WHITE TIGER A:. A:. Album Launch
with:
DIE LIKE A GOD
TWISTED SUBTERRANEAN DEATH TRAP
MONOLITH
SISTA NOTORIOUS
KAOS KOLLEKTIV 11:11
Saturday, May 05 at 8:30 PM - Squatters Arms Hotel - 1 George St
Thebarton, SA 5031 AUSTRALIA - Map It
It’s been about 5 years since WT’s last appearance and it’ll more than likely the last appearance so make sure you don’t miss it. It will be truly be a gig to remember.
“I went to see White Tiger, and White Tiger alone. As I half-expected, the impact was such I left immediately the band had finished to write this, and, as I type, I doubt the Messiah has gotten half-way through their set.
White Tiger have been rehearsing since June 2007, and this is their first gig. All the members are old lags who, basically, feel it’s time to stop writing songs which no-one listens to and performing to twelve people and they’re all the members of the support bands. So why not enjoy themselves, they clearly thought?
At the moment, there are five members (if that’s the word I’m looking for. Perhaps ‘disciples’ might be more appropriate); three guitars (one doubling with a pc), a bass and drums. And that is about as far as convention takes us.
Wearing nowt but white paint, improvised loinclothes (the drummer’s looked suspiciously like a bath-towel) and blank mime masks (front and back of the head), White Tiger look ugly (they’re no spring-chickens, sorry girls), disturbing and – here’s the rub – rather comical. Starting up their only song tonight (all 25 minutes of it) they throw themselves into it.
The guitarist with the astonishing dreadlocks (and, consequently, no face) spends most of his time on the floor in front of his amp providing what I’ll describe as the direction of the song; the bass player hurls himself at and around his very noisy big amp as he shores up the dreadlocks, the guitarist/pc player emits huge swathes of complex sound which is brutally undercut by the bald guitarist who looks completely alien – by the end of the song, it’s his guitar which is causing the most mayhem. The drummer simply punishes his kit.
The white paint ran, staining their instruments. The bass player lit up a home brand fly-spray, squirting flame into the air, at the crowd and finally (with some justification) on himself. This bass player has to be seen to be believed; the man’s mad. He humped the remains of the percussion horse, used a miked-up clinical fat vibrator on himself (no, not pretty at all), his bass, the microphone and finally shoved it down his loincloth (now in imminent danger of revealing far too much) and – yes, there’s more – stuck a sparkler in each eye and got a fan to light them up. Members of the audience joined in the general trashing of the percussion horse, various other members left the stage toward the end to get changed into something more human while the others continued. Lyrics; well, I’ve no idea, I couldn’t concentrate on something so mundane. It was an experience, you had to be there.
If I’ve made this sound like one of those interminable, directionless jam sessions I must apologise, because I’ve again not done my job; it most certainly wasn’t; there was power and humour and a hundred shades all at once. There aren’t many bands I could compare them to (and there’s little point, in truth, since what they’re doing has as much in common with Can, Faust, EN or TG, but of course sounds nothing like any of them).
What I will say is that White Tiger have a rare few contradictory qualities. They seem to stop time and send it somewhere else. When they’d finished, I could have sworn they’d played for close on an hour. I was shocked to see only 25 minutes had passed. If you’d listened to any part of the song, at any time during the set, you’d have had difficulty working out if they were beginning, ending or in the middle. And yes, that’s a plus – it means there’s a hell of a lot going on here. I’ve not seen a band be so forceful, so ferocious in their performance and music and yet so funny in many, many years; that both conflicting situations can occur simultaneously is remarkable. Mind you, if there’s still a law against incitement to riot, they could be in trouble.
Musically, White Tiger deserve to be recorded and filmed, if only to go back to over and over to figure out what the hell they’re doing. Frankly, they deserve a special arts grant all of their own; they’d make mincemeat of many of the Fringe acts heading this way (and I tell you what, there’s not a lot of people who’d like to clamber on a stage after White Tiger have done with it).
If you get the chance, go and see what I mean. In fact, look them up on the internet and book them as the party band next time you want to upset your neighbours. As Kermit once said, it’s not easy being green. I suspect it’s not easy being White Tiger, either. Their future White Tiger could be predicted: die a forgettable death; be brilliant but unknown; a striking career beckons and the future is now; or, more likely, perhaps, they’ll get all po-faced and serious and go up their own arseholes. Better people than these have done the latter.
