Famished Phantoms

Every once in a while we get to experience a great landmark in local music here in our city. Saturday night we had Hungry Ghosts. Releasing their EP2 at Backstage in Central was a big success. The place was packed out (and with good reason). With opening acts like Corey Tam and The One Horse Town, Modern Children and More Reverb it was a quality night of sound. Hungry Ghosts were nothing short of mind-blowing (I was with two Ghost-virgins to prove it).

EP2. If you missed the show this is a must own.

As always Corey Tam was spot on. I kept realizing what a superb song writer he is. A little jealous. Hate you and love you Corey.

Because I'm pretty slack ass when it comes to fully paying attention to anything, I left mid-show to get some 711 beers with Shawn and he showed me some songs from the upcoming David Bowie Knives CD. I must say I am sooo EFFing excited for that bomb to drop!

Hungry Ghosts EP2 is the culmination of years of hard work. Listening to it non-stop today I can see why.

Sounds By The Sea

Such an incredible weekend full of fun and free music! Saw lots of good friends and drank lots of good beers!

Second time seeing my amigo's band Noughts and Exes play.. Excellent live band. Full of energy and a solid sound.

Check out their music video here -

Corey Tam and the One Horse Town was as stunning as usual! It seems they have permanently added a keyboard player... sensuality added!

David Bowie Knives brought a bit of sexual tension to an otherwise mellow day...

Had a bit of a tear in my laugh as Shaun did not refrain from making dirty jokes/remarks and singing out his sleaze...

Sunday brought forth 9 MAPS (who are having their Debut Album Launch this weekend in a secret location).

 Really beautiful as usual... Can't wait to get my hands on a CD.

Check them out playing a song on the star ferry here -

Jade and the Stagger Swallows ended the 2 day event with a mellow and gorgeous set. I'm starting to really love this band.

Check out Their Video here-

Flap your Hands

A few things to let you guys know about (if you don't already)...

Sounds by the Sea is happening this saturday at Stanley Plaza

starts at 230...

David Bowie Knives, Noughts and Exes and Corey Tam will lay down some phat beats and huge shapes... It's free and gonna be pretty fun. so you should all come down and check it!

Sunday 9 Maps and Jade and the Stagger Swallows will be playing. Be sure to try and do both days... This will be a showcase of some of HK's best live music AND it's freakin' free!!

THEN!

Come December 10th and 11th it's....

Gonna be really good this year and also IT'S FREE!

I'm pretty excited, although I don't really know any of the international bands, still amped.

If you want to git yer free tickets, simply go to http://www.clockenflap.com/ and follow the link that says 'free tickets'.

See you all there!

this WAS halloween

I think it is about time I do a halloween post from last month... slacker!

First things first... during halloween weekend the first anniversary of The Bauhinian Collective invaded all things Wan Chai....

SWINDLERS on thursday... 

DBK warmed up and soaked down the crowd with their sexy sex rock...

DBK will be going to Manila this weekend with Tigerbombers. Wish I could say I was tagging along, but alas, I will be in HK.

This is ammunition hit hard once more with their post-core style of noise.

ALSO - Tigerbombers played, SOMEHOW I didnt take any pictures of them, I think I was getting far too drunk and not snap happy enough.

I missed the friday show at the Wanch which I heard was 'outta sight'.

I was nursing a hangover from the first night. Note to self: Pace yourself.

Feeling much better Saturday, I headed down to Xperience. The last night of the Anniversary (which also happened to fall on dress up day.

Bjork and Beiber made an appearance.

 Wolfman Andre had some bro time with beibs.

My helmet became a whore for the night..

First band of the night...

An undead Sun Eskimos.

Mad Props to Shotgun Politics for putting on such a kick-ass performance

Sushi Robot was throwing down some phat ass shapes in between sets..

and at the end Very Ape played. Again no pictures... hmmmm...

After all of the drinky McDrink nonsense, I headed out to see the sights and frights....

One picture I managed to take was of these...... Joker convicts?

ACTUAL HALLOWEEN

Star Crossed Tattoo was having their annual Halloween Free Tattoo Day.  I had drawn up some crappy skulls for people to choose from along with some of my artist buddies...

AND I SAW A BULBASAUR!

....and a gameboy...

It was a wearwolf bar mitzvah!

BauCo One Year Anniversary

Just finished the poster for the 3 day show coming up at the end of the month! Was super fun to paint, will rework the colors and everything and repost it after a little help from my good buddy Ross Turpin.

Details for this EFFING superb show are as follows


27th October, 9pm Swindlers:
The David Bowie Knives
Milkteeth
Tigerbombers
Lumberjack Jon

28th October, 9pm The Wanch:
This is Ammunition
Defiant Scum
Heather Lowe
Hungry Ghosts

29th October. 9pm Xperience
Shotgun Politics
Very Ape
Sushi Robot
Sun Eskimos

Shit's free!


