“I’ll grab me coffee and I’ll be there,” speaks comedian Steve Hughes softly down the phone from Adelaide, South Australia. To the uninitiated, it’s a godforsaken outpost of wine, weed and the weird. Steve is bedraggled, rakish and clad in faded black t-shirt. He’s more smartarse than man, driven extra mad by misinformation and bullshit fed down the mass media pipe. So he fits right in, as a matter of course. “I didn’t go from death metal to comedy because I’m completely fucking normal,” he quips.
Review: Pissed Jeans - Honeys (The Big Issue)
I reviewed the new rager from Allentown, PA screamers, Pissed Jeans in The Big Issue #427. Buy it for $6 around Australia, get a mag full of cracking yarns which helps out the homeless and long-term unemployed.
Soundwave '13: Anthrax, Fozzy, This Is Hell at The Hi-Fi Bar (Metal as Fuck)
Melbourne's Hi-Fi Bar takes decorating advice from none other than Mick Jagger. It's painted black. All over. Even the green room is painted black. Everything is painted black. It conjures up memories of high school drama rooms. More accurately, incendiary heavy metal gigs. Christ help you when it sells out, though.