2009 happenings
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Back in 2009, I discovered this crazy radio show that was on Fleet FM Tuesday afternoons, called ‘Playing Singles and Drinking Doubles’ —if that name wasn’t brilliant enough, their music selections were out of this world. I didn’t know these guys at that stage, (well I had met Roddy at Frisbee studios on Albert…
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I often wondered if the stories they print on these pages are true or just made up by a bunch of horny youths frustrated at not getting any action – that is, until we went thru Nashville and met ‘the wild one’, Miley Cyrus.
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http://houselist.bowerypresents.com/2009/12/it’s-the-end-of-the-year-as-we-know-it/ As 2009 comes to a close, The House List’s writers and photographers (and editor) take a look back at the year that was. Check back tomorrow for our year-end photo gallery. My Top Five 7″ Tour Singles I’ve always loved that for the price of a drink, bands sometimes go the extra distance for their…
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Reprinted from: http://www.dallasobserver.com/2009-11-05/music/health-times-new-viking-axemen-teenage-cool-kids/ HEALTH, Times New Viking, Axemen, Teenage Cool Kids Friday, November 6,at The Lounge on Elm Street By Daniel Rodrigue Published on November 04, 2009 at 10:05am In what’s likely to be remembered as one of the best Dallas shows of ’09, Los Angeles’ Health and Ohio’s Times New Viking will share a…
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Reprinted from: http://www.musicsnobbery.com/2009/11/times-new-viking-the-axemen-maxwells.html Times New Viking / The Axemen @ Maxwell’s So I neglected to post pictures and thoughts on the Times New Viking gig at Maxwell’s two weekends ago. Nothing much to report from the show, although I was a little surprised how small the crowd was for a somewhat name act. In any…
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This collection of objects is a small sample of some of the objects thrown to Stu Kawowski during the recent Axemen US tour, mostly by female fans. The collection is fascinating and is kindly on loan from Kawowski’s private library, and I feel it gives a revealing insight into the psyche of the typical American…
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Posted by: Tactic Beeves Millet We were slightly apprehensive about playing in Morgantown, West Virginia, a student town which didn’t seem particularly on our tour path, just before thanksgiving when many of the students would have gone home. We needn’t have worried. Great venue, great people, one of the most generous drink tabs we encountered…
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Reprinted from: http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/times-new-viking-hallelujah-the-hills-and-the-axem/ Times New Viking, Hallelujah The Hills, and The Axemen @ Great Scott in Boston (Pics/Review) November 24, 2009 11:05 a.m. by Tim Bugbee Times New Viking with Hallelujah the Hills and the Axemen Great Scott (Boston, Mass.), Saturday, Nov. 21 Newly signed to Matador and veterans of Siltbreeze, the Columbus, Ohio-based Times…
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Reprinted From: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/Event?oid=1241677 When: Sat., Nov. 28, 9:30 p.m. 2009 Price: $7 suggested donation If in the world of classic New Zealand underground rock the Chills’ earnest pop represents the north pole and the Dead C’s corrosive noise is the south, then the Axemen are the molten center of the earth—their shambling, stylistically promiscuous, and…
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“Nutsack” was written in Los Angeles by Dragan Stojanovic & Bob Brannigan October 2009, inspired by Ice Cube rapping about his nutsack and busting a nut blasting out of our KIA sound system on the LA freeways, oh and seeing squirrels in the parks all over USA, and the fact we lived out of nutsacks…
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11.30.2009 Reprinted from: http://worldofwumme.blogspot.com/2009/11/thnxgvng-with-axemen.html Additional photos by Axemen THNXGVNG with AXEMEN There’s always something unimaginably comforting about heading home for Thanksgiving (or for that matter heading home on any number of select weekends throughout the year). But the gluttony and relaxation that persists on this particular holiday can not be overlooked. As soon as I…
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Reprinted from Kel E. Burnette’s pronouncement at: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=191255993910 Note: CD material is available from http://sleekbott.com Artist: Axemen Title: Scary! Part III Label: Siltbreeze Long known underground stars from New Zealand, The Axemen are now gaining some well-deserved notoriety here in the States thanks to one of our finest labels, Siltbreeze. Tom Lax has again exhibited…
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Reprinted from: http://7inches.blogspot.com/2009/11/times-new-viking-axemen-tour-single.html Times New Viking / Axemen tour single Picked this up last night at the TNV show at Mercury Lounge with the Axemen…my friend Pat told me to look out for a tour only single at the merch table, and there it was. Does a band with the power of Matador behind it…
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Reprinted from: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/11/new-zealands-axemen-at-wfmu.html Downloads and Links: Download Zip File of Live Audio Tracks 01. [Download] Be My Slave (McCabe) (03:21) 02. [Download] Nutsack (Brannigan/Stojanovic) (03:15) 03. [Download] Shacked Up In Yr Egypt[ian] Tomb (Brannigan/McCabe)(04:08) 04. [Download] Barney Rubble (Stojanovic) (03:20) 05. [Download] Church of the Loosely Brethren (Brannigan/McCabe) (02:54) 06. [Download] Carmen On Ice (Brannigan/McCabe) (03:10) 07. [Download] Baby Eater (Brannigan/McCabe)…
