Contact: pete@missinglink.net.au or Pete Hyde C/o Missing Link Records 262 Flinders Lane Melbourne 3000 Victoria, Australia

 
Well, Well... I bet you thought I was dead!! but no I wasn't ... It has been pretty busy as usual and it is hard to find time to update... but here it is .....

It's been pretty hectic in Melbourne over the last few weeks live music wise especially now that i have my own (shitty) band.... but more about that later...

Hot Water Music just passed through town again along with them came the last Nation Blue shows for the next 6 months... and the show was pretty damn good... it lacked a little of the intimacy of the show at the Arthouse last year but was still a great night .... (that lead to drunken antics at the Cherry bar but I'll leave that out here) ...

A few weeks ago now there was a bunch of great shows when Stockholm Syndrome (Syd) and Existance Is Dead (Bris) came through town (with St. Albans Kids last Melbourne shows tied in) the weekend came to a peak on the Saturday night at the Pink Palace with all the bands (that I saw) ruled Terror Firma are a must see if you can find them playing around, Schifosi (with the addition of Jackie on gutair) are a brutal powerhouse... amazing, amazing, amazing... Existance Is Dead are fantastic and I look forward to seeing more of them.... St. Albans Kids with a bit of a slackened set having only jammed a couple of times with new drummer Jordan held it together enough to be good. While Stockholm Syndrome set about putting thier ep release to shame with a blistering set.

anyway ... enough crap about shows ... there are some great records on the way... I'm pretty excited about the Severed Head Of State - Anathema Device full length that should be here next week .... also the Charm City Suicides - II cd which I am hoping will rock like The Worst record....
There is a new Beehive & The Baracudas coming too ... If you haven't heard "Plastic Soul" check it out (feature Rocket From The Crypt members) it's fantastic!!

The new Boris 7" 7 inch, 1970 should be about to be shipped from Japan in the next week or so.... They just went to the UK and played with Thrones and Sunn o)). Sunn o))'s new record White 1 should be here in the next week or so... I've heard it and I dig it.

Ergh .... lost my flow ... will be back.

Pete

posted by Pete at 5:45 PM

 
Crikey! Almost been a month since the last post... has been real busy as always... Heaps of great new stuff in...

The second Cult Of Luna cd, The Beyond (on Earache)... Fantastic everyone who was into the Isis - Oceanic album (and all the other stuff too) shoud check out this one!! Heavy, dark, brooding, sludge/doom rock! Fantastic!!

Along the same lines we have the re-issue of Amplifier Worship by Boris in stock along with a decent suply of most of the Boris back caterlog, direct frim Japan... we also have a couple of cds from Thermo who are label mates of Boris (on Inoxia) but are more noisey beatsy sort of along Digital Hardcore lines but a little less straight ahead. Also Shamanic Waveforms by Soft (on Inoxia) droney spacey kind stuff.

The ex-Orchid project Bucket Full Of Teeth who released a series of 3 7" records last year on Youth Attack have just released the cd collection of these three 7"s... BFOT cover some ground with grindcore bits and screamo bits with the every now and then full on, pants down, stoner rock riffs to keep it interesting. If you didn't check out the 7"s then it's time you looked into the the handy cd version of this great project (sure beats having to get up to flip the record a bunch of times!!)

Sole's latest rhymes are now available under the title of Selling Live Water (on Anticon) a great listen... I also got my hands on a promo of the upcoming Sage Francis 12" ep Makeshift Patriot which is a doozy! Most of the tracks have appeared elsewhere on his Known Unsoldier cd and the like but this is pollished up good!! Great stuff!!

The new Against Me!, Disco Before The Breakdown cdep/7" has hit the shelves along with a bunch of t-shirts too!!

JR Ewing!!! we have a handful of their Laughing with Daggers cdep that were leftovers from their US tour!!

St Albans Kids!! Ok so thier cd STILL isn't yet available but we have a handful of freshly printed colourful T-shirts instock, $20 a piece... wont last long!! the are also headinbg down this way soon and will be joined buy (yet again) a new Drummer (what is thia? Spinal Tap?!

Romance Morgue! The Demo Days!! Hipster discordant screamo stuff from members of Racebannon and Mara'akate quailty stuff!!

