summertime.

The mini.

Chilling outttt.

woodpushers united.

because one little pebble is all it can take..

Cohen (spoken word album coming soon) Grant.

Can also be seen in first base now..

Melissa

I finally got  some new 35mm shots developed, and I’m really happy with these ones. Take a pretty face and shoot it in black and white and it’s hard to fail I suppose. Uploading more photos from the last few months tonight or tomorrow..

There’s no cure for the “Dreamer’s Disease”

When we’re not busy playing the PS3 at Aesthetics we occasionally jam out some songs. Photo’s taken by Alex, check out his blog too.

hanging out is what we do best

26th Jan 2010. Gus and Tim had just finished building a mini ramp in their backyard and this was the official day to break it in. BBQ, beers, playlists and games of SKATE all afternoon. No TV, no bogans or aussie flags, no terrible patriotic tattoos, just good fun and a day to forget about the hell that is your 9 to 5, the daily grind so to speak. Get it? grind? (terrible dad jokes/skate puns in the 2010. I’m getting old.)

Newton Parade.

Crew.

Axl Foley.

F/S rocks.

Steeze Perry.

Pretending to be cool.

Cohen flexing to impress Vance.

Brads leg.

Gin.

It was also Rys birthday. Happy birthday man if you read this..

BBQ.

Vance, Emma and Tara.

Check the singlet tan..

Tom & Charles.

Timmys first time on a skateboard..

..he went down gracefully

..and suffered the punishment.

Just thinkin’ bout the things I wish I could give up and the things that won’t let me go

A couple of photos I never got around to uploading from the last month or two. Adeliade/Aquarium with Mel/New years eve.

Vera

For once I wasn’t taking photos all weekend so thanks to Steph for these ones. Vera blew my mind, their new shit is incredible. The Pony show had a great turnout too. For once I felt like my band played a tight set, well almost.

For onc
e I wasn’t taking photos all weekend so thanks to Steph for these ones.

And it’s sometimes like it will never end

Been a while since I updated this. Feels like all I do these days is work and sleep. My 10 year old laptop is constantly crashing and trying to scan and edit any film has been a joke. I lose motivation real easy I suppose. I remember when I was about 14, me and my friends would wake up at 6am on weekends, catch the bus for three hours in to the city and skate all day, then catch the bus three hours back out to the sticks. All that effort just to skate. Nowdays unless I’m getting a lift from my doorstep to a skate spot I don’t bother. Take this example and apply it to everything you do, and you got yourself one lazy fuck.
I’ll get around to updating this soon though, I have loads of film to develop from the past few months. Some from the NSW trip and some from when the band went to Adelaide recently. Tyson played his last show with us about 2 months ago at the Espy, and now we have a new drummer. I had only met Tom when he came over for practice. He jammed with us twice before the Adelaide trip and managed to nail all the drum parts real well, considering the short time in which he’d been given to learn everything. He did vocals in The Farewell, likes AN as much as I do, and his first show in Melbourne with us,  as well as our first show for 2010 is tomorrow night at Pony. Vera are driving down as I write this, so psyched we’re able to play a show with them again. The girl I’ve been spending a lot of my time with will be there tomorrow night and for some reason the thought of her being there is making me really, very nervous.

Movember

I have never tried to grow a mustache but raising money for the movember foundation seemed like a good excuse to give it a try…

23 years and this is all I’ve got.

We have a week left with this shit living on our upper lips, feel free to donate to myself or Timmy, or anyone participating for that matter, and raise funds and awareness for mens prostate cancer and depression.

Gold Kids house show.

15th November marked our last day at Athol Street. We had already moved from the house and emptied it out, and left nothing but a PA inside and the BBQ on the front porch, but this was the last time we’d be able to hang out with our friends in the house we’d lived in for nearly three years.

Tim had offered up our house when the Gold Kids All Ages venue fell through, and with such perfect timing we could double it as a house leaving party. At least a ‘goodbye BBQ’ was a more fitting excuse to have 50 kids in our front yard when the landlords showed up right before the bands started. They bought it though.. (I better say here that Timmy did the talking and I was inside when someone told me the landlords showed up, i’m not trying pretend I’m not a pussy.)

here’s a handful of photos taken by me, Vance, Tim and maybe others..

