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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NEGLECT

I'm going to try to catch up by making a lot of posts over a short period of time.
These bootlegs are from the crab smasher/scissor lock tour of melbourne: Recording faults I recall: There is no crabsmasher recording from the old bar due to communication error:), the aktion unit recording from the glitch bar is missing the first half due to mechanical ignorance and the last half of the crabsmasher/scissor lock collab is missing due to battery failure. enjoy!

February 19th - Old bar:

SCISSOR LOCK

JK FULLER

AUTOMATING

February 20th - Glitch bar:

CRAB SMASHER

SCISSOR LOCK

AKTION UNIT

GO GENRE EVERYTHING

February 22 - Pony bar:

CRABSMASHER/SCISSOR LOCK COLLAB

Croat. Something like that

These recordings are taken from the Croation Club in Wickham, Newcastle. Umm, it has two bowling greens out the front and people play bowls there.. or bocce. There is a pizza oven and many hens running around.

The show included Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour from Melbourne, Athol from Newcastle, and Brassskulls.

INAPPROPRIATE TOUGH GUY BEHAVIOUR (see below)

ATHOL (look beneath)

BRASSSKULLS (rascals)

thats all.

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some melbourne wanderings

These recordings were taken from brassskulls' tour of melbourne in early February, it was a full on tour of noise aside from ITGB who have songs in their noise.
The first show was held at the Pony in Melbourne city somewhere, little something st. you walk upstairs to a sticky red slimy skeleton pony room and get free drink tickets, bands included:

MICROVOM (recording has gone missing, hopefully i can find it)

MARCO FUSINATO (brain stabbing, guitar snapping)

ABSOLUTEN CALFEUTRAIL (the expanding man or terror)

CRYSALIS (sheet metal rattling anger)

BRASSSKULLS (waikiki/the waifs)

The second show was on that unbelievably hot saturday, It was like walking through the oven breath of hell. The show was held in a nice neat little warehouse space called Gulag projects and was fortunately air conditioned, bands included:

SCREWTAPE (apocalype in slow motion)

EBOLA DISCO (street thugs)

ABSOLUTEN CALFEUTRAIL vs. CRYSALIS (bff)

BRASSSKULLS (the eagles/chicago)

The third show was an instore at round and round records which is a really sweet record shop... Bands included:

INAPPROPRIATE TOUGH GUY BEHAVIOUR (furious motion)

BRASSSKULLS (clean cut dirt wanderers)

I also got some bootlegs from a generator show in King edward park, which included polyfox (unrecorded) oranj punjabi and pure being from queensland.

ORANJ PUNJABI (bliss and saucers)

PURE BEING (colourful tent, colourful mexico)

SEDITION

These are taken from 2 seperate sedition shows, the first which took place on the 3rd of February, and the second which took place on 17th of February. Sedition is a small barbershop in Darlinghurst which seems to have a fortnightly tuesday night show hosting interesting bands.

from the 3rd

HISS (one man thrown backward into science)

RED PINKOS (three men swallowing themselves into creation)

UNIQUE OIL FREE AIR (gatekeeper of time)

from the 17th

JUSTICE YELDHAM (man attempts to merge with glass)

PURE BEING (tent of mystery)

THE SPIDERS (maximum sphinx)

decolonise

Here are a bunch bootlegs taken from the decolonise fest which was held in various places around sydney from the 23rd-26th of January. It was a big DIY extravganza including warehouse shows, alley gatherings, flag stealings and workshops...

from maggotville:

MCCLANE

GOGOGOGO

EDDY CURRENT SUPRESSION RING

from a warehouse in St. Peters:

HARRIET

LOUISE BERLECKY

another St. Peters warehouse:

KIRIN J CALLINAN

FANGS OF...

INAPPROPRIATE TOUGH GUY BEHAVIOUR

TRUTH FROM FACTS

HEE HAW

from an alley in Marrickville:

QUAKER

hamilton station hotel

These are taken from a show at the hamilton station hotel on the 16th of the 1st 2009, bands included corporate smack, toecutta, crab smasher, fecal puppet scum, butchers harem and grannyfist. It was a night filled with masks, horror, gore, grind, rap and noise.
I was a little bit hazy on who was who. I bootlegged crab smasher, grannyfist and I think fecal puppet scum, all of whom were far out in their own way.

CRAB SMASHER

GRANNYFIST

FECAL PUPPET SCUM

la campana

These are taken from the spanish club on Wednesday 17th January. Acts included a guy from new york who played saxophone and sang songs. I cannot remember what his name was. I'll upload the bootleg when I figure it out. Crab smasher, playing in Sydney for the first time in years, they are currently a 5 piece improv rock group. Eugene Chadbourne from the USA, Eugene played many varied styles on guitar, banjo and electric rake :) and Suzanne Grae and the Katies from, a clothing store influenced band from Melbourne who had dancers and a big stuffed snake thing?

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CRAB SMASHER

EUGENE CHADBOURNE

SUZANNE GRAE AND THE KATIES

cosmos rock lounge

I have some recordings from the other slug guts sydney show which was moved at the last minute to cosmos rock lounge. Uninformed I walked to louies which at 8 oclock showed no signs of life. Fortunately I bumped into people who knew about the venue change so I followed them to the venue. I missed seeing jonothan hochman and matthew hopkins, arrived just in time to watch people clap. I did see whores (twang garage) slug guts (gravel sleaze) tully arnot (sex poems) kirin j callinan (epic beauty) and straight arrows (ultimate fun)

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WHORES

SLUG GUTS

TULLY ARNOT

KIRIN J CALLINAN

STRAIGHT ARROWS

slug guts in sydney

These are recordings from last nights show at yvonne ruve (where?house), at which [the] alzheimer blanks did not play. Instead an impromptu collaborative set by the improvisin' prehistoric fuckin' moron. This provided an interesting beginning, capturing the attention of the crowd by slowly becoming into what it became which was very becoming. Following pfm was dead farmers which could be described as scuzzy good times music. Afterward slug guts from brisbane, a wild staggerin' squalling rock quartet and finally naked on the vague a psychin' dredging duo from sydney that exude unavoidable ill fortune.
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PREHISTORIC FUCKIN' MORON(S)

DEAD FARMERS

SLUG GUTS

NAKED ON THE VAGUE