MOTH giveaway

first person to email batsmagazine@live.com.au with the subject as 'moth towers' and then your first + last name inside will win a double pass to this thursday's MOTH

send your entries in quick or else you will miss out and it will be embarrassing
to avoid this embarrassment: follow our blog and keep updated with future giveaways

FIRE!

love this band...

LOL

a couple of us + a few of our friends outside of BATS have teamed up to make a blog that proves that we are horrible, horrible people

in short: we bring you myspace profiles that we find hilarious.. and that you will too

click on the banner below to go to LOLspace



or alternatively, click here

and make sure you follow that shit!

birthday party tonight

YARDSALE! YES!

some cool chicks are having a YARDSALE this saturday

where?
Cafe Bouquinste
121 merthyr rd,
new farm
catch the 199 BUZ from either the city or the valley and it will get you straight there

when?
10 - "afternoonish"

what?
"clothes/bags/hats/belts/books/cds/art/polaroid cams/typewriters/pretty much just everything we own but our bodies"

why?
I am afraid I can not answer that question.


so come along.. and be as cool as these mother fuckers

FYI: the competition below has now ended

all winners have been notified by email

thank you for entering

make sure you follow our blog to keep updated with other giveaways and shit

VAN SHE/HORSEMEAT GIVEAWAYS

thanks to LICK IT MEDIA and MODULAR RECORDS we have some double passes to giveaway to the upcoming Van She 'Ze Mixes Tour' shows as well as a copy of Van She's 'Ze Mixes' album

1. We have two double passes to giveaway to the Van She 'Ze Mixes Tour' at the HiFi bar thanks to MODULAR RECORDS

the first two people to email batsmagazine@live.com.au with the subject as 'VAN SHE' 

+ your first and last name inside will get the passes

click here for the facebook details of this event

2. We also have a copy of Van She's 'Ze Mixes' album to give away.

first person to email batsmagazine@live.com.au with the subject as 'ZE MIXES' plus their full name and address details will get it

3. We also have another two double passes to giveaway to LICK IT w/ Horsemeat Disco and Van She Tech thanks to LICK IT MEDIA

the first two people to email batsmagazine@live.com.au with the subject as 'HORSEMEAT' 

+ your first and last name inside will get the passes

click here for the facebook details of this event

winners will be notified by email

note: both events are strictly 18+

if you miss out on the passes, make sure you go anyway as both shows are going to be seriously sick

tickets are on sale now at the following:

thehifi.com.au & 1300 THE HIFI

oztix.com.au & 1300 762 545

moshtix.com.au & 1300 GET TIX

Nick Simpson... has a blog

check it out: I Dinnae Ken

RETRO SEXUAL

WHO?

Retro Sexual aka Leah-Jane Musch and Sienna Blaze Jones.

WHAT?

Two freaking fashionable ladies have teamed up to bring you the coolest garments from god knows where. But thankfully they have washed and revamped the items ready for you to wear.

for example:

click on image to enlarge

plus for $2 extra with selected items you can get a eco-friendly hand made bag. cool.

WHERE?

The Valley Markets

WHEN?

Every Saturday from 6am - 4pm

WHY?

in their own words:

"We're passionate about both clothes and culture, and are attempting to inject something new and quirky into the Brisbane scene.

No, we actually really just like playing dress-ups."

keep in tune with their gems

became a fan of their facebook page, click here

or add them on their myspace

review: Yves Klein Blue album launch

By Bette “look, I’ve never really written a review before” Ward

Friday the 26^th of June saw the realise of Yves Klein Blue's long awaited studio album Ragged & Ecstatic which coincided with a show at the Brisbane Powerhouse, in which BATS were lucky enough to score some sweet press passes (which in hindsight got us absolutely nothing, but hey, it's the thought that counts). The sell out show brought hundreds of fans from the four corners of Brisbane, from The Gap to Kenmore and everywhere in between, to celebrate the album release with supporting sets by Last Dinosaurs and Philadelphia Grand Jury... and of course Yves Klein Blue or as one young man dubbed them "Ives Kelin Blue".

