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The Melvins join the aussie Soundwave tour starting in Brisbane on Saturday the 26th of Feb. They also join Primus for a couple of solo shows in Sydney and Melbourne. This interview coincides with the aussie tour:

www.sludgefactory.com.au/soundwave-abuzz-melvins

“We’re an eclectic band, an acquired taste! We’re not normal by any means – nothing normal about it. Normal to us is strange to everyone else. I’ve always felt like a weirdo and I don’t have a problem with that! Having said that, I live a pretty conservative lifestyle. I’ve been married for seventeen years to the same woman. I’m very devoted. I don’t drink”

Also a recent audio interview of Dale conducted by a New Zealand blogger ahead of the Soundwave  can be found here.

Hattip to the boiled frog. He also supplied all the recent Club Spaceland setlists from the Melvins Jan residency on this post.

I’ll be at the Enmore show, anyone else headin there?

I have come across some amazing pics lately and I was planning on posting them individually, but I thought why not make it a festive December pics round up post.

First up we have the talented Chantel with some very impressive Umlaut pics taken at the recent Umlaut and Les Claypool show at the Enmore, Sydney:

Check out the full set here or hit her website: chantelbann.com

Next up is a couple of sets from the recent Melvins Euro tour, bramdauw’s Geneva Set:

and Shinji’s Melvins (and Porn) Paris Set:

And lastly (thanks to cv), an awesome Faith No More set from isrtinez

As it appears in the latest Drum (10th Feb issue):

“Fantomas nearly upstaged the main act with their renditions of ’70′s and ’80′s classic and cult movie theme songs, whilst dressed in white cricket uniforms, zinc smeared on cheeks. With a tight energy that took years of touring to hone, the band were amazingly precise on every note, especially drummer Dale Crover, whilst still giving frontman Mike Patton a chance to add his falsetto flairs and convulsing body movements to songs Der Golem and Cape Fear. They continued to play through through The Director’s Cut in random order, leaving the audience satisfied to the point where the main act could have been forgotten entirely.”

The rest is about Serj Tankian and his “band”. I’m not going to bother transcribing that as their show was less than average.

drummedia.com.au

Don’t forget to grab your tickets!