grogpappy: 2012

13.12.12

Bloody Burka cassette

11.12.12

3.12.12

COCK WITH WINGS & SHE-BEAR split cs

29.11.12

the pharmacy. 30.09.2012

19.11.12

COCK SAFE - Staycc [whiteness & pinkess]

New on Whiteness & Pinkess

11.11.12

grogpappy1of1's

Pappy likes one off cassettes so now he has a new series of one off cassettes. here are the first two. 10.00pp in Australia. Overseas contact.

grogpappy1of1no.1 - KEG SALTY & THE FRENCH MOON - There's Magic In Music (pictures: middles, right) The Mermaids before The Mermaids were The Mermaids. Recorded 09-10
**GONE**

grogpappy1of1no.2 - COCK SAFARI - Heard Worse Rejects
(picture: far left) Stuff that didn't make it onto Cock Safari's Heard Worse Release earlier in 2012.

**GONE**

21.10.12

DOWNLOAD: The Mermaids 'Dolphin Cove' cs

Originally released in 2011.

DOWNLOAD: The Mermaids 'Dolphin Cove' cs 55.7mb

5.10.12

grogpappy 10.8 & 10.9

grogpappy10.8 Various 'Martika' cassette box 2012

APPROX 30MIN: features: Dingbats, Rotted Crow, Oskar, _ _ _ _, [sug] or gus and Cock Safari - edition of one GONE

grogpappy10.9 Bloody Burka / Cock Sally - 'sook cafe plays bloody burka' / 'untitled' split cassette GONE

Cock Safari / Teen Ax cassette

New on STREET MUSCLE

26.9.12

cock safari / crabby bogman split cassette

9.9.12

COCKDRILLER CDr [smell the stench][2012]

New on Smell The Stench.

grogpappyyatgmaildotcom

24.8.12

REVIEW: The Mermaids – Love From The Vegetable Kingdom

There's a new Australian website called Crawlspace dedicated to "mostly about strange / weird / beautiful / repugnant Australian music." There's a section called Scum Mecca with reviews in it. Here is one of them.

Mermaids – Love From The Vegetable Kingdom CS (Grog Pappy)

New tape on what is easily one of the best tape labels in the cuntry. One part Cock Safari, other part Polyfox, Mermaids is a project usually reserved for cheap laughs and cheaper sounds emitted via a range of toys and abused Nintendo applications. Love From The Vegetable Kingdom sees the Mermaids paired up with Nylstoch (Unaustralians, Venting Gallery) on a rare Melbourne sojourn earlier in the year. Although elements of their toys creep underneath at times (definitely could pick an annoying siren I’ve heard used at least once before), Nylstoch’s hysterical overdriven geet and presumed later drumming mutates the Mermaids into a much more threatening beast. The animal lurches, stumbles and crashes into a heap of low-end blow-out and cymbal collapse. Grog Pappy provides what is probably the greatest insight into Newcastle you are likely to get, outside of getting your head kicked in outside The Kent. This tape’s covers are printed on paper found in one of the many derelict buildings in the Newcastle “CBD” (I use the term very loosely) before it was demolished. My copy has a list of many of Newcastle’s suburbs in its background, and I probably have a fucked story associated with every one of them. There is no love in this vegetable patch.

22.8.12

Grog Pappy & The Pharmacy apathetically present...

