Norton Record benefit

We'd like to put out a big a thank you to anyone (Punters, Record Buyers, Bands, DJ's, The Old Bar, Anyone who donated, ect.) who gave help at our Norton Records benefit show last Saturday night at The Old Bar. What a success!   

If you couldn't make it here are some videos from the night:

Special guests - THE PRETTY THINGS

MIDNIGHT WOOLF - 

Midnight Woolf - It's Love @ The Old Bar, Fitzroy (15th Dec 2012) from Carbie Warbie on Vimeo.

MESA COSA -

Mesa Cosa - Diablo @ The Old Bar, Fitzroy (15th Dec 2012) from Carbie Warbie on Vimeo.

THE REPROBETTES 

The Reprobettes - Don't You Know @ The Old Bar, Fitzroy (15th Dec 2012) from Carbie Warbie on Vimeo.

Videos by Carbie Warbie

Photos by Carbie are up to view on Tonedeaf 

Thank you

Hey, a big thanks for your continued support of Off The Hip Records thru 2012.

this year was another big one for us; we turned 10 at the beginning of
the year, and it's been our pleasure to bring you many great new
releases thru the year from the likes of: KING SALAMI, TOMBSTONE
RAMBLERS, MIDNIGHT WOOLF, THE SINGLES, ZOOBOMBS, JOHNNY CASINO, MESA
COSA, BRAT FARRAR, CRYSTAL THOMAS, THE NO REAL NEED and RUSSIAN
ROULETTES. plus many great gigs in the record store, and some great
live sets along the east coast by touring bands: ZOOBOMBS (japan)
KING SALAMI (uk), LOS CHICOS (spain), and JOHHNY CASINO Y LOS SECRETOS
(spain). plus we got a couple of local bands over to europe: MIDNIGHT
WOOLF (sept) and BRAT FARRAR (for what felt like most of 2012, please
send them home so they can record a new album).

our plans for 2013; we got releases at the (vinyl) pressing plant for
LA BASTARD, TEA, CARRIE PHILLIS AND THE DOWNTOWN 3, then into the year
records for JOHNNY CASINO (it wouldn't be a year at off the hip
without something new from our man johnny), LOS CHICOS (with a tour
sometime the second half of the year), and many many more.

this year's christmas instore party is friday 14th dec, live we got
LEECHES (perth punk), plus local acts IOWA and CHRIS RUSSELS CHICKEN
WALK. rock up from 6:30pm, BYO.

and saturday 15th dec we're throwing a benefit for our flooded
brothers over in Brooklyn, NY - NORTON RECORDS - who lost their entire
warehouse to the recent Sandy hurricane floods. OLD BAR w/ MIDNIGHT
WOOLF, MESA COSA, THE REPROBETTES and WRONG TURN ( as a friggin 3
piece, yes they went 'soft' and added a bassman in the form of the Rum
God- ask to see his plaque, as he still hasn't shown me?); all
proceeds will be donated to NORTON RECORDS.

important: off the hip's last day of trade for 2012 will be friday
december 21st, we'll re-open wednesday 9th january.

happy festive season, and we look forward to bringing you more great
music thru 2013,
mick, jack and chris - off the hip records

Norton Records Benefit!!!

Please come down to The Old Bar next Saturday and show your support for our dear friends Norton Records. Along with DJ's and Bands we will be running a stall packed with Norton label 45's and LP's; ALL proceeds go to saving the mighty Norton Records.

For details on the disaster click here. 

Saving Norton Records after Hurricane Sandy from Dust & Grooves on Vimeo.

T-Shirts

yessireesir, black t-shirt with white OFF THE HIP logo. AUD$30
postpaid worldwide, or AUD$25 over the counter.

paypal into: offthehiprecords@gmail.com

sizes:
ladies
mens small
mens mediuam
mens latrge
mens X-large
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plus we just got in a huge box of new vinyl: BEATLES, REDD KROSS,
FUGAZI, ALEX CHILTON, SUN RA, HUSKER DU, GIRLS IN THE GARAGE (vol 12),
MUMMIES, TEENAGE FANCLUB, FRED McDOWELL, BABY WOODROSE, BIG STAR,
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, many many more.....

cheers,
team off the hip

KING SALAMI AND THE CUMBERLAND 3 - CAN YOUR MONKEY DO THE WURST CD

In 2006, one Japanese, one French, one Caribbean and one Spanish got together to form a black rhythm & blues party band!

London's newest R&B-punk sensation – okay, maybe our only R&B-punk outfit – are making fun times where ever they go. With a repertoire encompassing many of the greats of the '50s and '60s you won't be able to help but move your feet. The King howls like Screaming Jay Hawkins with Bo Diddley chasing his coat-tail and with Andre Williams trying to offer up some of his bacon fat. This man never stops shakin' and twistin' and groovin' while the Cumberland 3 (former members of the Ulcers, Chinese Lungs and Parkinsons) play their own branded mix of vintage rockabilly desperate rock'n'roll and a bit of soul with fire, energy, gusto and fun!

They have played all over Europe, and more recently Japan & China, sharing the stage with the Pretty Things, the Trashmen, the Standells, the Mummies, the Bellrays, the Cynics, etc...and have released a bunch of killer 45's on different European record labels.

This CD release collects a bunch of their 7" tracks plus rarities and compilation tracks.

THE SINGLES "Use it for yourself" 2xCD - OTH 7114

THE SINGLES "Use it for yourself" 2xCD - OTH 7114 

The Singles are a band I have always rated as highly likely to make it big. I find them one of the most charming pop groups around. The songs are inhabited by characters from broken homes, children whose fathers have died, boyfriends whose girlfriends have left them lonely and despairing. They tread the same general trail forged so admirably by the Buzzcocks and the Undertones, and though they have not scaled those dizzy heights of popdom there is every suggestion their best moments are still ahead of them. - Roadrunner, 1981.

So wrote the ex-Riptides guitarist and music journalist Scott Matheson in the music magazine Roadrunnerin early 1981. But like with The Saints, The Triffids, The Go-betweens and The Boys Next Door, the wider Australian music scene was not receptive, even hostile, to bands whose music didn’t fit the commercial music industry mould that existed at the time. Many lesser bands went on to enjoy commercial success in Australia with vastly inferior songs. Many bands decamped and went to Europe. The Singles battled it out in Sydney striving for recognition and success.

The Singles started playing the Sydney inner city scene in the early 1980s in venues such as the Civic, Rock Garden, Chequers, Frenchs, the Paddington Green and the Heritage Hotel. Their sound was post punk art pop reminiscent of the Buzzcocks. The songs are simple, melodic, catchy and straight to the point pop. Songs such as ‘Love of Loves’, ‘Stay’, ‘Perfect Girl’, ‘Sad Clown’ made instant connections to the young inner city Sydney audience who just missed mid 1970’s punk scene.

In early 1980 the Singles release their first ep Love of Loves on Double Think Records. This ep immediately sold out. Later in 1980 the Singles released Someone that I knew on Basilisk Records and this further cemented their sound and their audience. Someone that I knew started getting solid airplay on the ABC’s Sydney music station DoubleJay (2JJ). The Singles started to fill inner-city venues and booking agencies tried them in the large suburban beer barns where their post punk pop sound didn’t go down with suburban audiences who wanted the Radiators, ‘Chisel’ and the Angels and definitely not charming pop.

Undeterred The Singles continued to play the inner city while venturing out into the suburbs supporting the likes of Sunnyboys and InXS. They released the limited edition cassette singlesSomething’s’ Not Right in 1981 and The Party in 1982. Their final single The Day was featured on the compilation Shake and Shout released by Survival Records in 1984

This was a time when Sydney’s rundown inner-city saw an explosion of creativity from a new generation of youth who inhabited the squats and cheap rent terraces of Darlinghurst, Chippendale and Newtown, This generation referenced a blend of mid 1970’s nihilist British punk and the blistering attitude on 1960’s American and Australian garage pop. It was a time when in both Sydney and Melbourne young musicians and artists were breaking the shackles held over the Australian music scene by commercial radio and record companies that controlled Australian music through the 1970s.

While the Singles received critical acclaim in the music press, enjoyed solid air play on 2JJ and a held a loyal and enthusiastic inner city following, wider commercial success eluded them. In mid 1983 they played their last show at the Sydney Graphic Arts Club in Chippendale just a few blocks away from the terrace where they formed four years earlier. Use it for yourself is an anthology of The Singles songs from their EP, single, cassette and compilation releases from 1980 – 1984.

Disc 1

Vinyl & demos

1 Someone That I Knew

2 The Day

3 Love Of Loves

4 Sad Clown

5 Stay

6 If You’ll Only

7 The Perfect Girl

8 Billy

9 It Wasn’t Really There

10 What Was Wrong

11 I’m Tired

12 Run On A String

13 How Does It Feel

14 Maybe No One Knows

15 Virgin

16 Use It For Yourself

17 Visit

18 Since I Met You

Disc 2

Live at Caringbah Inn, April 1982

1 What I Want To Do

2 Every Other

3 Playground Of Love

4 What Was Wrong

5 Since I Met You

6 Opening Doors

7 Stay

8 Just My Imagination

9 Can We Play

10 But Til Then

11 Sleepless Nights

12 Say Hello

13 The Party

14 Something’s Not Right

15 Uninvited Guests

16 What Am I

17 Sad Clown

ZOOBOMBS "ULTIMATE COLLECTION" CD

Off The Hip is proud to present The Zoobombs 'The Ultimate Collection'! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Zoobombs formed in Tokyo in 1994, toured with The Flaming Lips and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and were dubbed “Heroes of the Japanese Next Wave”, they have been playing their unique brand of bombastic and explosive garage party psych rock for over 15 years and have gathered a cult audience all over the world.

