the quick and the dead

another violent night 7".

this is a bit of a perth classic as far as i'm concerned. totally catchy songs with a real nasty sound to it. the vocalists pronounciation is rad, in a bizarre way (naa-thing for yooo-ah)

this one is from 81 and was put out by the band, and is pretty hard to get (and expensive when you do find it) nowadays.

the bassist went on to recieve the dubious honour of joining skrewdriver. not sure of the political opinions of the rest of QATD, and the songs don't really focus on politics.

you can download it here

there is also a youtube put up by stumblefuck from rupture of some old TV footage of the quick and the dead from the early 80s. you can see it here

trees

heres a family tree i found in a zine that was given to me, it has a few others based more on the mid 70's through till mid 80's victims type punk scene. i'll scan them and put up at a later date.

this one focuses more on the rougher, more hardcore and metal side of punk in the 80's through til about 91 i think. its very well drawn up though i'm not sure where it was orignally published (looks like a professional magazine job)

i have a few bits and pieces from bands mentioned on this that i'll upload (pestilence, black sheep, insurrection, threshold of pain, controlled by fear & storm of perversion) but if anyone out there has anything else by anyone on this, please get in contact!

the stayawakes

a very shortlived band, never played a show. existed in early 2002 for a few months and came about after the demise of Dead hand (the band had the ingenious working title of "dead hand 2" before deciding on their title) and featuring all members bar pete lynch. i think these are all the songs they wrote, and were recorded on 4track at a rehearsal. i found the tape buried in a drawer, ripped it onto my computer and cleaned it up, so it sounds pretty sweet, a little sloppy, and the misfits cover is lacking vocals in the verse but otherwise top notch sound for a 4track recording.

the band imploded as they thought it wasn't really happening, saying it felt forced. they dropped the band and rhys joined james in AIDS (all in deep shit) replacing kim who had recently left due to lacking the time to play in multiple bands as he was also in negative reply.
i'd also like to point out that insane squealing sound is james vinci (drums). he used to emit the said ear piercing sound whenever he got excited, and i think it really adds something to this recording.

the band sound like fast 80's US hardcore, with a lot of blazing rock-riffery chucked into the mix. reminds me of 9 shocks terror. actually i think one of the riffs is lifted from them haha

download it here

perth is a culture shock

thought i'd start this blog as an excuse to put up the masses of old perth punk and hardcore i've been hunting down and hording, a lot i've been sending through to the perthmusic blog but i've found a lot of what i've got is really raw noisy 4 track or live stuff and pretty sloppy, which is fine as far as i'm concerned (cos i'm punk as shit) and i figure its better off all going up at the same place. i'll still keep putting the more quality stuff up at perthmusic blog (as well as here).

i must mention, if you're in any of the bands i upload and for some god-awful reason want your shit taken down, just let me know.