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Beasts of Bourbon reunite for two
(or 3)
special shows…
In 1983, The Beasts of Bourbon’s drunk-swamp-rock was formed as a side project
in Sydney, but they grew to become a supergroup influencing and inspiring a new
dangerous form of rock n roll within Australia and garnering praise and respect
world wide for their infamous live performance; when they took to the stage, you
knew you would get a great show, but what form this took or what direction the
evening would go, you never knew.
This quintessential Australian pub rock band fuelled by alcoholic ambiance
comprising of Tex Perkins, Spencer P Jones, Tony Pola, Charlie Own and welcoming
back, the fully recovered Brian Hooper have
reformed for two very special reunion shows, before heading to Spain for the
Azkenza Rock Concert, where they will share the stage with Deep Purple,
Queens Of The Stone Age, Bad Religion, Wilco, Monster Magnet, Television and
many more.
The reunions shows will be held in Sydney on Friday 12th August at The
Gaelic Club and Melbourne on Saturday 13th August at The Hi-Fi Bar &
Ballroom. Special guests on both nights will be Brisbane’s 6 ft Hick
and Melbourne’s Bird Blobs
A new recording will soon be available in the form of a live album and has been
described as the Beasts at their finest and angriest yet. “Low Life” was
recorded at Melbourne’s infamous Tote Hotel in late 2003 and is set to be
released August 1, through Spooky Records.
Reviews
Harp Magazine
After
listening to the assaulting and careening midtempo sludge-twang of Australia's
Beasts of Bourbon on this furnace blast of a live album, you'll have no trouble
believing that lead throat Tex Perkins wasn't faking the rather inelegant
bathroom-floor sprawl on the album cover. Suffice to say that these masters of
sonic grit leave no ear hole unscathed on these dozen killer tracks of anarchic
party music--the finest in unclean rock and as authentic as this stuff gets.
THE
on-again off-again saga of the Beasts of Bourbon continues with this
whisky-soaked live effort. Tex, Spencer and Charlie lurch from sweaty blues to
gritty funk and all the way back again. Fittingly the set features the infamous
Rolling Stones rarity C---sucker Blues and AC/DC's Ride On.Captures the band in fine form, assaulting a pub audience.
JEFF CRAWFORD - Messenger
News
I-94 Bar – Sydney
If you're a fan of the dark and
dirty stuff, the release of a new Beasts album is very good news indeed. "Low
Life" is the Beasts at their brutal best, live and unadorned. If you think you
heard it all before in the live sense (e.g. the double "From the Belly of the
Beast" from the early '90s and the live EP that came with the "Beyond Good &
Evil" compilation of 1999), think again. "Low Life" puts both in the shade.
These dozen songs were recorded at The Tote in Melbourne in 2003 and comprise
just about the archetypal live set by the present line-up, give or take the odd
tune. It runs the range from "Drop Out" from "The Axeman's Jazz" days to
"Saturated" from "Low", and all points inbetween.
The Beasts are almost such an institution in Australia as to defy sensible
criticism. To see them (and Tex Perkins in particular) to Rock God Status by
mainstream local music writers in the early '90s was a rare delight and almost
gave hope that the rest of the country got "it" (whatever "it was). It was
someone not of the mainstream, Rowland S. Howard, who described them as a "gang
of lazy, insolent, sneering, lascivious and threatening men" and "living proof
that punk rock if content not style". That'll do me, and it should satisfy you
too.
To the music and "Low Life" is as live as it gets, in the aural sense. Tex's magnificent, snarling vocals are right up front, and the
guitars jump so far out of the mix it's scary. The engine room sits in the
soundscape like a slab of concrete. Label honcho Loki and co-founding band
member Spencer P. Jones did an ace job on the production.
It's often been said that the Beasts play best when riled and someone must have
pissed them off mightily on the night that this was committed to tape.There's no
consideration given to the more subtle moments of their mid-period albums - it's
been that way for years - and the country punk twang of their original days long
got steamrolled into the sticky carpet of a pub by a cement truck. This is
rockist and basic in all senses of the words, and no brigade of New Rock
upstarts can hold a candle.
While the Beasts of Bourbon only sporadically reform (most recently for a couple
of Aussie shows, prior to a Spanish festival date), it would be a pity to see
"Low Life" as a swansong when it serves as a bracing and raw introduction for a
whole crop of potential fans, only recently awaking to Real Rock and Roll. Time
will tell if they keep regrouping. Meanwhile, "Low Life" is a loud and proud
view of the high life, as practised in rock and roll's gutter.
