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'.