We always become the things we hate – My life with Morrissey.

With a new album on the horizon, Manchester’s most divisive son remains ‘Low in High School.’ But has his truculent tongue bitten us once too many times? As comfortable wrapped in his enigma as he is exposing his nipples, Stephen Patrick Morrissey has always liked to play his cards close to his chest, even as his […]

Puritans- Seven Inches of Autonomy

Fundamental Illness Records is a Sydney based label and distro that is hoisting the DIY banner proudly in their inked and calloused hands. Following the digital only release of their ‘El Corridor Maldito’ compilation in conjunction with Eterna Oscuridad they’ve hit hard on the second swing with their first physical release. Puritans from Vancouver belie […]

Local Man continues commitment to Dark Souls speed run even after spiders crawl up his dick-hole.

Local masochist Jimothy Pudenda recently highlighted his extraordinary commitment to From Software’s seminal controller-destroy-em-up ‘Dark Souls’ by continuing his Speed Run record attempt even after a swarm of baby spiders commenced crawling into his dick hole. Looking to shave a further 3.4 seconds off his current best time, Jimothy was racing up the steps of […]

It’s Mostly Pixels. Writing on Games.

A collection of my guilty pleasure articles about digital frippery. When I was a wayward teenager growing up in the 90’s and spending countless bush kif dusted afternoons playing Street Fighter on the Megadrive in my friend’s garage, we were stumbling towards adulthood in the pre-internet age. No websites. No countless free previews, analyses, hype […]

Love, Anarchy and Violence: The Legacy of Rik Mayall, The People’s Poet

At the Junction of Queen Caroline Street and Hammersmith Bridge Road lies a simple blue memorial plaque that reads: Rik Mayall 1958-2014 – Punched his friend in the balls on a bench near this spot. The piece was originally published on the first anniversary of his death in Collide Magazine Issue 4. When the people’s […]

Le Butcherettes- Teri Gender Bender, Metaphorical Quicksand & The Secrets of The Universe

From the toquines of Mexico to duets with Iggy Pop, Teri Gender Bender brings wide eyed fire and blood. Originally Published in Collide Art & Culture Magazine Issue 5, this is the full chat in its first time on the web. Since their 2007 inception in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Le Butcherettes have evolved […]

Steve Kilbey- Something Quite Peculiar

In which we discuss Music, Mushrooms, Literature…and Dapto. In my ongoing efforts to bring you the unpublished director’s cuts of previous interrogations, today we revisit an afternoon in Newtown with Steve Kilbey of The Church. Originally published in truncated form in Collide Art & Culture magazine Issue 3, the full chat appears here for the first […]

El Corredor Maldito – Deathrock Rides Again. Pay what you want.

The underground has always been a fertile, fecund place. While the topsoil of bedroom wall icons and their cheekbone legacies lie fallow if not forgotten, their seeds and spores have drifted on the wind and sprouted in innumerable places throughout the globe. And no scene seems more fertile and evergreen than the triad of Deathrock, […]

Nerve Quakes – A New State

Hailing from Perth, on the rugged coast of Western Australia, Nerve Quakes conjure a sound that could just as well have emerged from the gloom of Leeds in 1987. Debut LP ‘A New State’ first tempts with ‘Honey Hive’ where bass runs into chiming glissando before Siouxsie rings the doorbell and invites herself in with […]