Sunday 22 September 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the seminal ‘Equinox’ gig at Dunedin’s luminary bat-corridor The Empire Tavern, pseudo-Transylvanian Castle (at the time) of the infamous Maureen, an actual vampire who was to become the Axemen’s gothic nemesis for a spell. And spell she could, she could cast a spell as evil as any […]
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Axemen vs Big Brother(s) – round one
In a stunning David and Goliath legal challenge backdown, the Axemen came out with pea-shooters and slingshots blazing to bring the heavy handed but hamfisted WARNER BROTHERS franchise to its knees after its bullying challenge to the bands right to post their own material online. The bizarre set of events began when Warner Bros, with […]
Continue readingThe Cordons — (no relation)
Reprinted from http://www.facebook.com/notes/mickle-borrado/text-for-the-cc-blog/10150208252973803 13/06/2011 By Mick Elborado I thought smacking was illegal, but there I was standing between the dusty records and sheet music I’d started packing away, now handcuffed, and the hyped-up young cop, name, as always, unknown was saying ‘Just give me one ****** reason to smack you’ — the hand cuffs were […]
Continue readingElborados Fury – Drive In Saturday
Mick at Grand Opening of Inland Revenue’s new 24 hr drive thru in Chch Show Your Support… join MICK ELBORADO IS INNOCENT now! On Saturday August 16, 2009, Axemen Taxman, grunty bass player and disgruntled employee Mick Elborado decided he had had enough and wasn’t going to take it any more after years of abuse […]
Continue readingThe Spiderwebs in Beijing (you are not a hero until you have visited the great wall)
Steve McCabe and his brother, Jeff decide to take on the worlds greatest superpower, Beijing, China, beginning with Peking Duck at one of china’s finest roadhouses.
Continue readingThe truth about the Skeptics’ A.F.F.C.O video
(The truth about the Skeptics’ A.F.F.C.O video reprinted with kind permission of Stephen Judd from his juicy SPLEEN blog) (September 12, 2003 ~ Stuart Page writes): Hey Stephen I read with interest your rave about meat — the dancing spring lambs, the eviscerator (Wow), and the Skeptics A.F.F.C.O. video. [youtube=http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=XIzLsARZrhg] Your story was not quite […]
Continue readingTHE WORD IS OUT etc.
THE AXEMEN IN DUNEDIN 2-3 MARCH 1984 SUMMARY The Axemen performed three times in the weekend, writhing, inciting and typically incredulous they made no new friends and many shady enemies, their calloused hands bleeding and cutting and scarred from the tortuous anachronisms that are is their Wall of sound, their particular(ly) seedy breeding ground, a […]
Continue readingWho gives a damn for this damn fool? no way for JK
Now is the hour to resurrect CRASS from the dead – i have seen the future and its not from Dial House – we need you out here in the colonies people.. lots of free land and slaves out here…. posted by: Cacti Bevel Tie Smelt
Continue readingNo Xmas 4 John Key
It feels like NZ has regressed back to 1981 over night… a time when everyone was either on methadone, or boiling poppies. The summer now feels like winter. Back then Rob Muldoon partied with the South African Springboks behind lines of baton-wielding riot cops. Before that even, 1979, Mark E. Smith recorded this snarling ode […]
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