18 athol.

stoop party.

BBQ.

creeps.

was our loungeroom.

It’s an all ages show right?

Flour violence. The best vegan cupcakes!

Uncle tims guitar: one. Timmys head: zero.

getting nu metal up in here.

Alexis.

Collapsed

Unconcious (members of Ghost Town)

Gold Kids.

Gold Kids we’re fucking amazing, and also some of the most positive dudes I’ve ever met. They were so grateful for us just to give them some food and a room to play to some kids in.  If anyone came along that reads this, thank you for helping to make it an awesome day.
“It was my turn to write e-n-d in stone and throw it off a bridge.”

Seaby house show

Last Friday night at Seaby house. Ty didn’t come to play drums but the guys from To The North were  keen on us playing so Simon learnt our songs by listening to our demo a couple of times and he then filled in 10 minutes later; What a ruler!!

Simon nailed it by listening to the demo some more between songs.

Vance and Brad were down ! Ham came down too. I love Ham!

This photo features Mr. DNA

To The North. Stacey took this photo.  Holy shit at Hams face!

The Zuccon brothers!

That fucken guy.

Andy got drunk and sold the shirt off his back to Ham for five dollars.

Tutto Lasciato A Meta’

La Quiete show at El Joyero 08/11/09. Last time these guys came out I was stuck outside a crowded shopfront trying to watch them through the window, two years later and I’m seeing one of my favourite bands three times in a weekend and was able to play this show with them.

Venue.

I tied my hair back for this shit?

La Quiete have a rad blog.

and also some of the nicest lyrics I’ve come across.

being unable to say goodbye
leads to the loss of vital body parts
such as arms or ears
sometimes i’d like to be faraway
as if there were places where
my mind is not reached
by fears of knowing too much
or nothing at all.
- Raid Aereo Sul Paese Delle Farfalle (Air Raid In The Land Of Butterfly)

newvember

After nearly three years, this month it was time to say goodbye to Athol Street, and hello to Davies Street.

Nat is moving in.

I was this young once upon a time.

newhousenewlife.

There’s no cure for the Island disease

We finally played the arthouse this weekend, so much fun, although I remember feeling like I’d drunk a few too many beers to be playing.

This weekend is La Quiete, then two more shows in the space of a week:

Cute much!

House show at home the weekend after next. I hadn’t actually checked out Gold Kids before the tour was announced but now I can’t stop listening to them, then Tim somehow hooked up the Melbourne All Ages show to be at our house (how weird is the internet sometimes?) ..This is also going to be the last Athol street show/party as we moved on the weekend, however we’ll have an empty house for this show on the day, come hang out!

Soysages & Tofurkey

For the month of November I’m going to participate in the 30 day Vegan challenge. This will actually be a pretty big deal for me, never in my life have I even attempted to stick to a diet of any kind, let alone one that prohibits me from eating any meat or dairy. Basically a vegan friend told me about this a little while ago; she had emailed info on it to her friends and family in hope they’d give it a go, and I pretty much signed up straight away to educate myself on something I hadn’t really considered in the past.

Along with the email was a link to the Earthlings Documentary. Yeah I’m sure a lot of you have heard about this before because it seems to be the first thing that’s dropped whenever anyone mentions veganism, but actually taking the time to watch it will definitely make you rethink the way you live your life, and I’m not just referring to dietary choices either.

Now I know my whole being vegan for as little as a month isn’t going to change the world, but I’m doing this as a challenge for myself, and to better understand the way some of my close friends and thousands of other people choose to live their lives.

 

Wish me luck.

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Sign up yourself.

other things I’ve come across;

Ed Templeton on Veganism.

Film Photography.

Jesus Can’t Skate…

This is slowly becoming a blog about my band, but hey I couldn’t resist posting the new shirt design we just recieved.. Artwork based on Cohens ideas and drawn up by no other than Rohan of Extortion. We should have the shirts available as of November.

Skeleton pulling off a christ air, Jesus is stoked!