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Reprinted from: http://citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/2009/11/17/times-new-viking-the-axemen-the-mad-scene-nov-15-kung-fu-necktie/ posted by Brian Howard on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 11:34 am CONCERT REVIEW: Times New Viking, The Axemen, The Mad Scene @ Kung Fu Necktie, 11/15 This is our second set, like Phish. Sunday night shows are always a tough sell, but the four-band bill including U.S. Girls (who we’ll be…
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Reprinted from: http://www.nzherald.co.nz The man who drove his car through glass doors at the Inland Revenue Department building in Christchurch says he warned the department about terrorism but it had no security measures in place. David Jerrold Theobald, 47, of St Albans, pleaded guilty in the Christchurch District Court today to charges of intentional damage…
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Reprinted from: http://www.stuff.co.nz A disgruntled Inland Revenue employee who quit spectacularly by driving his car through the doors of the tax department’s Christchurch building has been handed a hefty sentence of community work and ordered to pay $13,000 in reparations. David Theobald, 48, took his dissatisfaction with his employer of 25 years straight to the…
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November 17, 2009 Reprinted from: http://still-single.tumblr.com/ Axemen – Scary! Pt. III 2xLP (Siltbreeze/Sleekbott) So the Axemen finally make it to the United States to tour, and one of the local weeklies lists them as “Axeman.” Figures, right? Nobody who’s in a position to know has influence enough to care. Tom Lax coulda bought a very…
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 Times New Viking/The Axemen, Talking Head Club, Baltimore, MD 11/14/09 Reprinted from: http://nogiftforthegab.blogspot.com/2009/11/times-new-vikingthe-axemen-talking-head.html The other night I was told, that since I have never left the country I know nothing about what constitutes good taste. I was also told that I was a loser for listening to Pavement. With that being…
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Axemen do TNV’s “Sick ‘n tyred” and their “Rocks In My Heart” tune done to death by Times Neu Vikin’ – wicked 7” (ONLY AVAILABLE AT GIGS) and a limited eedition of 350 discs – each one individually enhanced by the artist band members. Ultra collectable sh*t. Check out some evidence below. See you at…
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As the mythics in Valhalla prophesied, the four axemen were once again reunited in the new world, with all the dignity and indignities which applied. Slowly but surely coming sharply into focus, as if from a dream Bob and Dragan emerged from the highly pressurised, sterile environment of he plane into the highly pressurized, puerile…
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Reprinted from: http://thecrepeplace.com/ 30 October 2009 Santa Cruz Gig pre-nup Times New Viking, The Axemen, The Happy Hollows Times New Viking The Axemen The Axemen is a New Zealand band formed around 1981 in protest against the South African Springbok rugby team tour of New Zealand, a tour which created great controversy, especially as was…
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A lot happening since last post. We got the touring wagon sorted, a late model (2010 even) KIA minivan with 6 seats and a GPS unit we are calling ‘Suzie’. Went down to the garment district and picked out some fluro lime green t-shirts to get printed up for tour with a facsimile of one…
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Well we got the touring wagon today, no Siennas available but we got a KIA 2010 model with 1400 Miles on it and a GPS – now thats what I call golden! Having got that sorted out we took it for a spin out to Hollywood Forever to see Johnny Ramone’s grave and the Hollywood…
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All Souls Having now taken command of Los Angeles, and whilst allowing trade to continue as normal albeit under ein military regime, this is 2000 and some harrowing but major exceptions to the rule have decided, independent of the fully sanctioned and streets away, predictably, from where the real action was happening. Notably, Stu and…
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After yet another sleepless nite the time was finally here to get on board the U.S. ass-kicking train, destination Kick Some Ass, USA, with just long enough a stopover in Aussie to knock back a coupla cold ones. Stu and Steve, forward scouts for the touring party proper headed off one week in advance to…
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LAX, Los Angeles, CA Mon-Oct-26 391 mi – about 5 hours 55 mins (up to 7 hours 20 mins in traffic) Sacramento, CA Tue-Oct-27, Sacramento, CA – Luigi’s Fungarden 86.7 mi – about 1 hour 30 mins (up to 2 hours 10 mins in traffic) San Francisco, CA Thu-Oct-29 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill confirmed 72.8 mi –…
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Chicks – October 2009 If anyone was laying bets on to see who could be chosen to charm this gloomy yet cheerful neck of the woods the odds would probably not have had good pile of winnings had they invested in the dynamic pairing of those vehemently and unapologetically wizened old geezers [The Axemen] with…
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The Axemen Tuesday, November 24th, 3pm – 6pm on Brian Turner’s show, http://www.wfmu.org (streaming/archiving) 91.1 fm (NYC metro NJ) 90.1 fm (Catskills/Hudson Valley/PA/WNJ) One of the big touring surprises for 2009 has to be the visit of New Zealand’s legendary Axemen to U.S. shores. The band began in Christchurch in 1981 and stood somewhat aside of…
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