“The supersonic Tokyo band somehow morphed from Stonesy punk-rock maniacs to freaky jazz-rock jammers without missing a beat, or losing a tad of their record-breaking inte
nsity. Band leader Don Matsuo repeatedly risked everything, pushing the audience to the brink with endless jams before dissolving into a gloriously noisy release.” - Toronto Sun. T
his Off The Hip release includes twelve of Zoobombs greatest hits, including the infectious party groove of 'Mo Funky' and the explosive energy of 'South Central Rock'. Soon to be touring with Melbourne garage ratbags Mesa Cosa, this CD is a special edition Australian release that will have you jumping up and down in your bed with unashamed abandon. Don't miss Zoobombs on their August Australia tour and pick up this exclusive Off The Hip release in store now!

MESA COSA "INFERNAL CAKEWALK" CD

'Mesa Cosa are proud to be releasing their much lauded 'Infernal Cakewak' record via Off The Hip Records.

Recorded in their dingy Brunswick living room by Nao Anzai (Rat vs. Possum/Nunchukka Superfly) and packaged in a lush sleeve designed by CM Ruiz (Dead Ghosts, Davila 666, Tacocat). The Infernal Cakewalk EP captures Mesa Cosa’s “the Stooges walk into a Tequila bar” live attitude in a “hey, we put out a record!” kind of way.

With three additional tracks plus re-mastering by Mikey Young this is the definitive version of one of this years most raucous standout releases. 'A formidable debut' said Beat magazine. The Infernal Cakewalk EP offers ten of Mesa Cosa’s enigmatic fist-pumping garage songs from their huge ouvre. Featuring the sing-a-long garage anthemShoplifter, noise punk orgy Los Perros (The Dogs) and the 6(66) minute opus of fuzz, demonic chants and free saxophone bedlam boogie Diablo.

Mesa Cosa are a six piece from everywhere between Mexico City and Melbourne, Australia, that play an aggressive blend of noisy punk, garage rock and Mexican folk tunes. Led by a diminutive chilango from Mexico City, singing in both Spanish and English, Mesa Cosa mix their un-dying love of Mexican celebrations and dark symbols with their un-ashamed love for garage music and experimental noise.Mesa Cosa (only) play fun, energetic shows filled with dancing, mayhem, things breaking, people fall- ing down, glasses smashing, amps failing and tambourine sacrifices to the party gods.

Having the honor of playing with some of Melbournes most amazing bands in Melbournes most ritualized venues. Mesa Cosa have earned a cult following second only to Allah and the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Soon to be playing with some of the best bands the US and Japan have to offer, this is a band to watch and this is a record to quickly add to your collection.

"Every thousand years or so, the Devil throws a party, as you well know, I'm never invited. But I hear this time around Mesa Cosa played. and. they. destroyed. EVERYTHING! Then.. every body got laid."

-God

OUT NOW on Off The Hip

5 releases, 3 tours and 1000 plus records!

hey there, its been a crazy couple of months.

our record label has been releasing great music by great bands:
JOHNNY CASINO AND THE SECRETS 2x7" NOW IS THE TIME
MIDNIGHT WOOLF "ILL BE A DOG" CD
KING SALAMI AND THE CUMBERLAND 3 "CAN YOUR MONKEY DO THE WURST" CD
THE ZOOBOMBS "ULTIMATE COLLECTION" CD
JOHNNY CASINO SAMPLER CD
call or email to mailorder these beauties, or swing by the record
store. **special: these five releases for just 80 dollars post paid
within australia.

into the record store has arrived over 1000 pieces of vinyl from the
NORTON & CRYPT RECORD LABELS. the racks are bursting with rabid
rocknroll of all persuasions.

and on top of all that we got not one but three touring bands heading
our way this month:

JOHNNY CASINO Y LOS SECRETOS - our man in sydney plus his spanish backing band:
thursday 9th aug @ the patch, wollongong
friday 10th aug @ the square, sydney cbd
saturday 11th aug @ stones manly fishos
sunday 12th aug @ the sando, newtown
friday 17th aug @ the espy, st kilda
saturday 18th aug @ yah yahs, fitzroy
sunday 19th aug @ the retreat, brunswick

KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND 3 - wild garage/RnB from the UK
friday 17th aug @ luwow, fitzroy
saturday 18th aug @ luwow, fitzroy
sunday 19th aug @ the retreat, brunswick
tuesday 21st aug @ Cherry Bar, melbourne cbd
wednesday 22nd aug @ Espy basement
friday 24th aug @ Devilles Pad PERTH
saturday 25th aug @ Devilles Pad PERTH

ZOOBOMBS - japan psychrock noismakers
friday 17th aug @ the tote, collingwood
saturday 18th aug @ the espy, st kilda
wednesday 22nd aug @ great northern, newcastle
friday 24th aug @ the patch, wollongong
saturday 25th aug @ sando, newtown

all the best,
mickster - off the hip records
381 flinders lane
melbourne vic 3000
03 9621 2044
P.S. i;m DJing this friday night at luwow, and saturday 18th ill be on
the skins at yah yahs with the swingin nutsacks.