“good solid walls, good solid floors”

NSW trip; the weekend that has been…

Athol Street, 3am Saturday.

Van hangs, toy guns, piss boners, warm beer.

Sunrise.

Funny on the bus in primary school, funny now.

Wodonga 6.30am

Merch bitch, farting enthusiast, nudist extraordinaire; Ryan Jones.

Tofu Tysons …tiny ..titties..?

Hi mum.

From the floor.

and from above.

Wollongong jam room show.

50 degree sweatbox.

Played like shit.

The show was a whole lot of fun despite the heat and then the smell after a couple of bands had played. Check out Endless Heights, young dudes doing great things.

8am, stayed at Kaytes house (thankyou!) in Sydney. I don’t have any photos from the BBQ after the jam room show but thanks Brooke for your hospitality!

Sunday.

….

The Venue, Huskisson house.

Setting up.

yewwwwwwwww.

Life aint nothing but bitches and money.

Rafter Mic.

This show was fucking fantastic. Small crowd which is what you’d expect on a sunday in the middle of nowhere, but everyone had a rad time. I Exist were great even though they played as a three piece, Break A Leg do Kids Like Us covers and Vera is my new favourite band, even more so now that I know they’re all super nice guys. So thankful to Vance for organising a show like this and paying for the generator out of his own pocket, also psyched that a few dudes helped us out by buying demos and t shirts.

The trip home would be another story altogether, instead of backtracking an hour or two to get back on the Hume Highway, we decided to take the Princes Highway down the coast, without thinking that A) It takes a whole lot fucking longer and B) there is pretty much no service stations open after 8pm the whole way; so we ended up driving through empty town after town when eventually the petrol light came on, and after another 20 minutes we found there was no other option but to stop and make some calls to see if there was anything open that we could drive to. As it turns out, we were hours away from the next service station that was open, and the only RACV guy that could get to us  would be able to give us just enough petrol to get to the next town which didn’t have anything open either. In the end we slept in the van outside a servo in a town called Cann River, until 6am when it opened and we could continue driving again. Fuck I wish the camera/video camera hadn’t died by this time, I can assure you some funny shit went down, and some awful stuff too, like Rys compulsive farting that, i kid you not, smells like a wet dog in compost.   2pm Monday we got home, some of us between 3 and 7 hours late for work, but of course laughing at the situation already.

Weekends like this I will never forget. I can’t really find the words but, basically this little band of ours, for me, feels like an excuse to spend more time with my friends and go on adventures and just have fun and not fucking let go of being a kid and not grow up. I love you guys.

NSW this weekend..

A saturday show has been organized in Wollongong, thanks Vance! I hope there’s somewhere to skate in this town..

We’re also going to have T shirts for these shows, thanks to Joel Birch as well as this dude.

See you all after the weekend, with a mega photoblog.

Happy birthday to me…

In a month, Yeah Right is going to play one of the support shows with La Quiete, one of my favourite bands ever. So incredibly happy about this.

“Coffee machine will be on the go, we’ll have a whole bunch of beers on ice for real cheap (we’re not going to stop you BYOing, but it’d be rad if you’d buy some beers from El Joyero to keep them in business), we’ll fire up the BBQ out the back and cook some vegan snags and depending on weather / the number of people at the show we’ll get the bands to play in the courtyard out back.”

I <3 SKATEBOARDING

Yesterday it felt like Melbourne was getting closer to summer (today would tell you that’s just bullshit.) Beers and boards, daylight savings is back!! Random snaps from the last month from camera & phone:

I don’t care what set of wheels I steal to get there.

In a couple of weeks my band is driving up to Huskisson, NSW for one show in an abandoned house. We’ll hopefully have another show confirmed for the same weekend, but we’re psyched just to go for this one alone; get out of Melbourne, have some fun and meet new people, and see some bands that (I think) are playing the raddest shit coming out of NSW at the moment. Suss Earthlings, I Exist, Vera & Fixtures. (not sure if the others have myspace pages or what the links are.)

No idea why we’re on the top of that flier but.. cool.

Paradise eh?

When La Dispute played there a couple of months ago.