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Last year there was a festival called Summer Vibes. It was awesome. I can’t do it again. I wanted to briefly, but realised that anything and everything would just be shit after it. I also went to a few other festivals and checked out a few other festival lineups, and realised that shit is the new black, so I guess you can’t get too bummed about this. It’s not that the lineup is bad, it’s just not that great. It will probably rain, too. This is Bummer Vibes. February 18, Croatian Club Newcastle.
Tickets are going on sale probably by the end of the week at oztix probably if I can be bothered filling out another email attachment and sending it to them, and I guess they’ll send some tickets down to Newcastle and we’ll put them at the Croatian Club and Emma Soup and maybe somewhere else for $10. It’ll be $15 to get in at the door. Don’t worry, it won’t sell out. Just buy a presale if you want to save a couple of dollars, although oztix is charging $3 booking fee now, so it’s not really much of a saving is it? Bummer. At least the beers at the Croatian Club have only gone up 30 cents in the past year. That’s pretty good compared to most other places, I guess. There definitely won’t be pizzas this year, but there’s some bogan guys that hang around the club and love having a barbie, and they’ll probably bring some snags down and cook them up for you. I’m vegan; bummer.
Well I guess you’re waiting for the lineup. God. I hate doing this. I hate writing in the third person, I hate trying to be objective, I hate trying to convince you to go watch some bands or whatever. Even if you do come, you’re probably just going to sit outside and smoke all day anyway. Meh. Here is most of the lineup of this next festival thing that’s coming up. A couple of bands will probably pull out and some other bands that aren’t as good will replace them.
PETER HORE
Peter Hore, known to some as “Shok”, and others as the “Serial Pest”, is probably most famous for having bummed out Michael Hutchence’s funeral, the Melbourne Cup, the Australian Open, or the Olympics, or Sound Summit. Some of you will have seen him gatecrash the odd gig or two and play some bummed out songs until he gets ejected. Few of you will have bothered to track down any of his recorded output though, which is a bummer, cause he’s kind of a fucking genius. He’s banned from almost every pub in the country and has hasn’t been billed on a show for probably over a decade, so prepare to get bummed to see Newcastle’s most famous musician other than Daniel Johns take the stage.
KITCHEN’S FLOOR
Kitchen’s Floor are possibly the most bummed out band ever, but people get pretty excited about them, so at this festival it’s just going to be an acoustic set. Last time they did something like this at the Croatian Club the crowd was just me, Nick Senger and Alex “the naked chef” Masterson, and I think they are making fun of Newcastle, and making fun of me, between songs. Meh.
THE FIGHTING LEAGUE
There’s something inherently painful and sad about the fact that The Fighting League are from Canberra, where there is no beach, no sun, no palm trees, in fact pretty much nothing tropical whatsoever, but they still try so hard to recreate a feeling that they’ll never truly be able to grasp.
THE NUGS
Great band, sucks they sold out and put their song in a surf video though.
RAW PRAWN
It was 2012 and all their friends turned up to the iTunes store to watch them play and so they played in a record store to no one except a couple of purists.
UNITY FLOORS
These guys smile all the time to cover up that they are secretly bummed.
THE SWEATS
We tried to get Royal Headache to play the last three festivals but one of them had to play cricket instead or something. This time two of them are coming but with two other people and it’s called The Sweats.
NO ART
No Art have a bunch of great songs, I had trouble finding footage of them though. Here is a clip of them “jamming”, I guess. At least it’s in Newcastle and a few of our friends went to the show.
DRACOPEDE
I first saw this guy play in a really amazing hardcore punk band about a decade ago at the Hunter on Hunter Hotel on Hunter St, and it kinda changed my life. Now the Hunter on Hunter is long gone (it was the Civic Hotel for a while and now it’s nothing) and all the bands that played broke up and Australian hardcore punk has pretty much blown chunks for most of the time since… bummer.
GOOCH PALMS
I just got home from the beach and sat down on my bed and started working on this dumb website, and then saw a huge fucking cockroach running across the floor, got up to get it and noticed that my arse had left my sheets all wet with saltwater. It’s pretty late and I don’t have any others so I’m going to have to sleep on them. Watching this clip of these guys getting all wet and fucking cockroaches isn’t making me feel any better.
MATT BANHAM
The guy from No Through Road, but he lives in Sydney now and tries to be funny. Probably going to make everyone uncomfortable.
BACON CAKES
Nothing on Youtube, it’s just a guy with a helmet and a guitar and a drum, you get the gist.
RAT KING
Newie boyz.
POLYFOX
I used to live with Nick in Newcastle and he had a job working at K-Mart at Hornsby and caught the train out there every morning at 4am for work.
CAMPERDOWN AND OUT
Never heard it but it’s a pretty bummed out name, and you’ll see a bunch of folks from other bands you really like playing on stage, and get bummed out that you’re watching another side project.
DRILLBIT
I put Drillbit on last a gig once just so that everyone would leave the room so I could pack up and go home.
BARE GRILLZ
You’d think this band was really fun except if you listen to the lyrics it’s actually an epic bummer.
LENIN LENNON
It’s impossible to have the above mentioned confusion with this band though.
MERMAIDS
It’s Cock Safari and Polyfox playing together. 90% of you won’t get it.
MYSTERIES
I was going to start a band with Kell. It didn’t work out, I’m still pretty bummed about it. Apparently he’s in another band now with two other people and they’re playing my festival. It might be their first show. I don’t even know if Kell is going to make it though. I hope he isn’t avoiding me.
CONVENT
Another side project, Angie from Circle Pit and some other people? I haven’t heard it yet, I don’t really know anything about it to be honest. I hope it’s good, and I hope they don’t pull out.
+ there are some other bands that I forgot and some that were so lazy that they couldn’t get back to me on time to get announced on the bill. I wouldn’t make a deal out of it, those bands weren’t that exciting anyway.
Bummer Vibes takes place at the Croatian Wickham Sports Club at lunchtime, probably about 12pm if we get out of bed in time, until about midnight unless we get over it earlier on. It’s $10 presale or $15 at the door. Unfortunately presented by Spring Break, but who gives a rats
