Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Rashied Ali, John Cage, Einstürzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Wolf Eyes, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Syd Barrett / Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Neurosis, Monarch, Nick Cave / The Birthday Party, Classic Aussie Punk & Hard R&B Rock!
Sounds Like
"Grey Daturas hit the stage like a multi-car pile up! Heralded as a band with no songs or melodies, it's hard to really grasp what how awful 45 minutes of full volume feedback can be, without actually enduring ear bleed"
"As fun as watching three hipsters thrashing their instruments was, anyone that can drive people downstairs into Charltons (A red neck disco bar) should end their set as quickly as possible"
Carolyn Dempsey - Inpress Magazine (Australia)
When asked what he thought of Grey Daturas, Red replied:
"It's like Hendrix in the 60's, no really got it".
Red - Sound engineer @ Hotel Great Northern (Byron Bay, Australia)
“Grey Daturas may very well be to Australia what Boris is to Japan or Sunn O))) is to the United States”
MIKE ASS-KICK HALEY - Heart Attack (USA)
“If the Melbourne sunshine puts a smile on most of its native's faces, this must be compensated for by the scowls of the Grey Daturas, an improvisational three piece intent on wiping all that is bright, clean and decent from the sun kissed land and drowning it in a muddy grave in the gape of the Pacific”
NICK SOUTHGATE - The Wire (UK)
“A perfect mix of churning metallic rock, New Zealand style free noise, freaked out psychedelic space rock and buzzing rumbling drone rock. So so good.”
Andeeee - Aquarius Records (USA)
“Sounds fucking great”
David Keenan - Volcanic Tongue (UK)
MANAGMENT / BOOKINGS:
Robert MacManus - Heathen Skulls
Po Box 253 Brunswick East
Melbourne Australia 3057
Email: greydaturas@gmail.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/heathenskulls
Ph: 61 418772816
RECORDS LABELS WE'VE WORKED WITH:
Neurot Recordings
Heathen Skulls
Diagnosis Don't Recordings
Crucial Blast
20 Buck Spin
Throne
Conspiracy
Jerk
Old English Spelling Bee
Blackset Rainbow
Crashing Jets
Important
Rocket Recordings
Isolatednowwaves
Important
DISCOGRAPHY:
The Grey Daturas
CDR, Black Mountain/Sonic Advisor,2002 - Australia
Live Volume 1
3 inch CDR, Live EP, Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2003m - Australia
Live Volume 2
3 inch CDR, Live EP, Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2003 - Australia
Dead in the Woods
CD, Second Album, Crashing Jets, 2004 - Australia
CD, Album, US re-issue, Crucial Blast, 2007 - US
CD, Album, Japanese re-issue, SMD Records, 2008 - Japan
Copper / Silver (collaboration with Yellow Swans)
2 X CD, Jyrk, 2005 - US
2 x 12inch LP, re-issue on Olde English Spelling Bee, 2006 - US
All I See Is Nothing
CD, Live EP, Black Mountain / Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2005 - Australia
Yellow Swans / Grey Daturas - Australian Tour EP
CD, EP, Heathen Skulls, 2005 - Australia
Live at the Rob Roy Hotel
2 x 3inch CDR, Live EP, Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2006 - Australia
Blood Trail
CD, US Tour EP, Heathen Skull, 2006 - Australia
The Black Plague (Split with Wolf Eyes)
CD, Heathen Skulls, 2006 - Australia
12inch LP, Conspiracy, 2006 - Belgium
Path of Niners
CD, EP, Heathen Skulls, 2006 - Australia
CD, EP, UK re-issue with a bonus track, Rocket Recordings, 2007 - UK
Grey Daturas / Shearing Pinx – S/T
Cassette, Split EP with Shearing Pinx, isolatednowwaves, 2006 - Canada
Dawn of the Catalyst
CD, EP, Split with Monarch, 20 Buck Spin, 2007 - US
12inch EP, Split with Monarch, Throne, 2007 – Spain
Return to Disruption
CD, Third Album, Heathen Skulls, 2008: OUT NOW! - Australia
CD, Third Album, Neurot Recordings, 2008: OUT NOW! - US
COMING SOON:
Live in Tokyo (09/02/2008)
12" Live Album, Important Records: Released Nov 2008- US
Live @ 3PBS Radio (0ctober 2006)
12" Live EP, Important Records: Released Nov 2008 - US
Live @ Rob Roy (2002)
12" Live Album, Blackest Rainbow: Released late 2008 - UK
Blood Trails
12" EP, Spanish re-issue on red vinyl!, Throne: Release late 2008 - Spain
RETURN TO DISRUPTION - REVIEW
Aquarius Records (San Francisco, USA): May 2nd 2008
Huzzah! Our favorite instrumental down-under doom-bringers return (to disruption) with this new
full-length, the prolific Melbourne trio's debut for Neurosis' Neurot label. It's a good fit, of course, this should go over well with the whole post-rock/metal crowd, this album often grindingly hypnotic, the Grey Daturas' lumbering sheets of distorto-drone skullflowering forth over a roiling bed of precision percussive clangor right from the get-go! Their threatening waves of pure heaviness, sharpened into a drill-drone of an attack, also occasionally take detours into areas of abstract ambience, the guitars of Bonnie Mercer and Rob MacManus carving psychedelic feedback sculptures, then tightening again back into full metallic impact, driven by the skittering drums of Robert Manson.
