Dead Kennedys, Smut Peddlers, The Misfits, Sex Pistols, U.S Bombs, The Unseen, AFI, The Casualties, Social Distortion, Fugazi, The Addicts, Bad Religion, 999, The Damned, Rancid, GangGreen, Rage Against the Machine, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies,Sham 69,The Exploited,Black Flag, Agent Orange, Raised Fist, Refused, Infectious Grooves, The Clash, U.K Subs, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Primus, The Blurters, Dag Nasty, Negative Aproach, Circus Tents. Lot's of crazy shit.
And you guys! The kids who come to our shows, sing along, listen to our shit or just plainly take the time to check us out. So yeah, thank you for keeping us alive, after all we've gone through.
11 General are a four piece band from Carlingford, Sydney with strong punk influences, and a mix of something different.
We started in early 2006. Edgah and Gordy were longing to start some sort of punk band. Gordy on guitar and Eddie on bass. We jammed alot with James Gill (drums) and it eventually lead to the birth of 'Teenage Scum', trying to become that street punk band in the centre of an emo, screamo, hardcore neighbourhood. It was terrible.
Anyway, when we usually would start a band it was always iffy and we weren't too sure that this was actually gonna happen. But this just seemed like a cool idea. Ryan Valdes came off suspension and overheard the talk on this band. He offered frontman position and we accepted. We wasted no time in getting started. Our first practice included the recording of our first track "Give it A Rest", "AVO Blues (Blurters cover) and "Aint She Dumb" (Rocks cover). After being proud of our progress we took to the stage and got the crowd going. More and more shows and more and more kids showing up, but inside the band, things were shaking when we were not satisfied with the vocals of Ryan. After alot of fighting and fussing we gave him the boot. This came at a bad time as we were reaching a good peak. In the local community, we fell almost instantly with the loss of our main practice area. (James's Garage) and it was inpossible to get together to do anything anymore.
After a good 3 months we got off our asses and tried to get it together. Attempting to re-write songs and get back on our feet. But things looked bleak with James's back going through surgery and he left the band.
We continued with Scott, who we asked to fill-in for drums until we found a new one. We were amazed with his abilltiy to pick up our songs quickly. As we took to the stage for the first time in 6 months we decided to ask him to stay permanently and he accepted. Very casually.
A friend of ours, Matt, came to one of our shows and sang "Mormons" for us. We were more than pleased with his vocals and stage prescence. He took the position. Jesse, a friend of Matt's, offered to join as rhythm guitarist and we accepted as we knew this would strengthen our sound as a band.
But as time progressed and show after show being asked "wheres jesse?" he resigned from the band due to jesses busy schedual was keeping him grounded and wanting to keep a good freindship up knowing that not showing up was slowing down our progress and also over time could have started fights he respectably left but if you look forward to seeing him you can now see jesse skanking his ass off at our shows as our number 1 fan
We now take on the form of 11 General and with it a new shape of punk to come. Stay tuned as we are now a working band, so get use to our name popping up a fair bit and we look forward to you kids skanking at our shows
We have a couple of spots available in our Arncliffe Aces all-age band comp. Here are the details:
Arncliffe Hotel from 7pm Heat 4 Sat 1st Dec Heat 5 Sat 8th Dec All-ages Great prizes to be won! See our blog for the info sheet or just contact us here.
A DRUMMER WANTED FOR A SERIOUS ROCK BAND MUST BE WILLING TO PRACTICE IN THE PARRAMATTA AND BLACKTOWN AREA MUST HAVE OWN DRUM KIT ALSO MUST BE WILLING TO PLAY ON STAGE!! IF INTRESTED PLEASE REPLY!!
lol ill think about the name im liking it though um yeah im good to go on the 31st i just need a fruit blocker to keep all the stuff ppl throw at me outta my guitar
Hey , Hope you're doing well. Just wanted to let you know that our site (www.newfoundfrequency.com) is still be updated a ton and we've added a bunch of new concerts up recently. Tim Rogers, Youth Group, Tex Perkins and Charlie Owen, Love of Diagrams, Salmon, Something for Kate, Isis and about 100 others. Make sure you check it out, even if it's just to scope out all the bands. Talk soon.
you guys are playing at hyland good to see i may very well venture out adn have a look see nah ill be therer for sure as if i would miss it well laters all and u guys should come hang out at westpoint wometime soon well jesse tehre heaps but teh rest of u arnt so laters
ps. gordy i have have passed 5 1/2 on saturday i was up to about 9 in a hour and a half should have been there well laters
Woooow heya rockers
I was at your gig friday night... you guys rocked :D
I am amys friend the other one sitting against the wall :) lol
Hope to see you guys at the rock across the river
cya round guys xoxo love yoohs
much love Ash
Fark look at these guys...ohhh watch out they are so hardcore punk rock....." That guys more punk than me" (hidden shit on end of punk in drublic by nofx)
um i never said anything about me sucking his penis..... i guess you guys got some sort of wierd club goin on inside the band then ay??? but yeah he is a wierd with a penis isnt he?
