"Melbourne Town Hall"
100 Swanston Street
Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA
21/november/2012 Wednesday: 8pm - till late
Features: Over 18 event, Licensed
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Melbourne Town Hall's Grand Organ is the most
complex, thunderingly loud natural instrument in Melbourne. And for one
night only, it will belong to prog-horror legends Goblin.Thematica, feat. members of Midnight Juggernauts plus Timothy J Hoey (Cut Copy), Gus (Architecture in Helsinki), Evelyn Morris (Pikelet), Shags (Lost Animal, Brous) and more guests to be announced, bring to life grand musical interpretations of iconic film and soundtrack works.
Rounding out the bill will be local heavyweights The Night Terrors, with their dark synth dreamscapes and other-worldly electronica. Presented by MMW. Supported by Mess+Noise and Triple R.
"GOBLIN"
There are few more hallowed names in the prog rock pantheon than enigmatic Italian soundtrack kings, Goblin.
Formed back in 1972, Goblin are a unique Italian progressive rock band who pursued an intriguingly unorthodox career path, recording the majority of their music for horror film soundtracks, many with director Dario Argento. Internationally they are probably best known for their work on Dawn of the Dead (the sequel to Night of the Living Dead); however they are also well known for their work on Suspiria and Profondo Rosso.
A driving force for radicalism, both in musical form and political content, Goblin are here exclusivley for Melbourne Music Week 2012.
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CONCERT GRABS
Now for the best bits! I was lucky enough, or should I say that you are lucky enough that I was once again front row-center, able to catch every moment of this incredible show and even touch the feet of the performers. However, they had very strict policies on cameras, but non-the-less I was able to get an incredible amount of goodies for you to enjoy. I have 30 minutes of audio from both of the first two bands ( "The Night Terrors" & "Thematica, feat. members of "Midnight Juggernauts") highlight footage, and photos.
Since "GOBLIN" was of-course the main event, I have full audio from the entire concert for your listening pleasure! Photos, Original set-list, video highlights and I was even able to grab a sticker form the main power board on stage with the words (11/4 (2) GOBLIN).
I also picked up some merchandise and a few CD's, so yes, I will upload one just for you.
But please support the original artitst by actually going out and buying their work.
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DOWNLOADS
The only Audio recorded in existence for this concert, the Melbourne only, one night show can be listened to right here!All you have to do is click this link
GRAB YOUR "LIVE MELB 2012" TREAT HERE:
(http://www.mediafire.com/?26uu5lmaf5gdl94)
The Grand Organ feat. Goblin LIVE recordings
This mighty and super RARE download comes in four parts:
01. Intro/crowd
02. Night Terrors
03. Thematica
04. Goblin
Size:125.26MB
Format: mp3.
There is around half an hour of both Two bands: Night Terrors and Thematica, and basically the entire Goblin concert. It only cuts out a few seconds for me to re-load another battery. There was one technical issue where the band kept looping a bar beat until the technical issue could be fixed, my camera was also turned off for that part otherwise I couldn't be able to grab the "Deep Red" theme-song. This
is the only one in the world..I was the only person there sneeking in a
camera and being front row center for the entire four and a half hours
of my presents in the Town Hall Theater. You can even hear me say "Touchy!" at the end when I was grabbing clothing, shaking hands and Petting shoes of every band member on stage. ENJOY!!
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The Night Terrors album: "Monster/Lasers For Eyes"
GRAB IT HERE: (http://www.mediafire.com/?30eiy39gbbjc4o2)
Track-list:
1. Monster
2. Monster Walking (Ash Wednesday Remix)
3. Monster (Antoni Maiovvi’s Ghost of Fulci Mix)
4. Lasers For Eyes
5. Meteor Shower
6. Somnambulist
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"GOBLIN" SET LIST
I managed to grab this from a crew member..It's really easy - you just jump up and down saying "please, please please!", with enough cleavage hanging out, and no doubt you will win the prize of a Set-list in a crowd of many yelling out for it.