I’ve just realised this review took longer to type all in one go than the band did to perform.” - ROBERT BROKENMOUTH
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Grong Grong, Roadside Slasher, Twisted Subterranean Death Trap
at The Metropolitan Hotel, 42 Grote Street, Adelaide, South Australia,
Sat 7th Jan 2012
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Photos here; Event here : The work will be at Tin Sheds Gallery, from June 2nd to 23rd 2011. Opening is 6pm thursday June 2nd 2011
Tin Sheds Gallery
154 City Rd
Chippendale NSW 2008
DJ Smallcock’s
MIX TAPE
an exhibition of accessible audio tape.An exhibition of individual sound works and an interactive sound installation, Mix Tape provides its visitors with tactile playback of a sculptural mass of audiotape. Sound artists from around the world were invited to submit an audiocassette and a balloon. These balloons, with their tape tied to each like a ribbon are filled with helium and released into the ceiling, leaving the tape to unspool as their cassette anchors them to the gallery floor. This forest of exposed audio-tape providing the raw material for an interactive mash up of all the works. You can play these tapes by manually running their magnetic strips across exposed playback heads mounted to play-stations situated throughout the gallery.
Devised by Lucas Abela
Play-stations constructed by Hirofumi Uchino & Lucas Abela
See More
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The performance space in association with dualpLOVER invites you to The finale of the Auraltered State NSWentric music series, the seventh and last in a series free concerts focussing on the music of New South Wales as heard through the ears of Lucas Abela. These performances focus on presenting evenings of wildly contrasting music’s from some of our more irreverent, innovative, unusual and original artists from now, then and the future. All shows will be held at the new Performance Space Clubhouse, with a limited capacity of 100 patrons so please come early. This series has been kindly supported by the NSW ministry of the arts.
Saturday the 26th Feb
PERFORMANCE SPACE CLUBHOUSE : BAY 20
CARRIAGEWORKS 245 WILSON STREET EVELEIGH
music begins 7:00PM sharp til 11PM
FREE *LIMITED CAPACITY* ALL AGES (bar service available to 18+)
7:10 Origami Girls
7:30 Chris Abrahams (the necks/ laughing clowns)
8:15 Rev Kriss Hades
9:05 Louis Burdett and Patrick Kavanagh with Anastasia Mano
9:50 Jamie Leonardo (Mu-Mesons)
10:30 Fukno
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Difficult Music Festival, 25th of January, Sydney
part of the Difficult Music Festival
UND
An experimental two-piece whose guitar & bass expand through an ever-changing combination of analogue & digital echos, delays, distortion & repetition mixed with random metallic percussion & unpredictable artificial spoken word featuring Nuke Everything and Broken Record.
DEFEKTRO / Mr.MERT
A new collaboration by Hirofumi Uchino and Mert Balkanli playing Drum’n Noise.
THE GALL
All-star abstract Experimetal project featuring Ben Cahill, Michael Sheridan, Julie Kim, Hirofumi Uchino and Mert Balkanli.
LOUIS BURDETT and PATRICK KAVANAGH with ANASTASIA MANO
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Friday, December 17, 2010 at 9:30pm – Surry Hills, NSW
Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 8:30pm – Surry Hills, NSW
Please allow me to draw your attention to this night of sonic scapulations (Sat 18th Dec)with *Twisted Subterranean Death Trap* featuring the wondrous words of Anastasia; the inimitable *Hellen Rose* with the masterful *Jeffrey Wegener* accompanying; & *Psychic Date* is the fabulous Peter Jones featuring Damo Lition of The Warm Feelings, amongst others…
come one… come all… (limited capacity)
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*Twisted Subterranean Death Trap* also perform on the Friday night (17th) from 9:30pm after the finale of “Ladders By The Sea”, a theatrical production directed by Ron Hadley
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12 Noon – 8pm – BRECKNOCK HOTEL KING WILLIAM ST. ADELAIDE
1200 DRAMA QUEENS
1250 VAN CLEEF
1340 DUD
1430 VIVA VAS DEFERENS
1520 TWISTED SUBTERRANEAN DEATH TRAP
1610 FIENDISH CAVENDISH
1700 LEATHER MESSIAH
1750 FRIENDS
1840 GLAMVILLE
1930 ROADSIDE SLASHER
Sunday 28th Nov 2010
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Get your Freak Shit on !!! WITH GLAMVILLE, KAOS KOLLEKTIV 11:11, TWISTED SUBTERRANEAN DEATH TRAP Squatters Arms, Friday, November 19, 2010, Adelaide!
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here we are thrilled to present
Paul Kidney Experience
Twisted Subterranean Death Trap
*Glamville*
at The Metro (Adelaide) - 46 Grote St
Sat July 10th 2010
This will be the first time the Paul Kidney Experience have toured outside Melbourne.