New stock instore!

A big box of vinyl just hit the record store. LP gloriousness from the likes of: ALEX CHILTON, HOWLIN' WOLF, THE REMAINS, SPACEMEN 3, MUDHONEY, DILLARD AND CLARK, LEONARD COHEN, MILES DAVIS, EAT SKULL, LIGHTNIN' BEATMAN, TWERPS, PRETTY THINGS, GRUNTBUCKET, UNDEAD APES, LEGENDARY R&B, LEGENDARY EXOTICA, and that great 2xLP project JEFFREY LEE PIERCE SESSIONS.......

Johnny Casino Y Los Secretos Tour

June news from Off The Hip!

g'day,

winter is here and you may be thinking of spring cleaning that vinyl
collection in the garage, or up in the attic. off the hip records are
looking to buy vinyl collections from people with good taste in music
like yourself. get in touch with mickster 03 9621 2044 and he'll sort
a good price for the whole collection.

coming next for the off the hip record label:
KING SALAMI AND THE CUMBERLAND 3 (UK) compilation CD, melb/perth tour in august
JOHNNY CASINO AND THE SECRETS 2x7", sydney/melb tour mid august
ZOOBOMBS (JAPAN) compilation CD, melb/sydney/wollongong/newcastle tour august
THE SINGLES (sydney 1980) retrospective compilation 2xCD
TEA (adelaide) debut album LP/CD

Off The Hip bands in the recording studio:
*Little Murders are currently recording a new album provisionally
titled "Rocket To The Moon" ..hopefully to be released before the end
of the year. Recording at Audrey studios with Craig Pilkington
producing

*Green Circles are in the middle of recording 11 new tracks for an
album due for release later in the year

*Midnight Woolf have finished recording a new album. LP release coming
Sept in time for their tour of Spain.

*La Bastard have just finished mixing a new 3 track single, "Take Me
Away' which will be available in digital format from next week and
will be launched on Friday 22nd July at the John Curtin Bandroom.

gigs for June:
sat 16th june - the tombstone ramblers @ the lansdowne hotel w/ spg
and thundabox.

Sat 16th June -Little Murders @ Victoria Hotel w/ Thee Wylde Oscars

Friday 22 June - La Bastard single launch and bon voyage show @ the
John Curtin Bandroom with the Peep Tempel and the Velocettes (Jimi's
last show with the band and last gig for 5 months!)

Fri 22nd june - The Dunhill Blues @ the green room enmore w/ the
intercontinental playboys.

Sat 23rd June -Little Murders @ Lyrebird Lounge w/ Danny McDonald & guests

Sat 23rd June – The No Real Need @ Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. w/ Mad
Nanna and Brashs

Sat 23rd June- Midnight Woolf @ The Grace Darling Hotel, w/ Mesa Cosa
and The Loveless

Fri 29th June - ROCKET TO MEMPHIS @ The LuWow, Fitzroy w/ support
HILLBILLY JACK

Fri 29 June - Thee Wylde Oscars @ The Retreat Hotel, w/Matt Sonic &
The High Times

Sat 30th June - ROCKET TO MEMPHIS @ The LuWow, Fitzroy

Sat 30th June-Midnight Woolf @ The Square (Sydney), w La Mancha Negra,
Glitter Canyon and Blackbear

New records in this week!

New to the racks of the Off The Hip records store this week is:

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING LP and S&CW/TWIN PEAKS split LP
Dreamy Australian pop mastered by Mikey Young (of Eddy Currenty Supression Ring, Total Control, ect) Released by Beadroom Suck

LP reissues from GOD, TELEVISION, DMZ and NINA SIMONE
GOD records are double LP's in gate-fold sleeves

and THE VICTIMS 'sleeping dogs lie' CD
Featuring the complete recorded works of Perth's seminal punk group plus previously unheard demos

Come by the shop and say hello,
Off The Hip Records

Party this Friday!

It's time for another instore party at Off The Hip Records!

After releasing their new LP "Songs from an empty room" at the tote last month Melbourne's GRUNTBUCKET will be taking to the OTH stage to bring you their atmospheric and riff heavy R n' R. Joining them will be Queensland's UNDEAD APES who we're certain will whip you into a frenzy with their fuzzed out, take no prisoners style of garage punk.

