The Renderers and Eat Skull at the Sandringham Hotel, 17/04/2011

This show was back in April (and these pictures have been sitting on my computer for a real long time) when Eat Skull were here for Spring Break's Totally Autumn. It's got to be said that I was way too drunk when they played in Newcastle and wrote it off as messy and unintentional noisy crap in a live setting, because I wasn't in a state to listen properly. This show, on the other hand, while definitely still a mess (basically everything broke), was quality mess and put me back on the appreciation path. It was great to finally see The Renderers, too.











The Renderers
Eat Skull

Totally Autumn at the Croatian Wickham Sports Club, Newcastle, 09/04/11

Here's a good way to "document" a day: drink too many polish beers, get snap happy with an old camera sans flash, forget that you should probably try and hold it still, roll around on the grass. So please excuse the blur.

Anyway, Spring Break delivers, once again. My favourite 3 bands of the day were: Dead Farmers, Bare Grillz, Woollen Kits. The full line-up was -

EAT SKULL (USA) + MY DISCO (VIC) + SLUG GUTS (QLD) + ANGEL EYES (VIC) + HOLY BALM (SYD) + THE LAURELS (SYD) + ELECTRIC JELLYFISH (US/VIC) + ALPS + TV COLOURS (ACT) + DEAD FARMERS (SYD) + SECRETS (NZ) + THE HOLY SOUL (SYD) + WHORES (SYD) + CRAB SMASHER + WOOLLEN KITS (VIC) + RITES WILD (SA) + BARE GRILLZ + RAT KING + SLEEPWALKS (QLD) + COCK SAFARI + THE FIGHTING LEAGUE (ACT) + THE NUGS + CISTERN CORRUPT + PHOBIAC + BAT YOGHURT + DJ ANGELA BERMUDA (CIRCLE PIT)
+ “LADYZ IN NOYZ” SHOWCASE FEAT: | DAISY BUCHANAN | FESTIVE JACKALS | ONION | ONNIE ART | ORANJ PUNJABI | BONNIE MERCER |

(I went through one and a half 36-exposure rolls, thus the mega post. And these aren't really in chronological order.)




Woollen KitsElectric Jellyfish



Dead Farmers








Rites Wild
Eat Skull


Spring Break