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Lakes and Tigers and Stina, Oh My!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

I feel like I ought to open with some kind of salutation, given that this is our first post, but hellos seem so unimportant next to the fact that we have a couple of zip-zoop-zabulous shows coming up in Perth, one of which is attached to a very special release. So I'll get business out of the way, then commence with the g'days. Since that last sentence accidentally rhymed with itself, feel free to do as I am currently doing and mentally repeat it in the same rhythm as Jay Z's verse from Crazy in Love, in a voice roughly like Jay Z's.

First up, on November 19, 21 and 22 we are helping visionary underground promoter Alex Glazov present her latest Knackers event, a WA tour of Melbourne and Sydney noise-ish bands.Why noise-ish? Well, the main act, Lakes (a.k.a. Sean Bailey), who is playing all the dates, is a one-man tempest of layered sound and folky strums, while his tour mates Circle Pit and Wasted Truth respectively play mouldy basement rock and sludgy womp womp punk, and it's hard to collect all those styles under one banner. "Noise-ish" vagues it up just enough to apply to anything delightfully harsh and messy, so I think it'll do.

Nov 19 @ The Moon Cafe "Going Solo"
Lakes (VIC)
Chris Cobilis
Brutal Snake
Free entry! From 8pm.

Nov 21st Friday @ Mojo's Freo
Lakes (VIC)
Circle Pit (NSW)
Wasted Truth (VIC)
Mental Powers
Whalehammer
$10, from 8pm

Nov 22nd Sat @ 208 House Maylands
Lakes (VIC)
Circle Pit (NSW)
Astral Travel
Cease
The Penetrating Stairs
$6 entry, from 6pm

There are so many asides I could include about this show. Like, if you don't know how cosy Astral Travel and 208 are, then the 22nd show will provide much needed education; Baily also plays in Wasted Truth, as well something like six other bands; Angela Bermuda of Circle Pit also plays in Kiosk, the shambles-rock band that introduced the girl who would become CatCall to Australia; and the Moon Cafe show is a good opportunity to drink a cocktail shaker with some sistas and get sideways to a brutally ambient soundtrack. I could probably go on (Chris Cobilis in solo mode is one of the best things you can see in Perth) but I won't, because these blog things are meant to be about three snappy sentences in length, not however much I've already done, and I've still got something else wicked to talk about: the release of Love is My Velocity's fifth split 7 inch single!

This time we're pairing up two of our long-time faves, the Tigers (featuring the aforementioned Chris Cobilis) and Stina. I'm suffering buzz-word fatigue after trying to invent non-lame genre names for the previous shows, but here goes: the Tigers walk a tightrope between intellect and whimsy reeeeeeally well, smacking together indie guitar, a jazzy rhythm section and smart/hilarious lyrics. You'll get the idea, probably, from the title of their contribution to the split: Now That I'm Old Whatever Will I Do With My Whimsical Hardcore Tattoos. Stina is less showy - her side consists of two tiny tracks, Apple of Mine and Only Two, that make up a sweet five minute suite of laptop crunch and piano twoot.

The launch busts a nut on November 29, the weekend after the Lakes shows, at the Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, with supports from Li'l Leonie Lionheart & Rabbit Island and Mystic Eyes. Entry is $10 from 8pm. All this bolding makes me feel like I'm writing the society pages. Have you seen official dreamboat and presidential candidate Barack Obama's cool new rainy day look? Hope those boot cut jeans are Roc-A-Wear! What a dreamboat.

Okay, now I can do the salutations. Hi everyone. Welcome to the Love is My Velocity blog. Let's blog the shit out of each other.