FAREWELL CHABBS.

Important message from Dead Farmers:
After 3 and a bit years of keeping time for Dead Farmers, we unfortunately have to announce the departure of our beloved Chabbs. Sad day, but the man could no longer divide time between the trash cans and his studies. So as he leaves we wish him all the best in the future - tute on son, tute on! Not all bad news though, as a replacement has already been lined up and is ready to go. Kowalski, member of Peewee and main man from Marickville's finest party house Louie's, is our new dude in the chair. Y'can hear the lineup first on March 12th supporting our brothers Deaf Wish, alongside Straight Arrows at the Supper Club. Get in early to catch the new Farmers in action!


Dead Farmers debut LP "Go Home" is due out mid-April but knowing my luck that could anywhere between two weeks from now and 2015. See them play for the first time in months here.

P.S.The Royal Headache 7" has been delayed as the pressing plant forgot to mail them.... So basically they've been sitting on a warehouse floor for 3 weeks. I'll be frantically trying to email all of those who have pre-ordered this record, stores etc over the next few days. Sorry bout that y'all. Americans will be able to get this record from Goner in a week or so I reckon!

STRAIGHT ARROWS 7" REPRESS

RIP010: Straight Arrows - Can't Count 7" Repress
A split release with Juvenile Records aka Juvenile Society Records. A repress of 200 copies, RIP Society's 100 copies have the original cover, Juvenile Records 100 copies have a mushroom on the cover. Hand stamped and numbered labels in a very messy careless fashion. Definitely a highlights of Australian punk/garage over the last few years. $9 postage paid in Australia, $11.50 postage paid (US currency) to the US. Paypal r.i.p.societyrecords@gmail.com or email the same place to enquire about ordering multiple copies. Available at Missing Link (Melb), Repressed Records (Syd) as well as The Outpost (bris) and Big Star (SA) in the next couple of days. Sorry about the price internationals....

BED WETTIN' BAD BOYS MELBOURNE 7" LAUNCH

BED WETTIN' BAD BOYS (Sydney)
SOUTHERN COMFORT (Sydney)
WOOLLEN KITS (Melbourne)
BITCH PREFECT (Adelaide)

FEB 20. 8PM.THE EMPRESS HOTEL.
714 NICHOLSON ST, FITZROY NORTH.
COME EARLY AS IT'S GOING TO SELL OUT REALLY QUICK.


BED WETTIN' BAD BOYS
Sydney’s #1 party band are back in Melbourne launching their four track debut 7” on R.I.P Society Records. Think indie rock before indie rock meant you were a sweater wearing nerd (aka Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, Meat Puppets) with undertones of glam (more Slade than Bowie), power pop and hard rock. Held together by wild guitar, overdriven bass lines and a lewd, punk attitude (definitely not college rock). You might recognise Joe as the bass player from Royal Headache, Nic as the guy that put the thing in his mouth in Circle Pit and Ben as an elite sporting hero.
http://www.myspace.com/bedwettinbadboys

SOUTHERN COMFORT
New band from Angela Bermuda (Circle Pit / Straight Arrows) and Harriet Hudson (Downtown / Circle Pit) playing timeless songs based around their hypnotic reverb soaked guitar sound and duel angelic vocals. A real Velvet Underground drone rock vibe with a classic rock/country flavour. First Melbourne tour!

P.S. Both gals play a mean lead guitar (like Neil Young mean) and are really good looking young blonde women.

WOOLLEN KITS
Local house band at the Empress for the weekend! These guys seem to get compared to is Beat Happening, which is fair and all but somewhat limiting. Woollen Kits surpass the “twee” thing because a) actually have good songs and b) they’ve got a stompin’ garage energy with some killer surf guitar lines. Would most likely appeal to fans of the Modern Lovers (i.e. pretty much everyone).
http://www.myspace.com/woollenkits

BITCH PREFECT
Three funs guys from Adelaide, one of which being the truly radical miracle that is Scott Ohara (also of Lindsey Low Hand). From the videos and all reports Pat and Liam are also totally bodacious dudes with moves worthy of your attention. Great off-beat, humbling guitar pop for fans of The Clean, Pavement, Eat Skull, Kitchen’s Floor.
http://www.myspace.com/bitchprefect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSJ8k9YcWHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiqU4RcEgsk&feature=related

Master of Ceremonies MARCUS RECHSTEINER of The UV Race will be hosting the event and helping everyone have a great time. With Marcus on board there is no doubt in my mind this will be a truly excellent rock show, one from the history books!

P.S. There’ll be a bunch of R.I.P Society Records releases on sale on the night. Alongside the new Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys 7” we’ll have the new Kitchen’s Floor - Regrets 7” for sale, a repress of Sydney garage-punks Straight Arrows debut 7” and the debut 7” from Royal Headache. BRING HEAPS OF MONEY.

