Hell City Glamours

Upcoming Gigs

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:26:02 +0000

July 30th - Gaelic Theatre Sydney NSW - Utopia 30th Birthday with lust and more September 3rd - Forum Sydney with LA Guns NSW September 9th - Bull 'n' Bush Hotel Baulkham Hills NSW September 10th - Sando Hotel Newtown (it's a new room and it's rad) NSW September 11th - Canberra (venue to be confirmed) ACT September 17th - Yah Yahs Melbourne VIC September 18th - Enigma Bar Adelaide SA

July update

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:14:37 +0000

Evening Hell Citizens, hope you're well and dandy in the middle of winter or summer dependant on your hemisphere... A quick update from rehearsing and writing reveals we've got about 8 new songs in various states of undress spread around the floor, slow ones, fast ones and easy listening mid tempo ones too, hopefully we'll be in a position to do another demo giveaway soon too What's this tshirt special you say? well we've set up a new merch store courtesy of bigcartel http://hellcityglamours.bigcartel.com grab the little special we're running... $20 will get you one of our TCB logo tshirts (you choose size, we choose colour ok), a HCG sticker AND a copy of the One For The Road single!!! hit that once you've read these dates July 30th - Utopia Records 30th Birthday at the Gaelic Theatre with lots of bands and rock DJs and stuff, tix on sale now! then September we're hitting the road with Melbourne's Devilrock Four for a lovely rehash of our 2007 tour! plus playing with some band called LA Guns at some point too September 3rd - Forum Sydney with LA Guns NSW September 9th - Bull 'n' Bush Hotel Baulkham Hills NSW September 10th - Sando Hotel Newtown (it's a new room and it's rad) NSW September 11th - Canberra (venue to be confirmed) ACT September 17th - Yah Yahs Melbourne VIC September 18th - Enigma Bar Adelaide SA apologies to brissie, we'll get there really soon and if anyone outside of Australia can help out with organising dates, hit us back!

May 11th 2010

Tue, 11 May 2010 21:38:11 +0000

Hell Citizens, we thank those of you who made it to the Gaelic last week for making our return to the big stage such an amazing one, big thanks to Electric Mary and The Licks too now have some more choices in shows!! We heartily recommend all of them and don't forget for those of you with HCG tatts it's free entry to the Cherry and OAF shows!! Friday June 4th 2010 The Espy - Melbourne Rock For Relief benefit show, all money to charity click for tix Saturday June 5th 2010 Annandale Hotel - Sydney w/ Frozen Doberman, Chinese Burns Unit click for tix Thursday June 17th 2010 Next Nightclub - Melbourne tix on the door, say HCG for cheaper entry most probably w/ Tantalum, elm street & (me) Saturday June 19th 2010 Cherry Bar - Melbourne tix on the door (first Melbs headline show since September!!) support TBC Friday June 25th 2010 Oxford Art Factory - Sydney tix via moshtix (first Sydney headline show since September!!) w/ The Snowdroppers, The Rumjacks, Bittersweet Kicks (melbs) In other news, we've got half a dozen new songs kicking now and we'll post a new demo as soon as we can, otherwise everything you don't already have is available from one of the links over to the right there Looking forward to being on the road and on the stage again, not to mention drinking with you all after the shows

April 20th 2010

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:29:32 +0000

Well hi there Hell Citizens, it's been a while hasn't it!!! Congrats to the people who won our little competition last time, fyi it was Oscar that broke his elbow skating and Jono was the idiot who convinced him to go for a roll after 7 years! As far as news goes we've been busy writing some new songs for you to enjoy down at trusty Zen Studios, think we're up to 5 now with a bunch more to come.... Now though we're very much concentrating on getting songs together for a new album we sure do miss playing live so we're doing some shows in the coming months that we sure hope you'll get along to. here's all the details for you April 30th - The Gaelic (Sydney) w/ Electric Mary, The Licks & Sex In Columbia June 4th - The Espy (Melbourne) Rock For Relief benefit with heaps of bands including The Casanovas and oddly enough The Red Shore June 5th - Annandale Hotel (Sydney) w/ Frozen Doberman & Chinese Burns Unit June 26th - Oxford Art Factory (Sydney) w/ Snowdroppers , Rumjacks and someone else tix are on sale for all shows now so get on it quick ya here Love, HCGx wanna buy stuff? try these links real CDs and vinyl computery style music tshirts www.hellcityglamours.com www.facebook.com/hellcityglamours www.myspace.com/hellcityglamours www.twitter.com/hcglamours

