SAT 9 OCT
THU 14 OCT
BOREDOMS
STIGMATA
KES BAND, BUM CREEK
BOREDOMS
KES BAND
BUM CREEK
S T I G M ATA
For more than two decades, Japan’s
iconoclastic experimental music unit,
Boredoms, has redefined words like
‘fringe’ and ‘frontier’. Formed in 1986
in Osaka by EYE, the band has become
known around the world for their noise,
chaos, tribal experimentation, remixing,
trance-inducing feats of rhythmic intensity,
line-up changes, collaborations, and
doing whatever they want regardless of
trends and fashion. For the Festival the
latest Boredoms incarnation brings intense
and otherworldly drumming sounds with
this special Melbourne version of their
legendary Boadrum performance.
Supporting Boredoms is the everchanging, cerebral all-instrumental
art-rock indie outfit Kes Band. Former
Bird Blobs bassist and a contributor to the
Melbourne quartet Mum Smokes, Karl
Scullin, has carved himself a handsome
niche as Kes, a clearing house for his
varied musical pursuits. The latest Kes
Band line up features a high-energy,
aggressive sound with prominent
instrumental interludes and will be a
one‑off special show for the Festival.
Relocated Canberra freakoids Bum Creek
have been making amazing musical
weirdness for the last five years. They
now live in Melbourne and turn every
live show into a triumphant lurching mess
of synth squiggles, kraut percussion and
vocal gibberish.
Extreme metal ensemble Stigmata are set to become the first ever
Sri Lankan band to tour Australia. Until the late 1990s Sri Lankan
popular music consisted of film music, Hindi pop and imitations
of western pop. That is until Stigmata and their provocative,
powerful sound burst onto the scene in 2003. Growing up
in Colombo after years of civil war, sourcing instruments and
rehearsal space was a difficult and expensive task. With few live
music venues in the city, Stigmata single-handedly built a scene
that now produces some of south-east Asia's most promising
young metal bands.
Japan
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B L A R K E BAY E R / B L A C K W I D OW
Australia
Australia
Image: Boredoms
Sri Lanka
B L A R K E BAY E R / B L A C K W I D OW
Australia
Blarke Bayer is Ben Andrews (My Disco) and Robert MacManus
(Grey Daturas, Monarch) is Black Widow. Ascending from this
sacred earth under a full moon on 31 October 2006, the gods
gave birth to these experimental psych lords, an instrumental
drum and guitar duo who re‑create the genius hypnosis of
Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii.
Image: Stigmata
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