Woah did I mention Macarbe's Drill Bit Lobotomy 7"??? Limited edition embossed circular sleeves ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!! More goodness from these serial killer fanatics!!

New SHANK! The Curse Of Shank!! 28 tracks!! brutal!!

Lots more good stuff on it's way!!

posted by Pete at 5:21 PM

 
Okay... Well the wilderness was quite fun for the last couple of weeks ... a little smokey at times with all the fires and all but that didn't stop the fun...

So I am back just in time for the Big Day Out, expect ramblins about the exciting day tomorrow sometime.

Looking forward to being back in the office tomorrow morning as well ... got a bit of catching up to do but I am sure that i will be finding some good stuff to blabber on about in stock.... well outta here for now but tune in soon and hope for stories of me bad touching Dave Grohl or one of the old guys from Kraftwerk.

bye.
posted by Pete at 10:27 AM

 
Oki doki people…. So I have been busy putting pen to paper and faxing round a couple of orders so I thought that as some stuff will be coming in while I am away (two weeks at a camp for kids ahhhh what a restful holiday) I would take this opportunity to mention a couple of things that I recommend looking out for.

First of all the Orchid / Combat Wounded Veteran split 6 inch that has been long out of print… some lost copies of this resurfaced and we got 8 copies coming our way… so if you missed out the first time try get in quick to get one of these.

Tragedy – Vengence on vinyl for those who have been holding off for the wax!!

The Hot Cross / Light The Fuse And Run split 7 inch is coming back in for those who missed the first batch… Also we have the new Light The Fuse And Run 7’ coming in too!!

We have a handful of each available issue of Heartattack zine coming in if anyone is after any of the back issues.

These will most likely not even see the shelves and we may not get them again but I will write them here anyway. Navio Forge lp (short lived outfit featuring Mike Kirsch of Fuel/Torches To Rome/Bread & Circuits long out of print) only 2 copies and a mishap from the Ebullition press a Reversal Of Man / Los Crudos split (was supposed to be a repress of Los Crudos / Spitboy lp) we got 2 of these and there ain’t too many about so keep your eyes peeled.

Liars – We No Longer Knew Who We Were 12” on Sound Virus for all the hip young kids.

Corrupted – Paso Inferior lp. I’m keen to hear this brutality!! 1 lp = 1 song!!! Sick!!

Racebannon / Song Of Zarathustra – split on vinyl … great stuff, check it out.

Infest – No Man’s Slave lp which came and went late last year finally backing stock!!

Videos!!! Some great looking videos coming this way… Operation Ivy live video!! You And I – last show ever video, Los Crudos / Naked Aggression live, Charles Bronson/Chokehold/Capitalist Casualties live and Born Against/Nausea live video. We got 4 copies of the Op Ivy vid but only one of each other title…

So, that’s just some of the stuff heading our way, we also have a small shipment coming our way from Japan with bundles of Boris restocks and a couple of titles we didn’t get the first time along with some other interesting sounding releases, should be interesting.

Well that’s that for now …

Pete

posted by Pete at 4:43 PM

 
Ok, so it was a pretty long weekend just passed. Off Minor hit town Thursday and played Goo Thursday night with Days Of Iris and Widow/Orphan. Despite the fact it was at Goo it was a great show.

Friday was a great day with the instore, Off Minor were smokin’ (see website gallery for photos) and St. Albans Kids also made a brief appearance. The show at the Arthouse, Friday night was a good one Lakes a.k.a Sean Bailey (George W. Bush/Vivian Girls/St. Albans Kids) kicked of the night with some casio tunes check him out at the Rob Roy on Friday 10th of January. Then Manmade Lake (ex-heartfeltself, Days Of Iris and Missing Link staff members) made there appearance followed by Widow/Orphan and Days Of Iris (who were great even though Adam almost lost his temper at his guitar strap). Off Minor where on fire!!

Then Saturday rolled around and it was down to Shantytown for the all ages show. I missed MacGuyver [Taxidiver] (St. Albans Kids/Lakes/George W. Bush members) but if they were as good as they were at their first show then they are well worth checking out if you get the chance. I got there in time to catch Schifosi who are totally brutal, power crust in the vein of His Hero Is Gone/Tragedy/Severed Head Of State, a great way to kick of the arvo. St Albans Kids played a steamy set with a break in the middle to do their Couchman style forum part 2 (if you were at Shantytown last time they played there then you will get what I mean). They sat the fellas from Off Minor down and threw a few questions at them which was great as they had been asking people to ask questions at every show with no response. So after learning a little more about Off Minor, St. Albans Kids finished of and Off Minor took the stage and ruled AGAIN!