March 9th 2010

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:47:41 +0000

Good afternoon/evening/morning Hell Citizens, long time no update Well we've been on an enforced holiday for a couple of months due to some idiot in the band convincing someone else in the band that skateboarding was a good idea... this in turn led to one broken elbow and two months no rock 'n' roll. We'll give away free signed copy of the new single to the first 5 people who guess which idiot it was and who broke their elbow!! hit us back here, if you don't win you can buy the single from here though (along with all our other stuff) So because of the above we'll be popping out for a few shows here and there but won't be touring again until late May now, we will however be touring with a whole bunch of new songs, some of which we'll give you as demos so you know what's going on at the shows. Next gig will be in Sydney at The Gaelic with Melbourne 's finest Electric Mary on April 30th, tix are on sale now too so grab em cause it'll be a biggy have a vote for us on unearthed too if youse like here If you've been reading Classic Rock mag out of the UK lately you'd of seen one or two pieces on the band since the album came out there via Powerage Records a couple of months ago, UK and European peeps hit up your local store for the album, should be available everywhere. Oh, we got a 7/10 in Metal Hammer too! till next bit of news become friends with us on Facebook , Twitter and Myspace Love, HCGx

January 21st 2010

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:42:29 +0000

Greetings Hell Citizens, may your credit card bills not be too painful as it's time to drink beer on the high seas/the harbour (or if we get screwed, the parramatta river) Yup, we're hittting up another harbour cruise on February 13th along with Gene Pool Sharks, Clean Doubt and Fistmouth. The boat leaves from Pyrmont Wharf (near the maritime museum) at 11.45am sharp and will be back by 3.30 or so for you to start your casino evening (or to go see Electric Mary at The 'dale) This will also be your first chance to grab a copy of the new single with the slinky new track 'One For The Road' on it too unless you already grabbed it via iTunes or Waterfront Records... For harbour cruise tickets just hit the paypal on either the myspace or website and if you don't have paypal shoot an email to mail@hellcityglamours.com and we'll sort ya out for something Love, HCGx

Get Ya Limited Edition Singles Here

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:20:55 +0000

January 5th 2010 Welcome to a new year Hell Citizens, hope your gods blessed you in one way or another After some well deserved rest we've pulled out the pens and stamps and created a nice brown paper package with a little silver disc in it featuring One Night Only (from the album) and One For The Road, a brand new song, never heard before except on the internet and stuff. It's limited to 400 copies and is hand numbered and hand stamped so get in before it's gone! click here to get it from Waterfront Records worldwide or here for iTunes, it ain't available anywhere else!!! Gigging news soon we assure you... Love, HCGx

December 16th 2009

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:47:46 +0000

Hellcitizens, how are you? would you like to purchase One For The Road off iTunes cause we have the technology? Awesome, go back and click on the song title! for those of you who like the real deal (plus the actual One Night Only single) we'll have a hand stamped, hand numbered (limited to 350) shiny disc thing available in about a week via our good friends at www.waterfrontrecords.com or from us at gigs and the like and don't forget the album's now available in the Uk and Europe through Powerage Records Love, HCGx

November 30th 2009

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:13:12 +0000

Hi Hellcitizens, how are you? Sorry about the delay on this new demo we've been yapping on about, our marvelous webdude was super busy with people who actually pay him and playing gigs with his bands. You should check him out if you need stuff done on the internerd too by the way... www.abepe.com.au So, join the mailing list to get a demo of a brand new track called 'Woke Up Twice' Feel free to tell us you love it/hate it/think we've sold out to the man or anything else you feel needs expressing We'll also have the One Night Only single launched next week via iTunes with another brand spanker as a B-side called, confusingly enough, One For The Road. Basically it's a getting to the pub song followed by an 'oh no, bar's closing' song We'll be doing a limited, hand stamped, hand numbered version of the single too, details on that shortly And shows wise, we've got... December 11th - Annandale Hotel with The Poor, The Vandolls - buy tix February 13th - Harbour Cruise with Cleaned Out, Gene Pool Sharks, Phantom Shitters Love, HCGx

