Last week was superintense but rather rad. Tuesday night I hosted the Amnesty International edition of Cottonmouth, which was full of pretty flooring spoken word. Then the Alternative Edition of my monthly Pop Quiz at Ya Ya’s. Thursday night was Raw Hyde (more on that in a sec) and Friday night I had a blast running amok at the FTI 40th Birthday Party in Princess May Park in Fremantle. I’m kind of in recovery mode at the moment but mostly working on the design for the packaging and a 2012 CALENDAR we shot pictures for during the album shoot, which is going to blow your miiiiind.

Back to Raw Hyde though, which has been going excessively well. It’s an “Open Mic Saloon” but we supplement the format with feature comedians, bands, spoken word and whatever performance art wierdness that comes across our desk. It happens at the refurbished Hyde Park Hotel, and any readers from Perth will know the significance of the Hydey before it’s refit; it’s actually been a great experience, the venue have been fantastic, but I’ve wanted to do an oldschool punk rock hydey night there for a while. So the last one was a bit of a pet project of mine; The Bible Bashers, Joe Bludge from The Painkillers, The Spitfires and Frozen Ocean tore the room a new arsehole with blistering sets. It was most pleasant. I took some crap photos:

Laith Tierney from The Bible Bashers, who have just launched this double A-Side:

The Spitfires who have just released this vid for their single Smile:

Frozen Ocean who have just released a great LP called Snoises:

Joe Bludge from The Painkillers, who have let me have all kinds of wierd ways with their song Love Cancer. This was one of my favourite ways:

Anyway, it was a rather satisfying night. You should come down if you live in Perth, every thursday night we program some kind of awesome fun wierdness. Good things happen at about 9pm.