Dead Kennedys, early System Of A Down, Minor Threat, The Haunted, Brisk, ....Dead, Rage Against The Machine, The Birthday Party, They Might Be Giants, A Perfect Circle, King Missile, NOFX, Failure, The Jim Carroll Band, Ween, Wesley Willis
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Review of Urgent! Put This On Right Now! by Luke McGrath in Canberran street press BMA (Bands. Music. Action.), Issue 290, published 15th November 2007.
This is fucking fantastic. If Ingrid were from East London, the NME would be going ape-shit over them. You know when you hear something important, everything else seems unimportant? After listening to (Urgent!), you feel guilty cueing up Wolfmother or whatever other rent-a-rock Starbucks affiliated meaningless pap you normally have on shuffle on your iPod.
The band makes vital (and yes, urgent) music that throws sex, religion, politics, teen angst and pop culture into a blender and makes you a gray-coloured smoothie that sometimes tastes like shit but makes you feel better. This is cathartic music that you and your Jet-loving Dad aren't going to agree upon - and wasn't that the point of rock 'n' roll?
Close the door, block out all outside noise. This will only take a minute. The band you are about to hear plays it short but definitely not sweet. From the suburbs of Canberra, Inflatable Ingrid formed when guitarist Reub7en met vocalist Paulie Thalidomide while the two were studying Year 12 at Narrabundah College in 2004. In the ensuing years, Inflatable Ingrid went through a revolving door line-up of rhythm players before Nickamc and Jülian permanently joined the band on bass and drums respectively. With their volatile mix of thrash metal riffs, hardcore punk disdain and a frontman described as "the love child of Jello Biafra and Nick Cave", Inflatable Ingrid's slogan could be "This Machine Kills Wankers".
Highlights of their career so far include competing in the 2006 Pot Belly Battle of the Bands, playing Indyfest '07, several Dionysian finales at the Phoenix Bootleg Sessions and self-releasing their debut EP, Urgent! Put This On Right Now!. Inflatable Ingrid supported The FolloW (Sydney) and Anal Discharge (Newcastle) in 2007 and has shared stages with such diverse local musicians as Australian Kingswood Factory, The Missing Lincolns, Konrad Lenz & the Spirits of the Dead, ManKilled, Cool Weapon and Super Best Friends. Have you ever seen or heard a band that wasn't quite right? It may have been Inflatable Ingrid!
Insatiable Banalities Podcast 17th September 2007 featuring two previously unreleased tracks!
Our debut disc, Urgent! Put This On Right Now! was released to the adoring public on the 12th of October 2007, and is now available at Landspeed Records, Raven Clothing and Cash 'Em In, all located in and around Garema Place in Civic, ACT.
Our next two releases, released at our last public show on the 31st of May 2008, consist of a self-titled EP of 6 new tracks, and a 25 track compilation of remixes, live tracks and demos from throughout the current 4 year history of the band. These can be picked up for $8 each directly from Reuben's store on his website here.
Alternately, you can message us your address details here, or at inflatable(dot)ingrid(at)gmail(dot)com.
Piracy music video directed by Paulie Thalidomide & Robbie Karmel
Why the FUCK would you let this awesome monster go guys?! It is such a powerfully diverse, "say whatever the fuck I want about this mess we westerners call a civilized society", balls out punk/funk/metal/rock bull dozing machine! I love your guts.. See you cunts on Saturday!!!
Hark! Alas I once lived next door to the tower building where Blake was born...every other day there were folk jumping from the balcony. Right, thanks for the visit and next time I'll pour ye's a gin!
Isn’t this myspace thing wonderful? yes yes we all know it is... But what if it got shut down suddenly...? Perhaps by crazy Gorillas?
Then what would we do?
We would lose our connection!
I would have no way to tell any of you about gigs!
Because of this frightening thought I have created a mailing list...yes from thin air...I'm good like that :) Be a good sport and join my Mailing List. As the number of subscribers goes up...my stress level goes down. Just click the following link for excitement!!!
Haha Nah man all is good all is good, gotta some beer into the 2 of us again soon. we've been thinking about coming down there so gotta plan something and go ay.