An album for some, a single for others, free song for all!‏

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:38:02 +0000

5th November 2009 Here's the skinny for the month First up is that the album's out in the UK and Europe through Powerage Records and Plastichead Distribution as of Monday 2nd, we're damn proud and it's a different version too, comes with a slipcase and also has the Josephine video tagged on the end so get it any way you can/harass your local store to get it in if you're on that side of the world Nextly is that we're going to do an iTunes single for One Night Only with a new song as a B side, it's called One For The Road and I've just realise both songs start with One, isn't that convenient! We'll wrap up recording this weekend and then let you know the release date ASAP. There will possibly be a very limited run of it on CD as well, we're talking hand numbered limited here And lastly, we'll have another new song to give you for free in the next couple of weeks too, once it's up we'll let you know where to go to get the little bugger Next show's at the Annandale Hotel with The Poor & The Vandolls, December 11th 2009, see you Sydney types there

20th October 2009

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:15:13 +0000

We've got our heads down in writing mode for the next couple of months and we're going to endeavour to let you in on some of the new demos as we record them so you can tell us if they're good, bad or indifferent. We're also looking at releasing a little digital live release too, maybe with a limited run of CDs to go with it In the midst of this we've been kindly invited to play with a couple of Australia's finest bands so you can catch us here and here 23rd October 2009 Mona Vale Hotel w/The Hard-Ons 11th December 2009 Annandale Hotel w/The Poor tshirts and posters up on the paypal or email mail@hellcityglamours.com for payment details and don't forget we've got the DR4/HCG vinyl back in stock via waterfrontrecords.com too

Update 30th September

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:51:39 +0000

As always a big thankyou to all that came out on the tour over September. We competed well against the footy finals and had an awesome time. Especially at the last show in Canberra where the party never stops. Extra big thanks to all the venues for having us and especially to Army Of Champions, The Quickening , Gay Paris, Concrete Street and Screwtop Detonators. Check those guys out, you won't be disappointed Next show for us is a FREE SHOW at the Landsdowne Hotel in Sydney with The Corps and friends this Friday 2/10 just chucked some posters up on the merch widget alongside the tshirts too, $15 postage paid We're going in to writing mode now and will be hooking ya'll up some demos to check out as we go along plus some other goodies. Stay tuned! Love, HCGx

Tshirts, Filmclips and Shows

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:26:00 +0000

September 15th 2009 So if you haven't checked it out yet we've got a new filmclip up on youtube now for One Night Only, it'll get out to the ol' TV stations soon enough too so we may have to ask you to vote for us again. check it out at www.youtube.com/hellcityglamours and a big thanks to Ben Pitcher at Rock City Networks for A: following us around and filming us for the last 3 years or so and B: putting together such a great looking clip. If you look closely you may just see yourself in it too! If you're after a Tshirt hit up the paypal thingy on the website/myspace and grab a $15 bargain on selected shirts (postage paid) and we'll have some posters up by morning too! And of course we're in the middle of the tour at the moment with good times had in Adelaide, Brisbane and the Goldie so far with Geelong this Friday and Melbourne Saturday Next week will see us on the Central Coast, Wollongong and the might Canberra to wrap it all up, all details on the gig page of course till we see you at a show

7 inches of Queensland

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:07:00 +0000

September 9th 2009 thanks to everyone who came to Enigma in Adelaide on Friday, was a great show and if we haven't said it already thanks to all who came to Blood, Sweat & Beers at the Annandale too This week you'll find us in Qld at Step Inn on Friday (11/9) with The Quickening, Hits and Army Of Champions then Saturday (12/9) with Mediocore, The Kavaliers and Concrete Street. fun times shall ensue And in other exciting news, we got some more of those split 7"s we did with Devil Rock four back in '07, hit up www.waterfrontrecords and search us to find it! they're limited and numbered and sexy too. Features a different version of Josephine

Blood Sweat & Beers, Sunshine Coast is off

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:48:07 +0000

Howdy All, here's the playing times for Blood, Sweat & Beers at the Annandale Hotel and unfortunately our Sunshine Coast show has been cancelled Hell City Glamours 10.45-11.30pm Grand Fatal 10.05-10.35PM The Quickening 9.30-10.00PM Raised By Wolves 8.55-9.25pm The Lazys 8.20-8.50pm Screwtop Detonators 7.45-8.15pm Run! Hide! 7.10-7.40pm L.U.S.T. 6.35-7.05pm Sniperival 6.00-6.30pm Kimbo 5.25-5.55pm Gay Paris 4.50-5.20pm Rock City Riff Raff 4.15-4.45pm

September Tour Dates Up Now

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:09:00 +0000

Hit the gigs page for all the dates for the September tour, we've got a few little news snippets coming later this week too!

