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What do you get when you mix middle-aged Adelaide writer, I-94 Bar scribe and self-described vocalist with Smallpox Confidential, Robert Brokenmouth, with veteran City of Churches synth exponent Shaun C Duncan? They call it Ambient Horror Goth Industrial Punk Drone Synth Machinery Slagheap, and it goes under the name Molly Fet Circuit.

Molly Fet Circuit has never been sighted outside of Adelaide but has been well exposed on the city’s leading community radio station, 5AA. We’ve been treated to a taste of the Molly Fet Circuit oeuvre and songs like “Mustid”, “Liquid” and “Could Not” are starkly industrial, antagonistic and intriguing (in a Suicide sort of way.)

Molly Fet Circuit is coming to Sydney this month, for shows at Lazy Thinking in Dulwich Hill (Novermber 28) and MoshPit (November 29).  Ticket links at the end.

Now this Brokenmouth bloke is a Bar regular, often being swept out long after post-closing staff drinks, We’ve seen lots of him so we chased down his partner in decibels, Shaun C Duncan, for an interview - and he graciously accepted.

Legendary New York punk rock forefather, label head and manager, Marty Thau, has passed away, sources close to the ex-New York Dolls manager say. He was aged 75.

Wayward Serenades - Long Hours (Spooky Records)

The cover features a topless Julian Medoron his back on what looks like a garage floor covered in oil, eating his necklace, mic in hand and eyes shut. Shades of Darby Crash, and Iggy Pop.

Which are pretty good introductory comparisons, though Long Hours don't sound much like Iggy (well, alright, maybe “A Ghost To You”), but perhaps a bit like The Germs. But that's where comparisons pretty much end. 

Mutator - Alan Vega (Sacred Bones Records)

"Mutator" is Alan Vega's 12th solo album and also his first posthumous record of (apparently) several more to come on Sacred Bones Records.  Vega also released nine collaborative LPs in his lifetime, Suicide a total of five studio and five stand-alone live albums (not including a rather incredible box set). Not a bad innings at all. 

The I-94 Bar’s Bob Short once observed that most people don't get into much music past their 20s, and I agree; and Suicide are a classic example. Of the people who fell head over heels for this outfit when they first heard their first LP (I still remember where and when I heard it, and also when and where I heard a UK bootleg of the Clash support gigs) most seem to rave only about that first LP, but seem unaware of the second, or even the ROIR tape, or any of the band's later LPs.

Of Vega himself, only a handful seem aware of the extraordinary impact his first two (now unavailable) LPs had on the underground, and the overground impact his third, "Saturn Strip" had, particularly in Europe.