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February 16, 2006 
i’ve been busy working, both for the man and on the next record, so i haven’t had the chance to gush about two blog-worthy events of the last week. firstly, i saw deerhoof on friday night at the northcote social club here in melbourne. they were great. my only criticism is that satomi is too short. you see it seems at the nsc that unless you are in the front row, you’ve got buckleys chance of actually seeing anything besides the occasional hint of a haircut. i’m not a tall man, but i’m no shorty, and i seemed to spend a lot of the night on my tiptoes. so tall dudes, get thee behind me. also, i think deerhoof’s drummer’s drum kit consisted solely of a snare, hi-hat and kick - or at least thats what it sounded like. he was amazing - on top of his frenetic stop-start style of playing (which i totally dug), the way he manipulated his snare to get so much variation of sound was awesome. and on the record there’s plenty of crashes and cymbals, but live he managed to replicate the sound using only one hi-hat. awesome. of course, i could be wrong, i could only really see his head. my disco were cool too, possibly too cool for me, but they sounded great albeit too loud.
then on sunday night i went to the last show for a band called on the mountain, at the arthouse. this is a band that my friends and i started when i was in high school, fuelled by hormones and driven by a desire to emulate our grungy idols. i left the band when school finished, but it kept going, refining itself into what my good friend described as “neo-grunge.” (art-grunge maybe?) until sunday night anyway, when they wrapped it up after ten years. but let me get to the good part of this story: i’ve never been to a band’s farewell show before, i’ve never been to a farewell show for a band i used to be a part of before, and i’ve sure as hell never been to a farewell show for a band that i used to be in where damo suzuki from can miraculously appears, gets on stage, and jams the fuck out for fifteen minutes. how damo got to be there is another story entirely, but yeah, though i may not have vomited in his toilet, i did shake his hand.
Deerhoof MP3s 1 2
On the Mountain - Road Movie