Josephine single/filmclip launch

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:46:43 +0000

Hell City Glamours ‘Josephine’ single/film clip Launch May 15 th Oxford Art Factory After a superb wander over to South by South West in Texas and all points US of A, Hell City Glamours are returning to their home up the road from home Oxford Art Factory. Not only that but they’re using it as an excuse to launch the ‘Josephine’ single/film clip from their debut album. With loving support from Torch Le Monde and Gay Paris with the usual post show shenanigans from the Sex + Glue crew tix on sale now http://www.moshtix.com.au/Event.aspx?id=26847

US Tour Day #11

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:12:41 +0000

US Tour Day #11 After a song fuelled goodbye to Chris we let the GPS fuck us over yet again and eventually found the airport. First flight was to Houston and took about 30 minutes then we had an hour way before our surprise bonus flight to Orlando. Fuck do these pilots suck, worst landings ever with mucho turbulence to boot. It’s quite a rollercoaster ride to fly in this country. Finally landed at Long Island with a landing so bad that the entire plane applauded their luck at surviving. When we stepped out we discovered it was a crisp -2 degrees with out the windchill factor. We found our driver with his little sign and got in the macking Escalade for the drive to NYC. Damn glad I wasn’t driving as the traffic on the expressway was insane We came in over the Williamsburg bridge to an incredible twilight view of the skyline stretching up the Hudson river . New York is a big, big, ugly beautiful city. Our accomodation was fucked up as walked in to a room with one double bed. Not perfect for four people! So I went and tried to sort it out and we ended uup with two single beds, a couch and a blanket on the floor. After grumbling about the fuck ups we went and found a restaurant in Little Italy and got stuck in to some vodka infused pasta. Mo split back to the the hotel and we headed over to the bar across the street. Lo and behold they had Coopers Pale!! They may not of known to roll it but at least it was real beer for a change. We headed back after a few to our beds/floors in the horribly windy cold.

US Tour Day #10

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:11:36 +0000

US Tour Day #10 Chris took us out to Texas BBQ for breakfast. Brisket that melts in your mouth and way to much meat for that early in the morning! We then hit the thrift shop strip and went boot/western shirt crazy before crusing back to the Hodge Lodge for beers and shit talking, Made a late and fatal decision to go for Mexican and ate way too much for the second time that day. Wrapped up the night with a Tom Petty documentary and packed our bags for the flight in the morning.

US Tour Day #9

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:10:55 +0000

US Tour Day #9 Today was our final SXSW show courtesy of Paul at West Australian Music at a little place called BD Riley’s. We were a little worried that after Anthony Snape and Kara Grainger’s solo acoustic sets we were going to empty the pub but how wrong we were. Crowd loved it, had about 200 people watching from the street and I smashed Oscar in the face with my bass, pulling out a large chunk of his hair on the way. We did a couple of interviews after we played then headed back to the Hodge Lodge to chill out and clean up. Headed back in town via Hodge’s friend Victoria’s place to dump the car and then split up. I went and checked out Justin Hawkins from The Darkness’ new band Hotleg and the rest of the crew checked out local cats Scorpion Child. Hotleg were cool, Justin ’s a lovely English gentleman. We rendezvoused at the Artist lounge for a few free drinks before heading home at shutdown time