So you’d figure by this stage I would be over Off Minor but no it was on to Good Morning Captain to see Nation Blue and Off Minor in the little lounge room space. Nation Blue were, as always, mighty impressive and it was a great final Melbourne show for Off Minor before they headed out the door and into the cars and set off for Adelaide.

Well I was pretty buggered after five shows in 3 days, but I’m thinking of the Off Minor guys who will be feeling it about I reckon as they will be halfway between Adelaide and Brisbane after two shows in Adelaide… So if you are in Brisbane or Sydney check out www.screamingbloodymess.com for details of the shows up there and go see these guys!

posted by Pete at 5:01 PM

 
Ok... So I haven't done too well updating this page very often but I have the excuse of having to look after X-mas shoppers and all that... The store has been outta control busy which is good... well since the last entry a lot of things have happened!!

On X-mas eve the lads from Far Left Limit were kind enough to play a few ditties out the front of the store which was great, Santa even made an appearence and threw out little Miisng Link bundles of goodies to make everyone happy...

Speaking of Far Left Limit I ventured down to the Arthouse the other night and caught a great show... McGuyver [taxidriver] (members of St. Albans Kids) well worth checking out, Terror Firma, Plea Of Insanity, Bonsai Kids and Far Lef Limit... all the bands were great!!

So Coming up at Missing Link on the 3rd of January, Off Minor from New York will be playing a set at about 5pm be sure not to miss thier shows, Goo (Thursday 2nd), Arthouse (Friday 4th), Shantytown (arvo Saturday 5th) and Goodmorning Captain (Saturday night) .. all shows have great lineups!!

So I guess as the year is coming to a close and everyone is givin up their top tens and stuff.... I don't want to limit my list to ten cos there is so many more than ten great releases and I am sure I will miss out a couple of things I ment yo be in here so lets call this a list of a bunch of stuff that I quite enjoyed over the last year...

Lotus Eaters - Mind Control For Infants
El-p - Fantastic Damage
Sunn o)) - 3: Flight Of The Behemoth
Love Like... Electrocution - She Was Red Hot
Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction
Tragedy - Vengence
Teeth Of The Lions Rule The Divine - Rampton
Song Of Zarathustra - A View From High Tides
Orchid - S/t
City Of Caterpillar - S/t
Fire Next Time - Sound Of A Threat
Floor - S/t
Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey
George W. Bush - Sex And The Sex 7"
St. Albans Kids - 3" cd
Charm City Suicides - the Worst
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Hot Hot Heat - Knock Knock Knock
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Isis - Oceanic
Mr Lif - I Phantom
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Bright Calm Blue - Asymmetry Set
Calvary - Outnumbered Is Outflanked
Lightning Bolt - Power Of Salad And Milkshakes DVD
Discordance Axis - Pikadurei DVD
Missing Link X-mas outing @ the Butterfly Club... ergh our collective aching heads (note: Jarod's head didn't ache)
Sage Francis live @ Revolver
Rocket From The Crypt live @ The Corner
Andrew W.K. live @ Hi-Fi
Hot Water Music Live @ Missing Link
Love Like...Electrocution / George W. Bush / St. Albans Kids live in my backyard!!
George W. Bush show @ Town Hall Hotel & thier last show!!
St. Albans Kids shows in vacant house & @ Missing Link
Blood Duster live @ Cherry
Dirtbombs live @ Tote & Cherry
Far Left Limit live shows in general
(I'm sure there is a heap more live stuff than this!! I just forget)

Hmmm.. well thats a few things ......

LOOKOUT 2003!!!
posted by Pete at 1:44 PM

 
Alright!! So SOMMERSET (New Zealand's finest punk ROCK) just played out the front of the store to an eager bunch of boys, girls, office worker, sidewalk diners, passer-bys and cars!! It was totally RAD!!!
posted by Pete at 5:08 PM