..Music (Alternative / Indie / Rock / Adelaide Scene / Electronica / Fringe Underground Hiphop / The Experimental and the Bizarre), Movies and Television that doesn't suck, Cultural Stonerisms / Idiot Philosophies / Humanity or just any 'ol shit out there in this mad fucked up experience called "Life" that I find hilarious..
Music
bands I've taken live photos of..
1200 Techniques, 1QA, 200 Motels, 21 Division, 67 Special, A Red Dawn, Adrian Belew, Africa Bambaataa, Airbourne, Alias & The Jams, All Flight Crew Are Dead, All Made Of Rubies, The Amcats, Amour Fou, Amundsen's Flag, Andrew Higgs & The Sand Castle Harum, Angelik, Angove, Animal Johnson, Antony Of The Future, Aphelion, Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Artax Mission, The Audreys, August Falls, The Authentic Replicas, Aviator Lane, Backseat Romeos, Bakewell Street, Bang! Bang! Aids!, The Baron, Barcode, Baseball, Batrider, The Battery Kids, Battle Circus, Battles, The Beards, The Beastie Boys, Bedhead, Before The Aftermath, Belittle League, The Belle Curve, Billy Bishop Goes To War, The Bird, Birthglow, Bit By Bats, Bjork, The Black And White, The Black Doves, The Black Eyed Peas, Black Knight, Blow Up Betty, Bog Log III, Bohoeffer, Booster, The Borderland, Brendawg & The Droid, Brillig, British India, Broken Social Scene, BrotherSister, Brunatex, Burn The Ashes, Bushido, Cal Williams Jnr, CallerDeNight, Calling All Cars, Cam Goodall, Candida, Captains Of Industry, The Casio Brothers, The Castonets, Centaurz, Central Deli Band, Chasing Phoenix, The Chemical Brothers, The Chevron Whores, Children Collide, Chris Finnen, Circle Clan, Circus Arcade, The City Riots, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clue To Kalo, Cock, Cog, Collider, Colourblind, Cookie Baker, Counterfeit Traitor, Crackwhore, The Crayon Fields, Cut Off Your Hands, The Dairy Brothers, Damn Arms, Damo Suzuki, The Dandy Warhols, Daniel Varricchio, Dappled Cities Fly, The Dardanelles, The Darkness, Dave Phillips, Daysworth Fighting, The Dead Bollocks, Dead Frenchmen, Dead Popes Of The Vatican, Deceptikonz, Delusions Of Grandma, Describe Eliza, The Devilrock Four, Dexter Jones, Diamond Sins, Die! Die! Die!, Diesel Witch, Diplomat, Dipstone, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Dexter (Avalanches), DJ Ian, DJ Josh, DJ Nazz (King Daddy), DJ Shadow, Double Dragon, Double Handed, The Drones, The Dukes Of Windsor, Dumb Earth, Dungen, Egypt, The Eleventh Hour, The E.L.F., EmDee, Emily Davis, Enemy Of, Eskimo Joe, Expatriate, The Exploders, Fake Lake, Fat Tailed Antechinus, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Feist, The Femme Fatales, Fighterpilot, The Finishing School, Fishing With Henry, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, Font Plays Font, Foreshore, Former Child Stars, Franz Ferdinand, Fraud Millionaires, Freestate, Freestylers, The Fumes, Funkoars, Galleon, The Gels, GG Alan Bindig, Gnarls Barkley, Good Buddha, Go! Team, Goodhed, Gotye, Grafton Primary, Grandmaster Flash, The Grates, Grenadiers, Grey Daturas, Groove Armada, Ground Components, Gyro, The Happy Endings, Happy Sometimes, Har Mar Superstar, Heath Weber (Solo), Helmet, Hekyl, The Herd, High Stakes, Hit The Jackpot, The Holidays, Holographic Colts, Home For The Def, The Honey Pies, The Howling Bells, I Heart Hiroshima, ID, Iggy and the Stooges, Illicit Eve, Imogen Brave, Impartial, The Inches, Intercooler, Interzone Express, Inuette, Isle Of Capri, It's Warsaw, J-Lo Biafra, Jackson Firebird, Japanther, Jarvis, Jarvis Cocker, Jet, Jika, Jimmy & The Mirrors, Judge Mental, Jump! You Revolutionary, Kaliedoscope, Kamikaze, Kamikaze Trio, Kasabian, Kasavett, The Keepsakes, Kele Okereke (DJ Set), The Kemp Brothers, Kids In Cults, Killer Birds, The Killgirls, Kim Roberts Band, King Daddy, The Kings Of Leon, Kittyhawk, Koolism, Kris Wanders, Kyri, Kytes