “Because we’re drunk!”