Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, The Organ, Sleater Kinney, Radiohead, Babes In Toyland, Batrider, Patti Smith, Le Tigre, L7, Garbage, Hole, Veruca Salt, Hard Ons, AC/DC, Nitocris, Fur Patrol, Iggy Pop, Pixies, Jimi Hendrix, X-Ray Spex, The Slits, Silversun Pickups, Gossip, 7 Year Bitch, Magic Dirt, The Doors, The Smiths, Martha Wainwright, Billie Holiday, Tegan & Sara, David Bowie, Placebo, Bjork, Jen Cloher, Slinkee, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, the B52’s, Bikini Kill, YYY's, BugGirl, The International Noise Consipiracy, Lunachicks, Led Zeppelin, Kyuss, Fiona Apple, The Amps, The Breeders, Joan Jett, The Runaways, our local bands and scene...& many many more....
There’s no escaping the impression that this in-your-face powerhouse leaves in their wake. Having seductively hypnotized innocent audiences for the past 5 years, Sydney band Bitchslap are progressively re-creating a mania that’s been absent from the music scene for a long time.
Stating the very obvious, Sydney's BITCHSLAP could be likened to say, L7 beating the Sex Pistols half to death with a steel metal fist. Heavy, crunchy, loud, fuzzed out guitar, big bass and drums, and brash eat-shit-and-die lyrics; their sound screams sweet hell with each filthy chord bursting with a very honest fury.
Jess Coram stands stage left snarling out her love-hate lyrics between gritted teeth and a whole bunch of passion. Bassist Liz Thomas passionately abuses her fret whilst sticksmith, Scott Bradbury grins maniacally, pounding the bejesus out of his kit.
Formed in Sydney “rock central” Newtown, the trio’s signature sound took them into the finals of the 2005 Hopetoun Hotels “Homebake Incentive”, and also earnt them an open invitation to return to the infamous home of The Beatles, ‘The Cavern’ following their mini-tour of the UK. In 2006, whilst taking a break to write new material, the band appeared and performed on TVS show “The Treatment”.
2007 has seen a huge turning point for the band, with three tracks from their recently recorded EP reaching Top 10 positions on the ‘Triple J Unearthed’ PUNK charts - “Give Me My Life Back” peaked at No.1, whilst “1234” and “Red Eyes” peaked at No.5 and 6 consecutively.
The Debut EP, recorded/mixed by Lachlan Mitchell (Nitocris, Unpaid Debt, One Dollar Short, Something with Numbers) and mastered at TurtleRock Studios, will be thrust upon the world when the opening track “Give Me My Life Back” gains worldwide web exposure as the first single to be released on the new digital label RiSH[E] - being launched by RiSH Records in September.
RiSH Records will release the Debut EP in March 2008, with Bitchslap doing an East Coast Tour March-April.
Bitchslap have supported some great acts in 2007! The Follow, Bertie Blackman & The Hard Ons!
"Aggressive as their name
suggested, Bitchslap tore through
a brutal and energetic set of punk
rock mayhem. I would love to see
what this band is doing in another
yearthey were f**king good"
Revolver Magazine (02)
"Jess and her crew are phenomenal. Every utterance
their instruments make is as powerful as their
performance. Bitchslap epitomise the phrase riot grrl"
Brag Magazine (04)
"The material and its content is far from cheery and some might say it's even a little melodramatic at times, but its heartfelt, the motivations and passions behind it are real and genuine. You may not sympathise, comprehend or understand the band or their aggravations, but if you're in the same room as Bitchslap, you will certainly notice and hear them."
- Chris Chinchilla - Inpress (07)
For more information please contact bitchslap_band@hotmail.com
We thank you so much for the add!.. We’re just a small band, but we’d be delighted if you listened to our Garage Rock songs and you sent us any kind of comment!! If u couldn’t we’ll be happy is you just let this comment be shown, so ur fans can get to know us ☠
We're coming down on the weekend! Playing Thursday Oct 1st, at the Vineyard in St Kilda. And Saturday Oct 3rd at Back In The Day (Portland Hotel). It'd be awesome to see you there! Otherwise we're playing The Pub in Bendigo on Friday Oct 16th, and the Noise Bar in Brunswick on Saturday Oct 17th. ...check our page for new details. We'll be playing some of the songs from our (soon to come) debut album! SEE YA SOON! - L.U.S.T. xx
Hey, we've got some kickass shows coming up in Melbourne throughout October... it'd be awesome to see you there! Check our page for details! PS - debut album coming soon!
Greetings all,
You may have noticed that our album is available digitally internationally. Woohooally!!
So in the interests of eating our next meals, we encourage you, cajole you, ply you with empty promises and meaningless threats, to go online, buy our album from eMusic, itunes, or whatever digital platform you support (go to Tunecore.com for the full list of our distributors) and write a review, rate us 5 star, and generally help gain support for us, if you think we deserve it... If you don
helloha! we are having our 7 inch vinyl launch on Friday the 18th of September at THE BIRMINGHAM and we feel that you should come! but if u cant make it to that then we're having our OFFICIAL 'DEBUT' ALBUM LAUNCH at The Tote on Saturday the 14th of NOVEMBER!! and its going to be big so come and get disgustingly merry with us xxx
NICK OLIVERI Touring Australia and New Zealand in solo mode this October. Tickets on sale now, for full ticketing info click here
Wed Oct 7th - Brass Monkey, Cronulla Thu Oct 8th - Del Plaza, Gold Coast Fri Oct 9th - Step Inn, Brisbane Sat Oct 10th - Hopetoun Hotel, Sydney Sun Oct 11th - Heritage Hotel, Bulli Mon Oct 12th - Mona Vale Hotel, Mona Vale Tue Oct 13th - Kings Arms, Auckland Wed Oct 14th - Bodega, Wellington Mon Oct 19th - National Hotel, Geelong Tue Oct 20th - Republic Bar, Hobart Wed Oct 21st - Northcote SC, Melbourne Thu Oct 22nd - Jive, Adelaide Fri Oct 23rd - Settlers Tavern, Margaret River Sat Oct 24th - Norfolk Basement, Fremantle
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