Bands Playing Under The Blue Moon 2008

 

 

 

Band: Covenant
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: Sweden
Website:www.myspace.com/covenant
Style: Electro / Industrial / Pop

Band: Diary of Dreams
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: LEIPZIG, Germany
Website: www.diaryofdreams.de
Style: Gothic / Electro

Diary of Dreams is a German electronic music group.Their 2004 'Nigredo' (a concept album inspired by a mythology the band designed themselves) saw a move back towards the more subtle, sparse concepts of old, but still featuring bursts of their more recent, dance-oriented sound. Songs from the Nigredo tour were later released on the live CD 'aLive' and the companion DVD 'Nine In Numbers'. The most recent Diary of Dreams album 'Nekrolog 43' was released in 2007, offering a greater variety of moods and concepts than previous works. Adrian Hates claimes to be influenced, both lyric wise and artwork wise, by the German 1909-1935 expressionism and the "beauty of ugliness" in the course of his work.Recently, on the band's official Myspace, a new album was announced for a release date "definitely in 2009."

Band: DESTROID
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: LEIPZIG, Germany
Website:www.myspace.com/destroidmusic
Style: Industrial / Electro / Alternative

Destroid, fronted by Yamazaki and Haujobb-mastermind Daniel Myer, do not give a damn about the conventional approach and will render all attempts on categorizing their style utterly futile. They feel at home in hardfloor, the classic EBM-style, in Synth- and Futurepop, and are not in fear of churning out the odd dark ballad either. The concept of Destroid is about breaking these conventions - they thus manage to create one of the most exciting releases to hit the Electro-scene for a long time.

 

Band: Voices of Masada
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: London, United Kingdom
Website:www.myspace.com/voicesofmasada
Style: Gothic

 

Band: Tycho Brahe
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/tychobraheaustralia
Style: Electro / Pop / New Wave

Based in Brisbane, Australia, Tycho Brahe produces electronic pop music that harks back to the '80s glory days of electro luminaries such as New Order, Human League, Depeche Mode, and Giorgio Moroder. A regular fixture on their local live music scene, the band uses vintage electronic gadgetry to produce tunes ranging from uptempo classic synthpop, to moody atmospherics, to grinding synthrock, with a blatant disregard for the latest fads and fashions in the FM pop fodder world.

 

Band: IKON
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/ikonwave
Style: Post punk / Indie / Gothic

The new EP League of Nations (2007) is testament to progression in IKON’s signature sound, providing a taster of the forthcoming album Love, Hate and Sorrow (anticipated release mid-2008). While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, the future for IKON promises to add further texture to the band’s style. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces more melodic song structures without entirely relinquishing the shadowy threads that are interweaved in the lyrics, art work, and music of one of the world’s most successful and enduring darkwave bands.

 

Band: Vertigo Nation
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: Sydney New South Wales, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/vertigonation
Style: Electronica / Alternative / Industrial

Take your record collection and pull it apart. Put it back together mismatching all the pieces. This is VertigoNation. Here dark Electronic meets jagged Industrial and they all go for a drink with Alternative Rock. We don’t mean to defy genres, it just happened that way. VertigoNation incorporate rawness and gloss into a tight musical package. Here rough guitars are mixed with synths and a live vocal. But it’s been a road worth traveling as they find it’s this journey that has provided fuel for their new material. The feedback from fans has been overwhelming as has been the ability to connect to new ones from every country you can think of.

 

Band: The Veil
Performing 24.5.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/theveilau
Style: Metal / Gothic / Other

About: The Veil are a Dark Atmospheric band currently based in Sydney. Forming in 2006 after a long but ultimately successful search by Che & Rob for a full lineup; the layered, dynamic sound of the band began to be realised with the addition of Wayne, Megan, Ola & Vanessa. With a diverse mixture of material drawing from a broad scope of influences & inspiration, The Veil will be launching there first release at UTBM at the Lansdowne this year!

Band: HorrorWood Mannequins
Performing 24.5.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/horrorwoodmannequins
Style: Metal / Gothic / Industrial

Incubated in the seedy underbelly of a festering suburban sprawl The Horrorwood Mannequins crawled out of the darkness to carve their name into the foreheads of the dark lords of the music industry. With a stage show that borderlines on psychotic and a sound that can only be described as a beast that tears your head off and leaves you wanting more. Enjoy your stay in Horrorwood, we are now your nightmare.