US Tour Day #8

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:06:50 +0000

US Tour Day #8 We were up early four first show the unforck and roll time of 1.15pm. Ben had hooked us up with an English mob called Westrocks to play their day party and we ricked the early risers hard. Bar dude and the crew loved it too. We took the gear back to the SUV and went to meet the hollow shell that was Ben at the artist lounge. He preceded to regal us with hazy memories of big black rappers and get kicked awake by hotel concierges whilst passed out face down in hotel corridors. Then he puked over the balcony some Next stop was our official showcase with New York Dolls, Muck and The Mires and some other bands. Rad venue with a big stage, PA and free cigarettes. Got our ear talked off by the friendly security guy, fucking champ! Played a pretty decent set with Tom Zutaut who signed G ‘n’ R in the room, along with producer extraordinaire Bob Clearmountain. He informed Mo that Robbie’s one of the best rock drummers he’s heard Had some dramas with one of Chippy’s mics going ‘missing’ then reappearing in a portaloo he’d never been in under some toilet paper. We’re pretty sure who took and karma will prevail you motherfucker. Watched a bit of the Dolls who were ok but being a bit to cool for their own good. After we lugged the gear out it was back walk, drink, sleep time.

US Tour Day #7

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:37:03 +0000

US tour Day #7 Quic showers then off to our first show of the day at Bayou. Little room and stage but after some brekkie beers we felt like a stadium band and were good to go. Only a 30 minute set but we killed it. Even sold some merch and everything. Made friends with a Scottish band called The Strand who are fucking rad and then headed over the road with them to the Troubadour for show #2. Another good tight set with the guitarist from Blondie in attendance and about 50 people just wandering in off the street to check us out. Big thankyou to Chris Perez at Captiva and Tim Manton back in Oz for hooking us up the shows. After that was done we loaded the gear out and hit the streets again. Caught Lucero play a very drunk set around midnight, wasted but really good. Drinking music makes more sense played by drunks

US Tour Day #6

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:31:59 +0000

US Tour Day #6 SXSW time was upon us, we got downtown around 11am to register at the convention centre. We bitched about the lines when we got there but there were literally 100 people lined up by the time we got our badges. The guy who took my registration was actually the guy who booked our showcase which was cool. Got all our passes and shit together and hit the artist lounge for free beer, met Ben who’s following us around with a camera and hit the streets Basically they shut down about 8 blocks of downtown and there’s bands playing in all the 200 bars/venues non stop. People fucking everywhere, kind of similar vibe to the old Big Day Outs when there was no aussie pride involved. We headed back to HL and cleaned up then came back in to see Mariachi El Bronx play. The Bronx playing traditional mariachi stylee in full outfits with the bassplayer on trumpet and all. I left the guys to enjoy the normal Bronx set and went to see These Arms Are Snakes who were, as our French friend Alex says… FUCKING AMAZZZZING. Finally got home about 3am for a couple of hours sleep before the first day of showcasing.

US tour Day #5

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:25:43 +0000

US Trip Day #5 So there wasn’t any infamous LA traffic and we arrived at LAX at 6.30am for our 10am flight. Dropped Robbie and Mo off out the front of terminal 1 with the gear and Then the GPS decided to fuck Oscar and I around getting the caddy back to the hire place. First it tried to take us to Compton before taking us literally around a block, 3 kilometre trip to travel probably 400 metres and we got it back. Jumped on the empty full size courtesy bus and got back to the airport for check in. The lovely SW airlines ladies helped us repack our bags to keep within the weight limits then it was security checkpoint hell. Shoes off, jackets off, they may as well strap the gloves on and shove a finger up your arse. We sat around for three hours then enjoyed the oddness that is cattle call seating. It’s a bumrush for what ever seat you can get on the plane. Bizarre. I slept lots on the plane and woke up in El Paso. This is where we began to discover southern hospitality, fuck people are nice in Texas, from the security to cleaning people that you bump in to! Mo and I saw Keith Morris from Circle Jerks and went and got a photo with him and stuff which was rad. Also a really nice guy. After another seating battle and flight we arrived in Austin. It was about 25 degrees and wonderful. Picked up a hire car from the overly friendly Brenton (he won’t lie to you) and then fought with the GPS until we got to the Hodge Lodge. Chris (and Frenchy though he was actually in Melbourne) was putting us up for the week and we were welcomed with more open arms. After a shower or two we hit downtown and went to Casino El Camino for giant burgers. Oh, the parking lots here don’t have meters, you stuff folded up notes in to a big metal box (please use your keys or the stuffer provided) The burgers were amazing and massive plus you get a giant pickle with each meal here so I’m in heaven, then it was home and back to sleep

US Tour Day #4

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:15:24 +0000

US Trip DAY #4 Oscar got up and went for a big walk to get his puke off and almost got his jewellery stolen by a crackhead.We met up with him after a breakfast burrito at swingers and went to amoeba records. Holy Shit the place is huge, pretty much a whole city block of CDs, vinyl and dvds. We almost got lost forever in there. We then drove the caddy in to a truck and headed off to True Tattoo to meet Jeff who we partied with in queensland a while back. Checked out a few more thrift shops on the way back and hit swingers again. Ben who’s following us around and filming us while we’re here was crashing on the floor and had to be up even earlier than us to get to the airport so we hit the deck for the night.

