nope, i was wrong.
here’s a free sea scouts download to make up for it: Sister Hell: Sea Scouts - Beacon Of Hope (1998)
Listening to Sea Scouts now. I love the magic of the internet.
if you like sea scouts, you might also like mouth - most of the same people, but earlier and rockier. tasmania in the 90s ruled.
I have a copy of Mouth - Victim Chant if anyone is interested. I can uploaded later this week.
Yet I couldn’t see the old growth forest for the trees. Fun fact: Fugazi played the Windmill Hill Hall in Launceston.
Brendan speaks the truth.
you might like that sister hell blog jolan. a whole bunch of noisy rock stuff, as well as stuff from chicago in the 90s
top ten melbourne records, pulled out of my butt:
myc - live at the arthouse
my disco - paradise
ninetynine - the process
loin groin - lion grion zion
providence - south east of syracuse
flesh vs venom - tales from the parrot house
the dirty three - ocean songs
the nation blue - protest songs
true radical miracle - cockroaches ep
conation - the clouds are gathering ep (most of them were living in melbourne when it was released, pedants!)
^ The Nation Blue also originated in Tasmania 
and in one interview they said they’re just trying to recreate the sounds coming out of tasmania in the 90s. however, by protest songs they were firmly a melbourne band.
I have always wondered why there aren’t more suicidal depressive black metal bands coming out of Tassie. The place is suitably grim in the forests, and i can totally imagine getting a bit down in Launceston after two or three minutes.
But maybe there are and I just haven’t heard them.
^ There were plenty of Tassie metal bands, but I don’t think many got beyond Metallica covers.
this is nothing to be ashamed of.
am i the only one who thinks it’s more interesting to talk about bands from a particular city, rather than a country? cities have scenes that sometimes throw up similar sounds / themes, whereas countries rarely do.
there’d be more, but the guy from striborg has a monopoly on slazenger tracksuit pants
So true. They all went to Melbourne.
excellent point… there is less of a ‘sound’ from a country and more from a city.
having grown up in cockroach-town i spent a lot of time wishing i lived south of the border (geelong in the earlier 90s, then melbs in the mid-late 90s) both scenes were, to me at the time, better than what sydney was doing.
not that im saying that sydney was bereft of quality bands… but the above seemed to be a hive of what i was interested in at those times.
the grass does always seem greener (and the politics less) elsewhere…
I think the city things holds true for punk more so than for metal.
Brutality is universal.
hip hop is hugely diverse from city to city. Or at least it was in the 90’s. Don’t listen to much of it nowdays.
So is love, is that why dirty hippy stoner music all sounds the same too?