Of Omar, La Femme Le Fever, Lady Strangelove, Late Night Matinee, Later The Night, Laura Hill, Lazaro's Dog, LC3's, Leader Cheetah, Legless, LeighStarDust, Levitators, Like Leaves, Line Honours, Little Ice Age, Loemax, Long Walk Home, The Lost Show, Lost Valentinos, Love Outside Andromeda, Love Stereo, Love Zombies, Luke Ashby Band, Luke Vibert, Mach Pelican, Magic Dirt, Mammal, Mani Neumeier & The Bitches Of Zeus, Marden, Marla Singer, Mary Trembles, Mathieu Werchowski, DJ Matt B Safer (The Rapture), Mayday Fair, Mayfield, MC Tali, Meanwell College, Megafauna, Mercy Arms, The Mess Hall, M.I.A., Mia Dyson, Midnight Juggernauts, Mindshower, Minikomi, Mirrorline, Miss Golly Gosh, The Molting Vultures, Morals Of A Minor, Mountains In The Sky, Mourgos Grund, Mr Wednesday, Mum's Tennis Friends, Mudvayne, Munchkin, Muscle Car, Muse, My Disco, My Sister The Cop, Nathan Kaye, Nereeda, Nervous Gerbal, New Pants, New Pollutants, The New Vague, The New York Dolls, Newtonheath, Nick Barker, Nitidus, No Through Road, Nobody Knew They Were Robots, The Novacaines, Odyssey, The Offcutts, Okkervil River, The Panda Band, Patrick Saracino, Peaches & Herm, Penelope Suicide, Penny Ikinger, The Pet Shop Boys, The Pharoahs, Phoenix, Pinky Beecroft & The White Russians, Pivot, The Pixies, Plug In City, Pnau, Pocket Ace, Poetikool Justice, Poly & The Statics, The Presets, The Prodigy, Qua, Quantum Kaos, Queens Of The Stone Age, Quest, Quiet Child, Radiant City, Radio Spectacular, Radio Star, Radiophobia, Rage Against The Machine, The Rapture, Raucoustra, Realist Few, Realm, Red Monika, The Red Paintings, The Red Sun Band, Regurgitator, Rejusa, Reptiles, Ricochet Pete, Ringo Stalin, Risemann, Rocket Science, Running With Horses, Russia, Russian Teammate, Runzelstirm & Gurglestock, Sailmaker, Sailors And Swine, Salmonella Dub, Satin Harem, Saul Williams, Saving Savanah, Screaming Gibbon, Scribe, The Sea Thieves, Secrets In Scale, Sexual Dad, The Shake Up, Shark In The Dark, Shijo Hano, The Shine, The Shiny Brights, Sianna Lee, Sidewalks, Sigit, Sin City, Sir Gerbil, Skeletons, Skybombers, Skye Harbour, Sleep Parade, The Sleepy Jackson, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Snap To Zero, Snowman, Soft White Machine, Sojourn, Sommnium, Soulwax, South From Somewhere, Southpoor, Spank Rock, Spastic Llamas, The Spazzys, Special Patrol, Spindickle, The Spires, Standard Union, Stars, The Steady-Ons, Steel Tiger, Stop Saying Helicopter, Straight To Video, Streetlight, The Strokes, Subaudible Hum, Sugar Army, Sumi, Sunk Loto, Superbee, Superphatass, Swayback, Sweeper, The Swiss, Swords, Sydonia, System Of A Down, Tall Tall Trees, Talvin Singh, Tantalum, Taught By Animals, The Tea Party, The Teddy Royals, Teenagers In Tokyo, Temper Trap, The Temps, Terra Firma, Testeagles, Thunderclaw, Tokyo City Sex Shooters, Tony Font Show, Tool, The Touch, Toxic Shock, The Trafalgars, Transport, Trixie Plain, Truth Corroded, Tyger Tyger, TZU, UK Special, Uncut White Noise, Unkle, Unpaid Debt, Unspoken Things, The Vampire Project, Van She, Vanilla Ice, Varliiba, The Vasco Era, Ventolin, The Vines, The Violet Femmes, Volume = Colour, The Warsaw Flowers, Warwick Ing, The Waterslides, Whisky Go Go's, White Rhino, The White Stripes, Winter's Lament, Wolf & Cub, Wolfmother, Women Moving Furniture, Young And Restless, Your Motive For, Yusuke Akai and Zeta.. *phew*
Movies
The Matrix, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Spiderman 1 & 2, X-Men Trilogy, Aliens, The Ring, Human Traffic, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Requiem For A Dream, Trainspotting, Donnie Darko, Memento, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Garden State, American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, Super Size Me, Lost In Translation, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle...