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KITCHEN'S FOOR & BED WETTIN' BAD BOYS TEST PRESSINGS ARRIVED AND SOUND GREAT. HAND STAMPING THE LABELS OF THE STRAIGHT ARROWS REPRESS. CIRCLE PIT 7" REPRESS ORDER SEND (STILL 50-ish OF THE FIRST PRESSING AVAILABLE). ROYAL HEADACHE TEST PRESS HOPEFULLY OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN. LLOYD HAS DUBBED FOR 100 HOURS. DEAF FARMERS... LP MASTER SENT. Just another day at the R.I.P Society office (pictured above).

P.S....

RIP001: CIRCLE PIT 7" IN BYRON COLEYS SIZE MATTERS TOP 10 OF 2009.
http://thewire.co.uk/articles/3507/

COMING EARLY 2010

CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO SEE IF PROPERLY.

COMING SOON
RIP003: Lloyd Honeybrook - Saxual Abstinence Cassette

Heavy, tonal feedback experiments in not playing the saxophone. The standard edition is a c60 then there's the die-hard 2xc60 edition. Lloyd will take a heap on these on his tour of Japan with Robbie Avanenaim in a couple of months. People in Melbourne should contact him direct for copies, hopefully I'll have soon (one-for-one dubbing sucks).

RIP006: Royal Headache 7"

Sorry this one's taking so long but it's worth the wait. Four tracks a heap of you are probably already familiar with: Splash, Surprise, Eloise & Girls. Embraced by young punk sceptical of all things garage as well as those annoying old dudes that spend all their money of rare Easybeats records. Royal Headache's music will warm the heart of even the crustiest old scrooge.

RIP007: Kitchen's Floor - Regrets 7"

Three new tracks: Orbit, Regrets & Still Night. Here's a video for Regrets and here's a video for Orbit. The third track Still Night is a real winner too, one of the most down of their downer hits. This EP won't disappoints those into their album "Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress" from last year. A bit of a different sound, more raw and tattered which suits the hopeless atmosphere of these songs.

RIP008: Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Worst Band In Sydney / Best Band In Sydney 7"

Think indie rock before indie rock meant you were a sweater wearing nerd (aka Replacements, Meat Puppets) with a heavy dose of suburban punk, overdriven guitars and a rowdy Australia quality about it. Not the most hip or liked band around probably because they off get too drunk and talk too much shit in between songs. Anyway this 7" delivers and shows that they can actually write good tunes.

RIP009: Dead Farmers - Go Home LP

Long awaited debut LP after being the first release on Aarght Records (Eddy Current, UV Race, Super Wild Horses etc) a couple of years ago. I saw their first or second show three and a half years ago and haven't missed many since. At the time it seemed everything around me was no-wavey or post-something and these three young men playing powerful, honest-to-god rock music felt like the most ambitious, genuine thing around. Somewhere between your garage punk and heavy pyschedelic rock (Groundhogs, Blue Cheer, Mainliner etc). These dudes feel like my local Stooges/Creedence/Minutemen.

RIP010: Straight Arrows - Can't Count 7" Repress

A split release with Juvenile Records aka Juvenile Society Records. A repress of 200 copies, I'll make up some covers for RIP's 100 copies and have them ready in about a fortnight. If you want one now more info here. Listen to the Straight Arrows here. Definitely a highlights of Australian punk/garage over the last few years.

RIP011: Languid Mosque Zine

A Royal Headache / Bed Wettin' Bad Boy tour diary. Pretty much writing about the tour and some topics that came up in the car/at the shows etc. Although nobody submitted any stories about punk rock under Premier Joh Beljelke-Petersen's I'll still look into it. Probably some crude drawings/collages and contributions from other band members.

NOTE: I'll be offering some type of package deal for the Royal Headache, Kitchen's Floor & Bed Wettin' Bad Boys 7" that'll include Languid Mosque Zine. Maybe some special covers etc. More details once I get the text pressings back!

Shops/distros or anyone who waits more information (radio, media etc) get in touch at r.i.p.societyrecords@gmail.com .

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Promise I'll get better at updating this thing soon..... Royal Headache and Kitchen's Floor 7"s will be going to the pressing plant next week. Lloyd Honeybrook - Saxual Abstinence Cassette out soon, sorry about the f-around. Bought a cassette duper that doesn't work well enough.

KITCHEN'S FLOOR - Loneliness Is A Dirty Matress CD OUT NOW...

Yep, Australaian can buy it from Repressed Records in Sydney, Missing Link in Melbourne, Rocking Horse in Brisbane, Vox Cyclops in Newcastle and pretty soon Big Star in Adelaide. Everyone loves this album cause it's great, they blew everyone's mind in Sydney a couple of weekends ago.

JAKEB SMITH AT RAVE MAGAZINE IN BRISBANE SAID THIS:
"Left creates a cannily concise pop song through the rhythmic delivery of its only two lines "I was happy / Left me here", while the band’s rumble veers almost imperceptibly beneath. With a fucking tambourine solo for the middle eight, this is the best minimalist pop song I’ve heard in ages. The record is full of such gems, drowned in detuned guitar and Kennedy’s weary yowl, which rears-up in inefficient spasms of energy."

Shaun Prescott at Mess&Noise had many nice things to say as did a Joe Luna at Foxy Digitalis....
Check out the videos for Left and Orbit....