Eddie Spaghetti and Co are back for more Pussy - with Nine Pound Hammer along for the ride

_{Supersuckers. Supplied photo.}

The Supersuckers and Nashvile Pussy are returning to Australia under the banner “Superpussy” in February 2027 - this time with Nine Pound Hammer in tow. Supersuckers and Nashville will alternately headline and the tour reprises their sold-out Oz run of two years ago. Tickets are on sale here.

Eddie Spaghetti and his pals in The Supersuckers should need no introduction to Australian audiences after repeated visits.  The band has churning out their brand of rocking cowpunk since 1988.

Nashiville Pussy are familiar as well: Raised on a diet of Marshall stacks, Gibson guitars, Jack Daniels and weed, Nashville Pussy is the bastard offspring of foul-mouthed, demented, hillbilly, ice-cream man Blaine Cartwright and tractor driving, nude art school model and guitar prodigy, Ruyter Suys.

Read more …

• supersuckers
• nashville pussy
• australian tour
• superpussy 2
• nine pound hammer

Sunnyboys mark 45 with box set, one-off gig

_{Sunnyboys 2026 in rehearsal for their one-off show. Supplied photo.}

Forty-five years since the release of their classic eponymous debut album, Sunnyboys are releasing a 4-LP box set and playing a celebratory reunion show in Brisbane.

To be released via Warner Music Australia, the  box set brings together the original Sunnyboys album together with the band's iconic 1980 Phantom Records debut EP and - for the first time on vinyl - the 17-track pre-album demo session and a live performance recorded at Sydney venue. The Governors Pleasure, in February 1981.

The Sunnyboys' one-off performance at Brisbane’s Roma Street Parkland on Friday October 23 will head a massive bill that includes The Clouds, vSpy vSpy and local legend Mick Medew (ex Screaming Tribesmen) fronting The Mick Medew and Ursula 4.  

The sharp-eyed will notice from the photo above that Paul Larsen (Celibate Rifles, New Christs, The Aints!) is replacing the retired Bil Bilson on drums for Sunnyboys.  Pre-sale tickets are here.

Read more …

• sunnyboys
• box set
• the clouds
• mick medew
• roma parkland
• vspy vspy

Sawdust Memories are made of this: A Joeys Coop track-by-track with Mark Roxburgh

Album Number Three. Who’da thunk it? OK, Joeys Coop have been chugging along for 14 years and maybe should have a few more under our belt but it’s not like there is massive demand for shows or recorded output from a bunch of 50 - 60-year-olds that aren’t a heritage act but do have a bit of history.

Recorded at the wonderful Golden Retriever Studios (in Sydney's Marrickville) owned by the eccentric, talented and delightful Simon Berckelman. Simon is the brains behind Philadelphia Grand Jury and his dad, Richard, was the drummer in Kiss My Poodles Donkey and he built the studio. There is a lot of great gear there and the big room is the space you can hear around the drums.

Our pre-production on this was typical of how we work. Given funds are always tight, we work as hard as we can in rehearsal to nail arrangements, parts etc. Because of that, and because the boys also practice all  their parts at home, we tend to be a one or two take band. I track vocals when we do the bed tracks.

Read more …

• joeys coop
• brett myers
• mark roxburgh
• lloyd gyi
• marc lynch
• sawdust memories

Asteroids have fallen just right

Fallen Slow b/w St Louis – Asteroid B612 (Golden Robot)

There was a swaggering majesty to Asteroid B612 at their best and this single by the current Australian-Spanish configuration goes a long way towards recapturing it. Singer Grant “Bullett” McIver gets a decent shake in the mix these days, and the guitars of John Spittles and Xabi Garre crackle and spark off each other.

Hanging feedback announces “Fallen Slow”, a mid-tempo McIver-Spittles co-write that emphatically trudges its way into your consciousness. Another slice of sustained guitar hangs in the air before a middle eight and there’s some more six-string interplay to take us out.  The B side is a killer take on the Vanda and Young classic that revels in one of McIver’s best vocals ever. handclaps and layers of guitar. The band nails that change just right and we’re off to the races.

Stream it, grab it digitally at Johnny’s Bandcamp where you can also grab the vinyl. Redeye in Sydney also has physical copies if you're in  Australia.

