Drunk Elk - Seneca's Last Breath / Dark Blue Almost Black

Two videos of great Drunk Elk songs - Seneca's Last Breath from their newly released 7" and Dark Blue Almost Black from their 2010 album on CD.

Seneca's Last Breath (studio version here) is the A-side to a self-titled 7" released by Quemada Records this month. The 7" sounds much better than last year's Pieces Of People We Have Known CD, which I gave a bit of a gutting for its sound quality in a review. It's pretty damn close to live Drunk Elk, which is a great thing. The B-side, I Want To Be Your Pet replaces an Elk staple, the bass guitar, with a basic toy keyboard, offsetting the melancholic nature of the song. It's good. 

Splash Mountain / St. Bernard / Mess O' Reds / Manchester Mourning live footage @ Brisbane Hotel

This is some live footage of an all ages show at The Brisbane Hotel on the 27th April 2011. The show featured the debut performances of Splash Mountain and St. Bernard, plus sets from Mess O' Reds and Manchester Mourning. Huge thanks to Sam Upton who filmed these sets.

Splash Mountain

St. Bernard

Mess O' Reds

Nerves / Treehouse @ The Grand Poobah, 14th May 2011

Videos of Nerves and Treehouse from last night, who played at The Grand Poobah with Naked and myblackson. I didn't manage to get any video of Naked or myblackson this time, but I know somebody else in the audience with a better video camera did, so some more might surface later.

This was Nerves' debut show. I didn't film their best song but this is still pretty representative of their style. Guitar-driven punk with group vocals.

Treehouse are a pretty popular young band, but until now there has only been one decent video of them performing live available online. So I took two videos. The above video is a song they've been playing around for a few months with a cool-ass bass part, pretty wicked. The below video is a new song, without vocals (for now?).

Que - Sunglare

Que - Sunglare by Noise, Etc.

They don't exist any more. Back in 2009, my pre-18 year old self was pretty bummed when Que decided to part ways. The members of Que have gone on to feature in some pretty fantastic stuff since (Drunk Elk, The Breeze, Wendy In The Mountains, The Love In), but there is still a little more to the Que story that has until now been left unheard.

New Hobart DIY label Wormwood Grasshopper have released their first CD-R, a two song single/EP/thing from Que. These tracks were recorded back in November 2008 at the Fern Tree Community Hall, a recording session for their planned second album. A second Que album doesn't exist.

Sunglare is a melodic shoegaze piece that swells for nearly eight minutes before coming to a halt. Just listen to it. The CD-R is backed with Simple Fun, a 16-minute jam similar in composition to the band's Community compilation inclusion.

Sunglare/Simple Fun is available from Tommygun Records in Hobart for $5.