It’s no accident they have chosen Adelaide first.
Prepare yourself for The Experience.
HAPPY NEW FINANCIAL YEAR PARTY
30th June 9pm til very very late @ HOME NIGHTCLUB
25th of January 2011 Ching-a-lings 1/133 Oxford st Darlinghurst NSW
Louis Burdett and Patrick Kavanagh play free speed space noise, improvised electronic percussion manipulations. Featuring Anastasia Mano on vocals.
DJ DAMOLITION
We look forward to seeing you there.
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Come spend your Financial New Year where the Capitalists come to Dance!!
1 Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour NSW 2000
DRUNK ELK (hobart) +; AXXONN +; YONG ROMANTIX ; RICE CORPSE; GAY MARRIAGE; CRAB SMASHER +; BAADDD; TEEN AX;BED WETTIN BAD BOYS;GODSWOUNDS +; WHORES; WARM FEELINGS +; MURDER OF CROW; LOUIS BURDETT & PATRICK KAVANAGH ; TWISTED SUBTERRANEAN DEATH TRAP+; HORSE MACGYVER ; NHOMEA; KUSUM
IN THE SPRIT OF RAMPANT CAPITALISM PRE SALE TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM FROM ANY OF THE BANDS AT WHATEVER PRICE THEY SET BASED ON MARKET FORCES.
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The Beautiful Black, Fiendish Cavendish, Twisted Subterranean Death Trap at Squatter’s Arms – (Adelaide) – Tuesday 26 January 2010
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Twisted Subterranean Death Trap & special guests Pizdets Vsemu at Horse Bazaar – (Melbourne) Vic -Tuesday 6 October 2009
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Twisted Subterranean Death Trap, Surge Guard, Semtex Disrupter, Futurelic at Mexico Church – Futurelic Headquarters – Craigieburn, (Melbourne) Vic – Saturday 24 January 2009
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Twisted Subterranean Death Trap, Shellshock, Blaster, Null Object, mAtT bLeAk, Semtex Disrupter at Futurelic Headquarters Mexico Church, Craigieburn (Melboune) Vic-Friday 13 & Saturday 14 June 2008
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Twisted Subterranean Death Trap, Peter Read, Spiney Fleshpot at 3CR radio station, Melbourne, Vic – Friday 13 June 2008
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Bain Wofkind, Rev. Kriss Hades, Twisted Subterranean Death Trap, Hellen Rose at the HRS Labratorium, Surry Hills, NSW – Saturday 23 Feb 2008
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Screening of “Subterranean Ride” video clip as part of multi media exhibition. Video – Patrick Kavanagh . Music – Dweller on the Threshold - 24hr Art-NT centre for contemporary art Vimy Lane, Parap - 15th Feb – 22nd March 2008
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’Dr. Mabuse – Der Spieler’ - 2007 saw the first ever live performance of ’Spiney Fleshpot’ performing a live soundtrack to ’Dr. Mabuse – Der Spieler’ at Mercury Cinema, Adelaide. A collaboration with CanAworms lable mate, ’Twisted Subterranean Death Trap’. - Friday, December 07, 2007
Our shrivelled souls filled with unparalleled glee
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Country Town Collective, Twisted Subterranean Death Trap, DJ SnogGoul at Bliss Organic Cafe, Adelaide, SA – Sun 1st July 2007
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Screening of ’Twisted Subterranean Death Trap’ video clip -”HARPIE” at UNDERGROUND multi media exhibition for Darwin Fringe festival. 28th June – 15th July 2007
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Orryelle, Black Soul Trading Company, Twisted Subterranean Death Trap at Palookaville, Fitzroy (Melbourne), Vic. – Fri 8th June 2007
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Twisted Subterranean Death Trap play live soundtrack for Zsa Zsa A Door production of “an eye for an eye” – Castlemaine fringe, ‘Carnival of Chaos’ Vic – Thurs 5th to Sat 7th April 2007
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‘EXISTential ExpERimental’ – Psychic Date, Twisted Subterranean Death Trap, Orryelle Defenestrate, Black Soul Trading Company – Castlemaine fringe, ‘Carnival of Chaos’ Vic – Wed 4th April 2007
Psychic Date, Twisted Subterranean Death Trap, Seismic (The What For) at Squatters Arms, Thebarton (Adelaide) SA – Sat 31st March 2007
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‘Cabaret Bizarre’ - Hellen Rose, Psychic Date, Rev. Kriss Hades, Twisted Subterranean Death Trap, Triangle at Club 77, Kings Cross (Sydney) NSW – September 10 2005