You know the deal by now...

BYO, DJ's, Records, Fun. 

Cheers,

Off The Hip Records

May news

G'day,

Thanks to everyone that got out to one (or more) of the LOS CHICOS
shows; what a fabulous party!! LOS CHICOS plan to return late 2013!!
and right now i'm booking shows for not one, but two touring bands due
here mid august: KING SALAMI AND THE CUMBERLAND 3 (UK) and JOHNNY
CASINO Y LOS SECRETOS- our man in sydney plus his spanish backing
band.

recent releases:
**THE HARD-ONS "SMELL MY FINGER" 2xCD - Citadel Records is proud to
announce a five part reissue series The Hard-Ons - A Decade Of Rock.
This definitive body of work will present the entire official recorded
output of The Hard-Ons' first ten years of existence with a new
reissue every three to four months.
Smell My Finger debuts the series. Spanning the years 1984 - 1987, it
contains all of the band's early 7 inch releases and the two 12 inch
album releases Smell My Finger and Hot For Your Love, Baby. Every
officially released Hard-Ons' tune from the period, down to the most
obscure compilation track, has been included. Adding interest to the
mix is some bizarre and fascinating live documentation from salvaged
party tapes and desk recordings.

**CRYSTAL THOMAS AND THE FLOWERS OF EVIL "A CHANCE IN HELL" CD -
Through unhinged guitar lines and intense brooding vocals, Crystal
Thomas is set to release 'A Chance n Hell' - Crystal's sophomore
album; written, recorded, and co-produced with Spencer P Jones and
Matt Walker, captures Crystal’s 'Australian-gothic', confessional
lyrics over a dark disco pulse and rock n roll swagger, raw against
the lush production of the previous offering – 2008 Stovepipe records
release.

**THE NO REAL NEED "NONLOCAL MOTIVES" CD - Nonlocal Motives is The No
Real Need’s second album, and is the first
document of the band as a four-piece. Recorded by Robert Pollard’s
right-hand man Todd Tobias at Waterloo Sound in the USA, and by Brent
Punshon at Melbourne’s Head Gap, it has more of a live feel than
2009’s Thistles Where We Slept; yet the addition of new voices has
only broadened the canvas for Steve’s idiosyncratic pop, which reaches
a little further out into space this time. The songs project richly
imagined, echo-laden nth dimensions, littered with metaphysical
musings and Jungian freak-outs. There are more layers, more
echo-tinged tangents than before, all coated in a sticky shared DNA
damaged as much by grunge as by tape delay. But the essential sound of
Steve’s operation remains: an odd blend of stiff-armed Colin
Newman-style experimentalism and buttery, harmonised pop. Probably
closer to the latter, much to the drummer’s chagrin. Cassette version
available in April on Do Your Block.

coming later this month for the off the hip record label:
**JOHNNY CASINO - SAMPLER CD featuring new recordings from Johnny's
many current projects; secrets album, johnny solo album, johnny y los
secretos, carrie philis and the downtown three 7", plus tracks from
his entire career. Who can stop this man??

**THE SINGLES CD - compilation from this early '80s sydney powerpop
band. contemporaries of LITTLE MURDERS and YOUNG MODERN.

GIGS:
Sat 12th May The Chords (UK) @HiFi w/ Little Murders & the Messengers

Saturday May 12th Midnight Woolf @ The Gasometer w/ Mass Cult and Bad Vision

Friday 18th May - Brothers Grim and the Blue Murders @ the Tote w/ La
Bastard and the Murlocs

Saturday May 19th Brothers Grim @ The Tote w/ Midnight Woolf and the Merlocs

Sun 20th May - JOHNNY CASINO & friends @ The Sando from 4-7 for FREE !

Fri 25th May – The No Real Need @ Town Hall Hotel (Album Launch) (2 sets)

Friday 25th May - La Bastard @ the National Hotel, Geelong w/ The
Living Eyes and the Kremlings

Sat 26th May. Cold Harbour @ Great Britain w/ Little Murders

Thursday 31st May - La Bastard @ the Luwow, w/ Murder Rats and Sin and
Tonics (Tasmania)


get in touch for your next mailorder, or simply drop into the record
store when you're next in Melbourne town.

have a tops weekend, and thanks for your continued support of a true indie,
mickster

NEW FROM OFF THE HIP RECORDS

good morning, or is it afternoon?? these last few days have been a bit hazy.