I managed to grab this from a crew member..It's really easy - you just jump up and down saying "please, please please!", with enough cleavage hanging out, and no doubt you will win the prize of a Set-list in a crowd of many yelling out for it.
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GIG REVIEW
"The Night Terrors"
The Night Terrors + Goblin, Melbourne Music Week 21/11/12"The Night Terrors"
The Night Terrors are super excited to announce "we will be playing with Italian prog-horror legends Goblin on Wednesday 21st of November at the Melbourne Town Hall.We’ll be performing a brand new composition written exclusively for the Town Hall’s Grand Pipe Organ as part of Melbourne Music Week 2012.
With the most psychedelic/horrific tunes ever to be played in Melbourne comes the amazing "Night Terrors". Usually I spent the whole time for the opening bands (especially the first one) talking, making jokes and taking random photos. But this time I was so in-tuned with the beats being spun and whaled out I had to close my eyes, hold into the stage and feel the music flow through my entire body.
The Crowd-pleasing moment was when the last song was played, it spun out an old-school rock horror beat that had the crowd wired for the rest of the night.
Just watching the masters at work playing on of the most bizarre instruments I have ever seen in my life, I was constantly in a state of awe.
I was so glad that they sold a lot of merchandise, I managed to pick up their latest album for only $5! It was well worth every cent, but unfortunately it didn't make it as the feature album on the way home, only because the local independent radio station played GOBLIN for the long drive home so I was very happily entertained until my ass got in the front door of my place.
If these guys ever play near your area, check them out.. the experience is just mind-blowing.
For more information check out:http://www.thenightterrors.com/
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"Thematica",
feat. members of "Midnight Juggernauts"
With an eight-piece wonder band playing all of the classic hits on Melbourne's largest instrument, The Grand Organ churned out such mighty music that was so God-Like and powerful in every sense.
"A Clockwork Orange", "Star Wars", "Running Man", "Midnight Express", "007 James Bond" and "The Exorcist" to name a few of the raw magnetic theme tunes that were not only played but waved into your very soul.
The crowd pleasing moment was when the "Mos Eisley Cantina" song from Star Wars pooped out, with a rock formation near the end it drove the crowd wild. As for me, honestly I could not help but to love and appreciate every note swimming in the air when "2001: A Space Oddesy" theme song was played. With every note on key, and in-tune and the Mighty Organ booming in the Hall, It was a Mighty Music Epiphany that I will cherish in my brain forever.
The beating of the drums and clashing of the giant symbols could only make my passion and love for music grow larger. Traversing Phillip Glass, John Carpenter and beyond, Thematica re-imagined these artists' significant film scores on a large scale.Not only did the music engulf the air, but these was a visual effect by the light show being projected onto the actual mighty Organ itself! With introductory movie quotes from each film and black and white film clips it was easy to guess what music is from which movie and to get even more excited to hear a quote and jump up and down with excitement and another magnificent tune is played.
Although it's was a one- time show and special performers, if they ever came out again I would once more be front row center and ready to let the music drift me away into a listening euphoria.
Video Highlights"The Night Terrors" and "Thematica"
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"Goblin"
For the very first time in AUSTRALIA, All the way from another part of the world to Melbourne, came the famous and one of my very highly respected and favorite bands: "Goblin", employing the Grand Organ performing a set of their most revered soundtrack work and feature band work. Seeing anything LIVE, of-course is a lifetime experience in itself, but GOBLIN, the creators of "The Gonk", and every background score in your favorite Italian Horror that gave you nightmares as a child and shocked your very soul. No words, pictures of even video could capture the magic and wonder being played out on stage for a one-night only SOLD OUT event.
I could honeslty write for hours about how much an amazing time I had, my attitude in the hot long taffic jam on the way to the show and the ability to spend a panic mode of time searching for a parking spot in the middle of Melbourne City was at the very least in that "I don't know if it was worth getting these tickets" feeling. But that quickly got blown out of me the second I walked up the marble stars and into the Magnificent Melbourne Town Hall, and only made me want to punch my former self several times in the face..very hard once the band Members of Goblin come on stage.
