By Steve McCabe We arrived in Newtown after a 10 hr drive from Auckland through the scenic wasteland that is Godzone North, Maui’s Fish, Te Ika O Maui. At the Adelaide a live rugby match (Blues vs ‘Canes – ‘Canes shredded the Blues 45-27) was on the big screen at the opposite end of the […]
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Review: Big Cheap Motel ‘09 from STILL SINGLE
Reprinted from: http://still-single.tumblr.com/post/89271183/axemen-big-cheap-motel-lp-siltbreeze March 24, 2009 Axemen – Big Cheap Motel LP (Siltbreeze) “…a surplus of defiant attitude…” “…opening up the world…” “…this is the sort of action that more artists should fight for…” First of three reissues by this forgotten New Zealand punk trio out on Siltbreeze this year, opening up the world […]
Continue readingReview: Big Cheap Motel ’09 from Satan Rulez
Reprinted from: http://satanrulez.blogspot.com/2009/03/zap.html “…Built around a thick guitar line that is distorted until it becomes a fluid conveyer belt of sound… ” “…hermetic tribes… ” “… The Pornographic Milk Drink contains rotating metal spoke on a ferris wheel guitar… ” “…Pleasantly skewed junkyard Buddy Holly rhythm lines played atop walls of distorted uber-rock riffs that contain the weight and […]
Continue readingReview: Big Cheap Motel ’09, Alternative Music Talk
Reprinted from: Alternative Music Talk The Axemen: A NZ Protest It’s understandable that Australia and New Zealand have a contentious relationship. I used to live in Cleveland, don’t anymore, but still cringe whenever I see a Stealers logo anywhere. The fact, though, that the Aussies recently claimed that New Zealanders are hermits, or some such, […]
Continue readingGig Report – The Ambassador, Pt Chevalier, Auckland, March 20 2009
March 20, 2009 Axemen, Hairdos, Smokin Daggers at the Ambassador Following the flames of resurgence in punk music in Auckland being fanned by the wind from beneath the wings and between the buttocks of the recent phenomenally successful and oversubscribed AK87 gigs, Dogs Bollix new years eve gig, North Shore kids parties and others, punk […]
Continue readingReview: Big Cheap Motel ’09, Volcanic Tongue
Reprinted from: Volcanic Tongue TIP OF THE TONGUE 08 MARCH 2009 “…free jazz skronk…radical prole violence…” “…punk primitive avant garde smarts…” Axemen Big Cheap Motel Siltbreeze LP £13.99 Fantastic vinyl issue of what was originally a cassette from a group that were an anomaly even within the relatively eclectic environs of the original Flying Nun […]
Continue readingTimes New Viking ♥ the Velvets with Psychedelic Horseshit
(reprinted from the website of Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio – home of Times New Viking) 9PM Sat 14 Feb ’09 For our closing party for the exhibition Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms—and to celebrate Valentine’s Day—local breakout band Times New Viking play their own versions of the eternally lovable tunes of the Velvet […]
Continue readingDespatches from Dr Chad’s gig in Wellington 23.01.09
Thanks to our wandering AV recordist Norbert Haley, we have a 33 minute set of Eugene in full swing at the Happy Bar in Wellington last week (23/01/09), and a few snaps too. Dr Chad live at Happy Bar Wellington (32MB mp3) Check out 2 tracks from ‘Election’ [2008]: Eugene Chadbourne – Your USA My Face […]
Continue readingGig Report – Eugene Chadbourne support gig, the Whammy Bar, Auckland, 29 Jan 2009
Photo: Axemen International On 29 Jan 2009, the Axemen fulfilled one of their lifelong dreams, meeting and playing as humble support to legendary musicologist, Shockabilly geezer, generally dexterous solo artist and fellow mayhem cohort Dr Eugene Chadbourne. The Axemen played a short sharp set as a 3 piece, the first time in 16 years Stu Kawowski, Bob Brannigan […]
Continue readingVosburgh on AXEMEN
At the recent MONSTER GIG at Christchurch’s glamorous crumbling Media Club, Bill Vosburgh handed Kawowski a single A4 sheet with a few paragraphs written on it all in capitals, relating to his earliest recollections of THE AXEMEN days in Christchurch (1983-1987). Luckily he stuck around and performed an incendiary blues rock set that night, as […]
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