Brisbane “sick as” band, the Last Dinosaurs, got the “paarrtaii started” with a bunch of tunes that the crowd seriously loved. Even though bassist Sam described the set as “shit” - the screams coming from the crowd were sure fire signs that he was dead wrong. Sean, in a “colourful” jacket (nah, I’d steal it from you), with the backup of younger brother, Lachlan (Happy 16th for last month bro), accompanied with Sam on bass and Dan on drums provided a handful of mad beatz that had one young man shouting, “Sean Caskey I love you”. Well Sean Caskey we lovv ya’ll too and your mouth watering blend of music that had us wondering, is Brisbane the new London? The answer is “yeah”. Crowd favourite as always was Honolulu though we were slightly disappointed at the lack of audience participation, it's okay guys, we put our hands up and said, “Hey!”. Special props go out for dedicating a song to the one and only Michael Jackson (R.I.P.), though a slight feeling of disgust on our part at the crowd's lack of knowledge of who “MJ” was, seriously look it up you ignorant grade nines.

Philadelphia Grand Jury followed, giving the crowd some freaking weird stuff, weird, but good. With a really energetic performance full of exciting and strange little pauses and my personal favourite - the little voice over that came on between each song. The live set made them out to have a little more of a punkish sound then their recordings let on and though they were a band I wasn’t really too familiar with before, they were freaking good. They were also an interesting choice for Yves Klein Blue to have as a supporting act. Their sound differed from both Last Dinosaurs and Yves Klein Blue and was a really interesting way to break up the sounds of the evening.

Finally the arena was full, hundreds of teenagers were tapping their feet saying, “I want Yves Klein Blue” or other slight variations of the phrase. The lights dimmed (I daresay because of my slow clap, or so I will tell myself) and Michael Tomlinson, Sean Cook, Charles Sale and Chris Banham came to the stage and in Kelsey’s words - “A Beatle like mania hit and I had to check my phone to make sure it was not the mid 60’s, and rest assured it wasn't."

This was it, they started to play (I’d tell you what song, but I left my notepad somewhere and therefore was unable to write it down) and man, the communal tap of Doc Marten covered toes filled the air and the jumps and screams of heaps of kids (girls) started all around me and as a 5'2 girl, I feared for my life. It was just two short years ago at Pauhas Festival 07 in this very same theatre that YKB played to a crowd that in all seriousness was made up of 15 people - an obvious exaggeration but 70 - 80 doesn't have the same ring (including myself, fellow BAT Kelsey, our good friend Michaella Harrison and a few of the bands personal friends with a couple of people strewn about the floor muttering the phrase, ”oh I quite like them”). Well it’s obvious a whole lot more people quite like them now.

The boys played the songs of their new album as well as a couple of the old favourites. The screams were loudest during Getting Wise, so loud that it came clear to me that my death was inevitable by the crazed crowd, and if not that, then being crushed to death by the pulsating speakers next to me or by the loss of hearing, which would lead to depression and then consequently - suicide. This song was a perfect example of the boys’ stage charisma and the ease in which they perform together. Drummer Banham setting the perfect beat for bassist Cook and guitarist/keyboardist Sale to effortlessly play along, intertwined with the words of Tomlinson who showed his pure genius as a lyricist - seriously if, "when we make love, it's like a great conversation" is true, well then, let's talk.

Soon after Tomlinson jumped into the crowd and left a good dozen teenage girls wet... as he poured the contents of his water bottle over them - though we did have a LOL at the fact that the only person to make a move on Tomlinson’s package was a teenage boy named Hopper.

The album itself is cheeky and innocence, light hearted and deep and incumbencies a number of qualities you’d expect from a bunch of young men barely out of their teens who list their influences as "Porn, Casual Jobs and Wrapping Paper". The album, for what they describe as “the most important thing in our lives up to date”, is in all honesty brilliant and something they should be freaking proud of. Cause seriously, I wish I had come up with it.

photos by Kelsey Heinrichs, Michaella Harrison and Bette Ward



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