CARRIE PHILLIS & THE DOWNTOWN 3 - "SPEND IT WITH YOU" LP

Carrie of The Booby Traps teams up with Johnny Casino, Craig Jackson
and Scotty Nash, and deliver a formidable rock'n'roll outfit.

12" EP
featuring
- 'Spend it with you'
- 'Outta space'
- 'Until I die'
- 'I dont care'

OUT NOW!

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

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.

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

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

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