LOS CHICOS blazed thru town last week leaving bottles and bodies in
their wake, and will boogie festival ever be the same again after that
los chicos set?!?! cough, splutter, then i got the lurgie that was
past to me by those swingin' nutsacks.....hey did you see them live at
the old bar last friday?? "glorious trainwreck" is how i've heard it
described. but from where i was sitting it looked like a hell of a
good time....then i flew to sydney with the kids to celebrate my mum's
retirement party; maggie taught steve and chris and i the value of
work commitment!! thanks mumbles.....

just out on the off the hip record label we deliver:
CRYSTAL THOMAS AND THE FLOWERS OF EVIL "A CHANCE IN HELL" CD ALBUM
THE NO REAL NEED "NONLOCAL MOTIVES" CD ALBUM

plus in the record store has arrived a bunch of solid local & import vinyl:
CHOOK RACE, GAYTIME, UNITY FLOOR, SAINT JUDE, MONSTERS, MOONSTONES,
BRAT FARRAR, KING SALAMI UK (CD coming on off the hip in june, touring
august), GAYE BLADES, ESQUERITA, DEAD MOON, more.....

gigs for april:
tonight at the tote: MESA COSA and THE KREMLINGS (2 local bands i'm
keen on having a release on off the hip)

Friday 13th April - The Nearly Brothers@ Caravan music club w/ Crystal
Thomas & Ben Bunting (duo)

SATURDAY 14th APRIL - CARRIE PHILLIS AND THE DOWNTOWN 3 @ Wollongong
Diggers Club

SUN 15th April - The Dunhill Blues @ Botany View Hotel Newtown w/
Smitty and B Goode

Sunday 15th April Goddess @ The Lyrebird Lounge Ripponlea w/ Rosie
Hayden, Sideshow Brides & Noir

FRI 20th April - The Dunhill Blues @ Rics Bar Brisbane w/ Steve Smyth

SAT 21st April - The Dunhill Blues @ Southern Cross University Bar
Lismore w/ HITS

Saturday 21st April Crystal Thomas & full band ALBUM LAUNCH 'A Chance
In Hell' @ St Kilda Bowling Club w/ Harry Howard & the NDE & Penny
Ikinger & the Evolution

Sat 21 April - Thee Wylde Oscars (2 sets)! @ Great Britain Hotel

SAT 21ST APRIL- LITTLE MURDERS @ TOWN HALL HOTEL, NORTH MELBOURNE

Saturday 21st April - La Bastard @ the Retreat, w/Mesa Cosa - FREE ENTRY

SUN 22nd April - The Dunhill Blues @ Freemason Hotel Nimbin with The Antibodies

see a band, buy a record, support your community radio station, write
a fanzine, start a band, put on a show in your backyard, PARTICIPATE!!

thanks for all your continued support,
mickster

The No Real Need - Nonlocal Motives CD - OTH 7111

The No Real Need can be traced back to when a teenage Steve Hewitt first blasted Guided By Voices' 'Teenage FBI' from the downstairs bedroom of his parents house one morning in 2000. His younger brother Mark was appalled at what he heard. First it had been The Beatles, then R.E.M., and now this—another flimsy second-tier guitar-pop band whose frivolous melodies would follow him around day and night, burrowing into his consciousness permanently like bad television, polluting his puritanical version of Modern Rock—a military state in which Fugazi ruled with an iron fist and the only pop to be heard was the slip of a spinal disc in an all-male mosh pit where no-one was allowed to do the twist. But he couldn't shut out the fun forever. A decade later young Mark found himself—one part D.C. and nine parts Ringwood—in the woods in Ohio where the Pabst flowed like water, belting the drums in the name of his older brother's studio debut. When Leon Cranswick and other brother Adam Hewitt joined a little later, Steve's lo-fi bedroom recording project became a full band.

Nonlocal Motives is The No Real Need's second album, and is the first document of the band as a four-piece. Recorded by Robert Pollard's right-hand man Todd Tobias at Waterloo Sound in the USA, and by Brent Punshon at Melbourne's Head Gap, it has more of a live feel than 2009's Thistles Where We Slept; yet the addition of new voices has only broadened the canvas for Steve's idiosyncratic pop, which reaches a little further out into space this time. The songs project richly imagined, echo-laden nth dimensions, littered with metaphysical musings and Jungian freak-outs. There are more layers, more echo-tinged tangents than before, all coated in a sticky shared DNA damaged as much by grunge as by tape delay. But the essential sound of Steve's operation remains: an odd blend of stiff-armed Colin Newman-style experimentalism and buttery, harmonised pop. Probably closer to the latter, much to the drummer's chagrin. Cassette version available in April on Do Your Block.

CRYSTAL THOMAS AND THE FLOWERS OF EVIL CD - OTH 7110

"An heiress to a tradition of dramatic, confessional music that explores the dark side of life and love. She is backed by what really is an all-star Melbourne band. Her voice is smoky and sensual, wrapping itself around her lyrics. Her stage presence is arresting as her voice" - Tom Hawking, Editor Inpress

Through unhinged guitar lines and intense brooding vocals, Crystal Thomas is set to release 'A Chance In Hell' - Crystal's sophomore album, due out on 2nd April 2012, through iconic Melbourne label Off The Hip. The album; written, recorded, and co-produced with Spencer P Jones and Matt Walker, captures Crystal's 'Australian-gothic', confessional lyrics over a dark disco pulse and rock n roll swagger, raw against the lush production of the previous offering – 2008 Stovepipe records release: 'Crystal Thomas & the Flowers of Evil'.

