Author: letsnoise

Spew Balloon @ Flippin The Bird 01/03/2025

SINGING BIRD STUDIOS PRESENTS:

FLIPPIN’ THE BIRD 2025

MINDSNARE, LEFT TO DIE (USA) POSSESHOT, FRENZEE (GR) BRUISE CONTROL (UK) TERMINAL SLEEP, NEMBUTOLIK, DROPSAW, GOAT SHAMAN, OUR CARLSON, DARKHORSE, LOTHARIO, GNOME, CARNAL VISCERA, RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE, HORMAGAUNT, CHOOF, RUB, SHOVE, SEX MASK, SCROTAL VICE, FUZZRAYS, LUCIFUNGUS, SPEW BALLOON, KISSLAND, METHO, THREAT, TONGUE DISSOLVER, TREPACIDE, GAPE, THE ANTICS, THE EMPTY THREATS, BLUDGER, GOSIKA, KAI CULT, FALSE DICHOTOMY, SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ, DJ CENTIPEDE & THE EARTHWORMS, KOLOSTOMY BAG, DIRTY VALENTINA, SELECT ALL, DOUBLE-BARREL MEGADOOB + THE BREAKAWAYS.

MULTIPLE STAGES. LOCAL BEERS. ART EXHIBITION. TATTOOS. FOOD. STUDIO TOURS.

TIX $75+BOOKING FEE

EVENT RUNS 11AM-11PM. CAN BAR FOR 18+ ONLY. NO BYO ALCOHOL. NO GLASS. NO DOGS.

SINGING BIRD STUDIOS. 3/3 NEW STREET FRANKSTON

ESPM @ Oni Street Wear 02/03/2025

SCROTAL VICE are heading south to hit Flippin’ The Bird 2025 & have added a side show in Castlemaine!

Joining them at Oni Street Wear will be PISSBOLT and ESP MAYHEM.

ALL AGES!!!
U18 – $5
O18 – $10

SUNDAY 2nd MARCH
3PM

See YOU there!

Come have fun, just don’t be a fuckwit!

We would also like to show our respect and acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung – the traditional custodians of the stolen land on which this event takes place.

SPASMOSLOP @ Morbid Mondays 10/02/2025

MORBID MONDAYS AT OLD BAR

FREE ENTRY – 8PM START – FEB 10TH

Shallow
Femme Power Electronics
https://shallowsounds.bandcamp.com/

Spasmoslop
HYPERDIMENSIONAL ELECTRO-ORAL NOISE ENGURGLEMENT & SLOPTRONICS
spasmoslop.bandcamp.com

Twinsoul
Experemental Harsh Noise
https://twinsoul.bandcamp.com/

Cash specials on drinks all night until 3am
74-76 Johnston St Fitzroy

ESP MAYHEM @ Last Chance 08/02/2025

Prepare yourself for total extreme aural obliteration at the hands of 4 of Melbourne’s finest heavy bands. The Last Chance is presently reinforcing the foundations and iron-cladding the dunnies in preparation for what is guaranteed to be a night of brutal intensity.
Tumour kick off the night with scorching death metal, that will peel your skin, shatter teeth and burn out eyes.
Second up is the frantic spasmodic cyborg-grind-epilepsy that is ESP Mayhem, continually blowing minds with their extreme synth-fused berserk shitfest.
Next up and pounding the Last Chance foundations to dust with their insanely heavy cacophony of hate, will be the crushing and bowel destroying onslaught of Religious Observance.
Finally, with an aural assault that will blast the ceiling off and pummel already bleeding eardrums to mush, will be the frenzied and relentless viscous thrash/grind attack of Pissbolt.

Tickets – https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/d3d808df-d5ec-4b59-afbe-56fc38ec059a

Updates – Jan 2025

It’s been a while…

SPASMOSLOP – been working on a new album on & off for over a year. In trying to cook up the sounds that are in my brain I of course made it stupidly over-complicated and incomprehensible but I’m trying to make it make sense. I record in a really basic way and mix everything in Audacity and have no fuggin idea what I’m doing so it takes forever. Currently remixing it for the 2000th time, then it’ll get mastered by someone who does know what they’re doing and should sound sick.