 

Band: Meat Safe
Performing 24.5.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+ & 13.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/meatsafe
Style: Rock / Blues / Indie

Meat Safe formed in December 2007 due to an open slot on a New Year’s Eve bill and because it popped into JoSh’s head after Nathan wouldn’t put his God damned boots on when they were going to the Enmore Theatre because he’d just swallowed a fine amount of tequila. Featuring members of Sydney bands TRIANGLE, Mutgash Poison and Fodder it is a surprisingly listenable yet threatening Rock and Roll band.

Band: Pink Industrial Whores
Performing 23.8.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+ & 27.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/pinkindustrialwhores
Style: Industrial / Electronica / Metal

Industrial Whores began as a solo side project of guitarist / vocalist Ziggy Diva in early 2007. Combining elements of fast paced industrial metal with the toxicity of a unique cyber-glam image, Pink Industrial Whores quickly drew the interest and devotion of audiences both locally and overseas.

Band: The Charles Manson Experiment
Performing 20.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/mansons
Style: Metal / Industrial / Gothic

The Mansons (as they are affectionately known) are a 4-piece with shared male/female lead vocals (a la Sonic Youth, Jefferson Airplane, The Kills). “The indie grunge wail of the Charles Manson Experiment”[Cec Busby - FasterLouder ] descended upon the Sydney music underground in 2004, their "melodic pop tunes shrouded in masses of heavy grunge guitars" [Vivian Huyn -The Brag] reminiscent of both 1990's alternative and 1960's psychedelic rock 'n' roll. The band is also known for their often tongue-in-cheek lyrics, which frequently reference non-musical sources from history and literature to video games and conspiracy theories.

Band: Empirical
Performing 23.8.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/killjack
Style: Alternative/Glam/Grunge

A brutally aggressive mix of genres and emotions, Empirical is a maelstrom of aural chaos designed to incite both physical and emotional mayhem in the pit. With an Industrial drive helping to tie together the grind of Death metal, the atmosphere of Gothic and Black metal and the blunt aggression of Metalcore, Empirical delivers a mix of contempt,grief and hope given form to play Devil’s Advocate against the filth we call society.


Band: Felix of Exile
Performing 6.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www. myspace. com/felixofexilemusic
Style: Industrial / Gothic / Punk

Band: Scarlets Revenge
Performing 13.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/scarletsrevengepunk
Style: Punk / Acoustic

 

Band: Jack Nasty Face
Performing 26.7.2008 Brisbane VS Sydney @ The Lansdowne Hotel
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/scarletsrevengepunk
Style: Rock / Garage / Punk

I-94 BAR ------ From a different time and place comes JACK NASTY FACE. They live next door to THE WHITE STRIPES down the road from the HIVES and round the corner from THE CRAMPS, oh such a neighborhood! JACK NASTY FACE have twisted the sounds of 60’s garage punk, blues and rock n roll to form a truly dark, funsome sound that is utterly danceable and so very,very cool. Their live show is a spectacle, JACK NASTY enters straight from the time of dickens - top hat and cane, he lives Willy wonker and struts Jack the ripper. The band hold their own stars and are truly smooth by nature not by design........

 

Band: Call the medic Call the nurse
Performing 26.7.2008 Brisbane VS Sydney @ The Lansdowne Hotel
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/callthemediccallthenurse
Style: Rock / Garage / Punk

Considering that the guys self-funded and self produced this splendid slice of party noise and that the bassist was still learning the songs when the band entered the studio (oh and the fact that the whole thing seems like it may either explode or leap out the window at any given moment) this is a remarkably cohesive recording, bringing together all of the raw abandon of a Call the Medic, Call the Nurse!! live show within the memory aiding confines of a permanent record!"
Layne Kim - Drum Media

 

Band: Psych Carni
Performing 27.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/psychcarni
Style: Industrial / Gothic / Punk

Since 1991, Melbourne underground noise band Psych Carni have tortured audiences with confrontational gigs of mechano-eroticism. Long before the Burlesque revival and pre the Antichrist Superstar, the bands necro- psychedellic carnival shows assaulted punters at rock, goth and bondage venues . In 2005 the band reformed for the Teknikunst Festival playing at the Ding Dong Lounge with Curse Ov Dialect and David Thrussell. Fetishizing cyberpunk technology and military discipline the band recorded the Blitzgeist EP, soon after the festival.

