Sleep are playing at the corner in decemeber and at Meredith. got tickets to both!
DOOMSDAY FESTIVAL Melbourne 2014 Saturday 4 October from 6pm at Yah Yah's WINDHAND (USA) BEASTWARS (NZ) & supports. Tix $40
Led Zeppelin cover band at the corner on the 15th sep. with the best drummer in Aus at the moment playing as Bonzo.
Sleep are playing at the corner in decemeber and at Meredith. got tickets to both!
DOOMSDAY FESTIVAL Melbourne 2014 Saturday 4 October from 6pm at Yah Yah's WINDHAND (USA) BEASTWARS (NZ) & supports. Tix $40
Led Zeppelin cover band at the corner on the 15th sep. with the best drummer in Aus at the moment playing as Bonzo.
I got talked into going to Meredith too with a bunch of guys I used to play footy with. Don't actually know any of them (they played 1's, I was definitely a reserves player!). Pretty damn excited.
What's your thoughts on "High On Fire" Mink? Wiki calls them stoner/doom/sludge but I would say they were more pure metal personally. Either way, I reckon they are fantastic. "Snakes For The Divine" is a crackin song and the filmclip to "Fertile Green" is one of the best I've ever seen.
yeah they are pretty good. i saw them a few weeks ago actually ;)
ive done some other reviews, just working in sydney atm so my routine is a bit screwed
Anyone want to come to doomsday festival tomorrow night and drink beers with me? My buddy dropped out and everyone else is busy!
Turbowolf from the UK.
Will be at Soundwave.
http://youtu.be/kGuqqaPtKGA
Bought Graveyard pre-sale tickets today.
Sleep on this weekend coming
Then Meredith the following week
bang!
Didnt know Turbowolf! will be checking them out for sure now.
Bought Graveyard pre-sale tickets today.
Sleep on this weekend coming
Then Meredith the following week
bang!
How were Sleep? Very excited to be seeing them @ Meredith in a couple days.
Yeah they were great!
Man i love horsehunter who played before them too.
Corner is a good venue for sleep. i was pretty drunk.
well i got to have dinner with truckfighters on friday night and go in early for their soundcheck, took em to the servo and just hung out with them a bit after their gig in sydney.
Nice!
How’d you find Meredith?
Weather was great, company was great, Sleep were awesome, but TBH most the time I was wishing I was elsewhere. Too old for that stuff now I reckon.
Eyehategod, one of my favourites, are playing later in the month. Alas I can’t go as I have my kids, and I’m also recovering from a broken leg AND have done a rotator cuff so I think standing in the crowd watching EHG might be very, very bad for my health!. Every time they come here, I can’t get to see them 
Meredith is always awesome for me. i go with 50 friends. Sleep were great but that was about it. Jagwar Ma were pretty good too.
Meredith is more about friends than music for me and always has been. Went pretty hard so might have to start slowing it down soon.
That sucks! really unlucky.
I have tickets currently for:
Truckfighters friday
Truckfigthers sat
Truckfighters sun
Graveyard
Golden Plains
Black Keys / Spiderbait
Soundwave
i think thats it…
Ive created a facebook page for this.
I have about 80 reviews done and will start to post them. 3 will go up today but then ill aim to just do 1-2 a week so as not to get cloggy etc!
ive put 3 up!
Will we get a.King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard review?
im sure we will at some stage yep
Warning! The following review/story is not for the faint hearted!
Electric Wizard, Dopethrone
Years and years ago at the Meredith Music Festival I was presented with the option of trying LSD for the first time. A few of us all agreed we’d do it, so being keen I dropped the sugar cube while the friends looked on, only for them to stare at me and chicken out at the last minute. A lesser man would be taken aback but not me. “That’s cool” I thought, and plugged in for the ride.
It started well as these things do, but before long it was coming very hard and I left my friends at the stage for the safety of our camp, the bright lights, colourful people and thumping music too much for me.
On arriving at the camp, things soon took a turn for the weird with complete visual distortion and patterns emerging.
It was then I realised I needed to go to the toilet.
I stood and proceeded to the nearest portable, but within 50m was smacked in the face by a psychadelic amplified stench the like of which I’ve never experienced. There was no way I could get closer, so I returned to camp and spent some time studying the chip packet under our camp table, which looked remarkably like a giant cod.
The need to expel soon disappeared but shortly after that the worry started. “Have I shat myself?” I started wondering. I couldn’t remember ■■■■■■■■ myself but the need to go had gone and I started to worry.
It was dark, very dark. I look around. No-one. I stand, and put my hand down my pants. I pull it out, and despite rainbows following my hand, it seemed clean. But was it really?
The next few hours were spent in worry, with periodic checks, thinking that last time I’d checked I might have made a mistake.
Eventually I went to the tent and fell asleep, dreams of naked dancers spewing excrement from their bellies filling my mind.
I woke to a full campsite and all the lads cleaning up. They feel a big bad for leaving me, and while I’m not worried about it I take the opportunity to let them pack up while I sit in a chair enjoying the final remnants of last nights ingestion. I’m now feeling a little straighter and not prepared to put the hands down the pants now. I can’t smell anything, no-one has commented or gave me weird looks. I’ll play it subtle and see what happens.
On the way back we stop at a shopping centre for a feed. I go to the toilet, pull down my pants, and the relief as I found my boxers sparkling clean was heard throughout the centre. I have never been so happy.
So what has this to do with Elextric Wizards magnum opus “Dopethrone”?
If any band will discover the brown note, it’s these guys. They play heavy and they play LOW. So low that I could never see myself doing LSD and listening to them, for fear that the morning after underpants inspection will not be as successful as that fateful Saturday/Sunday at Meredith all those years ago.
It’s a cracking albumn though. Fat riffs, fat bass. If you haven’t already (and it’s getting on in years now) have a listen.
that story is freaking amazing hahahha.
im on a work computer.
im not going to type any of my stories from 11 years going to meredith!