Local Brisbane Music extravaganza

Every few weeks I harp on about this, but goddamn Brisbane has some of the best local music around. So much good stuff is happening lately that I just have to share it with you all.

Snitch

I stole this picture from Jess. Sorry, but it was the only one I could find of the month's poster. I'm normally not a fan of any Destroy All Lines clubs. They have good bands ocassionally, but the crowd of scenesters isn't my favourite at all. They just kind of annoy me. But this month I'm going to have to make an exception with so much good music coming up at Snitch, their Thursday nightclub.

This Thursday, the 3rd of November, old Brisbane punk rockers The Gifthorse will be playing an acoustic set, while two of my favourite (and not to mention great) bands Fires of Waco and Quiet Steps will be playing full sets.

Then come 24th of November, my friend's band Castles Sunk Below the Sea will be playing their post-rock/emo stylings alongside Jud Campbell (former singer of the Disables doing acoustic), Fires of Waco and Perth's hardcore giants Break Even. It is two great Thursday night gigs of great Brisbane bands. Get on it.

Quiet Steps
Speaking of Quiet Steps, they will be playing the last ever show at Sun Distortion Studios. Come New Years Eve, they will be playing a show with Nuclear Summer as well as the awesome Italian screamo band Raein.  I may have squee-ed out loud when I heard of this show.

Lofly records
Also on this Thursday night (but at the Zoo) the local record lable Lofly will be putting on a showcase of their local acts. Included on this will be Mr. Maps (who's new music video you can see me in) and Re:Enactment.  It's $10 for great indie and post-rock.

Fat Louies Saturday night, in pictures (Downpour/Nuclear Summer/Castles Sunk Below The Sea)

Here I am, sitting around listening to some new music and playing with some photos. So I thought, hey, why not share the ones from the weekend's gig with you. It was a free gig at Fat Louies and half the crowd was made up out of people from other bands in Brisbane. I think Clus and I were the only ones not in a band.

One of the guys there was recording it all, so hopefully we'll get a nice EP or something come out of this gig soon.

I'd write a review, but being Fat Louies... well... I was a bit more than tipsy. Which may also explain the quality of some of these.

Downpour
These guys came down from Rockhampton for it.


Joel... you have something in your eye? Or just concentrating hard?

Nuclear Summer


I've seen these guys a lot recently, and I am constantly enchanted by this guitarist. He gets some great sounds from just hitting the guitar a lot. And some good finger tapping too.



Castles Sunk Below the Sea



Jake gave me the finger a lot while playing.

Of the 20 odd pictures I took of Zach, this may be the only one where he had a different facial expression.

This was normal for him. Good posture though Zach.



As always, there's lots more gig photos on my Flickr.