Helter Skelter

A 'Helter skelter' rehearsal. This is a band formed by me / matt alien / lynton von denhoven / shaun dury and grant. All old crew from NZ who have rolled over here to melbourne in the last year or so. Of course, what do you do when you hook up with some of your old muso pals? Start a band of course! (somehow we got away with it....). There is a studio recording floating around which sounded ace when we recorded it. That was six months ago. Hopefully one of these years it'll get mixed. In the meantime, here's a jam we had that i recorded on my telephone. Pretty low fi but fun for the whole family!

20mins of sheer improvisation. Enjoy.

xxx

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0o4qhijh1bvd2mx

Mysterex: Indie Snapshots - Christchurch - 1991

Here's a bit of a squizz at the period of when Maus, the Babels, etc were kickin around in our one venue town.

Mysterex: Indie Snapshots - Christchurch - 1991

Maus

Maus were a three piece christchurch band from the early 90's. The brainchild of Matt davenport (pictured), maus went through a couple of different lineups with Matt firmly at the helm. Heavily influenced by the gordons, maus were not a quiet band. They rehearsed at my house a few times and you could'nt hear yourself think!
My band the Babels toured the south island with them playing to hardly anyone... but fuck we had a good time!
This recording made in the lounge of a flat in cramner square by James Woods catches them at their finest hour. This is the only recording i know of they made. Check out some great songwriting and some awesome tonal vibrations. Another lost NZ classic!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/lwyynmnodij

the Satanic Rockers

This person is a BAD MAN! This is an assault on
all goodness! Why, only the other night he came to my house, pointed a gun at me and demanded curry!
If you listen to music like this.... then you need psychological help. I'd rather sit a home and listen to something nice (like roger whittaker) while sipping my sherry. Not this sort of behaviour!

Download includes artwork. Also by Mr Satanic rocker himself. Good one Lynton!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mwd1mwzk2nz

Psycho garage rock mayhem from Wellington, NZ.

I give you Hellfire!

Hi Tone Destroyers

Holy Moly! Ladies and gentlemen, this is THE 'Hi- tone destroyers', live and crazy and at their finest. If you dig psycho garage rock mayhem then look no further.....
Recorded mainly on a live to air radio show in Christchurch, New zealand (sometime in the mid 90's) and released as a cassette only.
Ripped and posted with permission from Matt Alien.
Personnel: Matt alien (guitar / vox), Leon Zchivago (bass / vocals), Don Gone (keyboards / harmonica), Duanne Zarakov (drums).
A gem not to be missed so get to and download this you mofo's!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/emzqrnig20z

Freak scene

Here's a little goodie from back in the day.... a compilation of Christchurch bands (including my own, the babels) from 1991. A cassette only release, it helped get all these bands some well deserved airplay on student radio. There's a lot of history in here...i'm not gonna rave on about it. Those in the know will know...get it here!

Download Here!

The Babels

This was my first band. Started by me and Miles Fahey in 1990. Thats him on the far left wearing the bad brains t-shirt. We would always see each at gigs and say we were gonna start a band. And after a lot of messing around....we did! And this was the result. Influenced by early gothic rock, punk, and with a good dose of our surroundings thrown in (lets just say the backyard of NZ music can be a pretty strange place!). Some of this stuff is live and from rehearsals (and hence some is rather raw) but this documents pretty much everything in our repertoire.

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ymzzzynmykm

Rob Buick 'Strange Conversation'

My first solo outing made during 1996-97. After the Mothgods broke up i decided to throw this together. Mainly consists of slower brooding songs, some of which are pretty long... 'Show me' clocks in at about 11mins. The guitars for that one were recorded by myself and Alan Cameron on a cassette deck as an improvised jam. The rest of the music was overdubbed months later. Vocals by me and Matt Alien after drinking a bottle of bourbon. You can actually hear Matt eating corn chips in the background of that song! ha.
Some of the other songs have stories too but that's enough blab for now.
 
Mostly recorded on my Teac A3340 reel to reel.

What a beast....

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/gjywz3zdym2

Album artwork: http://www.mediafire.com/?4r88ct09xeomcag

The Mothgods

The Mothgods was my second band in Christchurch. This was recorded at the end of our existence and as far as i'm concerned, this was us at our best. Fast, furious and senseless. Imagine the Unsane meets Primus meets the Jesus lizard....meets pavement? Recorded in 1996 on a fostex 4-trk tapedeck with two mikes (neither of which cost very much).
All levels in the red. Rockin and raw! rehearsal.... in the lounge of my flat (where else?)

Tim king (far left) on drums.

Paul roddick (far right) on bass.

Me (middle) on gat work and vox....

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?w5y4ioho16p1920

Cadillac

Cadillac - 'Black dash Light' (2001)

My second album of original material.
Yet another TEAC 4trk product recorded in christchurch
between 99 -2000 and finished in melbourne shortly after i moved there.
As with my previous album, many friends came to the party to help out.
I should upload the liner notes sometime as theres so many people i have to thank....
Still moody, slower material with quite a bit of black humour in there.
Includes a cover of 'Hey joe' that you may or may not recognise.

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/3mnkea3bkpwgyqb

Bob Cadillac / Pretty Wack

Pretty wack (2008)

This is my latest album. Took about six months to throw together. Most of the instrumentation is courtesy of myself altho there are a couple of friends that came to the party and helped out. The best production i've ever come up with. Relying completely on the digital realm for recording. The Teac sits in the lounge awaiting its re-instatement. Dark and Dumb was the theme. Its not far off the mark......
You can listen to the entire album (and even buy a physical copy) now........here:

 http://bobcadillac.bandcamp.com/

Or you can download it for free......

 http://www.mediafire.com/file/gbne9ob1ndo06ta

See how nice i am..... giving things away....?

Either that or stupid.