OTH Gig Guide

That's right kats and kittens, spain's most FUN-tastic rock'n'roll band are returning to australia for a bunch of gigs. if you caught LOS CHICOS last time they were here, you'll know their live shows are not to be missed!! this is rump shakin' rock'n'roll; your inhibitions will fade as soon as they hit the stage- guaranteed.
SAT 31st MARCH @ THE SANDO, NEWTOWN
SUN 1st APRIL @ THE CABBAGE TREE, WOLLONGONG
WED 4tH APRIL @ THE TOTE
THUR 5th APRIL @ YAH YAHS
FRI 6th APRIL @ THE OLD BAR
SAT 7th APRIL @ BOOGIE FESTIVAL

These new releases coming in 2 weeks for the off the hip record label:

CRYSTAL THOMAS AND THE FLOWERS OF EVIL (featuring spencer p. jones)

THE NO REAL NEED

and these 3 were released last month during our 10 year anniversary:

BRAT FARRAR

RUSSIAN ROULETTES

LA BASTARD.

plus plenty of new and secondhand vinyl has been entering the record

store; get in touch for your next mailorder!!

Other gigs of note:

Wed March 7th Raul Sanchez Solo(Midnight Woolf, River of Snakes, Magic

Dirt) @ The Retreat Front Bar

Thur 8th March The Painkillers @ The Bakery supporting The Black Lips

FRI 9TH MARCH - INTOXICA @ LUWOW BAR

Sat March 10th - Midnight Woolf @ Old Bar with La Bastard and Poison Oak

FRI 16TH MARCH - THE SAVAGES @ LUWOW BAR

FRI 16th March - Crystal Thomas(band) @ The Lyrebird

Friday 23rd March - La Bastard @ The Exeter (Adelaide) w/ Ricochet Pete

March 23rd - Green Circles @ Grace Emily Hotel w/Molting Vultures +

Vic Conrad & the 1st Third

SAT MARCH 24- LITTLE MURDERS @ LYREBIRD LOUNGE

Sat 24th March - Them Plasms @ The Squatters Arms (Adelaide) w/ La

Bastard & Diesel Witch

Sat March 31st- Midnight Woolf @ The Retreat with Mesa Cosa

Sat March 31 - THE DUNHILL BLUES @ Spring Hill Hotel Brisbane with HITS

Saturday 31 March - Los Chicos @ The Sandringham (Sydney) Johnny

Casino & La Bastard & The Escapes

Los Chicos Australian Tour

Off The Hip are proud to present the return of the wild, garage rockin' Spaniards know as Los Chicos. Anyone who had the chance to see the boys during their last Aussie tour will know that these shows are not to be missed and anyone who didn't now has the chance rewrite their past mistake. No to be missed.

New CD's!

New Australian music in stock from Shock and Aztec Music on CD. Titles include;

X - Spurts (the 1977 recordings)
X- Aspirations (features 3 bonus tracks)
Jim Keays - Dirty, Dirty
Died Pretty - Free Dirt (Bands first 5 releases plus 10 previously unreleased bonus tracks)
Eric Gradman Man & Machine - Crime Of Passion (deluxe reissue featuring previously unreleased tracks)
Bleeding Hearts - What Happened? (deluxe reissue featuring posthumously released singles and album plus previously unreleased tracks)
Tumbleweed - The Waterfront Years 1991 - 1993 (35 track double CD)

Happy Birthday to us!

Happy new year all you people with great taste in music!

OFF THE HIP RECORDS turn 10 this february. We began feb 2002 with the
release of the debut STONEAGE HEARTS album "turn on"; since then we've
released more than 100 albums, 5 magazines and a handful of singles
and eps. We thank you for your continued support of our label and all
things rock'n'roll.

We've kicked off our 10 year celebrations with three new australian cd albums:
LA BASTARD "FABULOUS SOUNDS"
BRAT FARRAR "S/T"
RUSSIAN ROULETTES "PHYSICAL EDUCATION"
check our website for all the info and cover for each release:
www.offthehip.com.au

Please get in touch for your next mailorder....or drop into the record
store when you're next in melbourne.

and next month we present two more australian releases- THE NO REAL
NEED and CRYSTAL THOMAS (featuring SPENCER P. JONES).

All the best for the new year,
Mickster, Chris and Jack
Off The Hip Records

Store update!!!