• asteroid b612
• golden robot
• fallen snow
• easybeats
• st louis

Album Number Three hits the mark for Joeys Coop

Sawdust Memories – Joeys Coop (self released)

Comes a time when bands of a certain vintage struggle to pull big numbers of people regardless of their pedigree. Sydney-via-the-Far-North-Coast quartet Joeys Coop are a prime example when they dive back into the patchy live music circuit. 

You’d think a musical unit comprising guitarist Brett Myers (The End, Died Pretty), Mark Roxburgh (ME-262, The Decline of The Reptiles) on vocals, bassist Mark Lynch (Glide) and Lloyd Gyi (more bands and sessions than you can poke a drum stick at) would pack punters in like canned pilchards, but the demographic has shifted. Distractions and complications abound today and, yes, those were different times.

Read more …

• died pretty
• joeys coop
• brett myers
• mark roxburgh
• decline of the reptiles
• lloyd gyi
• marc lynch
• sawdust memories

Conversation with a sick man

 _{Kim Salmon. Photo by The Barman.}

It's taken a long to get to this, folks, but I love Smoked Salmon's new LP “Totally Sick!!”. So much squeal and skronk, in measured and carefully ladled doses. Utterly captivating. Such a damn groovy LP.

Apart from anything else, the production on these songs is right up there; noisy but clear and with brutally separated layers. It sounds fucking fantastic.

But first, some context.

The other day I noticed that “The Horses” guy, Daryl Brackawacker, is finally calling it quits.  No surprises there for many people, I suppose, but I thought he'd died 20 years ago. And Russell Morris, called it quits last year. I thought Kate Ceberano, Angry Anderson, John Farnham and (more rock 'n' rolly) Ratcat had hung up their boots. Oh, god, make it fucking stop before I blurt out even more names of appalling retirees or retirees on their last tours like Ordinary as Anything. TISM. fucking Pseudo Echo. 

Read more …

• kim salmon
• the scientists
• smoked salmon
• kim salmon and the surrealists
• totally sick!!

Masuak returns to touring with Two Headed Dog assault on Europe

Former Radio Birdman guitarist Chris Masuak will end a long break from touring as part of a fiery two-band Australian assault on Europe this summer.

Named in honour of Roky Erickson, “The Two Headed Dog Tour” pairs Chris Masuak’s Dog Soldier with high energy Aussie garage rockers The Crisps for shows in Poland, Germany and France in July and August.

The tour will be Masuak’s first since emergency eye surgery cancelled an Australian tour by Dog Soldier in 2025. The band will return to Australia in October. The players involved will need no introduction to European audiences. 

Read more …

• european tour
• the crisps
• chris masuak's dog solider
• 2026
• two headed dog

The Strike-Outs load the bases with electricity

Double Negative – The Strike Outs (Evil Tone Records/Farmer and The Owl)

If you’ve seen Sydney duo The Strike-Outs in the flesh, you’ll know they do not fuck around. The way they open their second album, “Double Negative”, is proof positive.

“Johnny” is a Chuck Berry-inspired instrumental (one of two on the album) that steamrollers out of the speakers, driven by Adam Vines’ industrial-strength backbeat and brother Simon’s squawling, Thunders-without-the-slop, guitar attack.

It goes for the throat and does not let up – and that’s the story of the album in a nutshell. The band sneers and soars through another 10 songs (including a killer cover of “Motherfucking Motherfucker” by Bored!) that launch, one after each other, like Exocet missiles.

Read more …

• evil tone records
• the strike-outs
• double negative

Hard-Ons sing the hits in Ray's mother tongue

Sweating on the release of the new Stones record "Foreign Tongues"? Hard-Ons stole a march on them today with a foreign tongue effort of their own, releasing a mini-album with bassist Ray Ahn singing in Korean.

“Korean Language Mini Album” (hey, what else would you call it?) features versions of early Hard-Ons classics “Where Did She come From?”, “Raining”, “Just Being With You” and “Suck and Swallow”.

In other words:

그녀는 어디에서 왔을까?
비가 내리고 있어
너와 함께 있는 것만으로도
빨고 삼키고

The A side incorporates the songs, while the B side features artwork by Ray etched into the vinyl. It will be available in four variants - the colours of the Korean flag - blue, red, white and black. You can order a copy here.

Read more …

• hard-ons
• jerry a
• poison idea
• korean language mini album