This week at the TOTE!
Tuesday w/ Frowning Clouds
Wednesday w/ Mesa Cosa
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MESA COSA + DRUNK MUMS - UPSTAIRS AT THE TOTE THIS SATURDAY 26 JAN
Rad footage from the Old Godzilla bar show last year
In just over a month we will be in NZ to play Camp A Low Hum! Check it out and come along if you can! Flights to Wellington from Melbourne are currently on sale from Virgin and Air New Zealand. This year Mount Eerie and Thee Oh Sees are rumoured to make appearances plus a bunch of other bands that aren’t famous but rule. BYO, no sponsors, no vip or backstage areas and a lagoon.
Lots of stuff coming up but we havent been ‘tumbling’ it. Release out in FRANCE via Casbah Records and also 10” record is available from one of our favorite labels SLOVENLY, so checkitout at slovenly.com and order a copy if youre outside of Australia. We also were interviewed in JJJ digital, which is weird because we dont like Triple J.
BUY OUR RECORD FROM CASBAH
Photo by the AdamNOTEve Crew (Aleks rulz)
One of our favorite moments as a band ever. Jamming to MO FUNKY with Zoobombs on air at FBI Radio / Sydney. Good times.
BUENA FIESTA
We got back from tour with the Zoobombs to a couple of gigs at home, one with Brooklyns Obits at the Tote and this rad warehouse party up the road
“Mesa Cosa are such huge fans of Japan’s Zoobombs that they funded and organised the band’s latest Australian visit, including a support slot for themselves. In an overload of good vibes, Mesa Cosa’s PABLO ALVARADO got to ask his hero DON MATSUO about the explosive Zoobombs live show and the man’s love of both blues and noise before their joint tour hits Victoria and NSW. Dates below.”
MESA COSA INTERVIEW #awkward #drunk #winos
If you’ve ever been to a Zoobombs show before you’ll be flailing around like a child dizzy on three litres of red lemonade by now. If not, you’re in for a treat. Imagine Guitar Wolf and Boredoms got together and had a hyperactive lovechild and you’re getting close. Yes, they are that good.
Born from the fevered mind of conductor/guitarist Don Matsuo, The Zoobombs traverse the treacherous outcrops of rock’n’roll, psych, garage and funk without so much as breaking a sweat and have assured themselves a cultish devotion from fans across the world due to their extraordinary live shows and relentless touring. Fans including The Flaming Lips who were so impressed by their energy that they took The Zoobombs on tour across the States, cementing their reputation as one of the greatest live rock acts in the world.
The Zoobombs will be making their long-awaited return to our shores in 2012 for two reasons; passion and love.
Returning the love in the biggest way are tour co-conspirators Mesa Cosa. Fans of the highest order (and a very, very tidy unit themselves) Mesa Cosa’s love for The Zoobombs was the genesis of this tour. So eager to see their favourite band perform again, and to share their incendiary live show with the rest of the nation, that Mesa Cosa are funding and organising the whole shebang themselves - airfares from Japan and all.
So what have you done to fly the flag for your favourite band recently? Eh?
With more scope for damage than a final battle between Godzilla and Mothra, fittingly this beast of a tour awakens this August 17 at Melbourne’s venerated Tote Hotel before taking prisoners in Newcastle, Wollongong and Sydney.