The record store currently bursting at the seams with new vinyl just in from DMZ, EDDY CURRENT, TY SEGALL, THE REATARDS, KIM SALMON AND THE GUYS FROM MUDHONEY, DICK DIVER, FLAT DUO JETS, JANE BIRKIN, THE DRONES, THE CREATION and THE CRAMPS, just to name a few.

Plus a swag of great secondhand vinyl, such as original pressings (some MONO) of MASTERS APPRENTICES, EASYBEATS, ROLLING STONES, KINKS, AZTECS, BEATLES, ANIMALS, MOTOWN, DEEP PURPLE, MONKEES, SLADE, and many more.

On top of all that we've also had a huge box of NORTON and CRYPT records enter store: SHANGRI-LAS, GAYE BLADES, CARL PERKINS, THE GORIES, SONICS, BACK FROM THE GRAVE, TABU, CHINESE ROCKS, HASIL ADKINS, ESQUERITA, DING DONGS, TANDOORI KNIGHTS, plus UNISSUED SIXTIES GARAGE ACETATES, more madness.....drop in some time.

Brat Farrar – S/T - CD OTH 7112

Debut solo long-player from Sam Agostino (Digger and The Pussycats, Russian Roulettes, Kamikaze Trio) playing under the pseudonym Brat Farrar.

Moving from Wipers inspired punk through to noisy grunge and industrial influenced punk at the core of the record is Agostino's trademark songwriting and guitar stylings.

All tracks written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Brat Farrar.

Follow up to the 45 "It's On Me" out thru P Trash.

Vinyl version of the album released on Every Night Is Like A Saturday Night (Australia) and P Trash (Europe). Cassette version available on Popular Favourites (Australia)

Russian Roulettes – Physical Education - CD OTH 7109

Melbourne garage super-group Russian Roulettes second record.

Recorded in the bands rehearsal space by Sam, mixed by Matt Voight and mastered at Masterdisk in New York.

A more diverse offering than the bands debut release as well as their trademark fast paced rock n roll this record features 60s styled psych rock, introspective slower tempo tunes and even a song sung by the drummer!!! (just like Ringo)

LA BASTARD - "THE FABULOUS SOUNDS OF" - CD OTH 7113

Conceived in late 2010 and finally born at the start of 2011, La Bastard is an exciting new Melbourne band that captures all the joy and heartbreak of the 1950s and 1960s greats such as Lee Hazelwood, Roy Orbison, Wanda Jackson and Ennio Morricone, and tops it off with the attitude and energy of more their contemporary heroes including the Gun Club, Man... Or Astro Man? and the Jesus Lizard.

A four piece fronted by outspoken vocalist Anna (formerly of the Melbourne band Kimbo), La Bastard have built a reputation for an explosive and interactive live show that at its best has included playing ON the bar, pillow fights and break dancing, And PLENTY of audience participation. The music, too, speaks for itself – clearly exhibiting the band's love and knowledge of classic rockabilly, soul, country and surf music, as well as their obvious substantial talents as musicians and songwriters.

La Bastard's self-titled debut album features 10 songs designed to immerse you in tales of both pleasure and pain, recounting lost loves and misadventures as well as the sweet revenge exacted by the scorned. With the majority of the album recorded live in a single session at Secret Location, Fairfield by Paul Maybury and Jesse Booher, La Bastard have captured the wild and spontaneous energy of their live shows – but have still managed to produce 10 tracks which each retain their own unique style, identity and story.

A great listen when you need cheering up or want something to shake your money maker to. Breaking up never felt like so much fun!

THE MOONSTONES - "FUZZ, FARFISA Y FIESTA" CD OTH 7107

Considered to be one of the most promising bands of the Spanish Garage scene at the moment, THE MOONSTONES now issue their very first and long-awaited LP on SOUNDFLAT RECORDS (Germany) and the CD version on OFF THE HIP RECORDS.


THE MOONSTONES are influenced by bands such as THE MIRACLE WORKERS, THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS or THE SONICS and produce correspondingly superb music. The title of their debut album FUZZ, FARFISA Y FIESTA already says what they are all about: Rocking music filled with a lot of Fuzz guitar, 60's farfisa organ and a crazy party attitude; all of which is set in Spain. This album is Garage Rock at its best; brilliant melodies, groovy hammondsounds, wild and fuzzy guitars, a strong, mainly
Spanish singing Punkrock voice, a bit of harmonica, danceable rhythms and a cool Beat all add up to a wild and fabulous Garage-album with a touch of Spanish ambience.


FUZZ, FARFISA Y FIESTA consists of 14 ingenious songs performed by this quintet from Madrid and except for one cover of THEE MILKSHAKES' song "I'll use evil", which is sung in Spanish, they are also written by THE MOONSTONES themselves.


Recorded in the famous Circo Perrotti Studios this LP provides us with an authentic mixture of Garage, Punk and R&B and is consequently just perfect for everyGaragepunk, 60's freak and anyone, who loves good music.