STERANKO – live

STERANKO are one of the best live bands ever. Fact.

You should see them.

You should buy their album “Keepers of the Fallo“.

I shot these videos at DGDB, with the help of Jin Min and James Lee, in Spring 2010, but due to other editing commitments, only got them in a fit state recently.

You should watch them.

SMACKSOFT on SEOUL UNDERGROUND

I’ve been off the radar for nearly 5 months filming and editing the first (proper) episode of SEOUL UNDERGROUND, Stuart Reece’s project. Enjoy. Subscribe on VIMEO too.

Friday April 2nd WNS gig

Thursday(‘s) Child Rocks – 25th Feb

If you can’t live without Sound-ahol, the first step is meeting up with like-minded people at Sound Holic, Hongdae on a Thursday night. Not only will this be a great night out, you can spend all night convincing yourself that you’ll be able to make it through work on Friday. The cherry on the top is that it’ll also be documented for the next few episodes of Stuart Reece‘s web-based Korean Indie show Seoul Underground. So, you might get your face on the internet, only this time without worrying a coworker will stubble across it.

Haiti Fundraising

REVIEW: 언 스발로 힐스 On Sparrow Hills – The Sitting Choir

On Sparrow Hills: The Canadian/American 85-piece band. Ok, not that many but they certainly wouldn’t be out-numbered fighting a 5-a-side football team.

Too many cooks?

IMPORTANT! Haiti fundraiser

Seoul 2 Haiti: Expat Musicians Rock For Haiti Relief

Start Time: Friday, February 5, 2010 at 9:00pm

End Time: Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 3:00am

Location: Rocky Mountain Tavern, Itaewon

Who: WE NEED SURGERY, LASSE LINDH, SOLITAIRE LOVE AFFAIR, and ROAD POP plus others…

For more detailed information, visit the link listed below.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=269302834857&ref=mf

Galaxy Express/Moonshiners/We Need Surgery/The Koxx – New Year Show

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! Freebird and FF battle it out for your New Year’s Eve attention. Club FF are putting up an impressive line up.

Galaxy Express – pure RAWK shouty AC/DC milkers

Moonshiners – sorry, no idea

We Need Surgery – New Wave/Interpol/Joy division-y, but with more keyboards and optimism

The Koxx – Brilliant new band with a lot of covers but a lot of potential.

Let's see. Amps - check, instruments - check, shirts...CHECK.

No idea which order they’ll be playing in (although chances are it’ll be more or less what’s here).

Dec 31st update:

According to Wassereis from the fantastic VIOLET SWEETS blog, DGDB‘s New Year’s Eve line-up includes Guckkasten, Serengeti, Kingston Rudieska, Telepathy and others; Club FF also has Phonebooth, Pony, 3rd Line Butterfly, huckleberry fin; Club Ta has Hi Mister Memory, Ynot, 불나방스타쏘세지크럽 and Playgirls etc.

Thanks for the info

Animal Dads – New Year’s Eve @ Freebird and Indie Shorts

Animal Dads - swinging into 2010

Dec 31st, 11:30pm: Animal Dads will be hosting the countdown to 2010 from the near-safety of the Freebird stage (details are between the woman’s legs), a gig which will no doubt see them playing some of their new songs. A mysterious band member, who has yet to reveal his identity, whispered this in a dark alley…via email:

“We have been writing a bunch of new stuff. Different, more comlex. Not as straight forward.  Gonna record a new ep in Januay…5-6 songs.  After we record we are gonna play as much as possible.”

On the subject of the newer members (see this post), this shadowy typer claims:

“New members have fit in perfectly …we have two new guys with different ways of doing things, different ideas.   We all have different tastes in music but we are all on the same page when it comes to writing new tunes.”

But that’s not all…these multiple pie fingerers are plunging their digits into other media crusts.

“We are trying to write music for a short film shot in korea that shoud be done at the begining of the new year. It’s very strange that someone asked us to do it – We aren’t the kinda band that should be putting music to an ‘indie flick’.”

The singer decides to demonstrate his new Flashlight Belt Buckle

It’s a shame they couldn’t have added their song “Wrecking Ball” to the rope-swinging torture scene in Casino Royale…

Used Cassette, Banco and We Need Surgery – Nightmare (poster) before Christmas

Naked man - check. Massive Phallic symbol - check. Sex Offender eyes - check. It must be Christmas at Freebird!

Foreign fellas WE NEED SURGERY play their last gig (before a special new year show) at FREEBIRD on 19th December. In keeping with the theme 0f the poster (see left), they’ve diddled the old songs to freshen ‘em up for the winter and spent ages grooming a new one to give you a Christmas present.

Others on the register bill are BANCO and USED CASESTTES - who don’t  have a myspace presence yet, so I can’t comment on their style.

Get yourselves down there for some Post Punk you can dance to.

We Need Surgery - avoiding phallic symbols.