Lapak Gratis, Mural dan Bandung Pyrate Punx show pada tanggal 7 Agustus 2010 di Helicon Workshop Distro, Jl. Taman Hewan (Blkg Kb. Binatang Bdg) mulai jam 12-5 sore.

Andy of the old Taiwanese expat-punk band DEPORTED re-visits Metro Manila with a new band THE OUTSOURCED (basically Bad Omen in disguise!).

BTW: I heard one of THE DEPORTED actually got himself deported from Taiwan recently! And that Andy is now working in congress in the US as the State Representative of MAINE! Heavy!

myspace.com/andydeported
myspace.com/thedeported

A new KL zine with multiple contributors including Alak (Pusher), Yuen (who used to have a column here in RC), the ricecooker shop shitworkers and more. Should be a good read, even if we say so ourselves!

check out FREDAG DEN 13:E: MySpace

get it from: blackseedsrecords.blogspot.com

HARDCORE HELL Part 2
9th August (Monday)
BLACKHOLE, 212 Syed Alwi Road
4pm doors open, 5pm noise begins
$7 at the door

with
STRAIGHT FORWARD (new school two step!)
EXKORIATOR (crust hc!)
YOGYAKARTA (happy happy hc crew!)
STEP ASIDE (new school breakdowns and circle pits!)
REALIZE (90’s era heavy hc!)
SECRET SEVEN (lords of the fastcore!)
VULGAR WORDS (poser violence!)
ENAM JAHANAM (punk-hc-oi debut show!)

also BLACKHOLE will most probably close down at the end of August, so this is your last chance to circle pit in a shophouse…hopefully just for now.

Early 90s American pop-punk heroes plays a tiny show! Awesome!

PUNK ROCK NIGHT!
Wed 11 Aug 2010
Blackhole, 212 Syed Alwi Rd
$10 entry
8:30pm doors open

with

HORACE PINKER (USA)
T.S.A. (Philippines)
KATE OF KALE
NORPHRUNT

note: this is one of the few dates left at Blackhole212 before it closes down. Do go down and celebrate the space!

SiCKL presents Sama-sama Guesthouse Mini Alternative Art Festival 2010 (Melaka)

Support your local revolution! Join us for this unique DIY mini art festival with no budget but lots of “big hearts”!

SiCKL presents a colorful weekend celebrating creative and irrepressible contemporary works in visual art, music, dance, poetry, film/video and performance on 6-8 August 2010 in Melaka!

This DIY, mini alternative art festival takes place at non-conventional venues: a cozy guesthouse inhabiting a heritage building, and a local bar.

Featuring established and emerging artists that are open to art experimentation, the festival has gathered 50 over artists, dancers, musicians and performers from Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, Singapore, Japan, Scotland and USA to join the art feast!

Visual art, dance, video and performances will happen throughout days and nights at Sama-sama Guesthouse, and night music gigs will take place at Karabau Rock Bar.

Opening Ceremony @ Sama-sama Guesthouse: 6pm-7pm, Fri, 6th August.
Visual Art & Performance @ Sama-sama Guesthouse: 3pm-9pm, Fri-Sun, 6-8th August.
Live Music @ Karabau Rock Bar: 9pm-11pm, Fri & Sat, 6th & 7th August.

Location:
- Sama-sama Guesthouse, Jalan Tukang Besi;
- Karabau Rock Bar, Jalan Hang Lekir (3rd street)

Contact: kokbuffalo [at] yahoo [dot] com / yandsen [at] yahoo [dot] com (012-9198031)
samasama2010.blogspot.com
Facebook Event Page

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One of the most exciting projects from the local DIY scene is finally here! 11 tracks by the furiously brash but melodic GASOLINE GRENADE and the thoughtful, studious THE MINDLESS SHOW.

HAVE A LISTEN!

pissartrecords.com | puremindsrecords.blogspot.com | celluliterecords.wordpress.com

Philippines’ veteran punks BAD OMEN is visiting Jakarta, Indonesia for the very first time in October 2010!

Dates:

October 23 – Show (Confirmed, TBA)
October 24 – TBC
October 25 – TBC

myspace.com/badomenmfp

Nizang wrote this report on the comment section, I thought it would be good to be right here. The fest happened on Sunday, July 25th 2010:

The Kuala Lumpur Zine Fest 2010 was planned to be on 25th July in conjunction with worldwide zine month which is celebrated on July. Many zine-related events happen all over the world on this month. A few weeks before the event, I went around town distributing flyers and also posted it online. A lot of people asked whether it’s really happening so I took it as a good sign.

Ben gave an idea to do something like 24 hours zine making. But instead taking 24 hours to finish the contribution, I figured they should do it on the spot. So I name the activity on the spot zine making.

On the day itself, as soon as I woke up I went to buy a pack of pens and cut a few A4 papers into half. I went to fetch Kudin at Bangsar and we headed to the venue, Noisy Warehouse. Noisy is a space a community space where a lot of activities like gigs, screening and DIY events been held.

Some punks spent the night there after the gig the night before. Some were still sleeping. After filling my belly, I went inside to help cleaning the space, setting up the tables and prepare for the event. Three girls were early and bought many zines. Two of them are from neighboring country; Thailand.

The event officially started at 3.30pm. We had some light performances by one man show, The Chalat Chalat and two bands; Keladak and The Pips. As The Pips started their set, rain started pouring heavily. There was a surprise during The Pips set, the front woman Hana announced the birthday of Nunu who stays at Noisy. During these performances also we had ‘On the Spot zine making’. We provided some pens and papers for the participants to write or draw. We asked them to share a DIY recipe, a simple fixing skill or petua. These submissions will be published soon.

After The Pips’ set, we proceeded with screening of Joe Biel’s ‘$100 and a T-Shirt’ documentary movie about zine subculture in the states. Mat Norr suggested switching-off the lights so everyone would concentrate watching the movie and can proceed buying the zines after that. More and more kids arrived during the screening as the rain started to calm down a bit.

After the movie ended, the crowd proceed with buying and trading zines. We also had zine reading session. Azizi who released his latest issue of Bebal zine read some excerpts from that and previous issues. Mat Norr read about his surgery experience from Scenery Is Free latest issue. I read Ben’s writing from my latest issue, Mosh #13. Yuen who just released a zine Shock & Awe talked about the zine and read his writing. Salleh Bintang Kertas talked about why he did zines and lastly Alind read some poems from his zine and talked about Kudeta Collective. The whole event ended at 7.30 pm.

I can safely say the ‘fest’ was a success even though it feels more like a gathering of zines makers, readers, and friends rather than a fest. The name is just an exaggeration to make it feel grand anyway. See you at Kuala Lumpur Zine Fest next year, which hopefully would be better than this first attempt.

pictures on facebook: here

One of those rare gigs happening in Sandakan, Sabah!

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50 years of the draconian act.