SPEW BALLOON – nearly finished our new 6-track EP. Studio recording with lots of mics & shit, but being mixed by Tolman so it sounds proper filthy & wild! Should hopefully be released in some form in time for Flippin The Bird or one of our other gigs in March. Then planning to record for a full-length album mid-year or so.

ESP MAYHEM – a few gigs coming up. Been jamming a lot ahead of recording for a full-length soooooon.

CLOGGED – possible resuscitation and new release 2025/2026… maybe…

G.B.S. – new recordings in the works for some kind of release

STRESSED OUT STRAIGHT GUY – despite not actually being very stressed out I’ll be doing vocals for this HEADLESS DEATH punk rock side project thing, unless I get replaced by an actual SOSG.

Upcoming gigs:
08/02 – ESP MAYHEM @ Last Chance w/ Pissbolt, Religious Observance, Tumour
26/02 – G.B.S. @ Last Chance w/ DJ RND2TR
01/03 – SPEW BALLOON @ Flippin The Bird, Singing Bird Studios w/ heaps of other bands. All ages!
07/03 – SPEW BALLOON & ESP MAYHEM @ Spit, Footscray w/ Mortal Ambition (SA), NPCede. All ages!
29/03 – SPEW BALLOON @ The Tote front bar, 3pm arvo show w/ Derailment, Overthrone

Top 17 Good Things From 2024 List
+ Watching INTERNAL ROT & DOUBLED OVER play live
+ GORE BEYOND NECROPSY – Noise A Go-Go LP on Haunted Hotel Records
+ The hot tunes of DJ RND2TR!
+ FINAL EXIT – Born In Hell LP
+ Sick gigs from visitors like BODY MELT, CEREBRAL EROSION, RADIATION VOMIT, FORCED STARVATION, FUXACHE, EXIT MOULD
+ Lugging a bunch of gear on a non-tour holiday to Japan and playing one single gig in Osaka with WANKOSLOP
+ Recording the SPEW BALLOON EP at Dangertone Studios
+ ESPM and SPEW BALLOON gigs at Spit, the best venue in Melb
+ ESPM finally releasing the “Cyber Bully” EP
+ OVERTHRONE
+ Endless hours of rare & obscure music on Youtube
+ Endless hours of dark drum & bass and techno mixes on Soundcloud
+ Being recommended BLUT AUS NORD’s last few albums by a mate
+ Resurrecting DEATH BY CONES for DEATH BY DRONES
+ Noise gigs at Radio Bar, 2nd best venue in Melb
+ Noise gigs under The Bridge
+ My car catching fire due to my mechanic fucking something up

Collab w/ Harriet Morgan @ MIUC 27/08/2024

THIS WEEK:

+ Farhad Bandesh / Ysk / Brett Evans

+ Miranda Hill / Gelareh Pour

+ Nik Kennedy / Harriet Morgan

TICKETS: $15 / $10 (conc.). No Presales.

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The Make It Up Club
Avant-Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.

Subscribe to the mail out here:
http://eepurl.com/g1Rr-9

MIUC merch is available here:
https://makeitupclub.bandcamp.com/

The Make It Up Club is supported by the City of Yarra.

This event is being held on stolen land. We pay our respects to elders past and present, and we acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. MIUC will support paying the rent by donating a portion of the door sales to Blak Pearl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Creative Studio

First time collab-ing with Harriet in about 10 years or something? Looking forward to cranking some noisy darkness just like the ol’ days.
Here’s some sounds from the ol’ days…

LAST EVER NOISE/DRONE @ Radio Bar 01/09/24

From 2017 to 2024 Radio bar had been at the center of some the best noise/drone shows to hit the city with a tonne of dope memories made. The bar became a home for some of the best and weirdest shit you could ever have the misfortune of walking past on a busy sunday in fitzroy.

