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the cold parade

  • velvet parade liveRipley Hood fronts Velvet Parade.

    Velvet Parade
    The Cold Field
    Electric Badger
    The Metro, Adelaide
    Saturday, May 3, 2025

    In his recent review of “Adjustment Disorder”, The Institutionalist’s new album, the reviewer states: "Post-punk is a stupid term. It’s even dumber than Punk. But everybody can get their head around it, right?"

    Well, the algos on the various streaming/attention services certainly require such absurd categorisation to flourish. Partly because you know, a fuckin' robot is a fuckin' robot, with no concept of reality - because the terms of reality are defined by humans, and robots can't think, much less define shit. Can you imagine a robot, all on its own, suggesting that a ferry be called “Boaty McBoatface”. for example?

    You should be able to walk into a pub with a bunch of bands playing, like I did last night to see Electric Badger, The Cold Field,and the Velvet Parade, and, instead of identifying what genre each band was, to simply get down and enjoy the music, the performers, and the quite varied expanse of what is, essentially, forms of rock 'n' roll.