Crab Smasher - Forever!

There hasn't been much activity here at Sky Hut so it's pretty exciting to be able to offer you a new Crab Smasher album/download to make up for it.

FOREVER! Consists of seven tracks culled from live sets recorded at the Winter Tragic festival in The Blue Mountains, and an intimate gig in the concrete prison exercise yard of the Lock Up in Newcastle. For these shows, the lineup was slimmed down to the lite-trio of Nicholas French, Grant Hunter, and Marnie Vaughn, as the other dudes were either too drunk or too busy playing Halo on xbox 360.
Like last year's smash hit The Picky Eater, this album should hopefully tide you over while you continue to wait for the next Crab Smasher studio album, which will be out one day, but probably not anytime soon.
Featuring a stunning cover photograph by Nicholas Pitt, The download contains all seven tracks as well as a handy PDF so you can print out a cover and make your own CD if you like, or even make hundreds of them for every person you've ever met in your entire life. As with all sky hut releases, please feel free to pass this around, repost it on your own blog, whatever. Also we'd love to know if you think it's not very good.

TRACKS
1. Big Beautiful Women
2. Death train
3. Fighting For Her Attention
4. Mating In Captivity
5. Wool Flies
6. Japanese Bug Fights
7. False Alarm

DOWNLOAD (70MB)

~{>>>ROYAL HEADACHE<<<}~

Repressed records is a really good record shop in Newtown. I would recommend going to it :)
This is a recording of hot dude band Royal Headache taken from an instore gig around March. Unfortunately I missed Street Chant and neglected to record Dead Farmers (sorry! I keep stuffing my gadget). This recording has the advantage of sounding nicer than the one taken from Dirty Shirlows downloadable from below.

ROYAL HEADACHE

dirty shirlows

These are from a warehouse show in Marrickville, Dirty shirlows is big and sheddish, and as a result the recordings sound like shed grit. Bands included Crux, Do Not Resuscitate (this recording is missing the start due to not pressing record), Royal Headache and Voting With Bricks.

CRUX (striding back into town like horsemen)

DO NOT RESUSCITATE (unless they're really a nice person or animal)

ROYAL HEADACHE (the royalest)

VOTING WITH BRICKS (but really, vote with paper and pen)

HOUSE SHOW

These recordings are taken from a house show at Lukes place on the 14th of February. It was Kitten Party, Brutal Hate Mosh, Grant Hunter, Block and Anal Cum Wolf. It was a while ago but I remember the room being stacked with stereo equipment, ashtrays and people looking in from the kitchen.

KITTEN PARTY (the gunrunner)

BRUTAL HATE MOSH (shadows run black)

GRANT HUNTER (sizzle beach U.S.A.)

BLOCK (field of dreams)

ANAL CUM WOLF (dances with wolves)

VIEW FACTORY

This show took place at the View factory in Newcastle, It included Alps of Newcastle south Whales, woyfox and the union of the central coast and popolice (melbourne)(couldn't incorporate) Alps is reverby pop music from the deep, polyfox is unrecorded and popolice is nz guitar pop jelly bean. Popolice would have to be my hands down favourite thing and would recommend it viciously down the throat of anyone who likes tuneful vibrations.

ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WHALES

POPOLICE

There is also about an hours worth of field recording taken from the 'room project' which was a room with a warped floor made from different lengths of wood block. The recording is of people walking and running and jumping all over the crooked floor before the above show took place...If anyone is interested.

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more SEDIT I O N !

Those with a beehive head would've loved this night at sedition...

PAULY FOXX AND THE NEW NEON MOSS GLOSS (lady beetle)

ESPADRILLE (sugar gnomes)

FOLK YOU KANT (rattling bottle of flies)

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backyard party in thornbury

These recordings were taken from a backyard show in Thornbury, Melbourne. We didn't stick around for the whole day though while there we bootleged primitive calculators and hand hell.

PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS (ranting raving burning stick music)

HAND HELL (moss covered marshmallows)

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