With the number of pub venues continuing to dwindle, it is often Australia’s underground, fringe and niche artists that find themselves on the wrong end of the budget axe. In these times the importance of DIY / independent performance spaces freed from excessive overheads are becoming increasingly important to maintain the extremely diverse, experimental music scenes Australia boasts so strongly.
Black Wire Records are quite simply, one of the only record stores across this sparse nation of ours that still actively supports Australia’s burgeoning underground music scene. For the last 12 months this Annandale-based store has put on at least three in-store gigs every single week, giving a space for Sydney indie, DIY, punk, crust, grind, noise, rock, metal and hardcore bands to perform.
Sunday March 20 – Black Wire Records
Michael Crafter
Battle Pope
Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt
Sweet Teeth
McLovin
Come March 20, Black Wire Records will be hosting an all-ages in-store showcase of some of Sydney’s fastest and most dissonant underground groups – all for a mere $5. The evenings headliners are Dee Why’s positive powerviolence duo Michael Crafter, who provide an extremely unique blast of grinding punk rock mixed with a bizarrely entertaining, almost naïve sense of humour.
Meanwhile Battle Pope aggressively wield their pious brand of hyper-sexualised all-swinging, all-blasting mix of sludge/grind like a Paladin would wield his blessed sword. Then, Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt offer up short bursts of jazz-influenced dissonant intensity bringing to mind Calculating Infinity-era Dillinger Escape Plan with touches of Converge and The Locust.
The afternoon opens up with obnoxious powerpop trio Sweet Teeth and young thrashing punkers McLovin. It all kicks off at 3pm on March 20. BYOB. All ages.
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111659722242915