Tim Hemensley (bass, vocals; ex-Royal Flush, God, Bored!), John Nolan (lead guitar; ex-Behind the Magnolia Curtain, Bored!), Timmy Jack Ray (drums), Todd McNeiar (drums), Adyn Hibberd (rhythm guitar, vocals; ex-Philisteins), Jed Sayers (harmonica),
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´Powder Monkeys were the hardest rocking outfit I have ever seen in Australia...easily the equal of the MC5 in energy.´ - Deniz Tek
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Time Wounds All Heels - Rolling Stone{Aus} April '96 - Murray Engleheart
Recordings by Melbourne's Powder Monkeys are like prison tattoos and stories: the sort of stuff you wouldn't want anyone you cared for to live through. the music is all chipped knuckles and stitched up souls with an all consuming sense that blind revenge is the only thing in life that really makes any sense. It's grainy, black and white Cape Fear-punk. The band's last album, Smashed on a Knee , had the rhetoric right and for the most part the reach to back it up . But Time Wounds all Heels puts the Powder Monkeys on a level with the Eastern Dark, the Saints , Radio Birdman and precious few others.
The opening Tyson-like pummelling of " In The Doldrums" and "Insane Old Game" alone provides ample testimony of the Powder Monkeys power. Any correlation between the trio and Motorhead has more to do with paralleling bull-throated vocalist and bassist Tim Hemensley with Lemmy than anything else. There's no "Hoochie Coochie Man" or Orgasmatron bravado here. But that's not to say that there isn't a form of tradition at work. There was a point in Rose Tattoo's career between the Assault and Battery and Scarred For Life albums when they seemed to be dealing with something infinitely more lethal on every level than just badboy boogie. The Powder Monkeys are upholing that particular area of Oz rock. And no-one is doing it quite like them. But that's not really surprising. They are, after all, in the words of Hunter S Thompson, professionals
THE POWDER MONKEYS ......
This is WAR , baby, a Rock'n Roll war against the grim purveyors of slick- dick commercial shtick and when the smoke clears and the last call sounds, you better be clear about which side you're on! Are you part of the problem , or part of the solution? The Powder Monkeys are playing for keeps.- they don't fuck around, and neither should you. Real rock'n'roll is in short supply these days, and there ain't no room for wimps , geeks or limp wristed creeps here!
Planning on a big year for 2010! Should have some tunes up soon & be playing anywhere we can. We'll keep you informed. By the way good show at River Rocks with Spencer, very inpirational! Cheers mate. - 'Apes.
Hey John, Glad you like it!! I also have it on high rotation - very proud of us! And thanks for saving up for Butcher Bitches too! i reckon Hits will be down in Melbs Feb/March and BBirds maybe May... maybe. Do you have plans to come to Brissy any time soon? How long since you've been here? Glad your gig went well with Spence. Sorry about the weather!! Maybe you should bring some Melbs weather up here to pay me back!! HA Love, Stax
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thanks for the kind words and advice (we secretly wish it were still '92), would be awesome to get down to Melbourne if only we could
afford it....maybe in the not-so-near-not-so-distant future.
Hey powder monkeys, yeah i'll definitely have total control of what i wanna play! i'll still play commercial stuff, pop punk etc but mixed it up with every other punk-esque genre to get the biggest variety i can!
I'll put your name down as support for the submition of the show!
I'll let you know what happens with the show, these things take time unfortunately! good luck with your music
Aww John...I think about Australia everyday *sigh*. Tony and I were
supposed to come together...maybe time will heal our wounded feet and
hearts and we can come together as friends next year....or I make the
trip to the mecca of R&R alone.
I am clicking my ruby red slippers 3 times for Oz.
Summer comes in 10 days early with one of the hottest nights melbourne's seen all year... Featuring three of melbourne's hottest independent female-featured rock n roll bands, all together at the home of rock n roll - The Cherry Bar, this will not be one to miss!!
NO PRE-SALES, LIMITED CAPACITY VENUE, GET IN EARLY, DON'T MISS OUT!
thank you for being so nice, is realy hard to get in touch with good band members .. especially when your from Brazil. Maybe people think that there aren't that many rock listener here, maybe because of all the samba and stuff ... I don't know! hahaha
The copters came to Brazil last year, I think, in their last tour, and before that with Deep Purple and Sepultura ... but I didn't got to see them. That's very very sad! But I still hope to see them live .. with their other projects. I just love Nicke's song writing, not only in the Hellacopters but also the ones he did with the solution and his other projects ... there are not that many great artists like him this days ... a really hope to meet him some day!
And String's band is really good too! I got one of their cd's from the internet and really liked it ... they have songs recorded in swedish ... I'm not very used to how it sounds ... but is really funny to listen to! and I don't have to say that he playing is just something else!
Oh man! You're so lucky! you didn't just saw their shows, but got to play with them too! It must have being awesome! you must have a million good stories to tell! I'm hoping to go to Sweden next year to ... maybe I get lucky and meet them or finally get to see them paying!
Is getting harder and harder to know great bands! sometimes I wish I was born earlier a decade or two!
Hope you keep in touch!
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ps: The video is amazing! I can't even imagine what would feel like to be up there!! those situations make me wish a could play guitar!!
Thank you for the kind words John. Have very fond memories of some killer PM shows from the '90s, one in particular at The Tote in which we met. Great to hear from you. All the best. Brett
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