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In response to the increasing dematerialisation of music, the Hi God People have released an EP, 'Suntouch', in the form of a biscuit. The biscuit is packaged in a resealable plastic bag with artwork and a download code which gives you access to the songs at http://spill-label.org/hgp . 'Suntouch' is available at Polyester city store. Biscuit launch was on Friday 21st October at Kings ARI, Melbourne.
out in March 2012 on the Chapter label .. the long-awaited Clag retrospective compilation cd
2011 ...
Feb
Dec
Julian Williams has released his Christmas single and it's a free mp3 download
Here is your Xmas present. Ten years after its first release it's time to put Hi God People's 2001 album Play to the Temple of Depth on the web for download .. For this album HGP took 20 hours of their own live and studio recordings, cut them into tiny pieces, and carefully remixed them, mashup style, into one album of 13 tracks .. HGP launched the album in January 2002 at the Empress with supports by Dworzec and Minimum Chips. Follow the link to play individual songs, or grab the whole album
Oct
here's video from a brief Hi God People appearance at a McDonalds drive-through a few weeks ago .. part of the Slow Art Collective's project 'Shelter', which was part of the Ian Potter gallery's Mis-Design 2011 festival
Sep
on Friday 30th Sep I'll be giving a presentation on cd-mastering at Sound Summit in Newcastle
Mess and Noise have published an article by Rene Schaefer about the Fast Forward archive
Aug
Dylan of Hi God People has work in this group show in August: http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/exhibitions/devilhadadaughter.html
Jul
the archive of 1980-2's Fast Forward cassette magazine is now in place .. browse through this goldmine of Australian and international post-punk
New Waver's cd Neuters has run out of copies and is now a free download
two videos of the Hi God People shows at Overground, Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Nick Potter's clip of the leaf-blower suite .. Jason Heller's montage of all the shows including footage of the group on Swanston St
on Saturday afternoon 2nd July at the Empress .. Hi God people support Mexican audiovisual artist Jorge Raminez
Jun
on Sunday 12th June .. Hi God People return to the Melbourne International Jazz Festival to play in Overground
Saved from the cutting room floor! The Hi-God People's appearance on ABC-tv's "Set" programme a few years ago had an interesting ending that was edited from the show in mysterious circumstances. The ABC kindly let us have the master tape and we can present this ending now on YouTube: click here to view
May
we've started an online archive of Bruce Milne's early 80s Fast Forward tape/magazine which specialized in post-punk music. There were 13 issues and they'll make their way onto the web about one per week.
I've dropped the Blog that used to sit here, as I haven't written any entries for two years and I have a constant fight against comment-spam. I'll revive it later on my personal website.
Mar
on Saturday March 12th at Sunshine and Grease .. Mad Nanna, Full Fucking Moon(NZ), Prehistoric Fuckin Morons(Newcastle), Javier Frisco(WA) and Reunion Sacred Ibis. 3pm.
Feb
on 26th Feb at 3pm at Gertrude Contemporary, 200 Gertrude st Fitzroy, part of Dylan Martorell's residence .. Hi God People launch Julian Williams' new album Standing Creek. HGP will be joined by public-disruption performance artist Penelope Trotter. This all-ages, free-entry, easy public transport show starts right on 3pm.
on 19th Feb at Sunshine and Grease .. free performance by Ernie Althoff and Undecisive God .. from 4pm
Jan
on Mon 31st Jan at the Forum .. a benefit to celebrate Stephen Walker's 30 years at RRR .. featuring DIRTY THREE, THE SKULL CAVE ALL STARS, GARETH & DAN (THE DRONES), DAVE GRANEY & THE LURID YELLOW MIST, RON S. PENO, SAND PEBBLES, MAX CRAWDADDY & RRR DJs
New Waver now have a Facebook page
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