Unfortunately all goods must come to an end as we host what will be the final noise/drone at radio bar. Come with us to celebrate and get fucked up by noise one last time.

Featuring:

Agnostic Hunk (ft. members of skxi)

External Organ (ft. members of Whitehorse)

Body Horror (special one off reform)

Birthday Girls Orchestra (ft. members of Ultracancer/Dead Resonance/Pubis Mons/Worthless Scum)

Festering Asthmatic Slop Donkey (ft. Festering Genital Orifice, Asmtha, Donkey Mothers of Arse, Spasmoslop)

Very sad to be saying goodbye to Radio Bar after many years of mad noisy gigs. Big cheers to owners and absolute legends Caryn & Paul for their support and enthusiasm for hosting gross underground sounds. Mega cheers to homies Anthony Cooley & Rod Cooper for organising stuff, keeping it real and working hard to cultivate a welcoming community and good vibes.
Despite the bummer I’m well psyched to collab with fellow noise-lovers Bean, Anthony, Shane for FESTERING ASTHMATIC SLOP DONKEY! No doubt it will be faaaaarkin brutal!

ESPM – Cyber Bully OUT NOW

Recorded + Mastered by Jason Fuller at Goatsound / Mixed by Xavier Irvine at Loaf / Copyright infringement + layout by ESP MAYHEM – ”What’s mine is mine / What’s yours is also mine”

So psyched with how this turned out! This is our first recording that really nails the ESPM sound – thick, loud, unique, crazy! Technically ESPM is a very hard band to record & mix but Jason & Xavier did an amazing job getting it all together while being mercilessly overseen, scrutinised and nitpicked by us.
Stream it on Bandcamp or Spotify, physical copies available through the emails in the flyer above and also at The Searchers in Melbourne, Repressed in Sydney or Bad Habit in Nambour, and more distros and shops as we spread it around.

ESP MAYHEM – Cyber Bully EP launch

ESP MAYHEM ‘Cyber Bully’ 7” launch with WELL, GIL CERRONE and HORMAGAUNT

Melbourne’s most sonically obnoxious and morally reprehensible bunch of sticky-fingered little shits have finally superglued enough other people’s intellectual property together to bring the cacophonous ‘Cyber Bully’ EP to fruition. ESP MAYHEM crassly fuse grindcore, gabber, industrial, metal and a blatantly slavish adhesion to the KLF’s dogma through the use of 3 keyboards, a drummer and vocals. Luddite ‘electronica’ for the primitive future.

Presales: https://tickets.oztix.com.au/…/a05060a5-c34f-4aae-b3dd… or $15 at door

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‘Support’/upstaging comes courtesy of 3 true powerhouses, consisting of:

𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋 – This town’s supreme scions of the angular and bristling point where the weirder, more discordant ends of metal, hardcore and sludge met in the mid/late 90s and all genres hit their most rewarding sweet spots. These guys refuse to take their feet out of that beartrap to keep bleeding the rich blood of Kiss It Goodbye, Unsane, Breach and Neurosis.

𝐆𝐈𝐋 𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐄 – One of the recent wave of bands taking on the heroic task of stopping ‘screamo’ from being a dirty word. Heralding back to the fire-bellied explosions of arrhythmic dissonance and benign violence they take the pure essences of this abused and embattled genre and inject it full of fresh ideas, fantastic songs, tasteful dramatics and a heap of speed.

𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐓 – like the rest of the bill play a genre plagued with mediocrity and predictability but shove enough electricity up its ass to have the corpse brimming with new life. Nominally ‘old school death metal’ these guys know where the riches are hidden and are an unstoppable, uncontrollable example of making death metal exciting, inventive and engaging again, all the while staying exceptionally brutal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHJtGe_W5o
https://wellnoise.bandcamp.com/
https://gilcerrone.bandcamp.com/
https://hormagauntdeath.bandcamp.com/