SciFi Mafia cd launch..

I’m attending the launch of the NEW Scifi Mafia cd tonight and hope to get some excellent shots from this gig!!
Here is a sample taste of things to come!!

Jez

 

An club official program (January – February 2011)

I went to An Club the other day to see two Greek bands, punk rockers ΟΥΣΤ and alternative rockers, Atoma 4.

There is a new underground Greek rock scene out there waiting for you, so I thought it would be nice having the January and February program list of An Club.

The club has been around for about 25 years, very near to Exarchia square at Solomou street and apart from the local bands, foreign bands have also played there.

Some of the foreign bands are: Marky Ramone, Niki Sudden Steve Wynn, Dead Moon, Mike Patton, Lee Scratch Perry, Zounds, Fleshtones, Lydia Lunch, Godfathers, U.K. Subs, Agnostic front, Vibrators, Vice Squad, Skyclad, Katatonia, Mayhem, Tiamat, International Noise Conspiracy, Orange Goblin, Nomads, Louis Tillet and many others.

 

 

UK SUBS all NEW album on sale NOW!!!

 

Whilst the Punk community sit round and eagerly await the Queens Honours List (!) to see if U.K.Subs vocalist Charlie Harper has been knighted for Services to Punk Rock the man himself has continued to tour the world relentlessly. Now up to the letter “W” in the quest for an album for every letter of the alphabet, this is undoubtedly one of Sir Charlie and co.’s best efforts to date, a real bonefide Punk Rock classic. It features a great cover of The Sonics “Strychnine”, a co-write with Rancid’s Lars Frederiksen plus a dozen Subs originals – “Work In Progress” = 14 powerful, melodic and lyrically spot on Punk Rock anthems. 35 years on and still going strong. This is a classic and you should own it.

Disk 1: CREATION | TOKYO ROSE | HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE | THE AXE | RADIO UNFRIENDLY | THIS CHAOS | GURU | EIGHTEEN WHEELS | CHILDREN OF THE FLOOD | ALL BLURS INTO ONE | ROCK N ROLL WHORE | STRYCHNINE | ROBOT AGE

 

 

http://www.captainoi.com/details.asp?CatNo=AHOY+CD+310

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1AcyG6p4rw&feature=player_embedded

 

Brad Kokay

Brad Kokay recorded in performance at Laboratory Music #1 solo minimalist free improvisation festival, Saturday, July 10, 2010, at The Laboratory, 818 W. University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida.

Brad Kokay (of Sarasota, Florida) was one of 31 improvisers in a seven hour program. For his performance Kokay improvised a visual collage of pre-cut black and white photocopy clippings from books and magazines and affixed them to a thick three foot by four foot sheet of plywood.

 

Baby steps to a new era vol. XI

Ok, I had this hidden somewhere and yesterday I found it.

Blue Note was a pub in the center of Athens where young people who  listened to new wave and punk rock were hanging around, back in the early 80’s.

It’s funny cause I guess it will make at least a few people smile as the memories that this cheap catalogue will dig up.

There one could meet members of the bands Ex- Humans, Anypoforoi,  Flowers Of Romance, Alive She Died, Ding An Sich, South of No North, Panx Romana and many others.

The pub changed its name after a couple of years and became Masswell (anyone who has a better memory can correct the spelling…)

And yes, I admit it: I stole the menu.

Sue me.

 

Baby steps to a new era vol. VII

I took the Yeah ! poster from Hryssa Pantazi’s blog, Here Comes A Sun.

I had the pleasure to see the band playing live that night and as this world is not big enough, I found the poster.

I can’t remember the year though…

I was very surprised when I found an A.E.T.A. blog. Nice !!!!

This is where I found this poster from. So, we posted the first one and now we got the second…

Cool, cause we’re talking bout the 80′s…

 

Baby steps to a new era vol. V

Parthenogennesis - 1980 (Mousiko Express issue 24)

Advertisement of the forthcoming gig of the band Parthenogennesis. The band would play live on Sunday October 26 1980.

They never released their matterial – check past postings.

Parthenogenesis 2 - the Makridis accident

Funny advertisement of the same gig , with the band announcing that bass player George Makridis (he would form later the band Forward Music Quintet) broke his leg. The gig wasn’t canceled.

Spyridoula - Tiffany's (Mousiko Express issue 4 - 1979)

Advertisement of the forthcoming shows of the classic rock band Spyridoula at the Tiffany’s Rock Club. Spyridoula reached a cult status during the next years. This comes from 1979.

Infa Riot - TVC - FMQ 1983

T.V.C. and Forward Music Quintet supporting the english punk rock band Infa Riot. T.V.C. was the band of Panx Romanas’s drumer Dimitris Dimitrakas, oriented in a more new wave sound. Forward Music Quinter were George Makridis new band.

Flowers Of Romance 1985

Poster of the band The Flowers of Romance for their gig on April 24 1985. The band would achieve cult status in the following years – check past and forthcoming postings.

 

Baby steps to a new era vol.IV

Poster

I guess there are a lot of people out there that would like to have it .

Thanks to a friend (hello Marios) it came to my possesion and it might make  somebody’s weekend.

The poster of a historic event that took place in Sporting basket ball stadium in 1982 or 1983…I seem to forget lately…

Birthday Party, The Fall and New Order.

Metro Decay, Magic De Spell and Forward Music Quintet.

The 80′s were not that bad after all