Band: Strychnine
Performing 27.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website:
www.myspace.com/bleaknoise
Style: Industrial / Trance / Gothic

 

Band: Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows
Performing 28.6.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/brigittehandley
Style: Alternative / Indie / Punk

Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows are a Sydney based 3 piece who's "call to non-conformity" and sound has been described as "indie rock 'n' roll with a dark edge and defiant punk attitude". Brigitte Handley fronts the Dark Shadows on vocals and guitar, along with Carly Chalker on bass, and Nerida Wu on drums, they make no apologies for their fiery assault of their instruments, creating a unique and independent sound and style.

Band: Voltera
Performing 28.6.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/volteramusic
Style: Rock / Industrial / Electronica

In an industry dominated by men, the cliché is abandoned with instigator Jess assembling Voltera's diverse talent into a defiant armada against capitalist indulgence. A graduate from the vocally unconventional, Jess' vocal range is rampant and unique, extending from dark and melodic to an ardent guttural bawl, thus delivering a captivating live performance immersed in the avant-garde.

Band: Throwaway Kids
Performing 28.6.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/throwawaykidsaus
Style: Punk / Ska / Hardcore

Throwaway Kids came together towards the end of 2007 being made up from former local bands Darkest Day, Hornography and Cartoon Violence. They burst onto the scene with a handful of songs, a two-track demo and a fast, aggressive, no bull-shit attitude. They took to the streets and began writing the now forgotten sound of Punk Rock! playing a unique blend of punk and ska with a big hardcore influence!! The Throwaway Kids bring back that working class, blue collared energy, writing songs that relate to the day to day shit happening in our lives today... so if you like your punk rock fast, raw and REAL, then we'll see you at the next punk show!
Band: Portraits of Insanity
Performing 6.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/portraitsofinsanity
Style: Metal / Experimental / Gothic

Band: Fuxton
Performing 23.8.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Buxton, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/fuxton1
Style: Death Metal / Thrash / Grindcore

Late night binges, 10watt amps and a peace drumkit. Fuxton begun. Inspiration wasnt hard to find, our primary school memories had been shattered, closed down and now inhabited by junkies and grafittied trash. Close friends lost to suicide and car accidents and the list growing longer. The way girls are traded and swapped between friends in small towns like meat. Families getting sold out by the corporation. Plus over-regulation of every facet of our lives.

 

Band: Dizzygotheca
Performing 26.7.2008 Sydney VS Brisbane @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Brisbane, Queensland Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/dizzygotheca
Style: Electronica / Soundtracks / Film music / Experimental

DIZZYGOTHECA, Brisbane’s darkwave darlings, create their intriguing ‘ghostcore’ sound by layering Heidi’s beautiful, haunting vocals with Anthony’s electronic beats, found sounds and darkwave stylings. They play melodies and triggered beats in realtime rather than totally sequenced, using hardware not laptops. They sound like the fey and creative children of Sigur Ros, Björk and Curve.

Band: Empty Art
Performing 26.7.2008 Sydney VS Brisbane @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Brisbane, Queensland Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/artisempty
Style: Other / Other / Other

DIZZYGOTHECA, Brisbane’s darkwave darlings, create their intriguing ‘ghostcore’ sound by layering Heidi’s beautiful, haunting vocals with Anthony’s electronic beats, found sounds and darkwave stylings. They play melodies and triggered beats in realtime rather than totally sequenced, using hardware not laptops. They sound like the fey and creative children of Sigur Ros, Björk and Curve.


Band: Mercy Dolls
Performing 26.7.2008 Sydney VS Brisbane @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Brisbane, Queensland Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/artisempty
Style: New Wave / Alternative / Rock

Band: Dead China Dolls
Performing 26.7.2008 Sydney VS Brisbane @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/dancingwithachainsaw

 

Band: Isgahaatt
Performing 6.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando
Location: Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/isgahaatt
Style:
Black Metal
Band: Beyond Shadows
Performing 6.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando
Location: Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/beyondshadowsdotcom
Style: Metal / Metal / Gothic

Beyond Shadows is a five piece metal band that originated from Sydney Australia. Formed in late March 2008 they have an entire set which will be recorded soon. Beyond Shadows is. Buddy,Hayden,Adam,Grant&&Ryan.

We'd like to thank our family and friends for all their support & special thanks to Avelina and Norbert for all their help, Kirsty our soon-to-be manager and Nathan, our photographer . Recording Soon!!!

Band: Cap a Capo
Performing 26.7.2008 Sydney VS Brisbane @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/capacapo


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