Television
Heroes, Lost, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Alias, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Family Guy, Southpark, That 70's Show, Scrubs..
Books
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Lord Of The Rings, American Psycho, Neuromancer, 1984, Clockwork Orange..
Heroes
Yoda, that little green midget knows how to party! :)
University of South Australia
Adelaide, SA
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Visual Arts
Minor: Digital Imaging / Film Making
About me:
This is Spoz. Quite possibly THE Spoz, A Spoz, or just one of many entities
who otherwise chooses to call himself "Spoz" for tax reasons. Spoz.
Yeah fucked if I know either, I just came up with this shit when I was 11 and
it stuck. Spoz. Not to be confused with Spod, Spock, Spaz or Spooj (although
all those are equally as awesome) and no this is NOT my real name, but I am
THE Spoz who got this myspace so all the rest of you Spozs out there can all
go suck a duck's twat (and no I'm not supplying you with the duck). Spoz. That's
me. There are many of us. We rule the world in secret.
Spoz is a mischief maker, prankster, trickster, trouble maker, and grand provocateur.
Spoz loves to create. Spoz also loves to destroy. Often at the same time for
his own amusement. Here's just a few things he may occassionally claim responsibility
for..
SPOZ's
RANT - probably the WORST excuse for rock photojournalism you've ever seen.
Gleefully dousing the Adelaide scene in petrol and setting it on fire each week.
Features live photos, videos, band reviews both local, interstate and international
and me making an absolute dick of myself in between. Some may claim this is
just a thinly veiled excuse to inflate my own ego, and you'd be dead right.
It's side splittingly hilarious, wildly hallucinogenic, mostly fictional and
utterly shite. Don't EVER read it!
Back when I actually HAD talent I also used to be an illustrator. I created
this shit with pen, pencil and paper, and yes I was completely and utterly batshit
insane for doing this. Click on any of these thumbnails below and you'll be
taken to my Deviant Art website
full of this shit. Or at least it would be if I ever bothered to update it.
It's awesome! Take lots of acid and it'll probably kill you! So um.. yeah, I
wouldn't recommend that.
On the odd occassion I also like to pretend I'm a wildly talented graphic designer.
clearly I'm not, I wouldn't know the first thing about this shit, but look at
all the wacky colours!! Here's some CD Covers I've designed in the past (click
thumbnails to view full-size image). And yes, I can be hired for this shit if:
(a) you're a local or interstate band, (b) you're completely insane, (c) you
can actually afford my ridiculously cheap rates.
Speaking of such, here's some wacky posters I've also designed over the years
(click thumbnails to view full-size images). I've done heaps of this shit, I'm
ridiculously cheap, and no I never update this section. Gimme a buzz if you
want me to whore your junk!
