Pre-order the Three 7″s on white vinyl in a nice chocolate box for 20 bucks! ONLY 150 ON PLANET EARTH!
Otherwise get one in person at the launch.Fri Jun 1st – The Beetle Barw) Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side + Cannon + Lovely Legs. Don’t miss out Nerds!
ABOUT THE HORRORTONES The idea is simple really. You take a bunch of musicians that play in all different types of bands and you create a rock’n’roll soul party cover band.
No one really is ever a permanent member. People come, people go. You can play for one song, one gig or maybe more… the deal is anyone can be play on the night (if there’s room).
If you don’t understand what we do or why we do it I recommend researching the history of Australian band The Party Boys whilst listening to The Dirtbombs’ “Ultraglide In Black”.
Line Up For These Recordings
Vocals Pete Collins (Vegas Kings) Backing Vocals Kate Jacobson (Texas Tea) Jacinta Walker (Keep On Dancin’s / Tiny Migrants) Drums/Backing Vocals Jessica Moore (The Stress of Leisure) Guitar Tony Giacca (Sixfthick) Bass Benjamin Dougherty (Vegas Kings/Texas Tea) Keyboards/Piano Dan Condon (The Sips) Horns Jimmy Mullane (Wiseacre) Sally Pelekanos (Audrey’s Music Shop)
Other people who have appeared in The Horrortones:
Yohanna Webber (Wiseacre), Spencer P Jones (Beasts Of Bourbon/The Johnnys) Ben Corbett (SixFtHick/Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side), Geoff Corbett (SixFtHick), Ben Salter (The Gin Club), Dan Mansfield (The Gin Club), Andy Moore (Digger & The Pussycats), Ben Eckersley (The Wells), Jo Nilson (Butcher Birds), Stacey Coleman (HITS), Sharkey (Monster Zoku Onsomb), Ben Tuite (Giants of Science)
Their follow up to last year’s Grave Consequences is complete! If Grave Consequences was a long black then Killed by Deaf is a double shot espresso and a kick in the nuts – 14 songs in 19 minutes – you do the math! Killed By Deaf was recorded in the back rooms of Tym Guitars and mixed by Eddie Current Suppression Ring’s Mikey Young. People of earth can pre - order a copy of this great new record right now and get a range of awesome presents like an exclusive T-shirt, a hand screened and numbered “glow in the dark” poster and exclusive bonus tracks! PLUS you get an immediate download of the record!! DO IT!
The band will be previewing some of the new songs on Friday October 14 at The Waiting Room with Pastel Blaze, Boy Or Astroboy? and Stag
The official album launch will be announced very soon!
Mere Noise Records are very proud to announce MERE NOISE MELTDOWN 2011! The biggest and noisiest Meltdown ever! Just $32 for pre-sold on OzTix ($40 on the door). First 100 tickets will get a free album from Mere Noise Headquarters! Value for money!
GUITAR WOLF HITS NO ANCHOR UNDEAD APES THE HOTRRORTONES TEXAS TEA THE KEEP ON DANCIN’S THE DANGERMEN TINY MIGRANTS CANNON THE CHOKES GO VIOLETS
It’s been over 5 years since it first came out, but we are very proud to have the debut album from Texas Tea finally available on tasty vinyl! Comes with free download. Get yourself a slice right here!
Thanks to the brilliant work by brothers Ollie and Alex Dunlop here are a couple of great new filmclips by Mere Noise bands!
You can buy both records here
HITS – Touch of The Shorts
(From the album “Living With You Is Killing Me”)
KEEP ON DANCINS – Houston
(From the album “The End Of Everything”)
Consider yourself lucky if you happened to catch Dimi Dero Inc. at any of their Australia shows last year – cause word has it they are pulling up stumps! So they may not be back to Australia in the Inc. guise BUT you can still get their last record right here!
Cremation Day in the Court of Miracles on vinyl here for just $19.95
Cremation Day in the Court of Miracles on CD here for just $12.95
If you want to know more about the record check this out!
Alongside our new newsletter (the first one is due out in the next week or so) we’re going to start using this blog for a little more than just advertising the odd gig or release. So to start it all off, a little something about The Standing 8 Counts.
After only about 7 years we have sold all of our Standing 8 Counts / Vegas Kings split 7”s! Didn’t take too long after all!
A bit of a history….
The Standing 8 Counts: Greatest Hits CD was the 2nd thing we put out on Mere Noise all those years ago. In many ways it’s the reason why we have this record label today. Originally Mere Noise was to be a means of distributing Vegas Kings music, then once we realised we could do it and we found that the 8 Counts had all of these amazing unreleased recordings (BLUNT Magazine gave it 8/10!), we knew what we had to do. 8 Counts are a niche taste I guess but for me they were the most exciting band in Brisbane for a long time. It seemed like at any moment during a live set things could absolutely turn to shit, or on the other hand be totally amazing. I have never seen a band walking such a fine line between utter collapse and explosion. Later I was lucky enough to be a part of the final incarnation of the band and got to experience both of these things, which was some of the best times I’ve had on a stage… and a great honour even as well.
The Standing 8 Counts might be an unknown band to the average Joe. A handful of people were as enthusiastic about them as I was (one other I started a record label with). They played some gigs with some big acts. They were small print on festival bills. Eventually they called it quits and filled the Zoo in Brisbane for a final show. To me I found them when I was first realising that you don’t need to look further than your local dive to find amazing music. They were just a fucking great band that, like so many others, if they existed on another continent – might’ve had some kind of impact. But then again maybe that’s what makes bands like this even more special.
So to celebrate the Standing 8 Counts – for the rest of May get the Greatest Hits album for just:
