COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM / PATHETIC HUMAN" split cassette" OUT SOON
CTV is stoked to team up with another of Melbourne's awesome hardcore bands for another split cassette. Pathetic Human dish out a noise smothered dose of urgent hardcore and a drugged out epic track to fill out about 10 minutes worth of the goods. CTV drop more scraped from the heal of the boot, skull scraping noisecore. Another pressing of 200 cassettes.
If you want to pre-order this get in touch (see contact details below).
COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM / PISSBOLT "split cassette" OUT NOW
Pissbolt (3/4 of Dad They Broke Me) offer up their debut serving of fast, blown out thrash damage. CTV stumble and scrape up an offering of busted scum punk noisecore. About 10 minutes a piece, pressing of 200 cassettes.
If you are interested in ordering a copy please email collapsedtoiletvietnam[@]hotmail.com $5 for the tape $2 postage in Australia $4 postage the world.
T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE
"Caught Collapsed Toilet Vietnam and Pissbolt last night. Both bands ruled. When I was leaving the venue, I turned to a friend and said, "Isn't it just ridiculous that a band like Collapsed Toilet Vietnam can just get on a stage with a taped-together drum kit and a one-string bass, make a bunch of made-up screaming and noise and actually find an audience with that nonsense?" "Yeah", he said, "and yet some putz will still buy their t-shirt". That putz is me. I was clutching my new purchase under my arm at the time. I will wear it with pride." - Dave Lang - www.manwithoutshame.blogspot.com
Collapsed Toilet Vietnam T-shirts available for $15 AUD + Postage available in S, M, L, XL & XXL Contact collapsedtoiletvietnam{@}hotmail.com to order
Logo designed by Chris Hill, t-shirt designed by Sweat Lung, t-shirts printed by Too Far Gone.
Jarrod of Fabulous Diamonds
Kody of Flesh vs. Venom
Dan & Nissa
Nissa & Dan modeling the XXL size T.
CTV on CCTV
CTV FAN PAUL KIDNEY'S FAN PHOTOS FROM HIS TRIP TO VIETNAM
For more of Paul's photos see www.sweatlung.blogspot.com
Pathetic Human's Tommy Gun
Nissa
John of Pissbolt
Harriet of Wasted Truth / Downtown
Nick of Castings
Sean Bailey of Lakes
Lakes
Brisbane chaos. Members of Slug Guts & Septic Surge with a car on it's side.
Brisbane chaos. Members of Slug Guts, Septic Surge and friends with a car on it's side.
Brisbane chaos. Members of Slug Guts, Septic Surge and friends with a car on it's side.
Brisbane chaos. Members of Slug Guts, Septic Surge and friends with a car on it's side and cock n' balls on it's hood.
Hear no evil (Jimmy K), see no evil (Milan) speak no evil (Luke).
Richard of the Static Migration Label
Deb or dear friend from Brisbane, goddess of Slaughter!
Melbourne thrasher Omad sports the shirt
Duncan Box aka. Diesel of grinders Shagnum on a cycle trip through the You Yangs
CTV recently played a killer show with the incredible band DOWNTOWN... much to our surprise the stunning ladies from DT performed their set all sporting the CTV tee. DOWNTOWN is HKM, Harriet Hudson and Nisa check them out cos they rule.
These two freaks at Gugg. Christopher L G Hill (who also penned the CTV logo that adorns the shir) and Alex Vivian.
Anthony Pateras, one of Melbourne's finest, to find out more about this genius go to http://www.anthonypateras.com/
EMAIL YOUR CTV FAN PHOTOS TO: collapsedtoiletvietnam{@}hotmail.com
CISTERN EXISTENCE debut cassette OUT NOW
Limited to 75 copies SOLD OUT!Words about the first CTV show:
I spent the weekend at my parents house: this is always an enriching experience, but obviously it is bleak. The recent death of a family member will always complicate matters. Driving back to Melbourne listening to the kinds of tunes that hold out in a car journey AND don't destroy the patience of my wife, we managed to avoid being ballbeaten by the police on one fortuitous occasion and arrived in time to watch the new episode of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and for me to get to the Pony bar to witness the live debut of Melbourne noisecore band COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM.
I would describe this experience as THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK TO GETTING OUT OF A CAR AFTER DRIVING EIGHT HOURS FROM YOUR PARENTS HOUSE WHILE ALL WEEKEND BEING REMINDED OF DEATH. Four well seasoned Melbourne "musicians" banging out a fairly improvisational set of what was originally intended to be, from what I can understand, blasting grindy beats and abrasive guitar / bass, but due to an accident with the drumset and the fact the drummer plays using the kick drum as a snare, it just sounds like a fucked up hardcore punk band who are playing TOO LOUD for you to be able to understand what the fuck is going on. I have bought a record recently that I'll write about in a future issue of DISTORT called TAYLOR BOW: HATE FUCK, and C.T.V. are somewhat comparable (sheer terror noisecore), but I'd also say they would sound OK on a mixtape with other noise terrorists like DISCLOSE.
- Dan www.distortcult.blogspot.com
...Collapsed Toilet Vietnam. Something of a noise music supergroup - featuring members of xxxxxxxxxx, xxxx xxxxxxx, xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx and various others - they've come together to create experimental grind that actually inspires awe (as opposed to just being awesome). The loudest band I've seen in a long time, they punctuate their songs with feedback sirens and one-string bass crunches. It's a wall of sound assault, in a way that somehow reminds me of a grind version of Public Enemy. I fucking love it when noise musicians turn their hands to other genres, as their tendency to experiment always adds an uncertain dimension to the sound, while at the same time removing the meandering, unstructured pretension that plagues straight-up noise acts. CTV brings the expertise of four of Melbourne's most established noise musicians together, and you seriously have to get your ass down to one of their ten minute sets. Make sure you're on time.
- www.scourceoffuck.blogspot.com (xxx = edited by CTV)
Further words about CTV live:
Collapsed Toilet Vietnam are a new-ish 4-piece featuring veterans from other bands like xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx, xxxx xxxxxxx and literally dozens of others who hammer out an absurd, grunting din which sounds like Half Japanese or the Happy Flowers playing Drunks With Guns' first LP. Primitive shit-rock with a beat you can almost dance to. I like their style. There will soon be a split cassette release from CTV and Pissbolt. Yes, a cassette. - www.manwithoutshame.blogspot.com (xxx = edited by CTV)
A cover illustration of CTV playing live and a review from our show with Ampere, Cut Sick and Pissbolt at the Old Bar in Fitzroy.
Interview from Time Off street press in Queensland:
The following is taken from www.permanentdirt.blogspot.com:
"COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM (ABSURDIST GRIND)
CTV Tonight play their set in two parts, one a blasty-noise blast of time, the second and final half a building sort of exercise. Set's a total joy, Come back again. Seventeen minutes."
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Footage of CTV playing at the opening of the Sunshine & Grease Shop at Bus Gallery in Melbourne
The Scroungers sound like punk was always supposed to, but rarely did; urgent, raw and dripping with sardonic anger. The fact that the Scroungers (a solo home recording project) grew partially out of Macka's growing dissatisfaction the Melbourne punk scene of the early 1990s is somewhat ironic. Working in relative isolation and never performing live, Macka recorded a large body of work that is arguably the rawest, high-octane, politically and socially incisive punk rock the country has ever produced. Yet the Scroungers remain unknown to all but a few.
Bored, Pissed and Agro: 1991-1997 reproduces the best moments from the eleven Scroungers releases (ten cassettes and one split 7") during these years when the project was active. Download it from Shame File Music, with full liner notes from Clinton Green
You guys give my life meaning. I guess I should talk to a doctor about this...but...really...I can't imagine a world without Collapsed Toilet Vietnam in it...it would be a very shitty place.
T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE
CTV on CCTV
Pathetic Human's Tommy Gun
Nissa
Words about the first CTV show:
I spent the weekend at my parents house: this is always an enriching experience, but obviously it is bleak. The recent death of a family member will always complicate matters. Driving back to Melbourne listening to the kinds of tunes that hold out in a car journey AND don't destroy the patience of my wife, we managed to avoid being ballbeaten by the police on one fortuitous occasion and arrived in time to watch the new episode of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and for me to get to the Pony bar to witness the live debut of Melbourne noisecore band COLLAPSED TOILET VIETNAM.
I would describe this experience as THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK TO GETTING OUT OF A CAR AFTER DRIVING EIGHT HOURS FROM YOUR PARENTS HOUSE WHILE ALL WEEKEND BEING REMINDED OF DEATH. Four well seasoned Melbourne "musicians" banging out a fairly improvisational set of what was originally intended to be, from what I can understand, blasting grindy beats and abrasive guitar / bass, but due to an accident with the drumset and the fact the drummer plays using the kick drum as a snare, it just sounds like a fucked up hardcore punk band who are playing TOO LOUD for you to be able to understand what the fuck is going on. I have bought a record recently that I'll write about in a future issue of DISTORT called TAYLOR BOW: HATE FUCK, and C.T.V. are somewhat comparable (sheer terror noisecore), but I'd also say they would sound OK on a mixtape with other noise terrorists like DISCLOSE.
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