US tour day #3

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:01:07 +0000

US TRIP DAY # 3 So the burrito mistake involved popping down to the 24 hour taco stand and getting Oscar some salmonella. He spent a lot of quality time puking in the morning and let loose down the door of the Caddy as we pulled in to valet parking out the front of the venue.. Loaded in to The Echo and put Oscar back in the car to sleep. The day was yet another bogan fest (in the good way) with nary an American accent in earshot. A lot of great Aussie bands played and we did too. We somehow made it through without Oscar passing out though he did spew in a bin in the middle of the venue straight after we played. Oh and Oscar managed to lose his bag with his passport in it as well, luckily Jack from The Art accidentally took it out with their gear and returned it to security or we would have been well fucked Post show we put Oscar to bed and went to Vince’s house with Damien and Briony to chill out. Vince works for Myspace music and is numbingly hospitable guy. He took us to his local strip club where the girls aren’t nude and while Briony got dared to throw money oat the strippers, Vince bounced quarters off the table on to the podium, stripper wasn’t stoked on that. We pulled the pin around 4am and headed home, thanks Vince the new Obits album by the way

US tour day #2

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:59:23 +0000

US Tour Day #2 US TRIP DAY #2 While the guys slept off their hangovers/jetlag, chippy and I got up early and waited to get picked by The Art’s manager Gabe. He ran me down to the hire place that I had thought about walking to. Thank god I didn’t because LA is ridiculously big. We ended up with a massive caddilac as they were out of vans so we’re currently macking the luxury leather seats. Driving on the wrong side of the road is some freaky shit. Kind of got the hang of it but it’s scary as hell turning left. When we got back everyone had gotten their 12 hours sleep and we hit some thrift shops around the corner and then headed home to meet Damien and his wife Briony from Rode Mics. Thanks for the mics mate, you rule! They took us to el coyote, a Mexican restaurant where Sharon Tate ate her last meal before getting in to an altercation with Mr Manson’s family. Awesome food and margaritas so thanks again Damien for showing us a good time. After dinner we went to hollywood to see the art play and meet our new friend Josh, a tattooist and generally all time good guy from LA Interesting club with bands downstairs and chubby Goths getting whipped by half naked gay dudes upstairs As everywhere here shuts at 2am we headed home to drink at the hotel. We altar boyed the Red Riders then made the infamous late night burrito mistake

US tour day one

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:21:46 +0000

US TRIP DAY #1 We congregated at the airport in Sydney at 5.30pm with various loved ones for a beer and goodbyes before check in. The lovely virgin staff ‘neglected’ to add up our bag weights correctly and we were ready to go. With good mate chippy in tow we strolled about the spanking new plane and settled in for the ride. If someone can explain how Robbie ended up with thre seats to himself we’d love to know. Afew valiums later we were landing at LAX and reday for customs torture… Except there wasn’t any, just a friendly customs guy guessing who did what in the band and heckling us as we walked through, no bag checks, no visa questions, nothing. We met a kiwi band out the front who are also staying at the Beverly Laurel (they popped over for altar boys later) along with us, there’s also Red Riders and Mary and Glenn from the Aussie BBQ here too. After a scenic stop motion drive in LA traffic ast all the oil derricks we checked in, had showers and headed down to Swingers diner for food, fucking good food too. Then it was partay time at the Rainbow where we met a guy called Chester, Mo chatted to Taime from Faster Pussycat and we found MORE Australian friends from Sydney. After that we skipped over to the Viper Room for a couple more drinks (these places are tiny by the way) Oscar, chippy and I headed home and left Mo and Robbie to their own devices, they got home eventually and proceeded to kill us with snoring and other bodily functions. Now I’m off to get a hire car and work out driving on the wrong side of the road Till hopefully tomorrow if I remember

