LULU'S SEPTEMBER 2023 NEWSLETTER

Here is the SEPTEMBER 2023 Newsletter and Calendar, emailed at the start of the month to our mailing list and physically available free in store.

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Big September ahead kicking off tonight at the store where Mom Gallery is launching the new show by Jack Summers (from CLAMM). There's more on that below in the Mom Gallery write up by Oscar, if you're in Melbourne please come down and experience the art - you can also buy a Demolition tape and experience the art - you can have a drink with us and tell us about your first kiss, the first time someone threw a brick at you at a hardcore show, tell us about your personal take on Epstein's death. If you're not from Melbourne, order a Demolition tape and go to your nearest nail salon and tell them about your first kiss, etc.

Calendar not attached but keep an eye out for it. This is an event we want you to mark: Cease & Desist records first vinyl release party at Lulus Thurs Sep 28th. The Drain Bugs 7". Wild project from Melbourne underground feat. Michael Beach and Pete Ward. Remix by our mate Mikey Young. Yikey Mung. Yimekey Numg. Numki Yinke.

This newsletter was written and recorded by DX and A Coco, mixed by Geezer Butler and mastered by Mikey Young.

FEATURED THIS MONTH:

MOM GALLERY NEWS
WARCYCLE - “MANIFESTING BARBARITY” 7”
DEMOLITION - “THE CHAIR” CS
BELGRADO - “INTRA APOGEUM” LP
OASIS - “KNEBWORTH 1996” 3LP
DOLLY MIXTURE - “DEMONSTRATION TAPES” + “REMEMBER ME – THE SINGLES” LP
DISTORT XXIII VOL. 1
DISTORT XXIII VOL. 2

MOM GALLERY NEWS

Yo! Oscar from MOM here.
It’s been a great first month in the gallery, couldn’t have gone more smoothly and couldn’t be happier with the response we’ve had. 
Thank you to all the wonderful heads that made it down to see Jim McCullough’s show ‘In Your Dreams’, the opening was great and it was so great to see so many people come down throughout the month. 
We also held an artist talk with Jim in the gallery last weekend, so big thanks to anyone that made it down to that, was amazing to hear Jim talk about his process and life. We will continue to do these talks so keep an eye out for those announcements.
Some of Jim’s paintings are still available online at our website - loveyoumom.net.
In other news, our next show; ‘Wasn’t Me’ by Jack Summers opens on the 1st of September and will be on show until the 23rd of September. Jack is a Melbourne based painter, who also fronts local heavy rock act; CLAMM. In the exhibition, Summers’ paintings are the final product of a relationship between painting mediums and the collective and personal unconscious. The artist works with meditation, dreaming, movement, flow and symbology in order to create a series of works that do not solely feel like his own doing.
It’s a beautiful show and hopefully you can make it down!
See you in the gallery, Peace!

WARCYCLE - “MANIFESTING BARBARITY” 7”
(Televised Suicide Records)
Perth’s WARCYCLE provide ten vicious minutes of metallicrusted d-Beating wings, flying high and low in the name of barbarism. It should appeal to those of you who enjoy the delicate balance of cicada MT-2 guitar tones and pumping war drums of Japanese Crust Punk (those toms sound wicked) and also those who enjoy metal crossover alloyed subgenres. For a more local references imagine Sistema En Decadencia meets Geld. Maybe a little Extortion for hectic measure. Boom.

DEMOLITION - “THE CHAIR” CS
(Televised Suicide Records)
Dunno what cavern this one was recording in, but it’s grim. Punishing, thuggish, heaving mass of slime-moulded boulder rolls towards ominous spiked chair of torture and sighs. DEMOLITION’s sound is steeped in the tradition of that power(ful)violence fast/slow mercury; messenger of dz old godz. I’ve long admired how rude it is that a simple triplet waltz (1-2-3, 1-2-3) can be turned into something so furious and ill. Demolition revel in it. More overtly metallic than the original Californian PV sound; 111% crushed bass “tone” weakening the knees, washed tremolo guitar reverbbberating through the halls of your sacred inner ear, drums chiselling away at your jawbone, and a ravening vulture voice picking away at what’s left of your sanity. I’m still astonished how much D.P. sounds like Sean from Cold Sweat when he throats the mic - it’s uncanny. And if you know Cold Sweat, you know their name feels so appropriate in large part due to the maddened musings on the mic. The Chair awaits. You’ve been warned.