Do come and support HK's best bands!

Days of Birth

Last night was OFF the HOOOOK! Well it was pretty rad anyways. The return of two great bands + a new sound system at the Wanch made for a dope night with a great line up and a fun birthday celebration for Ben McCarthy of Poubelle International.

Since today is a public Holiday (and coincidentally my regular day off, not really fair but whatever) Ben had a big birthday blowout with a ton of friends new and old....it went like this-

Corey Tam (or One Horse Town as they like to be called now) did a fancy set with a few new kickers!

Poubelle International were having a great time returning once again to the stage along with Zane Stroud now on the Bass Axe.

There, I made a poster for them, they don't even need to bother taking pictures or anything, that only took me 2 minutes.....

Then the return of Hungry Ghosts, also super fun rocking out to some good old HK music! Wish I had taken a picture of Luke Chow that night, he looked incredible!

Last but not least was DBK (David Bowie Knives) and they were great as usual, not much else to say except they make me happy to watch and laugh when I listen. I took no pictures last night, so this is a more word heavy blog than I usually post, but just deal with it.

Like I had mentioned earlier, the sound system at the Wanch is new and sounds superb, made last night even better!

Leaving shortly for Zane's birthday party so that should be super fun times as well. My phone can handle day time pictures, so expect a more visually stimulating post soon, mmmk?

-Here's a video treat for anyone who has made it this far-

ROOFTOP BBQ TIME!

Art Jam

What have I done this week you ask?

well.... Monday was a two year mark for Monica and I so we went to eat at a fancy restaurant on Ashley Road. La Taverna was the name of the place and it was delish! On wednesday we went to watch a fire dragon dance parade thing. It was mostly a waste of time and super boring. Monica started to feel really faint because of the heat and crowds and standing for so freaking long waiting for the dumbass dragon to come.

Yesterday however was quite good. We went to a friend's place in Tung Chung area (which was beautiful) and had a bit of an Art Jam. It's always nice to art jam and see what everyone comes up with.

art jam-o-rama

the view from the house

Zane's piece

After the jam session we headed over to The Wanch to watch Corey Tam and David Bowie Knives play a show.. despite a couple of unfriendly faces it was a win night!

Zane is now playing bass for Corey Tam.

I always find it funny how the majority of local bands here in Hong Kong are highly unoriginal and use waaay toooooo many pedals....

... Having said that, I still love to support Hong Kong's talent, as good or bad as they might be. There was this big douche at the Wanch who said in a very loud voice after a band finished a song "this is bullshit, i'm leaving" -what a dick. I know what it's like to get up in front of people and perform music that you have made and are proud of, it's not easy. So anyways I really like to try and support bands that play what they love in the city I am living in.

Goodbye Seizures + A Very Hidden Agenda

This weekend was pretty crazy. First off was Ross and Julia's leaving party. Rockschool got pretty packed mostly with people that Ross and Julia didn't know. But it ended up being a gong show. With an open bar and a long line-up of great bands, it was a night to try to remember.

Moy returned from his long ass holiday in the Philippines with Oi Squad! Which I missed most of since they played last and I was too far gone.

LiveFastDie played a killer set. Mike Jack has become a full fledged member of the crew and I tell you it works well!

After they finished their set the 5-0 showed up and put a bit of a downer on the night. According to my friend Tiff, they cleared an entire table of underage kids.

There were a few solo acts -

Joey from Milkteeth played some tunes.

DP played a fantastic set. Always a powerfest!

DBK (David Bowie Knives) were on sexfire! This was one of the best sets I've seen them play and I had heaps of fun.

The next day I staggered over to Hidden Agenda. This was quite fun.. It is one of the most difficult venues to find. There is about a hundred streets in the area that have the word "yip" in them. I asked my buddy Nic what it meant he says something like industrial. Having said it was a hassle to find, it is a really awesome venue!

The bar which sold $20 Tsing Tao!

On top of the bar was three of my favorite things. Star Wars toy, Lord of the Rings toy and A Comic book toy.

HUNGRY GHOSTS

One of my favorite bands in Hong Kong and some of my very good friends. Paul Lam (pictured above) looks so fucking cool when he plays the ol' axe.

Mike Jack doing the Bang Bang Smash Clang.

The Lovesong

Glad I got to catch them before Ephraim leaves and The Lovesong disband.

!!!!!!

The last band (which were nothing short of boring and bland) were from Beijing. We didn't stay to watch their entire 'performance'.

They did have one redeeming factor... the use of a melodica.