LA and SXSW shows

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:48:51 +0000

Aussie BBQ

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:40:36 +0000

TIME TO FLY

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:18:28 +0000

We're locked, loaded and pretty much ready to go to the US of A, all the shows (and there's a fair few of em) are up on the gig page, we'll be trawling LA for a couple of days when we land too so say hi if you see a bunch of confused australians on the sunset strip!

a big thankyou for our US trip

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:00:01 +0000

heya All, we just wanted to say a big thankyou for everyone who came along to the benefit show and all the other recent gigs, who bought a tshirt or has generally helped us out, plus our friends at the Australia Council for the arts as This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

USA USA

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:44:20 +0000

the US gigs are all locked away, all the info's under gigs of course, we can't thank everyone who's helped us out enough and we look forward to what the future holds

South By South West - Austin Texas

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:37:36 +0000

Happy 2009 etc etc everybody, hope the hangovers have disappeared There's big news for us katz in Hell City as we've been invited to showcase at the world's biggest music conference, South By South West in Austin, Texas!!! Flights have been purchased, money is attempting to be saved and we're off to LA on March 13th before cruising over to Austin for the four day extravaganza!!! We'll try and fit in a show or two before we leave around Sydney and we'll tour again after we get back for sure Love, HCGx

Rock Report Review

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rip it up review

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Faster Louder Review Part 2

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Faster Louder Review Pt 1

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bombshellzine review

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Rave Magazine Review

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OnTheRoad Review

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i94 Bar Review

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Daily Telegraph Review

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:54:23 +0000

Drum Media Review

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Dirtyrock.net

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Canberra Times

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:47:42 +0000

Hobart Advocate

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Oxford Arts Show on sale now

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:26:09 +0000

Our last show in Sydney for a while is on November 29th at Oxford Art Factory with The Lazys, get your arse down there and get your tix from Moshtix now!!!! It's $12+bf presale or $15 at the door, don't forget the last show sold out

angels tour day two

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:23:15 +0000

so thursday morning was a bit of a punish on the brain but we struggled through and got in the van. Stopped in at a shop in Coffs on the way to say hey to a friend and get some breakfast (sub standard coffee fyi) and then back through the road work hell that is the pacific highway. Got in to Forster around 4pm and checked in to the hotel and chilled out for a while. Club Forster was a sight to see, the stairs we had to drag gear up and down were steep as fuck and about a mile high. What a fucking lug. We were relieved to see a lovely fruit and deli platter delivered to our room as there was still no booze on the rider. We ate about half of it before Ben, The Angels tour manager, came and put it in their room where it was actually destined. OOPS!!! sorry Ben!!! Show was pretty good, played well, Buzz said nice things in between giving us shit too, they're a bunch of wisearses i tell you.. Angels got about 35 minutes in to their set before some dumb woman decided to pull Doc off the stage and poleaxe the guy in to the dance floor. Show over and a riot almost happened shortly after, the responsible party had to get escorted out the fire escape before she got a severe beat down too. Had a random hello from a girl i went to school with which was bizarre and met up with Mo and I's friend Bones too. Then back down the stairs and on to the hotel for a long night of watching infomercials

angels tour day one

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:04:00 +0000

we as per usual got off to a late start on the road to Coffs but eventually hit the road where we discovered Robbie's new talents as an 'auteur' (french for dickhead) as he managed to film lots of trees and make some simulated car crashes too with the video camera. got to our lovely friend Hana's place around 4.30 and got to watch her surprise as her boyfriend from melbs made a surprise visit that we already knew about coffs ex-services was exactly what we thought, a little bit frightening, poker machines and the pale skinned gamling addicts scare me. Room was fucking massive, The Angels and crew were all really friendly. Only got a quick soundcheck but played a fucking good 30 minute set to maybe 400 people (standing at the back of the room) Angels are fucking great, Doc's voice is still awesome and they're tighter than a nun's nasty After getting kebabs and throwing them at drunk fuckwits we proceeded back to Hana's, got drunk and passed out More rivetting bullshit tomorrow perhaps! Love, HCGx

almost time to go

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:17:00 +0000

well we'll see if we can keep it witty and amusing over the next few weeks in this tour diary shenanigan

Angels Ahoy

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:11:00 +0000

We're just about ready to climb back in that damn stinky van and hit the road with The Angels, first leg of the tour begins next Wednesday in Coffs Harbour then on to Forster and Port Macquarie Then Saturday (18/10) we're at Manly Fisho's for Octoberpuss with Grand Fatal, Lungs and heaps more bands also we've got some new ability to do things on the website now so we may even do a tour diary!

