Thursday, 16 July 2015

Rackets Found Dead - Walking the Skeleton


Stream the Album above and start Living!!!

Well I'll be damned those kinky King's of old skool Slacker rockyroad fame Rackets drop a sick new album "Walking the Skeleton" straight from the top of the Dirt Pile. The musical range on this record could be likened to a Valentines buffet meal its vast, unhygienic and yet you really want to eat it all in a facken instant!! nutty professor style. Hysterical Nietzschean madness aside oh yes on a more proper and eloquent British note, quaint, the audio work from the Auckland rockers took many moons to construct including a few blue moons were we all know what happens. Like some bollocks new state funded National motorway to John Key's Ponytail caressing paradise the is over! but are we there yet? I'm not gonna lie this album is an emotional roller-coaster with all the highs and lows of a refreshingly painful joke that the past NZ election was, but what do Kiwi's finnd so inherently magnetizing about the colour blue?

From a personal down to earth tip of the Fedora my fav track that really is a heart to heart tear jerker is "Swan Song" with a flaming performance of god knows who from the band playing some Spanish castanet's which sounds as if their life depended on it or perhaps their rent! to the classic boistorious rock fuelled antics of "Barracuda" offering in my dark mind a high-class Remeura lady on the hunt like a paranoid piranha that at the same time offers up the greatest lyrical highlight of the record from my view;

"I taught my brother and sister both Karate"

We then do a drunken backward U-turn without indication into an atomic musical swerve that sees us together wading waste deep into the seas of the Mediterranean Hawaiian shirt unbottoned pinacalada in one hand our best mate Jez being swept off into the surf never to be seen again withourselves just caught in the moment laughing at the beauty of the world while languishing in the melody laden obnoxiously phat snare young cash money sound of "Fools Gold" with what i might add is a really stand out vocal performance on the record from none other than the All Black's themselves leading their tone-deaf fans into a Rocking haka

But wait a second Rackets comes charging out of Rugby Union changing room ready to rock out in the middle of the field they storm the stage playing fasce shattering powerslides from the new record the Super bowl at halftime is eclipsed by the almost NZmericans going wild Katy Perry faints in a self-induced Diva moment overwhelmed by her bosom and for a moment the world is in a complete of Buddhist like harmony as a car crashes into the stadium filled with an Isis militia trying to stop the musical Rugby broadcast in all its footy glory they are hacked down one head at a time by the Sonic power of Rackets unbudging nationalism backed up by the thunder thighs of Jonah Lomu propelled by a healthy morning meal of South Auckland ghost chips.

In all sobriety what a colossal stonker of an Album Rackets you have all earnt a well deserved outstanding F+ for your services to derail the brainwashed public of New Zealand your knighthoods are already in the mail with a lifetimes supply of scorched almonds :) :) :)


David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights - "End Times Undone" - The Jangly Happy RockNRoll Dunedin Sound

I found myself recently flicking through the latest Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader "Have as Much as You Want" Volume 6 the super ice cold Winter edition and found myself studying the new David Kilgour and The Heavy 8's awesome trippy album cover for "End Times Done". Wow who does that hand belong to God, is the fire symbolic of a happy camp fire or mans ultimate destruction, does that phallic object belong to someone haha.

Jokes aside I read the article on Cleaner brother in arms Hamish Kilgours new music making and cutting old school vinyls for an American and low and behold I decided to check out some of the oldschool flying nun stuff on Youtube, the filthy old 16mm clips are great, they are so pre-youtube youtube class great tunes Kiwi history totally!

Anyway I was surfing around in the Google owned music quagmire and rolled across all the great classic songs from the Clean and the Verlaines, gush Dunedin sound those good old Dunedin sound days so innocent just enjoying being alive in the post war baby booming times (bad math give or take some decades. Well I got listening to the new album by Kilgour and Eights and give it a thumbs up nice one kick ass punch in the balls. It's got chills, its got spills, RockNRoll with such a lack of ego in the music you just end up floating round in the cold Blue Auckland Winter night sky.

 

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Theoradical Hobohemians - Mercury Theatre 2015 Official Trailer



Like the Big Bang the Theoradical Hobohemians 2015 "OBLIVION" exploded into existence with mind boggling dimensions!!! We are very proud to present this show at Auckland City's stunning Edwardian Theatre. We have Poets doing what Poets do best..Ranting about LOVE!!! We got our Vaudevillian Spectacle on with our special guest Hobohemian, violin virtuoso Murray van Horn...a wonderful addition to the troupe!! More than a show...a way of life!!!

Friday, 26 June 2015

Here are some Drawings I did for Holy Grail Vintage Clothes


Here are some drawings I did for 
 Holy Grail Vintage Clothes

Drake Dropping some Philosophical Gems Courtesy of Sprite and The Fader



Drake's main points - just keep moving forward don't worry about your wins or losses just keep raking them up regardless - quantity over quality produces quality

"Keep things moving"

Be proud and represent your City don't listen to anyone tell you about rainbows and the easy street
that doesn't exist in another country or city

Remember to mix things up and always push the envelop people want an artist not just a rapper,
very true as I see artists who think about videos, artwork, sounds, songs, vibes, and variation on
the same old stuff

Haters are just showing you love their invested in you - they are the confused ones

Sometimes your Dad has a good idea and you should listen to them

Story telling is everything and staying true to your own unique tales

If you got the Music thats all you need nothing else, 'Flip your way of thinking'

DRAKE



Monday, 22 June 2015

Theoradical Hobohemian's Oblivion Show @The Mercury Theatre Trailer 2015



Like the Big Bang the Theoradical Hobohemians 2015 "OBLIVION" show exploded into existence with mind boggling dimensions!!! We are very proud to present this show at Auckland city's stunning Edwardian Mercury Theatre. Poets doing what Poets do best..Ranting about LOVE! Our Vaudevillian Spectacle kicks off with Astors Piazzolla's classical masterpiece "Oblivion" performed by violin virtuoso Murray Van Horn. Jammed packed with music, poetry & laughs Theoradical Hobohemians is more than a show...it's a way of life! Full length performances from the show will be on Youtube very soon, please refer to our FB page for details
https://www.facebook.com/theoradicalhobohemians 

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Rock Art - I Found Online

Here is a selection of cool art pieces I found online drawn and inked overseas.
I really like the original style of the drawings. In my opinion originality in art
is the best thing possible. Hope you like them :) I do!!