Twitch of the Death Nerve

Cat #: 009TZM

On a hot crazy night, tenzenmen brought together Baseball (Melbourne), ni‐hao! (Japan), Sabot (Czech Republic) and The Thaw (Sydney) and crammed them into the confines of Bar Open in Melbourne. Here’s what happened! 112 minutes of some of the most exciting music from around the world.

14th May 2021 – I found these pictures and text at the Thaw’s original blogspot.

ohayo!

we’re gonna be touring with ni-hao! (from japan!) around sydney and melbs! weeela.

ch-check it out:

tuesday feb 14th + empire hotel, sydney
(ni-hao! / the thaw / rose turtle ertler ++ scooter show)

wednesday feb 15th + mandarin club, sydney
(ni-hao! / the thaw / vincent over the sink / le paper dolls)

thursday feb 16th + baropen, melbourne
(ni-hao! / baseball / sabot / the thaw)

friday feb 17th + public office, melbourne
(ni-hao! / grey daturas / the thaw / dad they broke me / eddie current suppression ring)

saturday feb 18th + pony, melbourne
(ni-hao! / witch hats / twitch of the death nerve / bad cop bad cop)
(2am: the thaw)
phew! come and danc your legs silly

14th May 2021 – I have no idea how I managed to organise all this! There’s also radio appearances and photoshoots in that time too. It seems crazy now, I guess I knew quite a few people and they must’ve helped me a lot. I think I must’ve enjoyed doing it so much that I didn’t realise how much work it was – I certainly don’t have any memory of it being difficult.

we made it back from melb in one piece (barely!).

the whole week was a blast – ni hao are aweome, fun, exciting and amazing musicians. we played with loads of rad bands and managed to avoid the killer trams on the streets of melb town.

anyone at the bar open show will be pleased to know that it was recorded and the entire thing will be put on dvd for sale sometime in the near future. it was a great night of diverse music; us, baseball, sabot and nihao!

also, for those down in melb who missed out at the show (damn lazy fuckers!) we’ve got some cds in missing link for purchase at a measly $6. almost as cheap as those ‘potato cakes’ you have down there. [or u can send us an email and we’ll send one out to ya, s.w.a.k!]

so big ups to twitch of the death nerve, dad they broke me, grey daturas, bad cop bad cop, witch hats and everyone else we played with. hope to see a few of you up north sometime soon. we luv u melbourne!!!!!!!!!! we miss all the awesome people we met down there and hopefully we can come back soooooooon!!!!!!!!

*The Thaw, ni-hao! and Twitch of the Death Nerve*

*The Thaw and ni-hao! outside 2RRR, Sydney*

limited express (has gone?) ++ makes you dance! tour ++ may 2005

may 13th friday – 2pm-4pm – live on 3cr (small audience required!), melbourne – with vincent over the sink

we meet limited express (has gone?) at melbourne airport – both our planes arriving early. After quick hellos it’s back to business as if they never left and we pile ourselves and our bags, equipment and merchandise into a mega taxi and find ourselves 2 hours ahead of schedule at 3cr in collingwood.

it gives us chance to chat and catchup and quickly put together a flyer for our friend koji who will be working at the japanese festival on sunday afternoon.

several coffees later we head back to the studio and vincent over the sink knock out six of their quirky little numbers in a ten minute sprint live to air.

we cram back into the room as limited express (has gone?) set up and soundcheck and with a few technical difficulties rip roar through the last 25 minutes of the burning vinyl show with barely a second to take breath!

we pack up and head back to our host’s (mark from twitch of the death nerve) place and stockpile food and beer for a lazy evening of laughter and amusement and the creation of the super special ni-hao! cd packages complete with glitter, stars and hearts and a calpis candy!

by the end of the night there is glitter everywhere through mark’s house.

Tag: Twitch of the Death Nerve

Various Artists – Live at Bar Open DVD – 1st August 2006

Calpis candy – 13th May 2005