Listen to the album

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:24:16 +0000

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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:21:35 +0000

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We're not on tour yet

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:12:36 +0000

Just a note to let you know we're not on tour yet but we will be real soon with The Angels!!! That's all for now...

Thanks and New Shirts

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:33:00 +0000

First up, a large thankyou once again to everyone who came to a show on the tour, bought an album or a beer and generally helped it be an awesome album launch tour. We've got new Tshirts made (and the glamour girl design too!!) so if youse want one just hit the paypal on the myspace or the website above. CDs are in most stores around the country or iTunes or www.waterfrontrecords.com (if you're international stylee you can get it from waterfront too) If you want to request Josephine on Triple J , hit the link and we'll see if they'll give some rock'n'roll a spin for a change. We'll have a few big gig announcements coming up soon too so stay tuned. Love, HCGx

New Album is FINISHED!

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:31:00 +0000

It's here, it's done, it looks good and sound better!! We beat Axl to shops and our album's ready to go!! And you can listen to it right here on the site too. The tour's begun magnificently in Queensland and travels through the land over the next three weeks, hope to see you at one of the shows or all of them! We dropped the album in to JJJ on Monday so fingers crossed the powers that be dig it and want to play it. That's all the news for now, go harass your local shop for a copy or grab it at a show!!

Sebastian Bach Shows

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:36:00 +0000

Howdy All, the album's off to get mastered today, artwork's almost finished and then we're good to go. So we thought it was time to let you know where we're playing, first up of course is our run of shows with Sebastian Bach then it's on to the album tour!!! Oh and there's a show at the Annandale with Melbourne's Skybombers in there somewhere too. 20 May 2008 Enmore Theatre w/ Sebastian Bach rn23 May 2008 Seagulls Tweed Heads w/Sebastian Bach rn24 May 2008 Arena Brisbane w/Sebastian Bach rn28 May 2008 Annandale Hotel w/Skybombers (melb) rn30 May 2008 ANU Bar Canberra w/Sebastian Bach rn31 May 2008 Panthers Newcastle w/Sebastian Bach 19 Jun 2008 Barragins Tavern Gold Coast Album Launch rn20 Jun 2008 Step Inn Album Launch rn28 Jun 2008 Oxford Art Factory Album Launch rn4 Jul 2008 Dingdong Album Launch rn11 Jul 2008 Cambridge Hotel Album Launch rn12 Jul 2008 Green Room Album Launch rn19 Jul 2008 Enigma Bar Album Launch Love, HCGx

Sebastian Bach Shows + Launch Tour

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:37:00 +0000

It's a bit late but here it is, big news is that we're doing 5 shows with Sebastian Bach (Skid Row) in QLD and NSW in May as a little warm up (or is that a big warm up?) for the album launch tour... Album launch tour you say? Yep, mixing's begun and mastering has been booked, release date will be July 5th 2008 and the tour dates will be up very soon Love, HCGx

Supersuckers and McQueen Shows

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:41:00 +0000

With tracking all finished and mixing slated for April we're climbing out of the bunker we've been recording in... We'll be shaking the cobwebs out of our collective hairfarms and treading the boards for the first time in months. You'll find us at Candy's Apartment supporting McQueen (UK) on Sunday April 6th then The Annandale supporting The Supersuckers (US) on Friday April 18th.

Album Progress

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:43:00 +0000

Our little jaunt to melbourne was mostly succesful with 80% of the album tracked, we're just tying up a studio in Sydney to finish it off then mix and master time. Unfortunately due to the ways of the world it looks like the record will be out in April now, we're sorry!!! Thanks to all who came to the Gaelic the other night for our show with Hardcore Superstar and for those of you in Northern NSW we're playing at Armidale Uni on 15/2 We'll have a paypal account set up in the next week or so for merch too if you're keen for a Tshirt, don't forget the EPs are available at all stores and online via iTunes and www.waterfrontrecords.com HCGx