As heavy as they are (which is HEAVY) you can't really call the Grey Dats a metal band. They're in that quasi-metal realm with the likes of SUNNO))), Boris, Harvey Milk, and Nadja, perhaps, with a certain amount of experimental lo-fi fuckery going on that reminds us of many of their freenoise comrades over in nearby New Zealand... The title track itself is a clattering, pottering about, like something the Dead C would come up with, while the track called "Undisturbed" is anything but, sounding like a violin or creaking door hinge dying a slow and dismal death. And the high-end scraping skree of "Balance Of Convenience" should peel some paint. And then, as already mentioned, there's all the juggernaut, trance-inducing, spaced-out, instrumental doom rock post rock surging through tracks like "Beyond And Into The Ulimate" and "Neuralgia".
The Grey Daturas definitely like all the varieties of drone! And fans of, what should we call it, avant-doom, or drone-doom, or whatever, should like all varieties of the Grey Daturas, starting with this disc if you haven't already made their acquaintance, covering all the bases as it does!
RETURN TO DISRUPTION is available now at a record store near you!!!!
Released on Heathen Skulls (Australia) & Neurot Recordings (US / Europe)
Neurot Recordings is distributed through Revolver (US) & Sounthern (Europe)
For Australian orders please contact Heathen Skulls direct:
Robert MacManus @ Heathen Skulls: mailorderstuff@gmail.com
STORES in AUSTRALIA thats stock RETURN TO DISRUPTION:
JB Hi Fi: All stores
MELBOURNE:
Missing Link
Metropolis
Greville Records
Collectors Corner
Polyester (Both City & Fitzroy)
International Trash
'return to disruption' is a recent favourite and I aired it quite a few times in my radio shows
BiP_HOp Generation on Radio Grenouille // 88.8 FM Sunday evenings : 19:30 - 21:00 PM // Marseille // France
April 2008 Playlist
ARTIST ALBUM label
Gallon Drunk : the rotten mile (Fred) Motorpsycho : little lucid moments (Rune Grammofon) Pedal : s/t (Staubgold) KK Null + Daniel Menche : raijin (Asphodel) Airchamber 3 : crumble (Amirant) Terry Edwards : fit (Sartorial) The Balustrade Ensemble : capsules (Ominous) Krater : harmonic tremor (Klitekture) Antonelli : soulkiller (Italic) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds : dig!!! lazarus dig!!! (Mute) Coh : plays Cosey (Raster-Noton) Alexandre Navarro : arcane (SEM) De Portables : topless is more (Stilll) Grey Daturas : return to disruption (neurot) Arden : conceal (Stilll) Tom Heasley & Toss Panos : passages (Full Bleed Music) Colorlist : lists (Off) Clara Clara : aa (SK) The Lines : memory span (Acute) Jad Fair & Jason Willett : superfine (Public Eyesore) 21 Love Hotel : our hearts belong to the storm (Out Of The Blue) Scott Kelly : the wake (Neurot) Shelf Life : rheuma (Public Eyesore) VA. Little Things (Flaü) Sun electric : lost & found. 1998 - 2000 (Shitkatapult) Minoru Sato + Asuna : texture in glass tubes and reed organ (Spekk) El Topo : pigiama psicoattivo (Off) Tangtype : flake out (Humpty Dumpty) VA. Chamber Music - James Joyce (1907) 1-36 (Fire) Martin Rev : cheyenne (Mind Expansion) Barry Adamson : back to the cat (Cantral Control) Yair Etziony : flawed (Spekk) Puerto Muerto : I was a swallow (Fire) Whip : r. mutt's blues (O'Rosa) Temposhark : the invisible line (Defend) Remote : dark enough (Kill The DJ) Sonar Kollektiv Orchester : guaranteed niceness (Sonar Kollektiv)
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Last October, Hotel Wrecking City Traders got word of their mates Electric Jellyfish's tradgedy whilst on tour in the US. That night they dedicated their set at the East Brunswick Club to the band for their loss. The show was commited to film by the prople at Two Tap TV and is now being released on DVD. There will be a public screening of the film next Thursday Night in Melbourne, Australia: Red Carpet Nigh Presents: Hotel Wrecking City Traders - Live At The EBC Thursday June 12th @ Kent St Bar (201 Smith St, Collingwood) $2 Mountain Goat Pots from 7pm Movie Kicks Off @ 8pm Free Popcorn I'm told... Copies of the film will be available for purchase on the night. below is a review by Tim Burke (fasterlouder) of the show: *Walking down toward the door as Hotel Wrecking City Traders began, my friend commented that he liked them already, based on the noise we could hear coming through the walls of the pub. He was right. But to simply call this band noisemakers is a little insulting, and probably misses the point. After poignantly dedicating the set to Electric Jellyfish, HWCT went on to let the music do all the talking. There was simply no need for between song banter, as Toby (one guitar) and Ben (one drumkit) smashed out one brilliant, brutal, sometimes melodic and always fucking loud rock song after another. Every time a song ended you had a big stupid grin on your head. It reminded me just how guitars and drums could, and indeed should, be played. When Toby ended the set in a mess of looped feedback by holding his guitar by the strings and bouncing it some, it dug into your very soul, before he let it go and the last riff blew you away. Clearly a fitting end to the set. When Ben slowly collapsed off of his drum stool once the set was over, you believed he may just have been a little weary. Hotel Wrecking City Traders are what you would hea