Lots of bands playing at the pharmacy. 30.09.2012

The lineup and order is something like this:

FRONT ROOM

>> Teen Ax (syd)
>> Enduro (newc)
>> Dry Mouth (melb)
>> Drillbit (newc)
>> Certified Fools (syd)
>> [the] Alzheimer Blanks (melb)

STAGE TWO (the broken toilet/paint bunker)

>> Oranj Punjabi (melb)
>> Hippies on Smack (bris)
>> The Mermaids (newc)
>> Tistriallal Binds (bris)
>> Bleak (newc)
>> Anthony Guerra (syd) & Pat O'Brien (melb)

7.00PM

More to be announced. subject to change. etcetera etcetera

2.8.12

Cock Safari @ The Pharmacy, Newcastle July 2012

The Mermaids @ Terrace Bar, Newcastle

30.7.12

POWER UP! opening afternoon - August 5

ARThive's first massively multiplayer art exhibition themed around video games and game culture! We've assembled an incredible group of local artists paying tribute to their favourite games, characters, and consoles. Opening reception from 2pm Sunday August 5 with special live music performances by experimental electronica groups MEN64 and THE MERMAIDS, and a highly competitive MARIO KART 64 tournament. If you can't make it, the exhibition will continue throughout August so there's plenty of chance to get in and check out the show during regular gallery opening hours.

i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o
i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o
i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o i n f o

28.7.12

MSLMISSILEMSL 'deiiieff' c12

First release on MAZURKA EDITIONS. Two tracks from 2010 & 2011. Edition of 15.
grogpappy(at)gmaildotcom GONE

19.7.12

10.7.12

THE MERMAIDS '♥ from the vegetable kingdom'

VAGRANT #5 – Scattered Order, Dracopede, The Mermaids

with

SCATTERED ORDER
DRACOPEDE
THE MERMAIDS

SATURDAY 15TH JULY 2012
The Terrace Bar, 529 Hunter St, Newcastle
Free Entry, Bands from 8pm

Scattered Order finally, ultimately bring the 3 headed noise monster back to Newcastle.
Confounding listeners for decades with their genre bending approach to sound, Scattered Order are currently in full flight after a massive re-energising. The band that founded the legendary Australian post punk M Squared label has been exhilarating audiences over the last two years with their totally unique approach to noise and tune.
Their multi-layered, sometimes abrasive, sometimes blissful sound is aimed at producing a third entity from the combination of noise with melody, adding seductive beats and eccentric processing.
Scattered Order will perform under the writhing light of live video projections by Living Science Dept.

I N F O I N F O I N F O I N F O I N F O I N F O I N F O I N F O I N F O I N F O

E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T

20.6.12

Wardenburger, meet Newcastle.

wardenburger

cock safari

hotpants

deadshit dolphins

dingbats

Friday, 6 July 2012 . 8PM

E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T

14.6.12

SCHOOL GIRL REPORT [melb] (on their way to China)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/School-Girl-Report/312379338778447

OBAT BATUK (scummy fucks)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=300NZEwL47M

COCKDRILLER (drillbit + cocksafari)
http://cocksafari.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/cockdriller.html

E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T E V E N T

1.6.12

DEAD BOOMERS TOUR

Grog Pappy rejects COCK WITH WINGS (cock safari+rats with wings) will be in Sydney next weekend laughing it up with Melbourne's hairy leg DEAD BOOMERS who are launching their new long player 'The Pig in The Python.' Up with them from Victoria are MITCHELL BRENNAN, RSI and local stinkers JUSTICE YELDHAM (glassface), DEFEKTRO (flame thrower), TAILINGS (pretty boys), TEEN AX (W.A.G's).

The Melbournites are also playing the night before in Newcastle at The Pharmacy.

Event here

29.5.12

COCK SAFARI & DINGBATS a cat may look at a king

From Altered States blog:

"This here’s a fried lil’ collab between Cock Safari and Dingbats recorded at Newcastle’s premier pharmaceutical dispensary / venue / flophouse. There isn’t much point trying to describe these sounds, ya just need to chuck your green goggles on and immerse yourself. One thing I will say is that if you dig on loops, this is the crepe for you. I had a bunch of c90’s lying around, so half the tape is taken up with whatever crap was on the end of the master I was given, sounds like local radio, whoo. 40 copies."
Many copies have different titles on them; "a cock may look like a king", "a cat may look at a cock", "a cat may look like a king", etc.

Originally released in edition of two on Grog Pappy in November 2011.