For many years I was also in a pissy little band called "Subwoofer". We made
music. We played live. We did rooftop raves. We were electronica. Quite possibly
punktronica. Quite possibly breaks, bigbeat, jungle, but mostly shit. Just for
laughs I started up a Triple J Unearthed site recently and put some of our worse
crap up there. I'd advise you NEVER to visit our site.
No really, I don't even know why I'm mentioning it now.
But of course the MAIN reason all of you may know me for is my live gig photography.
Not necessarily because I'm any good at it, but simply because I'm fucking everywhere
every weekend doing it (I'm also on Fasterlouder!)
Yeah I'm THAT guy! Maaaan you must hate that guy! Anyhoo, here's one of those
shittyarse myspace slideshow thingies of my best photos just so I can look infinitely
more badass than I really am. I mean no shit, how ROCK does this shit make me
look? FUCK I'M AWESOME!! WOOOO!!
I also do a shitload of live music videos each week, which I've stored on youtube
here.
And no, despite the fact my display image makes me look like a cross between
Aphex Twin and Trent Reznor: Spoz is NOT into Scandanavian metal, goth chicks,
emos, or your shittyarse death metal band (no matter how many times you try
to add me). Spoz loves the people. Occassionally the people love the Spoz. Come
say hi sometime! :)
Who I'd like to meet: Artists, Musicians, Photographers, Designers, Cartoonists, Film Makers, Actors, Comedians, Fashion Rejects, Philosophers, Stoners, Intergalactic Tweakers or pretty much anyone else out there who's ever been creatively insane enough to do seriously freaky shit and put it out there for the wonder and ridicule of others :)
Oh! How goes it? Just lettin y'all know in case you didn't already that we are smokin' it up with the SMILE ISLAND ENIGMA SPECTACTULAR this Saturday 18th! We would totally love it if you came on down, cos it's our first headliner and we're sellin' shirts and the whole shebang, oh!
In other words, it's pretty major!
We got Black Knight, Auberon Dance Academy and From The Dead Sea joining us, doors are at 9, only costs $8, and we totally hope to see you there! I'll give ya a kiss on the cheek, I swears it!
You tha man Spoz, thanks a bunch for coming along and saying such nice things on fasterlouder. What would the Adelaide music community do without you! Z
Spoz you madman!! how the hell are you mate. havent spoke to you in a while, got a few things to tell you actually.. hope you dont mind we used part of the blurb you wrote on us on the inside of our album, which ive gotta send you whats ur addy?.. in amsterdam at the moment just gigged all through canada and france and now we're here. I can see you've already put us up on your gig list thanks a bunch. we're wrapped on any kind of word of mouth. if you have any spots to write up a blurb about the upcoming gig we'd be stoked too, or even just come along... :) hope alls well and firing Jesse
Transmission LIVE this friday @ The Ed Castle showcases some of the next wave of Indie bands from around the country on the Awesome Foursome Tour. Featuring THE TOUCH (ade), THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (melb), VILLAINS OF WILHELM (bris) & THE SALVAGERS (syd) action cuts loose from 9pm.
Next Week Transmission Presents VAN SHE's gig at Fowlers on Friday July 3rd with the Official Afterparty at Transmission. Tickets are close to sold out so go to moshtix to secure yours now.
thanks for the QC review, i couldn't stop laughing all the way through.... way too much truth was in that one as frustrating as some of that truth is. cheers again =) Lisa
Transmission is on this Friday @ The Bull & Bear. Original Resident DJ Travis is back.
News just announced - Transmission will be Presenting VAN SHE's gig at Fowlers on July 3rd with the Official Afterparty at Transmission. Tickets are already selling fast so go to moshtix and let your friends know so they dont miss out.
Hey there, this Saturday the 30th
of May we are playing at Rocket bar with guests Galleon and Jay Walker and the
Pedestrians. We d love to catch you there. Thanks to anyone who got along to
our Jive show last weekend to make it a sold out show. See you at Rocket… SP.
Gday Spoz, we're launching the first single from our upcoming album this Saturday 23rd at Jive, support from Kicks Tornado and Bakewell St. Come have a beer! And we'll look forward to being torn to shreds in your blog next week. Always a pleasure! SP
