PAST EVENT
Friday6 March 2009
Shihad, The Mint Chicks. Afratone
at AUT Hikuwai Plaza, AUT City Campus, E Wellesley Street, CBD
From Wikipedia: " Shihad is an alternative rock band with elements of industrial rock, from Wellington, New Zealand. Formed in 1988 by vocalist Jon Toogood and drummer Tom Larkin, who were still in school at the time. In 1999 the band relocated to Melbourne, Australia, where all four members currently reside. The band has produced three #1 studio albums and four top 10 singles in their home country of New Zealand."
From an interview with Jon Toogood: "We were in America while it invaded Iraq and had to play at festivals that were supposedly `support the troops festivals' when we didn't believe in the war at all. That's what the song All the Young Fascists is about-—the day we played Miami in front of 30,000 kids at this festival that was originally just a rock festival. A week out, just because of the timing, it was turned into the support the troops show and it was being simulcast live to Iraq. We were on this bill with these really ugly--what we call WWF--metal bands, and we were shitting ourselves.
I just wanted to get out of there. Beside the stage was a paintball gun alley where kids were lining up to shoot effigies of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and (then French president) Jacques Chirac. That was the weirdest one. The amount of times I actually pointed out to Americans the fact that their Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French and they were supposed to be mates..."
Ed Note: Bravo, sir. Good on you. That shit is fucked up.
Discography:
Churn (Wildside Records, 1993)
Killjoy (Wildside, 1995)
Shihad (Wildside, 1996)
The General Electric (WEA, 1999)
Pacifier (WEA, 2002)
Pacifier: Live (WEA, 2003)
Love Is The New Hate (WEA, 2005)
Beautiful Machine (Warner, 2007)
About The Mint Chicks (from Wikipedia): "Forming in 2001, the Mint Chicks began by playing punk house parties and low profile shows before being discovered by acclaimed New Zealand independent record label Flying Nun Records. Described by the NME as 'the only band in the southern hemisphere', they have released two EPs and two albums under the Flying Nun Records banner: Octagon, Octagon Octagon (2003), Anti-Tiger (2004), Fuck The Golden Youth (2005) and the award-winning Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! (2006)."
Now based in Portland, Oregon.
About Afratone: An Auckland-based alt-rock three-piece, formed in 2007.
Band members:
Sam Comery - bass, backing vocals
Konrad Kurta - guitar, vocals
James Porteous - drums
From an interview with Jon Toogood: "We were in America while it invaded Iraq and had to play at festivals that were supposedly `support the troops festivals' when we didn't believe in the war at all. That's what the song All the Young Fascists is about-—the day we played Miami in front of 30,000 kids at this festival that was originally just a rock festival. A week out, just because of the timing, it was turned into the support the troops show and it was being simulcast live to Iraq. We were on this bill with these really ugly--what we call WWF--metal bands, and we were shitting ourselves.
I just wanted to get out of there. Beside the stage was a paintball gun alley where kids were lining up to shoot effigies of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and (then French president) Jacques Chirac. That was the weirdest one. The amount of times I actually pointed out to Americans the fact that their Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French and they were supposed to be mates..."
Ed Note: Bravo, sir. Good on you. That shit is fucked up.
Discography:
Churn (Wildside Records, 1993)
Killjoy (Wildside, 1995)
Shihad (Wildside, 1996)
The General Electric (WEA, 1999)
Pacifier (WEA, 2002)
Pacifier: Live (WEA, 2003)
Love Is The New Hate (WEA, 2005)
Beautiful Machine (Warner, 2007)
About The Mint Chicks (from Wikipedia): "Forming in 2001, the Mint Chicks began by playing punk house parties and low profile shows before being discovered by acclaimed New Zealand independent record label Flying Nun Records. Described by the NME as 'the only band in the southern hemisphere', they have released two EPs and two albums under the Flying Nun Records banner: Octagon, Octagon Octagon (2003), Anti-Tiger (2004), Fuck The Golden Youth (2005) and the award-winning Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! (2006)."
Now based in Portland, Oregon.
About Afratone: An Auckland-based alt-rock three-piece, formed in 2007.
Band members:
Sam Comery - bass, backing vocals
Konrad Kurta - guitar, vocals
James Porteous - drums