BELGRADO - “INTRA APOGEUM” LP
(La Vida Es Un Mus)
Intra Apogeum brings more danceable post wave punk disco from BELGRADO. Their fourth album heads further towards New Order’s synth pop stylings with their own contemporary wrinkles; moody, phat, layered, politickle. Definitely an after dinner treat, it’s got the makings of a late nite fog machine/ketamine dirty dancin’ hit machine. It would be unfair to not mention the bass playing on this album - someone has been practising and it shows - some of these bass lines are insane. It’s a pretty intense listen, the aforementioned layers can overwhelm in parts but that’s nothing a bit of a volume bump and wanton attitude can’t fix. Turn the bass up, turn the lights off and commit crime or passion. BELGRADO are there for it.

OASIS - “KNEBWORTH 1996” 3LP
(Big Brother)
It’s killer to hear such a massive band playing at the peak of their popularity. Recorded over a few nights, this is a raw side only barely hinted at on their albums. There’s some hilariously stupid banter interspersed here and there helping to give you the picture of what was going through (and into) their heads at the time (and it’s amusing hearing Noel not being able to help but be a tosser and spoil the mood whenever he gets the chance.) But the real joy here comes from hearing these magnitude 7 pop songs performed like they were a hard out rock and roll band. Liam’s voice breaks into a scream on more than one occasion and the guitar sound is like a jet taking off. A total treat for any fan of these infamous louts and honestly not a band starting point for anyone looking to find out what all the fuss is about.

DOLLY MIXTURE - “DEMONSTRATION TAPES” + “REMEMBER THIS – THE SINGLES” LP
(Sealed Records)
Rumour has it that when DOLLY MIXTURE first began in 1978, they barely knew how to play an instrument. Lucky, then, that they totally encapsulate the UK-DIY sound with their chop-em-up and spit-em-out pop tunes. There’s always been a dark underbelly to pop music, one that has showed itself in different ways over many a time and place. Just because it sounds nice or quaint, doesn’t mean it can’t have a mean spirit innit? Running in the same circles as The Damned, DOLLY MIXTURE certainly had a twinge of punk to their sound – not unlike The Ramones at their most doo-wop or the waves of power pop that washes over the UK’s shores through the late 70’s into the 80’s. Sometimes ambitious, sometimes down the line razor sharp, and sometimes as blunt and sloppy as a well worn boot – the band has a triumphant DIY spirit written all over it and a million melodies to mull with your cheap wine. Another gem given new shine by the fantastic Sealed Records.

DISTORT XXIII VOL. 1

Are you familiar with Antidote? New York hardcore band, protein rich. Listen when I say this: Antidote was the antidote to communist childhood. Hardcore for me was a music and culture born out of experiences like this. Extremes. Brainwashing. Cult mentality. Crime and violence and mental turmoil. Hunger and hatred. Theft and vandalism, riot and affray. Running away from the cops. Running towards the cops.
“A penis squirts and I am doomed to a life on earth” – Wollongong folk saying.
Writing on the early years of Distort, including life in Wollongong and moving to Melbourne to play in Straightjacket Nation. Includes a concise history of cult hardcore, alongside extracts from the first 10 issues of Distort 2004-2006: Integrity, h100's, Left For Dead, Japanese Hardcore, Arms Reach.
Card cover with lino cut print, numbered individually /23.
Limited copies available instore or mailorder here. 

DISTORT XXIII VOL. 2
Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement — in which the muscles do not also revel…
- Nietzsche
Of late I have come to experience an accumulation of all the reveries I’ve experienced when lifting stainless steel double door fridges up and down stairs across Melbourne and Sydney...
Writing on manual labour and physical culture, Nietzsche's philosophy of the body, writing on the dance of the furniture removalists, the cult of the sun, the Unconquered Sun, Sol Invictus, writing on the Ancient Greeks obsession with tanning, writing on Yukio Mishima and his philosophy of Sun & Steel. This is not a salt of the earth working class glorification of back break and sweat and the redemption of labour.
Card cover with lino cut print, numbered individually /23.
Limited copies available instore or mailorder here.