OUT OF STOCK

25.5.12

EX-CROWN “646 592 3423” c10

First release on the WHITENESS & PINKNESS label from Melbourne! Ex-Crown “646 592 3423” c10 cassette! Ex-Crown is the conceptual audio project of Miles Pflanz, who used to be in a dadaist noise troupe called Crown Now when he was a teenager and does video now. On this debut cassette, there are selections of some sounds he encountered when calling as many payphones in Manhattan as he could in an 8 hour period. On the flip, there is a stand-off with automated voice technology that develops into a frustrated opus. Together the pieces create a brief, noir-ish, and lonesome comedy that make for one hell of a business card.

highly recommended!!!!

$6.00pp

grogpappy(at)gmail.com

ALL GONE

EAST LINK debut cassette

First tape on a new label called CREEP DREAMS and also the first release so far by Melbourne's East Link. EL deliver a blown-out, three gtr assault that combines equal parts riff-fueled rock and noise-fucked psych.
If it makes the band of any more interest to you (and I know it does), East Link features members of such notable Asstralian flag-bearers as Total Control, UV Race, Repairs, Lakes, Straightjacket Nation, Interzone, Teargas, etc. Really, they are just a fk'n great band and one of the best currently doing the rounds here.

OUT OF STOCK

WATCH / LISTEN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJoBRYGD2yM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3kl4lcwpvQ
$10ppd

grogpappy(at)gmail.com

21.4.12

Volume 1 of STREET MUSCLE DVD is available now. It features: Whitehorse (Melb) in some weird bar in Sydney, UnAustralians (Melb) playing a brutal set at the ‘where is music’ festival on Cockatoo Island, Mermaids (Newc) shredding the Summer Vibes festival in Newcastle, Whores dragging it through a sludgy one at Red Rattler, Cock Safari jamming at Vox Cyclops to Danny Sessions, ‘Legendary Japanese Jazz Lord’ Yoshiaki Fujikawa playing a marathon 2 hour set to 3 people in a Jazz Club/hole in the wall in Tokyo (note: has been edited down), and Cured Pink playing in the alley next to Dirty Shirlows for the final show of his residency at Serial Space (apologies in advance to Andrew Mclellan : I only filmed the very end of this amazing set - I chucked it in anyway).

Cover Photo by Sam Stephenson - http://sam-stephenson.com/

direct link here: STREET MUSCLE DVD

18.4.12

Noise BBQ from cv slime 800 on Vimeo.

Excerpts from performances at The Noise BBQ @ KIPL from 21st January 2012.

Featuring:

Spazmoslop
Wife
Radical Creation
Nic Tammens
Unique Oil Free Air (QLD)
Galactagogue
FTRG
VDO
The Mermaids

1.4.12

☺☺☺ bois noise ☺☺☺

^^^^^CLICK CLICK^^^^^

TEEN AX
DRACOPEDE
PREHISTORIC FUCKIN MORON
DEFEKTRO
DIRTY BANGKOK DOWNERS
RATS WITH WINGS & THE MERMAIDS

SATURDAY 28 APRIL. 3.00PM. THE PHARMACY.

17.2.12

Cock Safari & Polyfox 'Happy Valentines' cassette

Cock 'n Fox play all the different pieces of equipment they can find in a 3x5 meter room with a ditty of a duet at the end of the cassette.

ALL GONE

| title: Cock Safari & Polyfox 'Happy Valentines' | double-sided colour cover/inlay |
| released 17 February 2012 | Label: grogpappy13 |
| email: grogpappy(at)gmail.com

16.2.12

B U M M E R V I B E S

W/ THE MERMAIDS, DRILLBIT, MYSTERIES (moonmilk), POLYFOX, PETER HORE & more

DOORS @ 12PM - DRILLBIT FIRST @ 1PM
18 FEBRUARY 2012 @ CROATIA, NEWCASTLE