Ninth Life: Mudhoney's Steve Turner brings the fuzz back down under

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You lucky Eastern Australian Coast gits. This October, Mudhoney return to Australia for their ninth tour. But they ain't playing Adelaide (or Perth.)  Bastards.

Right, well, I figure that you know who Mudhoney are and they shouldn't need the likes of me to introduce them yet again.

It's interview time afor the band's guitarist Steve Turner and I am not interested in asking about "Sea**le" and "gru*ge" as I'm sure everyone's heard all about it by now. The band must be bored to death by answering the same questions over and over. 

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Johnnys prepping "Rarehide" release with VIC shows

Cowpunk trailblazers The Johnnys - formed out of the original Hoodoo Gurus line-up and famously fronted in the '80s by the late Spencer P Jones - are releasing a new compilation “Rarehide: Out Takes, B-Sides And Rarities”.

Before they do that, however, the band has a run of Victorian shows, with national dates to follow.

While the full details are sketchy for now, “Rarehide” includes versions of two songs written for them by Paul Kelly (the classic single "Bleeding Heart" and the band's never-before heard version of "White Train").

There's also an early version of their near hit "Injun Joe" and killer versions of rare tracks "Rebel Yell" and "Pray To John Wayne", loomking as a single on October 2.

The Johnnys - who are Graham "Hoody" Hood on bass and vocals and drummer Billy Pommer Jr and  guitarist Paul "Slim" Doherty - are heading to Geelong, Balnarring and Melbourne.

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Revivied Panadolls are aiming for some Dirty Hits

 _{The reformed Panadolls (from left) Big Al Creed, Ash Thomson, Ken Archbold, Matt Bannerman and Phil Van Rooyen,  at Link and Pin in Woy Woy.}

For the second half of the 1990s, Dangerous Rock and Roll had an address on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and used the pseudonym The Panadolls.

Deriving their name from a prescription painkiller, The Panadolls were troublemakers in a crowded Sydney scene that had not yet been battered into submission by poker machines, over-regulated venues and changing tastes.  They ran with like-minded peers ,the Celibate Rifles, Hellmen, Powder Monkeys, Asteroid B612 and Brother Brick, and pushed a brand of Detroit-tinged high-energy rock that was equal parts Dolls blues squawl and a Stooges-like attack, all channeled through an Oz Rock filter.

Any band with the guitar attack of Big Al Creed (ex-Dr Fruitworld, later to join the New Christs) and bassist-cum-frontman Ken Archbold (ex-Hellmen) had a distinct advantage. The Panadolls did not sit long in any genre and burned brightly for only five years. Their sole album, “From The Glitter To The Gutter”, and “From The Valley Of The Panadolls” EP went out of print soon after.

And now they’re back. Sorta. Latter-day drummer Ashley Thomson (ex-Kelpies, Roll Cage) has issued both digitally here, supplemented by an outtakes/rarities release called “Dirty Hits”. The Panadolls also reformed for two “don’t blink or you’ll miss them” shows in July, both outside hometown Sydney.

It all sounded like an excuse to corner Kenny Archbold and pose some hard questions. The Barman did the honours.

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Peter Ross and The Sapphire unveil "Somebody To Love"

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Bringing Bad News to Sydney

Thirty-two years after their last vinyl single on US label Sympathy For The Record Industry, Pismo Beach’s Undefeated Intercontinental Tag Team Rock and Roll Champions, Psychotic Turnbucles, are releasing a new 45.

“Bad News Travels Fast” b/w “Infected (With You)” is out on our own I-94 Bar Records on September 5 and will be launched in the band’s second home, Sydney, at Marrickville Bowling Club this Saturday.

A curious Robert Brokenmouth was so floored by this news that he decided to interrogate the Turnbuckles via email. Here’s the result of his exchange with Jesse The Intruder (vocals), The Grand Wizard (guitar), Count Forza (guitar), The Infliktor (bass) and Buddy “Bam Bam” Balam The Brooklyn Bruiser (drums).

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Ex-Radio Birdman guitarist Chris Masuak returns to Australia on unfinished business

A year after a freak emergency eye incident in his adopted home of Spain led to the cancelation of an Australian tour, Chris Klondike Masuak is back for selected dates up and down the East Coast. Tickets for all shows go on sale at 0800 (AEST) on August 28.

“The Shiny Side Tour” takes in three states and the ACT in a run that the former Radio Birdman, Hitmen, New Christs, and Screaming Tribesmen guitarist says is “both unfinished business and an obligation”.

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Fuzz, Farfisa and full-throttle rock ’n’ roll: The Darts target Australia

 _{Nicole Laurenne communes with her people. Stephane Perraux photo.}

US all-girl band The Darts have spent the last decade turning garage rock, Farfisa organ and relentless touring into one long, gloriously chaotic adventure - from festival stages and basement dives to boats, caves and a Scottish prison chapel.

Ahead of their first Australian tour in September, Angela Evol caught up with singer, songwriter and Farfisa-wrangler Nicole Laurenne to talk their album "Halloween Love Songs", The Damned, Sydney,"Peaky Blinders" and what happens if you stand at the back with your arms folded.

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A Streetwalkin' Cheetah and a City Kid walk into a bar...

Dirt and Dust - Anti-Fashion (Very Fried Artists/Noize In The Attic Records) 
Hello, I-94 Barflies. It’s been a while between drinks, but have I got one helluva album to tell yah all about.

"Dirt & Dust" is the second album by Anti-Fashion, the project established by UK rocker JJ Watt and Los Angeles-based punk journeyman Frank Meyer. The news is that it rocks.

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New Hard Fun: Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman are returning with a new Lipstick Killers album

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You could have knocked down most fans of Australian ‘70s underground music with a feather in July when Lipstick Killers co-founders, guitarist Mark Taylor and singer Peter Tillman, stepped out of the shadows and released a rock opera.

To say the least, “The Shining Stone” - presaged by “The Lipstick Killers present” in the title - was a departure from the expected. Not glitter punk. Not acid punk, not garage rock. Instead, it was a massive sounding, full-blown orchestrated concept album, with full-blooded Three Tenor-style vocals and squalls of shiny, metallic guitars. All on CD and gorgeously packed with two glossy booklets of illustrtated narrative. 

If you haven’t read our review we’ll put a spoiler out there right now: A.I. was heavily and uashamedly utilised in the making of “The Shining Stone”. Way to go to polarise opinions in these charged times. But there's lots more to discuss  

Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman have a YouTube channel, The Bad Kynd, where they have been publishing images and garage punk songs - and a near-finished new Lipstick Killers album is in the wings.

The Barman invited The Lipstick Killers into the Bar and here’s the virtual e-mail exchange.

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