The energy from the crowd was just as large as being squashed front-row center at "Metallica", but more appreciative for the fine tunes being played. It was as if everyone wanted to lose themselves for the night, and with the help of the amazing Goblin, it was very easy for everyone to do so.
Impressed would only be an understatement of the entire audiences feelings for the evening, and entertaining could only begin to explain who these guys really are.
The waiting line to get in and stress of being front row-centre for the whole night was worth it. It is something that I would re-live again and again at any cost. This night was just amazing, and I only hope that a World Tour or something of the sorts come about so the rest of the world can enjoy the earth-shattering and incredible sounds of Gobin.
Awe-inspiring, overwhelming and chilling, this is how the music of Goblin was meant to be heard.
Video Highlights
"Goblin"
(Ignore the license issue, you-tube thinks its another audio)
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PHOTOS
"THE NIGHT TERRORS"
"THEMATICA",
FEAT. MEMBERS OF "MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS"
Merchandise Grabs and goodies
Rocking it with my set-list in front of Melbourne's Largest instrument "the Grand Organ"
Get More out of life - "Go out to a gig!"
Hey there BTPW! Thanks for the recording, turned out beautifully!! My friend and I were front and center too, not sure if it came out on the recording but I was the guy (probably nearby?) that yelled out `Play all of Roller!!' lol!
ReplyDeleteI'm a prog rock nut (don't hold that against me!) and reviewed the concert on the Prog Archives website here, posted a few rubbish pictures too.
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=90717
Thanks for your review, one of the only other ones I've come across so far!
ahhh beautiful. Did I ever believe I would see these guys live? “Magic is everywhere. And all over the world, it’s a recognized fact. Always.”
ReplyDeleteThank you and the above comment poster (from Prog Rock Archives) for the two best reviews of this concert online. Your photos and depth of review is second to none. Was such an awesome night and I was so grateful to have finally been able to see them play. Also saw Suspiria at ACMI, at which the band were incredibly disciplined (to sit under the screen virtually without moving during non-musical scenes) and played the entire score note perfect. I will never watch the film the same way again. It was like an opera.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that saddened me however, was the audience for the second showing at ACMI. They treated the performance like it was Transformers 3 at the multiplex. Goblin played their hearts out and some people were already moving towards the exits during the final credits whilst they were still playing, or getting up and going to the bathroom during the show. I felt ashamed to be part of that audience and felt it was incredibly disrespectful to the performers who had worked so hard to give Melbourne a piece of musical history.
Blood Thirsty Pit Whore, thank you so much for putting up the audio recordings.
ReplyDeleteThey are freekin amazing quality. I couldn't believe how good they were. Transported me back to the gig.
I was one of the fortunate ones that was in attendance at that amazing gig.
Like you, I was frontish and center pretty much from before Thematica.
We were very lucky, considering, that was the first time that even Goblin had performed using a real organ of such grandeur. To hear them play most of Roller (one of my favorite albums)was a dream come true.
I couldn't believe how much the band seemed to be getting into things. It made it even more special.
I would have loved to have seen either of the screenings.
Pearls before swine came to my mind as well as disappointment, when I read your comments about the audience disrespecting the movie, Goblin and the event.
I feel your pain with the disrespectful audience, not only to moving out early, but to the loud comments being screamed out. At first I thought it was fine to yell out Italian words, but it got past the point of 'fun' and 'cute' then moved quickly to the 'down right nasty', Yelling out random words in other languages and laughing about it was some-what mocking and racist.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm glad that there are real people out there and hardcore fans that can appreciate good music, and have a loving compassion for the amount of work and effort brought onto stage. It was a one-time performance and they managed to travel from over the entire world to be there for that night. Least we could do was respect the performers by staying and enjoying their masterpieces.
I'm glad that the audio recordings can be enjoyed, but something this grand really could not be captured unless you were there yourself.
Shame on the people who have disrespect, I'm glad that there wasn't that many, but there is always some idiot to ruin it. hopefully next event they stay at home and let the real fans enjoy the gig instead.
Thanks for the comments - Keep it rockin!