Four gals and one guy, all with sledgehammers at ready. Here’s what the bio says: “Scum System Kill are from Sydney, Australia and they are formed from the ashes of World on Welfare, Charcoal Human and Aphra Behn. Scum System Kill started in February ‘05, and played bodge-core shows a few weeks later. In the true spirit of punk rock Scum System Kill recorded a demo two months after being together, then they all went overseas for adventures (except for Cathy), causing trouble from the G8 summit, to K-town, to Clitfest.”

Dates & Flyers Below:

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Update: Thursday, 2nd July

Mat Norr is much better now. He’s been transferred out of the High Dependency Unit at the IJN (where he was sent to yesterday from Gleaneagles). We are still trying to get him financial assistance as a governement-sponsored patient but we have been given the run-around by the usual bureaucracy and greed bullshit. We are not giving up the fight though. Mat Norr still needs his open heart surgery and we are going to get it for him

those who wanna visit him: Ward Mawar, 2nd Floor, IJN (old building), Jalan Tun Razak, KL - Visiting hours 4pm to 8pm.

original post:

Dear friends, for those who have been to the shop and found it shut, and also to those who have been calling me up but I didn’t answer; I apologise. Our friend Mat Norr, who have been taking care of the shop for the last 6 months, have been hospitalised in Ampang because of his heart - he has been diagnosed as having Rheumatic Heart Disease. Me, I-lann, Alak and Annie have been busy helping him out since Monday, the day he was hospitalised.

We have got his brothers to come in today and tomorrow, and we are hoping we would be able to transfer him to IJN as soon as possible. A lot of friends have been helping out with contacts and “cables”, we are most grateful.

We will be setting up a special bank account for donations today, as we may need all of you reading to help with whatever amount you can.

I will keep you people informed. But don’t worry too much, Mat is awake, talking, eating etc. I will also charge my phone proper, it has been dying on me all the time. Call me up for details.

Thanks,

Joe

FACEBOOK GROUP: Friends of Mat Norr Group

VENUE CHANGED TO THE RAINHOUSE STUDIO, TAIPING!! PLEASE NOTE!

Rainhouse Studio, No. 2, Lot 12, Jalan Medan Saujana 2, Medan Saujana, 34600 Kamunting, Taiping, Perak (Behind A. Rahman Kamunting)

Benefit T-Shirt Sale Below:

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TOO FAST TOO CRUST TOO

SATURDAY // 1 AUGUST 2009
5pm doors open // $8 entry

CRAWLSPACE 766 North Bridge Road

FIRSTBLOOD (Jakarta D-beat crust)
BAD+ (Jakarta singalong punkrock)
THE SINTINK (noise, punk and chaos, Batam)
T.S.A. (fast hardcore punk, Philippines!)
STRAIGHT FORWARD (new school two step hardcore!)
YOGYAKARTA (happy happy hardcore crew!)
TORMENTRESS (wretched femme thrashers!)
BLACK TERROR (stench crust youth!)
KAAOTIC DISORDER (beers and chaos, debut show)

update: Bangkok flyer below!

Repoman is a mystery band to many of us, and even small enquiries made to friends in Australia draws a blank. But there are some gig announcements I found of Repoman playing round Sydney & Melbourne, including with Nuclear Sex Addict (featuring Yeap of Pisschrist and friends from Schifosi & Workshy), Adelaide’s Snakerun, Straightjacket Nation and Deathcage late last year.

According to one site, Repoman’s vocalist AJ used to play guitar for a Sydney street-punk band mixing heavy r’n'r with Oi! sounds called The Corps (myspace.com/thecorps).

And the OI! influence is evident in Repoman’s older songs like “Discharged” and “Kids of the Wrecking Crew” where hard street-punk style dominates. However the current sound as featured on the songs on the band’s myspace page reminds me of Fucked Up and recent old school American HC revivalists. Here’s a tune:

myspace.com/repomandaggers

DATES:

Monday, 29th June: Malang, Indonesia
Wednesday, 1st July: Semarang, Indonesia
Thursday, 2nd July: Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Saturday, 4th July: Bandung, Indonesia
Sunday, 5th July: Jakarta, Indonesia
Tuesday, 7th July: Lampung, Indonesia

Friday, 10th July: Taiping, Malaysia

Saturday, 11th July: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sunday, 12th July: Singapore

Friday, 17th July: Bangkok

Our good friends from Bandung are coming over soon! More info in the next few days. But first, the show in Singapore:

FRIDAY, 24th July 2009: Singapore

SATURDAY, 25th July 2009: JB

* flyer soon

SUNDAY, 26th July 2009: KL

* flyer soon
* the gig will be at Paul’s Place with RELATIONSHEEP, CRIMESCENE, THE GARRISON and (maybe) THE ONE CHORD WONDERS. Turtles Jr benefit t-shirts will be on sale soon!

MONDAY, 27th July 2009: KL

*we hope to have a studio show - will be calling up some friends who can help.

TUESDAY, 28th July 2009: Not sure yet!

Get it: Broken Noise Records

ATOMICDEATH
Missile Massacre cassette EP
(Black Konflik Records)


Four tracks of fucken brutalized ear-ripping mix of crust, punk and metal from Shah Alam; featuring members of APPARATUS, DISGRACE & more.
 
RM 7 (Local) / USD 5 ( Asia) / USD 6 (World)
all prices includes postage airmail and registered services
cheap wholesale are welcome, via blacxkonflik [at] yahoo.com

more info: GeekRawk

Ricecooker’s short review: SPIRES is a post-hardcore quartet from the depth of Oakland, California and the band is brutal, I kid you not. There are a lot of different strains of hardcore and punk of the last two decades in this, however they are all have been finely distilled and chiseled towards a more violent, pummeling and depressing end. Discernible DNA patterns includes “screamo” (not a hip term nowadays, I know!) but that’s only due to the emotional, screaming and ranting of the anguished singer. There’s also this sense of “epic” hardcore in the songwriting, which would verve between utter violence and serene post-rock guitar sprawl or indie-rock scratch; served inbetween driving juggernauts of huge riffages. In short, this is bleak but it’s fighting out of the darkness, with all its might. Yup! Pretty dramatic. Personally, I like the how the band mixes all these strains and managed to focus itself into such a lean machine, but I must admit, I do wish the singer would ease on the rants, calm down a bit and break into a stoner drawl or something less taxing.

This CD is a special worldwide release by PISSART (kudos to Mindless Show’s Khabir!), because there were only 500 copies of the album pressed last year, all on vinyl! So this is pretty special boss!

Check out SPIRES here: myspace.com/spiresatwar
Order from: myspace.com/pissart

AVAILABLE AT THE RICECOOKER SHOP (with limited free A3 posters)!!!
TRADES ARE HUGELY ENCOURAGED! Contact us or Khabir…